Photographs: Mainichi Shimbun/Reuters
We bring you a presentation of some of the best photos from around the world in the month gone by.
A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the area March 11, 2011.
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A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the area March 11, 2011.
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Photographs: Kyodo/Reuters
A whirlpool is seen near Oarai City, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2011. The biggest earthquake to hit Japan on record struck the northeast coast, triggering a 10-metre tsunami that swept away everything in its path, including houses, ships, cars and farm buildings on fire.
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Photographs: Asahi Shimbun/Reuters
A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011, after a massive earthquake and tsunami that are feared to have killed more than 18,000 people
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Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20
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Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Rebel fighters jump away from shrapnel during heavy shelling by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi near Bin Jawad, March 6
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Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
A woman rebel fighter supporter shoots an AK-47 rifle as she reacts to the news of the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces from Benghazi on March 19
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Photographs: Mike Segar/Reuters
The moon rises over the Bronx section of New York City on March 19. The night saw the rise of a full moon called a 'Super Moon' when it arrives at its closest point to the Earth, a distance of 221,565 miles or 356,575 km away
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Photographs: Kazbek Basayev/Reuters
A member of an emergency services special unit fires a shell towards the upper slopes to clear snow buildup above the Transcaucasian highway some 110 km (68.4 miles) from the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz March 13. Avalanches are a constant threat on the road which is the only route connecting Russia to South Ossetia.
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Photographs: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Jockey Sam Waley-Cohen riding Long Run (Left) clears the final hurdle ahead of Denman (Centre) and Kauto Star on his way to win the Gold Cup race at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England March 18. Waley-Cohen became the first amateur jockey to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup for 30 years when he steered 7-2 favourite Long Run to a thrilling victory.
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Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters
Lenny Zappavigna of Australia (Right) takes a hit from Miguel Vazquez of Mexico during their IBF lightweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada March 12
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Photographs: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Officials in protective gear check for signs of radiation on children who are from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, March 13.
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Photographs: Bob Strong/Reuters
Somali camel herder Ali Abdullahi Hassan, 40, holds three Bactrian camels after taking them for a ride near the rural town of Gyttorp on March 3. Hassan emigrated to Sweden in 2007 and had been working at odd jobs until a relative told him of a local couple who needed help tending to their pet camels. Now Hassan takes care of the three animals, Kalle, Anna and their son Karlsson, training them to carry riders and singing songs to them in Arabic.
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Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
A rebel fighter fires his rifle at a military aircraft loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at a checkpoint in Ras Lanuf March 7
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Photographs: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Pro and anti-Gaddafi (Right) protesters fight on the street in front of the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo March 21. A group of protesters angry about international intervention in the war in Libya between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and rebels started a scuffle and blocked the path of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as he left a meeting at the Arab League
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Photographs: Andrea De Silva/Reuters
A man smeared with coloured powder called abeer makes a funny face during Phagwa celebrations at the Savannah in Arranguez on March 20. Phagwa celebrates the beginning of spring.
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Photographs: Scott Audette/Reuters
Severe weather moves in over the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 31
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Photographs: Damir Sagolj/Reuters
A member of a Red Cross team walks in front of a boat sitting atop a building in Otsuchi in northern Japan more than two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, on March 28. Japan appeared resigned to a long fight to contain the world's most dangerous atomic crisis in 25 years after high radiation levels complicated work at its crippled nuclear plant.
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Photographs: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
A baby is baptised during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi, on March 3. About 400 children were baptised by the Georgian Orthodox church during the 16th mass baptism ceremony at the country's main Holy Trinity cathedral.
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Photographs: Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters
Kyrgyz wolfhounds attack a chained wolf during the Kyrgyz traditional Hunters' Festival Salburun, near the town of Cholpon-Ata, some 250 km (155 miles) east from the capital Bishkek, on March 5.
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Photographs: Daniel Berehulak/Reuters
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (Left) and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wave before the World Cup cricket second semi-final between India and Pakistan in Mohali, on March 30. The prime ministers of nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan stood side by side and clapped to each other's national anthems in a symbolic gesture aimed at rebuilding ties shattered by the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Photographs: Ammar Awad/Reuters
An anti-government protester shouts slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, outside Sanaa University on March 28. The words on both shoes read, "Leave!"
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