Pictures Of The Day: Wednesday 16th March 2016

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Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post brings you the very best news and sports images from around the world, chosen and created by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland and Tahira Mirza.

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British Finance Minister George Osborne poses for pictures with the Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in London, on March 16, 2016, before presenting the government's annual budget to parliament.British finance minister George Osborne will unveil Wednesday his annual budget, with more austerity pain as the global economic outlook darkens, but will pledge more cash for education and infrastructure.Most economists believe Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne will likely avoid any major shocks, with three months to go until Britons vote on EU membership in a crucial referendum. / AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. North Korea's highest court sentenced Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student, from Wyoming, Ohio, to 15 years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for subversion. He allegedly attempted to steal a propaganda banner from a restricted area of his hotel at the request of an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
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US skier Lindsey Vonn smiles as she poses with the Women's downhill discipline crystal globe trophy at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in St. Moritz on March 16, 2016. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 16: Jamie Oliver poses as he is interviewed in Westminister after British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne reveals the 2016 budget statement on March 16, 2016 in London, England. Today's budget will set the expenditure of the public sector for the year beginning on April 1st 2016 against the revenues gathered by HM Treasury. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 16: British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne holds up the Budget Box as he poses for photographs outside 11 Downing Street on March 16, 2016 in London, England. Today's budget will set the expenditure of the public sector for the year beginning on April 1st 2016 against the revenues gathered by HM Treasury. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Walkers has taken the ‘Choir of Champions’ to the streets of Europe to celebrate its official partnership with the UEFA Champions League®. The undercover choir surprised members of the public ahead of the Round of 16 final match week to help get Europe #GameReady.To build excitement ahead of this week’s games, Walkers took the iconic UEFA Champions League anthem to Europe’s streets – and even skies – in a never before done series of events. Impromptu renditions of the classic tune were performed on buses, streets, in city squares and even by helicopter, with the Choir of Champions out in full force in Madrid, Munich and London, as Europe’s premier club competition moves into its defining stages. To kick-start the day, Gary Lineker, took to the London skies with a fully kitted out helicopter. The chopper flew over the London skyline projecting the iconic anthem to the masses below to start their day with a bang. The chopper then landed at London’s O2 Arena where Londoners were given a live rendition on the ground.
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TOKYO, JAPAN - MARCH 16: Miranda Kerr attends the press conference for new Samantha Thavasa handbags collection Tv commercial at Gates Store on March 16, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage)
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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 16: 'Barbie, Life of an Icon', an exhibition at the museum of Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris, celebrates the doll's evolution since first launching in 1959 through 700 models , the all-time best-selling product of US toymaker Mattel in Paris, France on March 16, 2016. (Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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SANTA MONICA, CA - MARCH 10: Amy Willerton attends Cinemagic's Los Angeles Showcase and sneak preview of 'Delicate Things' at Fairmont Miramar Hotel on March 10, 2016 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images)
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - MARCH 16: Romain Wattel of France plays a shot in the pro - am prior to the start of the Hero Indian Open golf at Delhi Golf Club on March 16, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)
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A woman takes a photo of a polar bear at the zoo in Mulhouse, eastern France on March 15, 2016. / AFP / SEBASTIEN BOZON (Photo credit should read SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images)
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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 15: Actress Kristen Stewart is seen on March 15, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Paul Hubble/GC Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 16: Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne leaves 11 Downing Street with his treasury team (from left) Lord O'Neill, Damian Hinds, David Gauke, Chris Skidmore, Harriett Baldwin, Greg Hands and Conor Burns as he holds his ministerial red box on March 16, 2016 in London, England. The Chancellor will deliver the next Budget today, where he will state that he needs to cut 50 pence in every £100 that the Government spends by 2020. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - MARCH 15: Racegoers watch the action on day one, Champion Day, of the Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse on March 15, 2016 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)
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A man paints a ninot(Ninots - individual figure making up the scenes in the Fallas celebration) on the Falla del Convento de Jerusalen during the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 15, 2016 before they are set alight on March 19. Fallas are gigantic structures made of cardboard portraying current events and personalities in which individual figures or Ninots are placed. The Fallas will be burned in the streets of Valencia as a tribute to Saint Joseph, the saint patron of the carpenters' guild. / AFP / JOSE JORDAN (Photo credit should read JOSE JORDAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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OSIJEK, CROATIA - MARCH 15: Prince Charles, Prince of Wale walks around the Kopacki Rit Wetlands under an umbrella on March 15, 2016 near Osijek, Croatia. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are on the second day of a two day visit to Croatia. (Photo by John Stillwell - Pool/Getty Images)
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OSIJEK, CROATIA - MARCH 15: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is shown horses during a visit to Djakovo Stud Farm on March 15, 2016 in Osijek, Croatia. The Prince and the Duchess are on the second day of a two day visit to Croatia. (Photo by Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty Images)
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MIAMI, FL - MARCH 15: Actress Jennifer Garner is seen on the set of 'Un Nuevo Dia' to promote the film 'Miracles From Heaven' at Telemundo Studios on March 15, 2016 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Alexander Tamargo/WireImage)
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A member of the 'Gruppo Storico Romano' (Roman historian group) takes part in a historical reconstitution of the assassination of Julius Caesar by a group of conspirators led by Brutus, his adopted son, on March 15, 2016 in Rome. / AFP / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Nicolas Jarossay practices on his Stand Up Paddel (SUP) on March 15, 2016 off Martigues, as part of a training session ahead of his attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean in his specially designed SUP. Jarossay Nicolas plans to head off from Cape Verde in several weeks and will be aiming to make landfall in the Caribbean. He could arrive somewhere in the Caribbean 2,500 miles away. The voyage is expected to last a staggering 75 days. / AFP / BORIS HORVAT (Photo credit should read BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Participants of a demonstration for teachers, students, parents and their sympathizers hold their umbrellas in front of the building of Agriculture Ministry in Budapest on March 15, 2016 during their anti-government protest against proposed education reforms. / AFP / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)
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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 16: 'Barbie, Life of an Icon', an exhibition at the museum of Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris, celebrates the doll's evolution since first launching in 1959 through 700 models , the all-time best-selling product of US toymaker Mattel in Paris, France on March 16, 2016. (Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 15: Rugby player Mark Cueto with wife Suzie, son Max and mother Anne as he holds his Member of the British Empire (MBE) medal which was awarded by the Duke of Cambridge at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on March 15, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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HOUSTON, TX - MARCH 15: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a watch party on March 15, 2016 in Houston, Texas. Cruz is in a tight race with Donald Trump in the Missouri GOP primary, while Trump took Florida, North Carolina, and Illinois. Gov. John Kasich won his home state of Ohio. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a press conference following his victory in the Florida state primary on March 15, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The win in Florida for Trump sent rival Marco Rubio, the US senator from the Sunshine State, crashing out of the campaign. The 69-year-old billionaire also won in Illinois and North Carolina. / AFP / RHONA WISE (Photo credit should read RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)
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PESHEWAR, PAKISTAN - MARCH 16: Pakistanis inspect a destroyed bus after a bomb blast in Peshawar on March 16, 2016. At least 15 people were killed and 25 others wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus carrying government officials in Peshawar, the main city of Pakistan's northwest. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - MARCH 16: A photo released by the Argentinian Coast Guard on March 16, 2016 showing Argentina's coast guard sank a Chinese fishing vessel that was illegally fishing in territorial waters off the South American country's coast. (Photo by Argentina Coast Guard /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride Parowol Mirel Lamber, from the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok (Hasidic dynasty), arrives on a horse-drawn carriage for her wedding with the great-grandson of the Rabbi of the Tzanz Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community on March 15, 2016, in the Israeli central city of Netanya. / AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 16: Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove arrives at Downing Street for a Cabinet Meeting on March 16, 2016 in London, England. The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will deliver the next Budget today, where he will state that he needs to cut 50 pence in every £100 that the Government spends by 2020. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Pope Francis kisses a baby as he arrives for his weekly general audience at St Peter's square on March 16, 2016 in Vatican. / AFP / ANDREAS SOLARO (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)
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People are escorted by police as they leave shops where they were forced to stay during the police operations near the site of a shooting in the rue du Dries-Driesstraat in Forest-Vorst, Brussels, on early March 16, 2016. Belgian and French police launched a vast manhunt for suspects late March 15 after a Kalashnikov-wielding assailant was killed and four officers were wounded during an anti-terror operation in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks. The dead person had not been identified but prosecutors said it was not Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the November 13 killings in Paris claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, which killed 130 people. / AFP / Belga / Nicolas Maeterlinck / Belgium OUT (Photo credit should read NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP/Getty Images)
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - MARCH 16: Istanbul Police Department's Anti-Terrorism Unit conduct a riot and special operation supported anti-terror operation in 16 districts in Istanbul, Turkey on March 16, 2016. (Photo by Islam Yakut/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN- MARCH 16: A wounded Pakistani waits to receive treatment at Lady Reading Hospital after a bomb placed on a bus carrying government officials exploded in Peshawar northern Pakistan, killing at least 15 people and 25 wounded on March 15, 2016. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - MARCH 16: A squirrel type animal is seen on a tree during the pro - am prior to the start of the Hero Indian Open golf at Delhi Golf Club on March 16, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)
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Activists from NGO People for Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA)pose painted in green hold 'Go Green' placards in Bangalore on March 16, 2016, as they take part in a campaign urging members of the public to become vegetarian ahead of St Patrick's Day. / AFP / Manjunath Kiran (Photo credit should read MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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US skier Steven Nynam reacts in the finish area after taking part in the Men's downhill at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in St. Moritz on March 16, 2016. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
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KAZAKHSTAN, BAIKONUR. MARCH 16, 2016. The Soyuz FG booster rocket with the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft on a train next to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at night. The positioning of the rocket on the launch pad has been postponed due to bad weather conditions. On 19 March, 2016, the rocket is due to take three crew members to the International Space Station where they will join ISS Expedition 47. Sergei Savostyanov/TASS (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov\TASS via Getty Images)
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Elephants pose in front of papier-mache pandas created by French artist Paulo Grangeon at The Golden Mount in Ayutthaya on March 16, 2016.The event, consisting of placing 1,600 papier-mache pandas in various cities around the world in collaboration with the WWF, is aimed at raising awareness of the endangered species. / AFP / LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/Getty Images)
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GUANGZHOU, CHINA - MARCH 16: (CHINA OUT) Wang Shangyuan #12 of Guangzhou Evergrande heads the ball during the AFC Champions League Group H match between Guangzhou Evergrande and Urawa Red Diamonds at Tianhe Sport Center on March 16, 2016 in Guangzhou, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and Vice President Joe Biden (L) stands with Judge Merrick B. Garland (R), while nominating him to the US Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, March 16, 1016 in Washington, DC. Merrick currently serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and if confirmed by the US Senate, would replace Antonin Scalia who died suddenly last month. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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