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Pictures of the Day 25th March 2015
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View of the Villarrica volcano, some 800 km south of Santiago, showing visible signs of activity on March 25, 2015. Earlier this month, in its first major eruption in 15 years, the Villarrica forced the evacuation of thousands of people amid a shower of fire and ash. (credit:SEBASTIAN ESCOBAR via Getty Images)
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Pixel, the new two-year-old polar bear, arrives at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. (credit:Lynne Cameron/PA Wire)
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Pixel, the new two-year-old polar bear, arrives at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. (credit:Lynne Cameron/PA Wire)
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Raffaele Sollecito (C) arrives, on March 25, 2015 at the Rome's Supreme Court for the reviewing of his trial. The court will examine the verdict that found Raffaele Sollecito and his former lover American Amanda Knox guilty of killing British student Meredith Kercher in the Italian university town of Perugia in 2007, in a case that has captivated the world with its sub-texts of drugs, alleged sexual debauchery and police bungling. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ALBERTO PIZZOLI via Getty Images)
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Tom Gloess works on the cleaning of a dinosaur sculpture at the Saurierpark dinosaur theme park in Kleinwelka, eastern Germany, on March 25, 2015. Around 200 life-size models of dinosaurs are on display at the park that will open its season on April 1, 2015. (credit:MATTHIAS HIEKEL via Getty Images)
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Palestinian teacher Ahmad Al-Sawafiri who lost his legs and left hand in an Israeli attack on Gaza Strip during the Operation Cast Lead in 2008, teaches children at Safed primary school in Gaza City on March 19, 2015. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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In this photo provided by the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office, elephants hold up tractor-trailer stuck on the muddy shoulder of a highway near Powhatan, La., Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office says the truck was carrying three elephants from New Orleans to Dallas but got stuck Tuesday when it pulled over onto the soft shoulder of Interstate 49 about halfway through its trip. (AP Photo/Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this photo provided by the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office, elephants hold up tractor-trailer stuck on the muddy shoulder of a highway near Powhatan, La., Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office says the truck was carrying three elephants from New Orleans to Dallas but got stuck Tuesday when it pulled over onto the soft shoulder of Interstate 49 about halfway through its trip. (AP Photo/Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's Office) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this March 21, 2015 pool photo, made available Monday, March 23, 2015, Pope Francis wears a helmet as he meets youths in Naples, Italy. Pope Francis made an impassioned defense of the unemployed during a speech to people in the poor Neapolitan neighborhood of Scampia Saturday. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Vigil guards stand with their ceremonial swords inverted, around the coffin of the late Lee Kuan Yew at the Parliament House where he will lie in state for four days, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in Singapore. Singapore mourned longtime leader Lee with raw emotion and a blanket of relentlessly positive coverage on its tightly scripted state television on Monday, mythologizing a man who was as respected as he was feared. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Debris of the crashed Germanwings passenger jet is scattered on the mountain side near Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Family members of people involved in a crashed plane comfort each other as they arrive at the Barcelona airport in Spain, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying more than 140 people crashed in the French Alps region as it traveled from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Debris of the Germanwings passenger jet is scattered on the mountain side near Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying at least 150 people crashed Tuesday in a snowy, remote section of the French Alps, sounding like an avalanche as it scattered pulverized debris across the mountain. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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President Barack Obama, right, meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 24: British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to members of 'Age UK' after an election rally at the Queen Elizabeth II centre on March 24, 2015 in London, England. Mr Cameron laid out the Conservative Party's pledges to help older people, and answered questions on his recent admission that he would not wish to stand for a third term were his party to succeed in the next election. (Photo by Dan Kitwood - WPA Pool/Getty Images) (credit:Dan Kitwood via Getty Images)
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People inspect a school bus that crashed into a home Tuesday morning, March 24, 2015, in Blue Bell, Pa. Officials say nine students from St. Helena School were aboard, but none were injured, when the bus slammed into the suburban Philadelphia home around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday. Officials say the bus driver was taken to Abington Hospital. A person inside the home was not injured. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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ILLUSTRATION - A person dressed as an Easter bunny rides on its bicycle through the film park Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany, 24 March 2015. Photo: Ralf Hirschberger/dpa (credit:Ralf Hirschberger/DPA)
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AT SEA - MARCH 24: In this handout image provided by the Volvo Ocean Race, Leg 5 to Itajai onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Justin Slattery at the helm the exact moment when Azzam slams into the next wave in the Southern Ocean. The Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 is the 12th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain on October 04, 2014, the route, spanning some 39,379 nautical miles, visits 11 ports in eleven countries (Spain, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, China, New Zealand, Brazil, United States, Portugal, France, The Netherlands and Sweden) over nine months. The Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier ocean yacht race for professional racing crews. (Photo by Matt Knighton/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race via Getty Images) (credit:MKnighton/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing via Getty Images)
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LA SEYNE LES ALPES, FRANCE- MARCH 24: Gendarmerie and French mountain rescue teams arrive near the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps on March 24, 2015 in La Seyne les Alpes, France. A Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner with 148 people on board has crashed in the French Alps. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images) (credit:Patrick Aventurier via Getty Images)
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Rescue workers and helicopters stand at Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, as search-and-rescue teams struggle to reach the remote, snow-covered crash site of Germanwings passenger plane. A Germanwings passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed Tuesday in the French Alps as it flew from Spain's Barcelona airport to Duesseldorf in Germany, authorities said. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) (credit:Claude Paris/AP)
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Students gather at a memorial of flowers and candles in front of the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium secondary school in Haltern am See, western Germany on March 24, 2015, from where some of the Germanwings plane crash victims came. Sixteen German teenagers and two teachers on a school exchange trip were assumed to be among the 150 dead in the crash of a passenger jet in the French Alps, officials said. The head of low-budget airline Germanwings said there were 144 passengers and six crew on the Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps en route to Duesseldorf from Barcelona. AFP PHOTO / SASCHA SCHUERMANN (Photo credit should read SASCHA SCHUERMANN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SASCHA SCHUERMANN via Getty Images)