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Mar 19, 2014

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A fisherman waits for a catch in front of the beach of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters

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REFILE - ADDING INFORMATION A worker prepares a dragon statue before the season four premiere of the HBO series "Game of Thrones" in New York March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A worker prepares a dragon statue before the season four premiere of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” in New York City. Reuters

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People crowd onto a bridge during the annual Caiqiaohui event in Mianyang, Sichuan province, China. Believers think stepping onto the bridge during the three-day spring event can help them avoid trouble and heal illnesses. Reuters

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Twin polar bear cubs lie on their mother Giovanna outside in their enclosure at Tierpark Hellabrunn in Munich

Twin polar bear cubs lie on their mother Giovanna in their enclosure at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany. Reuters

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German pensioner Volker Kraft uses a step ladder as he decorates an apple tree with Easter eggs in the garden of his summerhouse, in the eastern German town of Saalfeld, March 19, 2014.

German pensioner Volker Kraft uses a step ladder to decorate an apple tree with Easter eggs in the garden of his summerhouse in Saalfeld, Germany. Reuters

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford runs from cameras after exiting an executive council meeting in Toronto, March 19, 2014. Ford, who made global headlines last year after admitting he had smoked crack cocaine, was caught up in fresh controversy on Monday after a new video showed him agitated and apparently swearing outside city hall. REUTERS/Mark Blinch (CANADA - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Rob Ford flees from cameras after exiting an executive council.meeting. Reuters

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Peter Norbot (L) and Kris Hamilton, dressed up as fictional comic book superhero Spider-Man, wait for their turn to audition to be a part of a promotional campaign for the upcoming release of the new movie "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in Chicago March 19, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Peter Norbot and Kris Hamilton wait to audition for a promotional campaign for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” in Chicago. Reuters

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Eight-month-old Santiago Mendoza sits at a clinic for the obese in Bogota March 19 ,2014.

Eight-month-old Santiago Mendoza sits at a clinic for the obese in Bogotá, Colombia. Reuters

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen smiles at a news conference following the March 2014 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, while at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, March 19, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen smiles at a news conference following the March 2014 Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Reuters

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Afghan men line up to register for the upcoming presidential election outside a school on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Last minute registration of voters continues despite the fact that more than 21 million voter registration cards have been issued while only roughly 12 million Afghans are eligible to vote. The discrepancy is the result of repeated registrations since the first round of elections in Afghanistan in 2004. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Afghan men line up to register for the upcoming presidential election outside a school on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. AP Photo

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Brig Gen. Jeff Sinclair arrives to the Fort Bragg courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Fort Bragg, N.C. Sinclair, who was accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate, plead guilty to lesser charges in a plea deal reached with government prosecutors. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft) MANDATORY CREDIT

Brig Gen. Jeff Sinclair arrives to the Fort Bragg courthouse for his sentencing hearing. Sinclair was accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate and plead guilty to lesser charges in a plea deal with government prosecutors. AP Photo

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A member of a Pro-Russian self-defense force reaches for a knife, as he takes down a Ukrainian Navy flag at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Associated Press photographer said several hundred militiamen took down the gate and made their way onto the base. They then raised the Russian flag in the square by the headquarters. The unarmed militia waited for an hour on the square before the move to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

A member of a Pro-Russian self-defense force reaches for a knife to take down a Ukrainian Navy flag at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea. AP Photo

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A Chinese relative of a passenger aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane is carried out by security officials as she protests before a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size of Australia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A Chinese relative of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is carried out by security officials as she protests before a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia on Wednesday. AP Photo

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, an Iranian man releases a lit lantern during a celebration, known as “Chaharshanbe Souri,” or Wednesday Feast, marking the eve of the last Wednesday of the solar Persian year, in Pardisan park, Tehran, Iran. The festival has been frowned upon by hard-liners since the 1979 Islamic revolution because they consider it a symbol of Zoroastrianism, one of Iran’s ancient religions of Iranians. They say it goes against Islamic traditions. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

An Iranian man releases a lit lantern during the “Chaharshanbe Souri,” or Wednesday Feast, celebration, in Tehran, Iran. It marks the eve of the last Wednesday of the solar Persian year. AP Photo

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The opposition lawmakers vote prior to chanting slogans as "corruption everywhere, bribery everywhere " towards the ruling party members during a special session of the parliament in Ankara, Turkey

Opposition lawmakers vote prior to chanting slogans as “corruption everywhere, bribery everywhere” towards ruling party members during a special session of the parliament in Ankara, Turkey. AP Photo

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STIRLING, SCOTLAND - MARCH 19: Roy Ramsay dressed as King Robert the Bruce and Roy Murray dressed as Edward II pose for pictures to promote Bannockburn Live on March 19, 2014 in Stirling, Scotland. The event being held on June 28 and 29, with more than 300 performers taking part during the one off festival to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Roy Ramsay dressed as King Robert the Bruce and Roy Murray dressed as Edward II pose for pictures to promote Bannockburn Live in Stirling, Scotland. Getty Images

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MADRID, SPAIN - MARCH 19: Chef Paulette Tejada from the Le Cordon Bleu College in Miami, United States poses with her tapa as she won the Cinco Jotas International Tapa Award on March 19, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. Twelve finalist from six different countries and from some of the best culinary schools from around the world compete to make the best tapa with Iberian Bellota Ham. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Chef Paulette Tejada from the Le Cordon Bleu College in Miami poses with her tapa as she won the Cinco Jotas International Tapa Award on Wednesday in Madrid, Spain. Getty Images

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NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 19: A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange reacts to an announcement from the Federal Reserve during the afternoon of March 19, 2014 in New York City. The Federal Reserve announced that it would cut bond purchases by $10 Billion. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange reacts to an announcement from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Getty Images

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KIEV, UKRAINE - MARCH 19: A woman walks through Maidan Square, the site of months of often violent protest that led to the ouster of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich on March 19, 2014

A woman walks through Maidan Square, the site of months of often violent protest that led to the ouster of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, on Wednesday in Kiev, Ukraine. Getty Images

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Satirical sculptures burn during the traditional Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph that ends in the midnight of March 19, burning large satiric figures displayed around the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Satirical sculptures burn during the traditional Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday. Every year Valencia celebrates the ancient “Las Fallas” fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph. AP Photo

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 23 - Dr. Jennifer Summerfield, a veterinarian with Brown Veterinary Services in Wayne, W.Va., as takes her sheltland sheepdog Remy through the clinic's indoor agility course Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (AP Photo/The Herald Dispatch, Shane Arrington)

Dr. Jennifer Summerfield, a veterinarian with Brown Veterinary Services in Wayne, W.Va., takes her sheltland sheepdog Remy through the clinic’s indoor agility course on Wednesday. AP Photo

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This undated photo provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History on March 18, 2014 shows a reconstruction of the skeleton of the dinosaur Anzu wyliei. The birdlike animal, about 7 feet tall, weighed an estimated 500 pounds when it roamed western North America around 66-68 million years ago. Nicknamed the "chicken from hell," the creature was formally introduced with an official name to the scientific community Wednesday, March 19, 2104 as scientists published a description and analysis of its anatomy. (AP Photo/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

The dinosaur Anzu wyliei, called “the chicken from hell,” was about 7 feet tall, weighed an estimated 500 pounds when it roamed western North America approximately 66-68 million years ago. The creature was formally introduced with an official name to the scientific community on Wednesday. AP Photo

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Marcus Ingvarsson tests out the PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset Project Morpheus in a demo area at the Game Developers Conference 2014 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Marcus Ingvarsson tests out the PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset called Project Morpheus in a demo area at the Game Developers Conference 2014 in San Francisco on Wednesday. AP Photo

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, dust blows tumbleweeds against a fence east of the Comanche Power Plant near Pueblo, Colo., as high winds caused visibility and air quality problems across the area. (AP Photo/The Pueblo Chieftain, Chris McLean)

Dust blows tumbleweeds against a fence of the Comanche Power Plant in Pueblo, Colo. High winds caused visibility and air quality problems across the area. AP Photo

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