Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, leaves for a hospital after he was attacked Thursday, March 5, in Seoul, South Korea. According to Seoul police, Lippert was slashed on his right cheek and hand with a knife measuring about 10 inches long. They said the motive for the attack and how it was organized are under investigation.
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Police stand over the body of Boris Nemstov, a Russian opposition leader who was shot and killed Friday, February 27, in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov, 55, and expressed his condolences to his family, the Kremlin said. Putin also ordered three law enforcement agencies to put together a task force to investigate the shooting, Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported. Nemtsov, a deputy prime minister in the late 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, had been one of Putin's most vocal critics.
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A likeness of Leonard Nimoy's "Star Trek" character Spock is seen on a $5 Canadian bill after the actor's death on Friday, February 27. Canadians have been paying tribute to Nimoy by sketching Spock over Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who was prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911.
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Passengers walk away from a Delta Air Lines plane after it skidded off the runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, March 5. The plane busted through a fence before coming to a stop just a few feet away from the frigid East River. There were 24 people hurt in the landing, but none of the injuries was life-threatening.
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The Villarrica volcano erupts in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday, March 3.
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A Ukrainian coal miner waits for a bus after exiting the Zasyadko mine, where he helped search for the bodies of his colleagues Wednesday, March 4, in Donetsk, Ukraine. Thirty-three workers were killed after an early morning explosion at the mine.
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Gina Gowdy joins protesters outside a Ferguson, Missouri, fire station, on Wednesday, March 4. The U.S. Justice Department formally closed its investigation of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown in August. The Justice Department also issued a 100-page report that it said found systemic racial discrimination by the Ferguson police and court system against African-Americans.
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Traffic backs up in Mount Washington, Kentucky, as part of Interstate 65 is shut down on Thursday, March 5. The latest winter storm stretched from New Mexico to New England.
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A weasel hitches a lift on the back of a woodpecker near London on Monday, March 2. The image, credited to amateur photographer Martin Le-May, went viral on Twitter after it was posted by photographer Jason Ward. Le-May told British television channel ITV that he had been walking with his wife in Hornchurch Country Park when they heard "a distressed squawking" noise and spotted the woodpecker. "Just after I switched from my binoculars to my camera, the bird flew across us and slightly in our direction; suddenly it was obvious it had a small mammal on its back and this was a struggle for life," Le-May said. Eventually, Le-May told ITV, the weasel lost its grip and the bird flew away.
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Rafida Ahmed Banna, the wife of prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, is carried on a hospital stretcher Friday, February 27, after she and her husband were attacked by machete-wielding assailants in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Roy, an engineer and writer known for speaking out for secular freedom, was killed.
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Debbie Armstrong, a shop manager in Lichfield, England, adjusts a two-tone dress in a window display on Friday, February 27. A different photo of the dress became a viral sensation as people online debated whether its colors were blue and black or white and gold.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds his script as he addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, March 3. Netanyahu warned that a proposed agreement between world powers and Iran was "a bad deal" that would not stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
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A photo made available by the British Royal Mint on Monday, March 2, shows the new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that will be used on British coins.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys wearing costumes read the Book of Esther at a synagogue in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Wednesday, March 4.
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Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen fire a missile at ISIS militants in Iraq's Salahuddin province on Monday, March 2. It was part of a wide-scale offensive to retake the province and push ISIS out the city of Tikrit.
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A man participates in a contest to see who can keep the longest cigar ash during the Cigar Festival in Havana, Cuba, on Thursday, February 26.
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Afghans stand on the roof of a home damaged by an avalanche in Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, February 27. Avalanches caused by heavy snowstorms have killed at least 196 people in the mountainous province.
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Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, poses for a photo on her 117th birthday Wednesday, March 4, at a nursing home in Osaka, Japan.
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During a visit to northern Uganda by International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Hellen Akello displays injuries she said were inflicted by members of the Lord's Resistance Army militia. Bensouda visited the region Sunday, March 1, to meet victims of the LRA following the capture of former LRA commander Dominic Ongwen, who is under the custody of the ICC after defecting in late December.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe holds a booklet during his 91st birthday celebration Saturday, February 28, in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
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Kenyan security officers burn 15 tons of confiscated elephant ivory at Nairobi National Park on Tuesday, March 3. The fire was lit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to mark World Wildlife Day and African Environment Day. An average of 30,000 elephants are poached every year in Africa.
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Aid workers Arlynn Hefta, right, and Kermit Paulson, left, embrace their wives Tuesday, March 3, at an airport in Fargo, North Dakota. Hefta and Paulson were among four American missionaries who were released by Venezuelan authorities after several days of questioning.
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Police in Madrid remove a housing rights activist from a bulldozer as he tries to stop the demolition of a family's house on Friday, February 27. Madrid authorities say 11 people were arrested after several dozen protesters clashed with police who were carrying out an eviction order. Evictions in Spain have soared since the country's economic crisis began in 2008 and increasing numbers of people were unable to meet mortgage payments. Protesters regularly try to prevent evictions, but Friday's clash was particularly tense after a campaign to keep the family in its home.
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Children swim as the remainder of a fire burns out at Hout Bay, on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, March 3. South African firefighters say they are battling to control a wildfire that has burned homes in Cape Town's southern peninsula.
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Actor Harrison Ford was injured Thursday, March 5, after crash-landing his vintage plane on a golf course in Venice, California. "Dad is ok. Battered, but ok!," his son, Ben Ford, said in a tweet. The World War II-era training machine began losing power briefly after takeoff.
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Couples attend a mass wedding held by the Unification Church in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Tuesday, March 3.
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A dog looks out of a car at an army checkpoint near Kurakhove, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 3.
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The alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Omar Trevino Morales, is escorted by soldiers in Mexico City after he was captured in an early morning operation on Wednesday, March 4. There are 11 pending criminal cases against him, and the crimes he is accused of committing make him "one of the most dangerous and bloodthirsty criminals in Mexico," said Tomas Zeron, director of criminal investigations for the Attorney General's Office.
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Workers at a port in Jakarta, Indonesia, remove the fuselage of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 from a docked vessel on Monday, March 2. The flight was en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore when it lost contact with air traffic control on December 28. There were 162 people on board.
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A participant of the Chicago Polar Plunge is engulfed by the partially frozen waters of Lake Michigan on Sunday, March 1. The annual event raises money for the Special Olympics.
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Passengers walk away from a Turkish Airlines plane after it skidded off the runway while landing in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Wednesday, March 4. No one was injured.
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Britain's Prince William plays with children in Koriyama, Japan, on Saturday, February 28. He was in Japan for a four-day visit.
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College students in Kolkata, India, hug each other as they play with colored powder for the Holi festival on Monday, March 2.