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Easter festivities, pillow fight, Titanic memorial cruise, N. Korean rocket and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
April 7, 2012
Children race to the field to collect eggs during an Easter egg hunt at the Crossline Church campus field in Laguna Hills, Calif.
Christine Cotter
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April 7, 2012
Bryce Griffiths, left, 9, and Rhys Brown, 6, compete in a sack race during the Dana Point Easter egg hunt at Pines Park in Dana Point, Calif.
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April 7, 2012
Dominique Stevens hugs the Easter Bunny during the Dana Point Easter egg hunt at Pines Park in Dana Point, Calif.
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April 7, 2012
Young Chinese gymnasts train at a special sport school in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. Potential gymnasts embark on a grueling schedule that aims to create champions, as schooling and family take a back seat to eight hours of training six days a week, while quitting the rigid system that demands total dedication, and in which the state invests millions of dollars to develop its athletes, is rarely an option.
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April 8, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the altar to celebrate the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.
Pier Paolo Cito
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April 9, 2012
Local residents in traditional clothing ride their horses to receive a blessing for men and beast near Traunstein, southern Germany. The procession has been held for 300 years on Easter Monday.
Matthias Schrader
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AP
April 8, 2012
An Orthodox priest blesses believers during a Palm Sunday service outside a cathedral in Yevpatoria . Palm Sunday commemorates Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem a week before his crucifixion.
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April 9, 2012
Girls are hit by water from a bucket thrown by Slovak youths dressed in traditional costumes as part of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla, Slovakia. Girls are doused with water and whipped in a custom believed to ensure a woman's fertility and beauty.
Radovan Stoklasa
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
Thai soldiers stand guard ahead of the royal cremation for late Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda Sirisobhabannavadi at Sanam Luang in Bangkok. Thai Princess Bejaratana, the first cousin of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was admitted to Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital on July 13 for bloodstream infection and died July 27, 2011 after her condition worsened.
Nicolas Asfouri
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April 9, 2012
A man carries a wax replica of a head on his head as he prays inside a monastery in the Spanish northwestern village of Armenteira. Believers offer the waxwork to the "Virgen de la Cabezas" (Virgin of the Heads) to pray for a miraculous recovery from their ailments.
Miguel Vidal
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
Slovak youths dressed in traditional costumes throw a bucket of water over a girl as part of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla, Bratislava.
Radovan Stoklasa
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
Slovak youths dressed in traditional costumes throw a girl into a creek as part of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla.
Radovan Stoklasa
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Reuters
April 7, 2012
People take part in a pillow fight flashmob at the Brandenburg Gate that was organized over Facebook in Berlin.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
April 7, 2012
People participate in International Pillow Fight Day at Washington Square Park in New York.
Andrew Burton
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Reuters
April 7, 2012
Sergei Andreichenko from Yekaterinburg lifts a 352.7-pound stone sphere as he competes during the Power Extreme Championship of Russia in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Twelve strong men from all over the country took part in the Russian power extreme sports championship, which has been held since 2002, according to organizers.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
April 8, 2012
Bubba Watson of the United States celebrates winning the 76th Masters golf tournament in a play-off against Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa. He is shown with his mother, Molly Watson, at Augusta National Golf Club on in Augusta, Ga.
Don Emmert
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April 6, 2012
Rolando Sanz, bottom center, performs the national anthem behind the center field wall as a woman tries to pull a United States flag into place before the Baltimore Orioles' home opener baseball game against the Minnesota Twins.
Patrick Semansky
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AP
April 7, 2012
Oxford crew member Alex Wood, 27, slumps back in the boat after he collapsed in the boat at the end of the 158th annual Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race on the river Thames at Mortlake, west London. Cambridge University won a dramatic Boat Race against Oxford, after a dramatic restart caused by a man swimming in the River Thames that raised questions about security for the London Olympics. The drama continued after the restart of the race, which is now in its 158th year, when one of the Oxford oars snapped off and then the Oxford rower collapsed after crossing the finish line.
Justin Tallis
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April 8, 2012
A zoo employee caresses Altai, a 6-month-old lion cub, in the city of Barnaul, the capital of the Altai region of Russia. Altai was used by a previous owner in Moscow for street photoshoots before being transported to a private apartment in Krasnoyarsk, and has now settled in the zoo of Barnaul, according to zoo employees.
Andrei Kasprishin
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
An employee works on a specimen of a tiger at an animal specimen factory in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. The factory collects animal carcasses from zoos all over China, carefully separates out and preserves the animal skins and furs, and stuffs them with straws or plastic foam to make specimens. There are currently more than 1,000 specimens in the factory, most of which will be sold to museums and schools, local media reported.
China Daily
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Reuters
April 6, 2012
A pedigree Tibetan mastiff dog, which the owner values at over $1 million, is on display at a dog show in the town of Daxing near Beijing. The animals, which have now become the world's most expensive, are much prized in China, where owning one is seen as a status symbol and a coal baron in northern China recently purchased one for 10 million yuan (about $1.5 million).
Mark Ralston
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AFP/Getty Images
April 8, 2012
Villagers travel in a truck in a field northwest of Pyongyang, North Korea.
Bobby Yip
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
Representatives stand in front of the mosaic portrait of founder of North Korea Kim Il Sung, left, and the new portrait of the late leader Kim Jong Il during an inauguration ceremony in Pyongyang.
Bobby Yip
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
Thousands of residents applaud at a square during the inauguration of a mosaic portrait of Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.
Bobby Yip
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April 8, 2012
A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang. North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States.
Bobby Yip
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Reuters
April 8, 2012
A scientist introduces the Kwangmyongsong-3 application satellite, to be put onto the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang.
Bobby Yip
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Reuters
April 7, 2012
Bahraini anti-government protesters protect their faces from tear gas during a protest in downtown Manama, Bahrain, as they hold a sign in English and Arabic that reads "Free Abdulhadi al-Khawaja," referring to a jailed opposition human rights activist.
Hasan Jamali
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AP
April 7, 2012
A police officer fires a tear gas canister at Tunisian protesters during an anti-government demonstration in Tunis.
Fethi Belaid
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AFP/Getty Images
April 7, 2012
Members of retro gamer Keith Apicary's "security force" stand in formation with video game guns at the PAX East gaming conference in Boston.
Jessica Rinaldi
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Reuters
April 8, 2012
A boy exercises on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
April 7, 2012
Joyce Banda gets out of a car during her inauguration as Malawi's new president, becoming its first female leader in a ceremony in the capital Lilongwe.
Stephane de Sakutin
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AFP/Getty Images
April 8, 2012
Megan Zubok and Evan Perelekos of Detroit, wearing period costumes, arrive on the Balmoral cruise ship for the Titanic Memorial Cruise in Southampton, England. The cruise is to retrace the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic liner, which hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago on April 15, 1912.
Chris Helgren
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Reuters
April 8, 2012
John Philip, center, of South Coast, New South Wales, Australia, adjusts his period bowler hat while donning a life jacket, during a drill on board the Titanic Memorial Cruise in Southampton, England.
Chris Helgren
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Reuters
April 8, 2012
Sharon Sutton of Dublin, center, waves an Irish flag as the Titanic Memorial Cruise leaves port in Southampton, England.
Chris Helgren
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April 9, 2012
Tormod Gaasbakk and Anne Isabel Udbye of Trondheim, Norway, sit in a hot tub on the Titanic Memorial Cruise as it moves through high winds off Cobh, Ireland.
Chris Helgren
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April 7, 2012
A Sphynx cat reacts during an international cat beauty show in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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