News in pictures on Tuesday 2nd Mar. 2010

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World
Mar 2, 2010

News in pictures on Tuesday

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An Indonesian protester throws a rock at riot police during an anti-government protest outside the parliament where a parliamentary committee investigating alleged irregularities in a bank bailout is holding a meeting in Jakarta. Hundreds of people staged the protest against government's US$715 million bailout of Bank Century in 2008. -- PHOTO: AP

An aerial view shows a van driving on a flooded road near La Faute, southwestern France, following a major storm named Xynthia. France's government has declared a natural disaster, enabling victims to claim compensation and free up insurance claims. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A resident walks past a cemetery destroyed by a major earthquake in Constitucion. Chile's government scrambled on Monday to provide aid to thousands of homeless people in coastal towns devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunamis, as 10,000 troops patrolled to quell looting. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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US freestyle motocross legend Seth Enslow is airborne as he smashes the longest distance record jump on a Harley-Davidson in Sydney. Enslow broke his own new world record set only an hour earlier, with a jump of 55.77 metres on his Harley-Davidson XR1200. -- PHOTO: AFP

In a billowing cloud of white, Russia's Arctic herders drive thousands of panting and wild-eyed reindeer through the knee-deep snow to the first slaughter this year. But warm winters in recent years have forced herders here in the far northern Kola Peninsula to delay for months the rounding up of their reindeer from the vast tundra at great economic cost. -- PHOTO: AFP

Indian Sikh devotees spray perfume on the Palki Sahib which carries The Guru Garnth Sahib (Holy Book of Sikhs) in a procession from the Golden Temple to Sri Akal Takhat Sahib in Amritsar, on the occasion of Hola Mohalla. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Replicas of Oscars' statues are on display in a shop in front of the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California. The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Kodak Theater on Sunday. -- PHOTO: AFP

A statue of Saint Therese of Lisieux sits amid the destruction left by a major earthquake in La Pezca. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Cut-out masks of Uruguay's President-elect Jose Mujica are offered for sale outside congress during Mujica's swearing-in ceremony in Montevideo. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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A suit worn by Britney Spears in her 'Circus' music video is displayed during a media preview by the Gotta Have It! auction house before an online auction of memorabilia in New York. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

'Mourners from the Tomb of Duke John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria', 37 alabaster sculptures on display in the exhibition. The sculptures are on loan from the Mus�e de Beaux-Arts de Dijon in France. -- PHOTO: AFP

A man walks past a piece called 'Red, Yellow and Black Independent Heart' by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos during her presentation of the 'Netless' exhibition at Belem Cultural Centre in Lisbon. The materials used in the artwork are cutlery in red, yellow and black plastic as well as painted iron and metal chains. The exhibition will run from March 2 until May 18. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Reindeer ran down a snow covered 4th Avenue in downtown Anchorage during the third annual Running of the Reindeer during the Fur Rondy festival. -- PHOTO: AP

Israelis in costumes and masks dance in the street during the annual Purim parade in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. -- PHOTO: AP