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Pictures of the Day
Ireland Election(01 of20)
Ireland's Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams casts his vote at a polling station in Ravensdale, Ireland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. Ireland began voting early on Friday in the country's General Election where recent polls suggest that the outcome could leave no party able to lead a stable coalition. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Afghan boy five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi, a young Lionel Messi fan, plays football as he wears a shirt donated and signed by Messi on a field in Kabul on February 26, 2016. Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent not one, but two jerseys to the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation last month when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag with 'Messi' scrawled on it in marker pen. Murtaza Ahmadi travelled with his family from eastern Ghazni province to Kabul to receive the gifts sent by Messi through UNICEF, where he is a goodwill ambassador.'Murtaza couldn't stop smiling. He kept repeating: I love Messi,' UNICEF Afghanistan spokesman Denise Shepherd-Johnson told AFP. AFP PHOTO/WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:WAKIL KOHSAR via Getty Images)
FBL-AFG-ARG-ESP-AFGHANISTAN-SPORT-SOCIETY(03 of20)
Afghan boy five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi (C), a young Lionel Messi fan, plays football as he wears a donated and signed shirt by Messi on a field in Kabul on February 26, 2016. Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent not one, but two jerseys to the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation last month when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag with 'Messi' scrawled on it in marker pen. Murtaza Ahmadi travelled with his family from eastern Ghazni province to Kabul to receive the gifts sent by Messi through UNICEF, where he is a goodwill ambassador.'Murtaza couldn't stop smiling. He kept repeating: I love Messi,' UNICEF Afghanistan spokesman Denise Shepherd-Johnson told AFP. AFP PHOTO/WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:WAKIL KOHSAR via Getty Images)
Meet The "American Idol XV" Finalists - Arrivals(04 of20)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 25: Jennifer Lopez attends the The 'American Idol XV' finalists event at The London Hotel on February 25, 2016 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) (credit:Jason LaVeris via Getty Images)
Meet The "American Idol XV" Finalists - Arrivals(05 of20)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 25: Jennifer Lopez attends the The 'American Idol XV' finalists event at The London Hotel on February 25, 2016 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) (credit:Jason LaVeris via Getty Images)
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Highly-skilled SFRS teams up with farmers to save Flash Dance the horse #NeighBother -
Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce 13th Annual Awards Media Center And Unveiling Of Kate Winslet Wax Figure(07 of20)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 25: A general view of the atmosphere during the Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce 13th Annual Awards Media Center And Unveiling Of Kate Winslet Wax Figure at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on February 25, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images,) (credit:Tommaso Boddi via Getty Images)
Celebrity Sightings in New York City - February 25, 2016(08 of20)
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 25: Kate Winslet seen ice skating in Bryant Park on the film set of 'Colateral Beauty' on February 25, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Team/GC Images) (credit:Team via Getty Images)
Hot Air Balloons Take To The Skies To Launch The 2016 Wairarapa Balloon Festival(09 of20)
CARTERTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 26: Hot air balloons prepare to fly over Wairarapa to launch the 2016 Wairarapa Balloon Festival on February 26, 2016 in Carterton, New Zealand. The Festival runs until February 29, and features special shaped hot air balloons from around the world. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) (credit:Hagen Hopkins via Getty Images)
Hot Air Balloons Take To The Skies To Launch The 2016 Wairarapa Balloon Festival(10 of20)
CARTERTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 26: Hot air balloons fly over Wairarapa to launch the 2016 Wairarapa Balloon Festival on February 26, 2016 in Carterton, New Zealand. The Festival runs until February 29, and features special shaped hot air balloons from around the world. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) (credit:Hagen Hopkins via Getty Images)
2016 Perth International - Day 2(11 of20)
PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 26: Victor Dubuisson of France poses with Sunshine the koala during day two of the 2016 Perth International at Karrinyup GC on February 26, 2016 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images) (credit:Paul Kane via Getty Images)
Rainy Season in Indonesia(12 of20)
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - FEBRUARY 26 : Indonesian people try to ride motorcycles through a flooded road caused by heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 26, 2016. Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused widespread flooding across much of Indonesia. (Photo by Agoes Rudianto/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
SINGAPORE-ANIMAL-ORANG UTAN-AH MENG(13 of20)
Kumaran Sesshe (R), head keeper of great apes with Wild Reserves Singapore feeds orangutan, newly named Ah Meng (C) with its foster brother Bino (L) at the Singapore Zoo on February 26, 2016. The Singapore Zoo revealed on February 26 a newly named orangutan after its descendant Ah Meng who is survived by six family members in Singapore Zoo. The first Ah Meng died in 2008. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP / ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ROSLAN RAHMAN via Getty Images)
Mideast Iraq(14 of20)
Followers of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, waving national flags, stage a demonstration calling for governmental reform in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 25: Kendall Jenner walks the runway at the Fendi show during Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2016/17 on February 25, 2016 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage) (credit:Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho via Getty Images)
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A pedestrian walks through Times Square in a light rain as electronic billboards are reflected on the wet pavement beneath his feet, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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B. Akerlund arrives at the 18th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) (credit:Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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A police officer argues with migrants during a protest on a highway at Tempe valley near the city of Larissa, in central Greece, on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. Tougher Balkan border controls have left thousands of people stranded in Greece, where some 4,000 migrants and refugees continue to arrive daily. Police are stopping buses carrying migrants to the border with Macedonia, leaving hundreds stranded stander along the highway between Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki. (Giorgos Kydonas/InTime News via AP) GREECE OUT (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Indigenous women pray holding wooden crosses during a ceremony by human rights activists in front of the Supreme Court in Guatemala City, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. Guatemalans commemorate the "National Day of Dignity for the Victims of Armed Internal Conflict" every Feb. 25 in honor of the victims of the civil war that ended in 1996. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Actress Abbey Lee attends the "Gods of Egypt" premiere at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) (credit:Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)