Day in photos: March 18, 2013

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Revellers celebrate Ash Monday with a colorful “flour war,” a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the Orthodox Easter season. Reuters

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Bosnian special forces line up during a drill (focused on preventing soccer-related violence) in Nemila ahead of this week’s World Cup qualifier between Greece and Bosnia. Reuters

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A pair of brown bears appear to be having a heated arguement (we expect it’s in regards to who’ll be shoveling the driveway) in their snowy Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo enclosure in Hamburg, Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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A Somali man hefts a pair of large sailfish to market in Mogadishu, where the country’s longest period of (relative) peace in over 20 years could lead to a boom in its costal economy. AFP/Getty Images

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A lone fan waits out a rain delay in the stands at Hammond Stadium during a spring training game between the Minnesota Twins and the Miami Marlins in Fort Myers, Fla. AP

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Members of the Seton Hill University’s women’s lacrosse team mourn during a memorial mass on the school’s Greensburg, Pa., campus Coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when the team’s bus over the weekend. AP

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Spanish star Rafael Nadal celebrates his win over Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina to take the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. Getty Images

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A member of the Somali security forces flees the site of a car bombing in central Mogadishu. At least eight people were killed. AFP/Getty Images

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The Brooklyn Nets embrace ahead of their game with the Atlanta Hawks at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Getty Images

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Windswept snow blankets a field at Hungary’s national police headquarters near Acs. AFP/Getty Images

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Filipino college students launch a computer monitor off a balcony at Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila in protest of what they call unjust tuition policies. A student at another university killed herself in response to being expelled for unpaid bills. AFP/Getty Images

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The trees at the Moshan Hill Scenic Spot in Wuhan, China, appear to light up the night. ZUMA Press

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