NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is helped off the Soyuz space capsule after he and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the Kazakhstan desert on Wednesday, March 2. Kelly spent nearly a year on the International Space Station. See his best photos from space
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A migrant walks past burning shacks in Calais, France, on Tuesday, March 1. In response to unsanitary conditions at the "Jungle" migrant camp, authorities in Calais are demolishing the southern half of the camp and relocating its inhabitants. Calais is a major port where ferries cross the English Channel.
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Leonardo DiCaprio hugs his friend, former "Titanic" co-star Kate Winslet, at the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 28. DiCaprio won the best-actor Oscar for his role in "The Revenant." See all the winners
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A member of the Ku Klux Klan fights a man for an American flag during a KKK rally in Anaheim, California, on Saturday, February 27. Violence broke out between KKK members and counterprotesters, leaving five people injured and 13 people arrested, authorities said.
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Sportscaster Erin Andrews cries in court as she testifies in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, March 1. Andrews is suing the hotel where a stalker secretly recorded her nude in 2008. During her testimony, she described to the court how the video has wreaked havoc on her life for the past seven years.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, top right, speaks to anti-abortion protesters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 2. The court is examining a Texas abortion law that could shutter all but about 10 clinics in the state.
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Christopher Morris, a photographer on assignment for Time magazine, is escorted by police during a Donald Trump rally in Radford, Virginia, on Monday, February 29. Morris said a Secret Service agent choked him and slammed him to the ground as he tried to leave a media pen at the event. The incident was caught on video.
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A horse grazes in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, on Tuesday, March 1, as the area around him is being fumigated to fight the Aedes aegypti mosquito. That species is known to carry the Zika virus, which has suspected links to birth defects in newborn children.
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Otto Frederick Warmbier, an American college student detained in North Korea, bows during a news conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, February 29. Warmbier is accused of trying to steal a political banner that was hanging from the walls of his Pyongyang hotel. In a video supplied to CNN, Warmbier is seen sobbing and pleading for forgiveness. Warmbier's parents have asked the North Korean government to accept his apology and "consider his youth and make an important humanitarian gesture by allowing him to return to his loved ones."
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Police stop a boy as he walks away from a crowd that formed after an officer-involved shooting in Salt Lake City on Saturday, February 27. The ordeal started when officers saw two males with metal objects attacking another male outside a homeless shelter, police said. Officers told the attackers to drop their weapons. One of them did, police said. The other, a 17-year-old boy, "continued to advance on the victim and was shot by officers." That's when the turmoil ensued. A crowd gathered and hurled bottles and rocks at officers, police said. Four people were arrested for crimes related to civil disorder. Both officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation.
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A wounded man is transported by U.N. medical staff on Monday, February 29, a day after twin bomb attacks killed at least 40 people in Baidoa, Somalia. Baidoa is a key location in the African Union's fight against Al-Shabaab, the extremist group that has been terrorizing Somalia and neighboring nations for years.
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Men break wooden boards during Maslenitsa celebrations in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday, February 28. The men serve in the special forces unit of the Belarussian Interior Ministry. Maslenitsa, a holiday marking the end of winter, is traditionally celebrated with pancake eating and feats of strength.
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A handler feeds a panda named Le Bao during a welcoming ceremony at the international airport in Incheon, South Korea, on Thursday, March 3. Le Bao and another panda arrived from China's Sichuan province.
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People check their cell phones before an Emporio Armani fashion show in Milan, Italy, on Friday, February 26.
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A Sharia policeman canes a young woman in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Tuesday, March 1. The woman was one of 18 people being publicly caned for breaking Islamic law. According to Agence France-Presse, the woman and a man were punished for spending time alone together -- something that is illegal there for unmarried Muslim couples.
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The Malaysian Army marks the area where a transport plane crash-landed outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, February 26. The eight people aboard the plane were reported to be safe after being assisted by local fishermen.
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Jose Tranquada Gomes, president of the Madeira Island Legislative Assembly, points to clothes left on his desk by Jose Manuel Coelho, a Portuguese Labor Party deputy, on Thursday, March 3. Coelho undressed himself to protest a court's decision to cut part of his salary.
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A woman in Cizre, Turkey, walks in the ruins of a damaged building on Wednesday, March 2, following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters. Thousands of residents in the Kurdish-majority town began returning to their homes after authorities partially lifted a curfew that was put in place to root out rebels.
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People walk on a beach in Panama City, Florida, as a controlled fire releases smoke over Shell Island on Wednesday, March 2.
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A 4-year-old boy looks at police motorcycles in Woodbridge, Virginia, during a police officer's funeral on Tuesday, March 1. Ashley Guindon, 28, was fatally shot during her first day on the job.
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Women use an umbrella to block the sun as they ride a bike on Malaysia's Crab Island on Friday, February 26.
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Women sunbathe at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, March 1.
Officials carry away a dead tigress after it was killed by villagers in Dimapur, India, on Tuesday, March 1. The animal had been troubling the village for more than a week, raiding livestock and attacking a man.
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A man rides his bicycle past a man selling grain in Douma, Syria, on Monday, February 29. A "cessation of hostilities" began last week in the war-torn country, where more than 250,000 people have died in the past five years.
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Rolanda Byrd, the mother of Akiel Denkins, cries Tuesday, March 1, during a news conference held near the scene of his fatal shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina. Denkins, a 24-year-old wanted for a felony drug charge, was shot the day before by a Raleigh police officer, authorities said. The officer has been placed on administrative duty pending the results of the state's investigation.
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A man votes in Graves Mill, Virginia, during the Super Tuesday primaries on March 1.
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Cuban artist Ernesto Milanes made this bronze sculpture of U.S. President John F. Kennedy smoking a cigar. It was selling for $3,500 on Monday, February 29, the opening day of the Havana Cigar Festival in Havana, Cuba.
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Lady Gaga performs at the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 28. She was joined on stage by other sexual-assault survivors as she sang "Til It Happens to You," the Oscar-nominated song from "The Hunting Ground."
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A farmer carries water to irrigate plants on the outskirts of Allahabad, India, on Monday, February 29.
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A farmer sleeps near cows at the International Agricultural Show in Paris on Monday, February 29.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gives a speech about the state of the Republican Party during a forum at the University of Utah on Thursday, March 3. Romney went after presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling the GOP's front-runner a phony and a fraud. Trump hit back by mocking Romney's loss in the 2012 election, and he said that Romney back then "was begging for my endorsement." See last week in 36 photos
