News in pictures on 06/03 & 07/03/2010

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World
Mar 6, 2010

News in pictures on Saturday

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A villager hoists his bird cage up on a pole during a bird-singing contest in the southern province of Yala on March 6, 2010. The popular event attacts bird owners from many countries around the region. -- PHOTO: AFP

Passersby help push a car down a flooded road in central Melbourne after a severe storm passed through the city causing the cancellation of major sporting events on March 6, 2010. The huge storm cell resulted in a total of 26mm of rain in less an hour, bringing emergency services to a halt as reports of flooding came in from across the city. -- PHOTO: AFP

Newborn baby Daniela Pierre is intubated after she stopped breathing during her birth at a field clinic run by US doctors of the International Medical Assistance Team at the camp for earthquake survivors set up in the Petionville Golf Club, Haiti, Friday, March 5, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan 12 leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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A protester portraying President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is surrounded by others carrying a native tray with slogans on it during a rally dramatizing the plight of farmers in the present El Nino-triggered drought in the country on Saturday, March 6, 2010 near the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The protesters assailed the government for their alleged inaction and that the financial assistance for the farmers should reach its intended beneficiaries. Text at right reads 'P1.7 billion (US$3.7 million) El Nino fund should be allotted to rice farming.' -- PHOTO: AP

A boy carries a sword fish on his head from Indian Ocean waters to a market in Mogadishu on March 5, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

View of Talcahuano's street after the earthquake in Chile, on March 5, 2010. Chileans will be feeling aftershocks from the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake for months and possibly years to come, scientists said, on March 5, 2010, as three strong tremors rocked the country. Chile has been rattled by more than 200 aftershocks since the historic monster quake struck the South American country six days ago, killing some 800 people as buildings collapsed and tsunamis swept people to sea. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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People carry coffins containing the remains of victims of the Las Penas massacre, during a burial ceremony in the city of Suchitoto, 45 km (28 miles) north of San Salvador March 5, 2010. Twenty six people were killed by El Salvador army special forces on April 5, 1985 in a military operation during the country's civil war which spanned from 1980 to 1992. The Institute of Legal Medicine in San Vicente on Thursday returned the remains to respective families after determining the identities of the victims. A night vigil was held in memory of those killed, followed by the burial on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Ukrainian ultra-nationalists carry torches as they march in central Kiev on March 5, 2010 marking the 60th anniversary of the death of Roman Shukhevych (1907 -1950) a Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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World
Mar 7, 2010

News in pictures on Sunday

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Crystals hang from the ceiling during a preview of the Governors Ball prior to the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A Kosovo Albanian man jumps with his snowboard in the mountains of Brezovica. -- PHOTO: AFP

A circus lion which escaped from its cage during the earthquake last week, is partially buried after it was shot by police at Iloca town, south of Santiago. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Cameron Crazies celebrates before the start of the game between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. -- PHOTO: AFP

A porcupine made out from Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles is displayed during the Pet Tropicana exhibition by Czech sculptor Veronika Richterova at Fata Morgana Tropical Greenhouse in the Prague Botanical Gardens. -- PHOTO: AFP

Owner Yoshihiro Nomura holds one-year-old male standard poodle 'Cream' on his back during a dog fashion show called 'Odaiba Wan Wan Collection 2010' at the Aqua City in Tokyo. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Bruce Linton's lead dogs charge down the trail just after the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska. Seventy-one mushers and their powerful sled dog teams got a festive send-off in downtown Anchorage on Saturday for a 10-mile (16-km) ceremonial run that launched the fabled Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Centrafrican women refugee walking in the village of Boulembe, 400km northeast of the Cameroonian capital Yaounde. More than 81,000 Centrafricans fled their country between 2005 and Feb 2010 to take refuge in neighbouring Cameroon. In Boulembe, there are some 1,150 refugees. -- PHOTO: AFP