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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
We present some of the best photographs clicked in the month of April.
Racegoers arrive on Ladies' Day, the second day of the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, northern England April 4, 2014.
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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
North Korean female soldiers prepare to take a commemorative photograph in front of a flower exhibition featuring North Korea's late founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang.
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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
A tourist reacts as an elephant sprays her with water in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailand's Ayutthaya province. Songkran, the most celebrated festival of the year, marks the start of Thailand's traditional New Year.
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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
A model, with an albino python draped over her shoulders, wears a design by Australian fashion label 'We Are Handsome' during a show at Australian Fashion Week in Sydney. The five-day fashion event showcases designs by local and international fashion labels.
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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
Firefighters work to put out a fire in Valparaiso city, northwest of Santiago, April 13. At least 12 people were killed and 2,000 houses destroyed over the weekend by a fire that devastated parts of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso, as authorities evacuated thousands and sent in aircraft to battle the blaze.
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Street cleaners sweep away bullet cases as they remove rubbish and a barricade erected by pro-Russian protesters near a building of the SBU state security service in Donetsk, April 8.
It was immediately impossible to determine how that many bullet cases appeared on the street.
Police detained 70 pro-Moscow protesters occupying a regional administration building in eastern Ukraine overnight, but others held out in a standoff in two further cities in what Kiev says is a Russian-led plan to dismember the country.
The standoff, however, continued in the mining centre of Donetsk -- Yanukovich's home base -- where a group of pro-Russian deputies inside the main regional authority building on Monday declared a separatist republic.
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A fighter jet flies above as Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armoured personnel carrier in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine April 16. Ukrainian government forces and separatist pro-Russian militia staged rival shows of force in eastern Ukraine amid escalating rhetoric on the eve of crucial four-power talks in Geneva on the former Soviet country's future.
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A pro-Russian armed man lends his weapon to a boy posing for a picture for his father in front of the seized town administration building in Kostyantynivka April 28. Armed pro-Russian separatists who took control of the police headquarters in the east Ukrainian town of Kostyantynivka have also seized the town administration building, a spokesman for the regional government said.
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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
Artist Dimitry Vrubel cleans his mural "Fraternal Kiss" at the East Side Gallery in Berlin April 27. Artists, locals and tourists used sponges and soap on Sunday to scrub tags and stickers from the murals of Berlin's longest open air gallery that stretches along a section of the former Berlin Wall.
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20 INCREDIBLE images of the month: April
A slum dweller's pets, including puppies and a cat, look on from a plastic container next to religious statues and other belongings, after a squatter colony was demolished in Tondo, Manila April 23. Police and local officials said that about 500 shanties and illegal structures were demolished as the government started clearing the area to widen the road and make way for the construction of a modernized port.
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A large TVS (tornadic vortex signature) thunderstorm supercell passes over storm chaser Brad Mack in Graham, Texas late April 23.
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A student from the General Yermolov Cadet School holds two rifles during a two-day field exercise near the village of Sengileyevskoye, just outside the south Russian city of Stavropol, April 13.
The General Yermolov Cadet School in the southern Russian city of Stavropol is a state-run institution that teaches military and patriotic classes in addition to a normal syllabus.
The school allows its pupils to take part in field-training trips, during which they spend time at a base and undergo physical drills and weapons training.
The outings are seen as a treat for students, and those with bad grades are not allowed to go. The school is named after the Russian imperial general Alexei Yermolov and many of its students are from military backgrounds.
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Devotees are doused with water as they lie on a road during a ritual while worshipping Sheetala Mata, the Hindu goddess of smallpox, during the Sheetala Puja in Kolkata April 19. During the Puja, women fast for the whole day to pray for the betterment of their family and society.
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A gaucho is unseated by a wild horse during the annual celebration of Criolla Week in Montevideo April 15.
Throughout Easter Week, 'gauchos', the Latin American equivalent of the North American cowboy, from all over Uruguay and neighbouring Argentina and Brazil visited Montevideo to participate in the Criolla Week to win the best rider award.
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US first lady Michelle Obama has stickers put on her face by 20-month-old Lily Oppelt during a visit with children at the Fisher House at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland April 14.
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People take a tour in an 'upside down home' in St Petersburg. The exhibition charges less than $10 for a walk through its three rooms and two bathrooms through the apartment.
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People ride on a motorbike past damaged buildings in Bustan al-Basha district in Aleppo April 6
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An African migrant is lowered down from a border fence by a Spanish Civil Guard as fellow migrants assist, at the border between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla during the latest attempt to cross into Spanish territory, April 3.
Spain has more than doubled the strength of security forces at Melilla, after about 500 people stormed its fences in the biggest border rush for years earlier this month.
Immigrants from all over Africa regularly dare the razor-wire fences of Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, which are surrounded by Moroccan territory and sea.
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A man takes a picture during moon rise in a suburb of Shanghai April 15.
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Firefighters pull a pig as they try to rescue it from a well at a pig farm in Huanghua township of Leqing, Zhejiang province, April 25. Seven local firefighters successfully rescued the 300 kg (661 lbs) pig which fell down a well on Friday morning, local media reported.
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