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Ocean park, snowmobile trick, silverback jackals (11 images)

10 March

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Tourists interact with a stingray and other fish using aquanauts, special diving helmets, at its launch at the Manila Ocean Park, the Philippines first and biggest oceanarium on Wednesday in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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US Marines with the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion prepare for a night patrol in their headquarters tent on Wednesday in Khan Neshin, Helmand province, Afghanistan. The Marines at Khan Neshin are the southernmost troops in Afghanistan, using the earthen walls of an ancient Afghan castle as a base to monitor activity in this hotbed of smuggling and insurgency near the southern border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

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A snowmobile demonstration during the Winter X Games Europe on Wednesday in Tignes, France. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

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A worker paints artificial flowers to decorate the city for the upcoming spring festival, in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Traditional Venetian gondolas are moored as a light snowfall has been blanketing the city of Venice, Italy on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

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A student who successfully passed the entrance examination of University of Tokyo gets a congratulatory toss as the result of Japan's most prestigious university exam is announced at its campus in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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A bridge that was damaged by the February 27th earthquake is seen on Wednesday in Concepcion, Chile. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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A sculpture by Antony Gormley is on display on the roof of 1133 Broadway in the Nomad neighborhood of Manhattan on Wednesday, in New York. The sculpture, part of the installation "Event Horizon," will be on view through Aug. 15. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Two silverback jackals are seen in the grass in the Tsavo East game park in Kenya. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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Acrobats perform on stage during the Laureus World Sports Awards 2010 at Emirates Palace Hotel on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images for Laureus)

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A woman takes a look at icicles hanging from the roof of her house in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, cenntral Germany on Wednesday. Cold temperatures and more snow are expected all over Germany for the next days. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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