Pictures of the Week

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  Riders compete in the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices' Hurdle on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England March 11.
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  Dylan Martinez, Reuters

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  Stormy seas hit coastal sea defenses and a lighthouse at Seaford in Sussex in southern England March 10. A storm rushing in from the Atlantic lashed the southwest on Monday as high winds and tides brought the risk of coastal flooding.
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  Toby Melville, Reuters

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  A woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, March 11. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs.
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  Luiz Vasconcelos, Reuters

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  Geyser-like eruptions of ice particles and water vapor shoot out from the south pole of Saturn's moon, Enceladus, in this image provided this week by NASA. Three years after gigantic geysers were spied on an icy Saturn moon, the international Cassini spacecraft is poised to plunge through the fringes of the mysterious plumes to learn how they formed.
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  NASA / AP

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  A man makes faces while looking through a mask during a traditional parade in the streets of the southern port city of Limassol, south of the capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, March 9, to mark the end of the carnival period. Thousands of people gather every year to celebrate the carnival in the streets.
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  Petros Karadjias, AP

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  A woman looks up at the monument to the victims of the Madrid 2004 terror bombings in Atocha train station, March 11. The date marks the fourth anniversary of the Islamic terror bombings that killed 191 people at Madrid train stations.
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  Bernat Armangue, AP

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  Cora the polar bear bathes in a tub as her cubs watch her from the bank in the zoo in Brno, the Czech Republic, March 11.
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  Igor Zehl, CTK / AP

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  Locals and tourists look at the Dutch ship, Artemis, on the beach of les Sables d'Olonne in southern French Brittany, March 10. The boat was run aground by winds blowing at speeds of more than 80 miles per hour.
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  Stephane Mahe, Reuters

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  A Venezuelan swimmer practices during the South American Aquatics Championship tournament in Sao Paulo March 12.
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  Paulo Whitaker, Reuters

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  Delegates, police officers and journalists are reflected on a door of the Great Hall of the People at the end of a plenary session of the National People's Congress in China, March 11. China unveiled plans to revamp bureaucratic government ministries and create new agencies to help it tackle pressing issues such as nuclear energy, food and drug safety, environmental protection and the Internet.
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  Oded Balilty, AP