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World
Mar 24, 2010

News in pictures on Wednesday



Dead sharks caught by fishermen, are seen at the port of Banyuwangi, East Java on Wednesday. Many local fishermen hunt for sharks for local consumtion and sell the fins for regional market, mostly to Singapore and China for the famous Chinese fin soups. This large scale commercial exploitation of sharks recently led to drastic decline in shark populations globally. -- PHOTO: AFP




School children wearing pharaoh-style hats watch as a 25-foot tall replica statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, with a suitcase at his feet, passes in front of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, on Tuesday. The statue was traveling to announce the upcoming exhibit 'Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs' starting on April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. -- PHOTO: AP




Dancers with the folkloric group "Colombia Del Puerto" perform as part of welcoming ceremonies for the Amistad at the port of Matanzas, Cuba. The Connecticut schooner Amistad, a replica of the infamous Cuban slave ship, has arrived in Cuba for a 10-day visit. The ship is to drop anchor in Havana on Thursday to observe the Amistad's 10th anniversary and commemorate the day in 1807 when the British Parliament outlawed the slave trade. -- PHOTO: AP

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Soldiers rest near the parliament in Bangkok on Thursday. Thai police and soldiers cordoned off the roads around parliament ahead of a parliamentary session on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Pedestrians struggle to hold on to their umbrellas as they navigate the 16th Street mall in downtown Denver as a spring storm packing cold temperatures, high winds and snow envelopes Colorado's mountain and Front Range communities. -- PHOTO: AP




People light candles to mourn for school students who were stabbed to death by a man at a primary school in Nanping, Fujian province on Tuesday. Classes of the primary school in east China's Fujian Province resumed on Wednesday, a day after a man stabbed at least eight children to death there. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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This photo shows severe bleaching to coral in the Lord Howe Island Lagoon. The world's southernmost coral reef is on a 'knife-edge' after warmer seas blamed on climate change bleached large parts of it for the first time, an Australian scientist warned on Wednesday. Professor Peter Harrison, who has been monitoring the world heritage-listed Lord Howe Island since 1993, said a two degrees Celsius (four Fahrenheit) rise in sea temperatures had drained much of the reef of its distinctive colours. -- PHOTO: AFP




Lehiya-writer artists replicate Jain scripture on jute paper at a workshop in Mumbai. Some 20-odd lehiyas in traditional white tunics and red turbans hunch over their worktable in monkish silence, rewriting ancient scriptures in painstaking detail, using the same craft as the Maharaj Sahibs (Jain monks) did with the original scriptures of Teerthankars 1,800 years ago on parchments. The pens are made of tree barks, ink from organic substances like burnt sesame seeds or gold leaf are used. -- PHOTO: AFP




From on top of the Flatiron Building, one of the 31 life-size fiberglass nude body cast by the British artist Antony Gormley, that were inaugurated on sidewalks and rooftops of buildings surrounding Madison Square Park, including the Empire State Building. The art display, called 'Event Horizion', will run from Friday to Aug 15. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A paramilitary policeman jumps through a ring of fire during a training session at a military base in Suining, Sichuan province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Israelis practice kite surfing during sunset in the Meditaerranean Sea of the coast of Tel Aviv. -- PHOTO: AFP




Actress Mandy Moore, centre, left, and Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, centre, right, join students from Washington's Oyster-Adams Bilingual School, on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a rally in observance of the World Water Day. -- PHOTO: AP

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Britain's Red Arrows aerobatics squad flies over the Greek Air Force base of Kastelli, on the island of Crete, during a media presentation. A pilot was injured in a crash during pre-season training at Kastelli on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP




People attend a concert by Puerto Rico's band Calle 13 in Havana. Calle 13 brought its reggeton and hip hop to fans from an open-air, concrete stage dubbed 'Anti-imperialist Plaza' and built in the shadow of the US diplomatic mission to Cuba. -- PHOTO: AP