Pictures Of The Day: The Best Images From Around The World On Wednesday 9th 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.

Pictures of the Day
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Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall (R), President of WOW, speaks with Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May (L) at a reception for the Women of the World Festival (WOW) at Clarence House, in central London on March 9, 2016.Women of the World Festival (WOW) is the largest women's festival in the world with events involving one million people across five continents. The festival begins on International Women's Day, Tuesday 8 March, and runs until Sunday 13 March. / AFP / POOL / LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LEON NEAL via Getty Images)
Paris Fashion L'Oreal Red Obsession Party(02 of28)
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Karlie Kloss poses for photographers during L'Oreal Red Obsession Party in Paris, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Vianney le Caer) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Counter-terrorism operation in Turkey's Diyarbakir(03 of28)
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DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY - MARCH 08: A soldier patrols at a street as Turkish Security Forces carry out a counter - terrorism operation against terrorist organization PKK in Turkey's south-eastern province Diyarbakir's Sur District on March 8, 2016. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Louis Vuitton : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2016/2017(04 of28)
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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 09: Selena Gomez attends the Louis Vuitton show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2016/2017 on March 9, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Rindoff/Le Segretain/Getty Images) (credit:Rindoff/Le Segretain via Getty Images)
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A total of 3,492 reflector panels, an equilateral triangle with a side length of 11 meters each, have been installed on the frame. When it is completed in 2016, the five hundred meter aperture spherical telescope (FAST) will be the world's largest, overtaking Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is 300 meters in diamete (credit:Xinhua News Agency/REX/Shutterstock)
Pets Cones of Shame(06 of28)
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This Wednesday, March 2, 2016, photo, shows Morris, a cat wearing a cone of shame device at the spcaLA South Bay Pet Adoption Center in Hawthorne, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
GERMANY-SAND-SCULPTURES-FESTIVAL(07 of28)
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Wiaczeslaw Borecki from Poland inspects a walrus-shaped sand sculpture on March 9, 2016 in Binz on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, northeastern Germany.Around 50 sand carvers work on their sculptures for a festival themed 'Fascinating Nature'. / AFP / dpa / Jens Büttner / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JENS BUTTNER/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JENS BUTTNER via Getty Images)
France Strikes(08 of28)
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Employes, workers and students demonstrate in Marseille, southern France, Wednesday, March, 9, 2016. France's transport unions and youth organizations hold strikes, amid anger over proposed labor law changes that take aim at the 35-hour workweek and make layoffs easier. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WE Day - Red Carpet Arrivals(09 of28)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: Rita Ora arrives for WE Day at SSE Arena on March 9, 2016 in London, England. WE Day is a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities (Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage) (credit:Mike Marsland via Getty Images)
WE Day - Red Carpet Arrivals(10 of28)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: Talia Storm arrives for WE Day at SSE Arena on March 9, 2016 in London, England. WE Day is a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Stuart C. Wilson via Getty Images)
WE Day - Red Carpet Arrivals(11 of28)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: Brian Cox speak during WE Day at the SSE Arena on March 9, 2016 in London, England. WE Day is a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) (credit:Stuart C. Wilson via Getty Images)
WE Day - Red Carpet Arrivals(12 of28)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: Fleur East arrives for WE Day at SSE Arena on March 9, 2016 in London, England. WE Day is a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities (Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage) (credit:Mike Marsland via Getty Images)
Actor Zac Efron showing off a very buff Body on the movie set of Baywatch in Miami Beach.

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Picture Shows: Dwayne Johnson Stars are spotted on the set of 'Baywatch' filming in Miami, Florida. Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson were seen filming a scene doing pull ups on the beach with Kelly Rohrbach watching.Non-ExclusiveUK RIGHTS ONLYPictu(14 of28)
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Picture Shows: Kelly RohrbachStars are spotted on the set of 'Baywatch' filming in Miami, Florida. Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson were seen filming a scene doing pull ups on the beach with Kelly Rohrbach watching.Non-ExclusiveUK RIGHTS ONLYPictu(15 of28)
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DONGGALA, CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA - 2016/03/09: A view of the total solar eclipse captured from Donggala. The total eclipse starts over the Indian Ocean, made landfall across Indonesia, including Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi, Teluk Tomini and Halmahera in the Moluccas and then headed out over the north Pacific Ocean, to ended near the Hawaiian islands. (Photo by Bambang Prastowo/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit:Pacific Press via Getty Images)
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Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, takes a moment as attorneys talk to the judge in court on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, during his trial against Gawker Media, in St Petersburg, Fl. Hogan and his attorneys are suing Gawker for $100 million, saying that his privacy was violated, and he suffered emotional distress after Gawker posted one minute and forty one seconds of a sex tape filmed of Hogan and his then-best friendâs wife. (John Pendygraft/Tampa Bay Times via AP, Pool) MANDATORY NY POST OUT (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., address the crowd at a campaign rally in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A partial eclipse is seen in Kathmandu on March 9, 2016.A partial solar eclipse was witnessed in Nepal and India as sightings of the astronomical event swept across Asia. / AFP / PRAKASH MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PRAKASH MATHEMA via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 08: United Nations Women Global Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson lights The Empire State Building In HeForShe Magenta for International Women's Day on March 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/FilmMagic) (credit:Brent N. Clarke via Getty Images)
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Migrants living in tents at a flooded field at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Up to 14,000 people are stranded on the outskirts of the village of Idomeni, with more than 36,000 in total across Greece, as EU leaders who held a summit with Turkey on Monday said they hoped they had reached the outlines of a possible deal with Ankara to return thousands of migrants to Turkey. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Monday, March 7, 2016, in Madison, Miss. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Fans dance and take pictures with their mobile phones during a free concert by the U.S. electronic music group Major Lazer in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Delegates take smartphone photos before the Xinjiang delegation group's meeting on the sidelines of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Communist Party officials in China's far western Xinjiang region say religious extremism is waning, but the government will step up border controls with Central Asian countries to prevent militants from entering and exiting the troubled western region. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Policewomen from Nepal(L), Madagasrcar(C) and Colombia(R) of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) attend a ceremony to mark International Women's Day at a female prison, in the commune of Petion Ville, in Port-au-Prince, on March 8, 2016. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - Tibetan monks dressed as demons attend the Beating Ghost festival at the Yonghe Temple, also known as the Lama Temple, in Beijing on March 8, 2016. The Beating Ghost festival, or Da Gui festival in Chinese, is an important ritual of Tibetan Buddhism and is believed to expel evil spirits and shake off troubles / AFP / FRED DUFOUR (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:FRED DUFOUR via Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - An eagle of the Guard from Above company, grasps a drone during a police exercise in Katwijk, on March 7, 2016. The bird of prey can get drones from the air by catching them with his legs. / AFP / ANP / Koen van Weel / Netherlands OUT (Photo credit should read KOEN VAN WEEL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:KOEN VAN WEEL via Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - Finnish driver Jari-Matti Latvala (R) and co-driver Miikka Anttila celebrate their victory in the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship in Guanajuato, Guanajuato State, Mexico, on March 6, 2016. AFP PHOTO / RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP / RONALDO SCHEMIDT (Photo credit should read RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:RONALDO SCHEMIDT via Getty Images)

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