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A group of Afghan Taliban insurgents forced their way into a guesthouse used by a U.S.-based aid group and held four foreigners hostage for several hours in an upscale residential part of the capital Kabul on Friday, police said. At least one Afghan child was killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the building and insurgents forced their way in. There were no casualties among foreigners.
Above, foreigners hide after being evacuated by police from the site of the attack in Kabul on Friday
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Fire rages from a guest house after during an attack in Kabul on March 28
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A search dog waits by the feet of Washington National Guardsmen to be washed after working the debris field created by the Oso mudslide. Seventy Guardsmen from across Washington have been activated to help with search and recovery efforts in the wake of Saturday's mudslide
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Abuzar, the son of Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmed of Agence France-Presse (AFP) who was killed with his wife and two children during an attack by gunmen at Serena Hotel, is comforted by his grandmother at the Emergency hospital in Kabul March 27, 2014.
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Germany's Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi compete during the ice dance short dance program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, north of Tokyo March 28, 2014
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Actress Angelina Jolie reacts at Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari after laying a wreath March 28, 2014
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Lynette McDonald waits at the back of the room for her turn to compete at the World Clown Association's annual convention in Northbrook, Illinois March 26, 2014
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Canada's Mandy Marchak (R) is taken down by France's Pauline Biscarat during the final match of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby women's invitational cup in Hong Kong March 28, 2014.
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A view of an object floating in the water is seen on a computer screen onboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNAF) plane searching for wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the new Indian Ocean search area in this March 28, 2014 still image taken from video
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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes at a protest against the Jewish settlement of Ofra, in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah March 28, 2014
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A supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Zalmai Rassoul carries chairs as he prepares for an election rally in Panshir, northern Afghanistan, March 28, 2014. Afghan presidential elections will be held on April 5.
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Ethnic Dong women work at a tea leaf processing factory in Liping county, Guizhou province, March 28, 2014
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Employees of the Bundelkhand Vikas Sena (BVS) use batons to hit a worker of India's ruling Congress party during a clash at a demonstration outside the Congress office in the northern Indian city of Lucknow March 28, 2014
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An injured Israeli border policeman is helped by his fellow police officers during clashes with Palestinian protestors rallying against the Jewish settlement of Ofra, in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah March 28, 2014.
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Lindley Latham looks at the new Oso mudslide support t-shirts in the Action Sports shop in downtown Arlington, Washington March 28, 2014.
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Holy smokes - 75 years of Batman!
On March 30, 1939, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics No.27. To mark 75 years of the Caped Crusader, here are some of his greatest pop culture appearances
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Adam West and Burt Ward in the 1966 film Batman, directed By Leslie H. Martinson
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The first Batman comic cover
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Michelle Pfeiffer & Michael Keaton in Batman Returns (1992), directed by Tim Burton
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Val Kilmer & Chris O'Donnell as Batman & Robin in Batman Forever (1995), directed by Joel Schumacher
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George Clooney in Batman & Robin (1997), directed by Joel Schumacher
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Christian Bale in Batman Begins (2005), directed by Christopher Nolan
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Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight (2008), directed by Christopher Nolan
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Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), directed by Christopher Nolan
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Batman Incorporated: The New 52. Written By Grant Morrison. DC Comics
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The Batman: Mask Of Phantasm (1993) animation
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The launch of an arena show of Batman Live
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Children play around a man dressed as Batman at the Favela do Metro slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Detroit's new Red Wings arena divides local residents
In February after a heated public meeting the city approved a deal that gave Mike Illitch, the Red Wing’s billionaire owner, 39 vacant lots in the area valued at $3m for $1. Soon the contractors will be moving in to start work on the $450m arena – funded in large part by this bankrupt city
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People pack a Detroit city council meeting waiting for the vote on the land transfer agreement between the city and billionaire Mike Illitch's company, Olympia Entertainment. After public comments were taken during the packed session, city council voted by a margin of 6-3 to approve the sale of 39 downtown land parcels, valued at nearly $3m, for $1 to billionaire Mike Illitch
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Detroit City council member and president Brenda Jones addresses another council members during a public comment session before the land transfer vote
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Gerald Belanger, owner of the building that houses Detroit's well-known Bucharest Grill, the Park Bar and Cliff Bells, addresses the city council about his opposition to the land transfer before the vote. Businesses in building that Belanger and his wife own will suffer if the land transfer is approved, he told the council
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Outside the Comet Bar located in the proposed district where billionaire Mike Illitch plans to build his new ice hockey arena and entertainment district
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A law legalizing same-sex marriage came into effect in England and Wales at midnight, the final stage in a long fight for equality.
ABOVE: Nikki Pettit, center, and Tanya Ward are showered with confetti after their wedding ceremony in Brighton, southern England on Saturday
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A devotee throws a chicken into the sea as an offering during Melasti, a Hindi cleansing ritual, at Parangkusumo beach on Saturday in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The ritual is held annually ahead of the Nyepi Day of Silence, a ceremony intended to cleanse and purify the souls of the Balinese Hindu participants. Balinese Hindus believe that the ocean’s water has powerful, supernatural healing and protective properties
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It's fitting that a powerful solar flare created a bright X-shaped pattern in this extreme ultraviolet view of the sun's disk, captured Saturday by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The blast rates as an X-class flare, which puts it in the most serious category of solar flares.
Saturday's outburst comes after a series of M-class outbursts from the same sunspot region, known as AR 2017. The SolarHam website reports that the X1 flare caused a brief radio blackout. It also sent out a storm of electrically charged particles, known as a coronal mass ejection. However, SolarHam said the brunt of the storm was apparently "directed to the north and away from Earth."
Really bad solar storms can disrupt communications and electrical grids on Earth, but this doesn't appear to be one of those cases. The likeliest effect would be heightened displays of the northern lights. For updates on solar weather, check in with SolarHam as well as SpaceWeather.com and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center
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Lights went off in thousands of cities and towns across the world today for the annual Earth Hour event, organized by the World Wildlife Fund. Earth Hour takes place worldwide at 8.30 p.m. local time and is a global call to turn off lights for 60 minutes to raise awareness on a variety of environmental issues.
In the image above, fire jugglers perform during Earth Hour in Osnabrueck, Germany, on March Saturday
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A combination picture shows the National Stadium, also known as the 'Bird's Nest,' reflected in a lake before, top, and during Earth Hour at the Olympic Park in Beijing, on March 29
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A Palestinian protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask throws a stone during clashes with Israeli troops during a protest against the Jewish settlement of Ofra, in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah March 28, 2014
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Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to attend the presentation ceremony of the top military brass in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Russia's president says Ukraine could regain some arms and equipment of military units in Crimea that did not switch their loyalty to Russia
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Dwayne Bravo of the West Indies catches James Faulkner of Australia off the bowling of Krishmar Santokie during the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 match between the West indies and Australia at Sher-e-Bangla Mirpur Stadium on March 28, 2014 in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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A mute swan moves across a lake, as it defends the territory around it's nest from other waterfowl, at Kew Gardens in London, Friday, March 28, 2014
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Water bubbles up through the pavement along Gilbert Street just south of Rosecrans in Fullerton Friday night March 28, 2014 following an 5.1 earthquake. Police closed off the street as crews placed cones around the area
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A car sits overturned on a highway in the Carbon Canyon area of Brea, Calif., Friday night, March 28, 2014, after hitting a rock slide caused by an earthquake. The people inside the car sustained minor injuries. A magnitude-5.1 earthquake centered in the area near Los Angeles caused no major damage but jittered nerves throughout the region as dozens of aftershocks struck into the night
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A car sits rolled over near a rockslide, right, in the wake of Friday nights March 28, 2014 earthquake on Carbon Canyon Road in Brea, Calif., near Olinda Village
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A member of a local swimming club holds a Russian national flag as he dives in at the start of a 24-hour swimming marathon near the western Siberian city of Barnaul March 29, 2014. Thirty members of the club will swim in turn during the event, held to mark Crimea becoming part of Russia, local media reported.
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A China Coast Guard vessel attempts to block a Philippine government vessel as the latter tries to enter the China Second Thomas Disputed Shoals (local name Ayungin Shoal) to replace Philippine troops and resupply provisions Saturday, March 29, 2014 off the South China Sea. Chinese coast guard ships set up a blockade but a lone Philippine boat maneuvered past them in the high seas Saturday to deliver a fresh batch of Filipino troops and food supplies to a disputed shoal in a tense, cat-and-mouse-like confrontation witnessed for the first time by journalists in the South China Sea.
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Aziza Yousef drives a car on a highway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday March 29, 2014, as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving. In the six months since Saudi activists renewed calls to defy the kingdom's ban on female drivers, small numbers of women have gotten behind the wheel almost daily in what has become the country's longest such campaign
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Japan's Minoru Nagashima, 70, works on his painting at Lisbon's Torel public garden, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Nagashima said that he has been choosing different outdoor spots of the Portuguese capital, most of them gardens and parks, for his paintings ever since he settled down in Portugal 15 years ago
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An Afghan policeman rides on top of his armored vehicle as he rushes to the scene as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said
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A crew member aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft is pictured alongside handwritten notes of other search craft in the area, during a search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean, March 29, 2014. Chinese ships trawled a new area in the Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysian passenger jet on Saturday, as the search for Flight MH370 entered its fourth week amid a series of false dawns over sightings of debris
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, delivers her speech, during the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party congress in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Tymoshenko, declared this week that she will "be the candidate of Ukrainian unity." The May 25 election is taking place against the backdrop of the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine's dire economic straits and rumblings of discontent in the country's mainly Russian-speaking eastern provinces
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Manchester United's Juan Mata, right, and teammate Wayne Rooney celebrate after Marta scored against Aston Villa, during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday March 29, 2014
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U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with with Governor of Riyadh Prince Khalid Bandar bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, center, during his departure on Air Force One at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 29, 2014
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Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (L) speaks about the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 during a news conference at The Everly Hotel in Putrajaya March 29, 2014. Fresh objects spotted by planes searching for the missing Malaysian passenger jet in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean have again raised hopes of unravelling the three-week old mystery. Australian authorities coordinating the operation moved the air and sea search 1,100 km (685 miles) north on Friday after new analysis of radar and satellite data concluded the plane travelled faster and for a shorter distance after vanishing from civilian radar screens on March 8.
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An anti-government protester uses a placard with pictures of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin to shield from the sun during a march through Bangkok March 29, 2014. Tens of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters rallied across Bangkok on Saturday in their latest bid to topple Yingluck, a day before a crucial vote to elect a new Senate
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Anti-government protesters react as their leader Suthep Thaugsuban leads thousands marching through Bangkok March 29, 2014. Tens of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters rallied across Bangkok on Saturday in their latest bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a day before a crucial vote to elect a new Senate.
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Smoke rises from the site of an attack in Kabul March 29, 2014. Taliban insurgents attacked the Independent Election Commission headquarters in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday, staff and police said, the latest in a spate of attacks ahead of next week's presidential election
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Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan wave Turkish and party flags during an election rally of the ruling AK Party in Istanbul March 29, 2014. Turkey has started an espionage investigation after a discussion between top officials on potential military action in Syria was leaked on YouTube, heralding a possible government crackdown on its political opponents after elections on Sunday. The recording of the meeting between Turkey's intelligence chief, foreign minister and deputy head of the military was by far the most serious breach in weeks of highly sensitive leaks, a scandal which Prime Minister Erdogan has cast as a plot to sabotage the state and topple him
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Ukrainian politicans Vitaly Klitschko (L) and Petro Poroshenko attend an UDAR (Punch) party meeting in Kiev March 29, 2014. Ukraine's presidential election effectively became a two-horse race on Saturday after boxer-turned-politician Klitschko pulled out and threw his weight behind confectionary oligarch Petro Poroshenko.
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A pair of bald eagles fight beak and claw over a fish in this photo taken by Stan Rife who watched the feathers fly near the Great Salt Lake in north Utah
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A model falls over on the runway at China Fashion Week
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This model at China Fashion Week came a cropper too
