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Apr 8, 2014

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Female polar bear cub Lale and its mother Valeska walk through the outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Lale was born on Dec. 16, 2013 and explored the outdoor enclosure for the first time. (AP Photo/dpa, Carmen Jaspersen)

Female polar bear cub Lale, born on Dec. 16, 2013, and her mother Valeska walk through the outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Bremerhaven, northern Germany. AP

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Jonathan Fleming, hugs his attorney Anthony Mayol while his other attorney Taylor Koss applaud in Brooklyn's Supreme court, after a judge declared him a free man on Tuesday April 8, 2014 in New York. Fleming, who spent almost a quarter-century behind bars for murder, was cleared of a killing that happened when he was 1,100 miles away on a Disney World vacation in 1989. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Jonathan Fleming hugs his attorney, Anthony Mayol, while his other attorney Taylor Koss applauds in Brooklyn’s Supreme court after a judge declared Fleming a free man. Fleming, who spent almost a quarter-century behind bars for murder, was cleared of a killing that happened when he was 1,100 miles away on a Disney World vacation in 1989. AP

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A lion rests in its enclosure at the Vincennes zoo in Paris, on April 8, 2014. The zoo wil reopen to the public on April 12, after 6 years of renovation work. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

A lion rests in its enclosure at the Vincennes zoo in Paris. The zoo will reopen to the public on April 12, after six years of renovation work. Getty Images

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Penguins swim in an enclosure at the Vincennes zoo in Paris, on April 8, 2014. The zoo wil reopen to the public on April 12, after 6 years of renovation work. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

Penguins swim in an enclosure at the Vincennes zoo in Paris. Getty Images

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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 08: Rev. Al Sharpton speaks a press conference at the National Action Network's Office on April 8, 2014 in New York City. Sharpton spoke about alligations that he worked with the FBI as an informant on mob activities. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks a press conference at the National Action Network’s Office in New York City. Sharpton spoke about allegations that he worked with the FBI as an informant on mob activities. Getty Images

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A masked Sunni Muslim gunman takes position with his weapon in the city of Falluja April 8, 2014. Government forces are fighting rebellious Sunni tribes and an al-Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in western Anbar province. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)

A masked Sunni Muslim gunman takes position with his weapon in Fallujah, Iraq. Government forces are fighting rebellious Sunni tribes and an al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in western Anbar province. Reuters

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A manatee eats a salad in his pool, at the Vincennes Zoo, in Paris, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Its gray, man-made mountain that might lure King Kong still protrudes over treetops, but nearly everything else has changed as Paris' best-known zoo prepares to re-open after a multi-year makeover. (AP Paris/ Thibault Camus)

A manatee eats a salad in his pool, at the Vincennes Zoo, in Paris. AP

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A damaged mosque is seen in the town of Morek in Hama province April 8, 2014. REUTERS/Badi Klif (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT RELIGION)

A damaged mosque is seen in the town of Morek in Hama, Syria. Reuters

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A boy takes part in a religious procession on the occasion of Ramnavmi festival in the northern Indian city of Amritsar April 8, 2014. The festival commemorates the birth of Hindu god Rama. REUTERS/Munish Sharma (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A boy takes part in a religious procession for the Ramnavmi festival in the northern Indian city of Amritsar. Reuters

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Vultures are seen in a bird-cage at the Paris Zoological Park in the Bois de Vincennes in the east of Paris April 8, 2014. Inaugurated in 1934, the Paris Zoo will reopen for the public on April 12, 2014 after being closed for four-years for renovation, transforming the zoo with new quarters for animals and greater information for visitors about the animals and their environment. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Vultures are seen in a bird cage at the Paris Zoological Park. Reuters

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Supporters ride on motorbikes carrying party flags as one of them, center, wears a mask of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, during a campaign for the upcoming general elections in Vadodara, Gujarat state, India, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. India started the world's largest election Monday where the country's 814 million electorate will vote in stages over the next five weeks. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Supporters ride motorbikes carrying party flags as one of them, center, wears a mask of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, during a campaign for the upcoming general elections in Vadodara, India. AP

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The installation "Scale Infinite" is displayed at the Milan Design Fair, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The Milan furniture and design week fair, showcasing the latest in furniture and design from countries around the world, will continue until Sunday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

The installation “Scale Infinite” is displayed at the Milan Design Fair in Milan, Italy. The Milan furniture and design week fair, showcasing the latest in furniture and design from countries around the world, will continue until Sunday. AP

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Pakistani fishermen pull their net out of the sea onto the beach in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistani fishermen pull their net out of the sea onto the beach in Karachi, Pakistan. AP

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Egyptian security forces stand guard as Egyptian prosecutor general, Hisham Barakat, tours the area where fighting took place on Friday, April 4, between a Nubian family and members of the Arab Haleyla clan, in the southern city of Aswan, Egypt. Telephone and internet networks were briefly shut down to Egypt’s southern province of Aswan for several hours as authorities moved to try to end a bloody tribal feud that killed tens the past week, security officials and residents said Tuesday. AP

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Pro-Russian activists set their flags over the entrance to the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. In the city protesters dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters they captured on Sunday and began to declare their own parallel government. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Pro-Russian activists set their flags over the entrance to the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine. AP

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Pro-Russian activists stand at a barricade at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. In the city protesters dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters they captured on Sunday and began to declare their own parallel government. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Pro-Russian activists stand at a barricade at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine. AP

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A school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at the Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines. Exactly a month ago the Boeing 777 passenger plane, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, mysteriously went missing with 239 passengers and crew on board, and a massive search involving several countries is now focused in the vast Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at the Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines. AP

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Robocoin CEO Jordan Kelley, right, and Robocoin co-founder and Chief Technology Officer John Russell, center, set-up the Robocoin machine, the world’s first bitcoin kiosk (ATM) for buying and selling popular and controversial digital currency, for a demonstration on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP

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Shelley Gallivan, right, talks on the phone next to a tipped over Smart car which belongs to her friend on the corner of Prospect and Coso avenues in San Francisco, Monday, April 7, 2014. Police in San Francisco are investigating why four Smart cars were flipped over during an apparent early morning vandalism spree. Officer Gordon Shyy, a police spokesman, says the first car was found flipped on its roof and a second was spotted on its side around 1 a.m. Monday in the Bernal Heights neighborhood. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Police in San Francisco are investigating why four Smart cars were flipped over during an apparent early morning vandalism spree. AP

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Girafes walk around their enclosure in the Vincennes zoo in Paris, on April 8, 2014. The zoo wil reopen to the public on April 12, after 6 years of renovation work. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

Giraffes walk around their enclosure in the Vincennes zoo in Paris. Getty Images

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