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kateoplis: Iraqi Kurdish walk with their lit torches through the Kurdish town of Akra in Iraq’s Mosul region, 500 kms north of Baghdad, during celebrations of the Noruz spring festival today. The Persian new year, which coincides with the vernal (Spring) equinox, is a Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds. Happy Noruz everyone!

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Iraqi Kurdish walk with their lit torches through the Kurdish town of Akra in Iraq’s Mosul region, 500 kms north of Baghdad, during celebrations of the Noruz spring festival today. The Persian new year, which coincides with the vernal (Spring) equinox, is a Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds.

Happy Noruz everyone!

resetnetwork: Hello, it’s Monirobo, the Japanese radiation-monitoring robot!

resetnetwork:

Hello, it’s Monirobo, the Japanese radiation-monitoring robot!

producermatthew: A Japan Self-Defense Forces officer smiles as he holds a four-month-old baby girl who was rescued along with her family members from their home in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the area, March 14, 2011. (Reuters) “In one small town that had been flattened by the tsunami, emergency workers rescued a four-month-old baby who had been swept out of her parents’ arms and stranded for days among the debris.  No one can say for certain just how she survived the water and the wreckage around her.  There is a mystery in the course of human events.” -President Obama

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A Japan Self-Defense Forces officer smiles as he holds a four-month-old baby girl who was rescued along with her family members from their home in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, after an earthquake and tsunami struck the area, March 14, 2011. (Reuters)

“In one small town that had been flattened by the tsunami, emergency workers rescued a four-month-old baby who had been swept out of her parents’ arms and stranded for days among the debris.  No one can say for certain just how she survived the water and the wreckage around her.  There is a mystery in the course of human events.” -President Obama

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930kmafricanodyssey: Gambian village chief’s brother, Samba Sowe - a farmer from the small village of Felling Koto, The Gambia, West Africa. Image © Jason Florio, 2009, from his award-winning series of portraits of Gambian chiefs and elders. Taken whilst on ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey’

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Gambian village chief’s brother, Samba Sowe - a farmer from the small village of Felling Koto, The Gambia, West Africa. Image © Jason Florio, 2009, from his award-winning series of portraits of Gambian chiefs and elders.

Taken whilst on ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey’

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, having fun during an exhibition match earlier this year, will be in a more combative mood when the BNP Paribis Open begins this week in Indian Wells. (Image: Paul Crock / AFP / Getty Images)Read the article.
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, having fun during an exhibition match earlier this year, will be in a more combative mood when the BNP Paribis Open begins this week in Indian Wells. (Image: Paul Crock / AFP / Getty Images)

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A rebel watches as an injured fighter is treated by an ambulance worker near the town of Bin-Jawwad. (Image: Hussein Malla, Associated Press)Read the article.
A rebel watches as an injured fighter is treated by an ambulance worker near the town of Bin-Jawwad. (Image: Hussein Malla, Associated Press)

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