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Week in photos - March 8, 2013

 

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  • Benny Nadeau of Moody Beach, Maine, rides a large wave in heavy surf kicked up by a winter storm Friday afternoon, March 8, 2013, in Kennebunk, Maine.
  • Three 2-month old Oriental Pied Hornbills are displayed at the Jurong Bird Park's Breeding and Research Center in Singapore, Friday March 8, 2013. These three birds were hatched after successful artificial incubation at the bird park when their eggs were rescued on an off-shore island in Singapore. This is all part of the park's efforts in preserving and educating the public about its wildlife and wildlife reserves.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • Ibrahim Balde, who survived the collapse of a four-storey building under construction by leaping from the side when it started to shake, watches as rescuers dig through rubble in search of workers who may be still alive trapped in the rubble, in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, March 8, 2013. Balde's friend and coworker, who had switched duties with him that day, was later pulled dead from the rubble. Omar Samb Gueye, the local chief of the Ouakam area where the building was being constructed, said two people were killed and two injured when the building folded in on itself and collapsed in Senegal's capital, Dakar. He said the building was being constructed twice as tall as the two-storry height for which it had been authorized.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
  • Riot policemen protect themselves during a demonstration against layoffs by Goodyear employees, at the Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison, west of Paris, Thursday March 7, 2013. France has yet to hit bottom. The unemployment rate in Europe's second-largest economy rose again in the last quarter of last year to 10.6 percent, putting new pressure on President Francois Hollande's rollout a controversial labor-market reforms.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
  • A woman prays during a Sunday mass at the Mother of God sanctuary in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday March 3, 2013. Catholics around the world attended the first Sunday masses since Benedict XVI stepped down as pope. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
  • Chinese security personnel march outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Monday, March 4, 2013. In a rare move, China on Monday declined to reveal its defense budget request for 2013. It has been customarily that the country announces its defense spending plan for a new year at a press conference that is held a day before the opening of an annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
  • Members of the Satmar Orthodox Jewish community congregate for the funeral of two expectant parents who were killed in a car accident, Sunday, March 3, 2013, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A driver struck the car the couple were riding in early Sunday morning, killing both parents while their baby, who was born prematurely, survived and is in critical condition. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
  • Kenyans line up early in the morning for voting in a general election in Kisumu, west of Nairobi, Kenya , Monday, March 4, 2013. Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls on Monday to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country's most important - and complicated - in its 50-year history.(AP Photo/James Keyi)
  • This image provided by NASA shows an image captured by NASA�s Solar Dynamics Observatory of a blast of plasma streaming from the sun in August 2012. Scientists say a solar eruption was detected on March 5, 2013 and was headed toward Mars. NASA�s Curiosity rover will postpone some activities but other Mars missions will operate normally.(AP Photo/NASA)
  • Egyptians cover their faces from tear gas during clashes between protesters and riot police near the state security building in Port Said, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Clashes between protesters and police have broken out in this restive Egyptian port city despite efforts by the military to separate the two sides. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
  • An injured Eastern Imperial Eagle fly's, tethered by a 70 meter long line tied up to its legs in an open field at Ariel Sharon Park, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 3, 2013. The Imperial Eagle was unable to fly after being injured a few months ago and remains under care at the animal hospital in the Tel Aviv Ramat Gan Zoological center. The Eagle will go through flying training sessions before it will be released back to the wild, Shagit Horowitz the Safari spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
  • Canon McMillan's Solomon Chishko, bottom, picks up Garnet Valley's John Dambro in a 145-pound match at the PIAA Class AAA high school wrestling championships, Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
  • Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko listens in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 7, 2013. The star dancer accused of masterminding the attack on the Bolshoi ballet chief acknowledged Thursday that he gave the go-ahead for the attack, but said he did not order anyone to throw acid on the artistic director's face. Dmitrichenko told a Moscow court that he had complained about ballet chief Sergei Filin to an acquaintance, who offered to
  • Jeremy Bush, right, is consoled by an unidentified woman Sunday, March 3, 2013, as he sits outside a home where a sinkhole opened up underneath a bedroom late Thursday evening, swallowing his brother, Jeffrey Bush, in Seffner, Fla. Crews on Sunday began the demolition of the Florida home. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
  • A woman blows blue paint powder on to her friend during the holi one colour Festival held in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, March 2, 2013. Thousands of people are taking part in the festival by throwing coloured paint powder at each other to express freedom and the colour of everyday life. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
  • Members of the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard and airport workers remote the flag-draped casket containing the remains of one of two unknown sailors who were lost when the USS Monitor, the nation's first ironclad warship, sank Dec. 31, 1862, in a storm off Cape Hatteras, N.C., from a Delta MD-88 aircraft, at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., Thursday, March 7, 2013, during a dignified transfer ceremony. The remains were transported from Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in Hawaii, where they underwent identification attempts, before Friday�s burial at Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
  • Military police carry a woman who fainted while waiting in line to see the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez lying in state at the military academy in Caracas, Thursday, March 7, 2013. While Venezuela remains deeply divided over the country's future, the multitudes weeping and crossing themselves as they reached the president's coffin early Thursday were united in grief and admiration for a man many considered a father figure. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
  • Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast in Scituate, Mass., Thursday, March 7, 2013. A nor'easter is bringing wind-whipped, wet snow to Massachusetts, and coastal flooding is expected in communities still recovering from February's blizzard. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
  • A rare two-headed Californian Kingsnake on exhibition at the Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Zoo officials said that the occurrence of two-headed snakes are one in a million and they usually don't survive in the wild. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
 

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