Diego Azubel—EPA
March 31, 2013. Local performers from the Naxi, Yi and Bai ethnic minorities performing the cultural production 'Impression Lijiang' beneath the 5596 m peak of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang, China's Yunnan province. Created by internationally acclaimed Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, and performed at 3310 m above sea level the daily performance of song, dance, horse riding and story telling is the highest altitude production in the world.
Ahmad Jamshid—AP
March 31, 2013. An Afghan police man offers evening prayers on a hill overlooking Kabul.
Muhammed Muheisen—AP
April 1, 2013. Pakistani children, who were displaced with their families by 2010 floods from Pakistan's Sindh province, play on a trampoline without paying, after the owner of the trampoline left the place due to a heavy rainfall, in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Bernadett Szabo—Reuters
April 1, 2013. A man throws water on a woman as part of traditional Easter celebrations in Holloko, 100 km (62 miles) east of Budapest.
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March 31, 2013. A boy is carried in a polystyrene box as thousands of city slum dwellers take an Easter Sunday dip on the polluted Manila Bay to beat the scorching heat. The city government bars swimming in the bay due to health hazards, but authorities are often helpless in implementing the ordinance.
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April 3, 2013. A Palestinian demonstrator looks on during clashes with the Israeli army in Hebron. Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza were observing a general strike, with prisoners refusing food to mourn the death of a fellow inmate in an Israeli jail.
Sergei Ilnitsky—EPA
March 29, 2013. A rocket booster carrying the 'Soyuz TMA-08M' spacecraft with US NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Russian Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin aboard leaves a flame trail after lift off from the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The launch will send Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS)
Akhtar Soomro—Reuters
April 1, 2013. People sleep on charpoy beds along a road, near a railway station in Karachi. Charpoy bed guesthouses are only setup at night from 9pm to 7am for the homeless, passengers and drivers, charging about 40 Pakistani rupees ($0.40) per night.
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April 1, 2013. Afghan Children play Ghursai, a traditional boy's game played in the countryside in Jalalabad. Children hold one foot in one hand and then try to knock down the other opponent.
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March 29, 2013. A member of the U.S. Freestyle Aerial practices for the U.S. National Championship at Heavenly Resort in South Lake Tahoe, California. |