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Nepalese people sing and dance to traditional music and smear vermillion powder as they pull chariots of Hindu gods and goddesses during the Bisket Jatra festival in Thimi, in the outskirts of Kathmandu, on April 15, 2010. The traditional Bisket Jatra festival is celebrated during the Nepali New Year. -- PHOTO: AFP




A crane lifts a monument of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, in St. Petersburg April 15, 2010. The restored monument, that was hit by a blast in 2009, was returned to the square outside Finland Station in St. Petersburg to mark the 140th anniversary of Lenin's birth. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A worker sweeps near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok April 15, 2010. Thailand's 'red shirts' congregated in their tens of thousands at an upmarket Bangkok shopping district on Wednesday, preparing a "final battleground" in their fight to oust army-backed Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. -- PHOTO: REUTERS