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Tsunami survivors cook and eat in front of their damaged house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the area was badly damaged by Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. Kyodo News/AP
Newly recruited female marines march during a military drill inside the marine barracks in Cavite City, south of Manila. The Philippine military has accepted women to train as special forces to ensure equal opportunities in the force. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
A darted elephant is brought down by scientists from the Kenya Wildlife Services and International Fund for Animal Welfare before its collaring at the Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. The scientists have started collaring the elephants with GPS communication technology to assist in the mapping out of their migratory routes and corridors in the park and its buffer zones. Joseph Okanga/Reuters
Environmental activists, wearing ghost masks to symbolize victims of a nuclear meltdown, stage a die-in during a rally near the Presidential Palace in Manila to call the new government of President Benigno Aquino III to dismantle the already-mothballed nuclear power plant in the country and abort all other nuclear programs. Calls were made following the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns at the quake and tsunami-savaged northeastern coast of Japan where fears spread over possible radioactive contamination. Bullit Marquez/AP
Kindergartners take refuge under their desks during an earthquake drill in Gwangju, south of Seoul. South Korea conducted a nationwide civil defence drill today. Hyung Min-woo/YONHAP/Reuters
Former Olympic champions American track and field athlete Carl Lewis and Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci pose for the cameras in front of London's Tower Bridge. They were taking part in a media event to launch 500 days until the start of the London 2012 Olympic games and the beginning of the sale of 6.6 million tickets for the games in London. Alastair Grant/AP
A woman walks under heavy snow in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok. Radiation levels rose slightly in Russia's Far East today, but stayed within normal levels, officials said, as Japan struggled to cope with the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Yuri Maltsev/Reuters
US President Obama impersonator, Rinaldo Americo, poses in Cinelandia Square in Rio de Janeiro. Obama begins an official visit to Brazil later this week and will deliver a speech in Cinelandia Square. Sergio Moraes/Reuters
An Indian model displays designer V.J. Balhara's creations during the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
Evacuees stretch while exercising at a makeshift shelter in Minamisanriku, northern Japan, four days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. Tsuyoshi Matsumoto/The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP
Models perform as they present the Shape Sensation lingerie collection from Triumph during a fashion show in Madrid. Andrea Comas/Reuters
Haitians walk past posters for presidential candidate Michel Martelly in downtown Port-au-Prince. Martelly will face rival former first lady Mirlande Manigat in a March 20 runoff election. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Demi Heranne (l.) and Melanie Aparitio kiss a wax figure of singer Justin Bieber after the unveiling at Madame Tussauds museum in New York. Brendan McDermid /Reuters
Rebel fighters flee from Ajdabiyah on the road to Benghazi, Libya. President Qaddafi's forces reached Ajdabiyah after storming through Ras Lanuf and Es Sider, reversing the advance of a rag-tag rebel army, which only a few weeks ago was confident of charging into the capital Tripoli and toppling Qaddafi. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
The Mudyug icebreaker, (l.), leads a ship named the Federal Danube as men fish in the frozen Gulf of Finland, 25 miles west of St. Petersburg, Russia. Icebreakers have been called in to free dozens of ships that have been trapped. The eastern Gulf of Finland has not seen such thick ice since 1992, according to the federal agency. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
Ethnic Hungarians in traditional outfits attend Magyar Day celebrations marking the 1848 revolution against the Habsburgs, in the Nyerges pass, north of Bucharest, Romania. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
Hungarian protesters attend a demonstration against the government's new and disputed media law in downtown Budapest, Hungary. Thousands gathered on Hungary's national holiday, marking the 1848 revolution, to protest against the law, which imposes extensive fines against journalists and publishers if they refuse to disclose their sources or publish information deemed inappropriate by the government. Bela Szandelszky/AP
Deborah Taylor, mother of marine Johnathan W. Taylor of Homosassa, Fla., who died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, receives a flag from Marine Sgt. Maj. Eric Stockton during the funeral service at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Also attending the funeral are, (l. to r.), Taylor's father, Mark Taylor, and his two brothers, Mark Taylor, Jr., and Christopher Taylor. AP
Khaden Brown, (l. to r.), Bryan Harris and DelRoy Jones make a stop in their tour of the Capitol to peer through the balcony at Gov. Nathan Deal preparing to sign the HOPE Scholarship bill into law in Atlanta. John Amis/AP
Approximately 5,000 Syrians are dying each month, and an average of 6,000 people flee the country every day, UN officials reported Tuesday. Since the war began, nearly 93,000 people are dead, and 1.8 million have fled.
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