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Rescue workers salute next to a body they retrieved from the rubble in Rikuzentakat, Japan, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
Peru's former president and presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo greets supporters at a market in Lima. The presidential election will be held on April 10. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff will be held on June 5. Toledo is the clear front-runner according to most recent polls, but he is likely to fall short of a first-round victory. Mariana Bazo/Reuters
Virginia's Nick Nelson(l.) and Army's Casey Thome compete during their first-round match at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Philadelphia. Nelson won 5-4. AP
Taiwanese protesters shout anti-nuclear slogans in a rally in front of the Executive Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan. Chiang Ying-ying/AP
People pull a Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 weighing 210 tons during an attempt to break the world record at Hong Kong's Airport. The Civil Aviation Department and the aviation industry will jointly organize an aircraft pull event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of aviation development in Hong Kong. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky over Finnmark, northern Norway. Tore Meek/Reuters
A passenger from Japan passes through a scanner to check radiation levels at Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, South Korea. Radiation has been released into the atmosphere in Japan at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the country's northeast coast, which was badly damaged after a massive earthquake and tsunami. Truth Leem/Reuters
A Shiite Bahraini youth, his face masked, stands with a group of women watching clashes between residents and riot police in the streets of Jidhafs, Bahrain, on the outskirts of the capital of Manama. Security forces are moving through Shiite villages, cracking down and making arrests. Hasan Jamali/AP
Britain's Prince Charles has his photograph with Cortina Henderson, (r.), and an unidentified woman inside a decorated black cab designed as a photo booth during his visit to the Ideal Home Show at Earls Court in London. Megabooth.com/AP
Kashmiri Muslims pray from a balcony of a house upon seeing a Muslim cleric displaying a relic of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, a Sufi saint, in Srinagar, Kashmir. Thousands of Kashmiri Sufi Muslims gathered at the shrine of Jeelani, also known as Shah-e-Baghdad (King of Baghdad), on the 871st anniversary of his death to offer special prayers. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
A woman comforts her dog during an aftershock at an evacuation center for pets and their owners near an area devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, northern Japan. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Exiled Tibetans participate in a candlelight vigil to honor 20-year-old monk Phuntsog, in Dharmsala, India. Phuntsog immolated himself Wednesday near the Kirti monastery in Aba town, in Sichuan province, during a protest against Chinese rule, according to a report by the Tibetan Center for Human Rights in Democracy. Ashwini Bhatia/AP
Polar bear cub Vicks looks up at his mother, Olinka, at the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The zoo allowed public access to the cub, born on December 6, 2010, for the first time today. Vicks is the first Polar bear born in Blijdorp Zoo in 14 years. Jerry Lampen/Reuters
Former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich(c.), a potential Republican Presidential candidate, listens to members of the New Hampshire Police Association Pipes and Drums play before the Saint Patrick's Day luncheon at the Boys and Girls Club in Salem, N.H. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Customers flock to buy salt at a supermarket in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China. China's economic agency vowed to stamp out rumors that have led to salt hoarding and price gouging after consumers emptied shop shelves of it, following baseless rumors that iodine in salt can ward off radiation sickness. China Daily/Reuters
Japan's Kazuya Yoshioka signs autographs after his qualification jump during the ski jumping World Cup in Planica, Slovenia. Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters
Upset market vendors scale the fence surrounding the White House during a protest in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The vendors were demanding the resignation of Bishkek's mayor after some of their stalls were removed overnight. Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters
A young girl with her face painted watches the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
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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