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  • Both sides of the immigration debate argue outside Supreme Court

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    Coelis Mendoza, from Ithaca, N.Y., who is opposed to Arizona's immigration law argues with Marietta Barbier Falzgraf of Bethesda, Md., a supporter, outside the Supreme Court on April 25, where the court held a hearing on Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law.

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    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to the media after arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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    Supporters of immigrant rights rally outside the Supreme Court.

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    Charles Balogh, from Alexandria, Va., demonstrates in front of the Supreme Court as the court holds a hearing on Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law.

    U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday on SB 1070, a bill signed by Gov. Jan Brewer in April 2010 to help authorities drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona.

    Arizona says it enacted SB 1070 because the federal government has failed to stop an influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico. It says its law doesn’t conflict with federal statute, and in fact does specifically what the federal law is supposed to do.

    Implementation of the most controversial sections  -- including a requirement that local police check the immigration status of a criminal suspect if they have “reasonable suspicion” that person is in the country illegally -- has been put on hold by lower courts pending action by the Supreme Court.

    --NBC News and msnbc.com staff

    Paul Clement, the lawyer for Arizona in the immigration law case in front of the Supreme Court, talks to reporters after oral arguments.

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  • Fans continue tributes to fallen soccer player Piermario Morosini

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    Udinese's supporters hold placards written '25' in memory of late player Piermario Morosini prior the Italian Serie A football match between Udinese and Inter Milan on April 25, at Friuli Stadium in Udine.

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    AS Livorno fans wear jerseys bearing the number 25 as they pay tribute to Piermario Morosini during the Serie B match between AS Livorno and AS Cittadella at Stadio Armando Picchi on April 24, in Livorno, Italy. Italian footballer Piermario Morosini of Livorno died, aged 25, after collapsing from a cardiac arrest whilst playing in the Italian Serie B match between Pescara Calcio and AS Livorno in Pescara on April 14.

    Stefano Rellandini / Reuters

    Livorno's soccer player Piermario Morosini is seen on a screen in memory of his death before the Italian Serie A soccer match at the Juventus Stadium between AS Roma and Juventus in Turin April 22, 2012. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (ITALY - Tags: SPORT SOCCER)

     

    Piermario Morosini died suddenly of a cardiac arrest on April 14 during a soccer match in Pescara, Italy. Only 25 years old when he died, Morosini's loss has caused an outpouring of grief and tributes throughout the European sports community.

    For more on the death of Piermario Morosini click here.

    Soccer players to look after dead team-mate's disabled sister.

  • Traffic snakes along reopened mountain pass in Kashmir

    Fayaz Kabli / Reuters

    Vehicles are driven through a mountainous road covered by snow after the Srinagar-Leh highway was opened to traffic in Zojila, 108 km (67 miles) east of Srinagar April 25 The 443 km (275 miles) long highway was opened by Indian army authorities for traffic on Wednesday after remaining snowbound at Zojila Pass, 3,530 metres (11,581 feet) above sea level, for the past six months. The pass connects Kashmir with the Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region, a famous tourist destination among foreign tourists for its monasteries, landscapes and mountains.

    Fayaz Kabli / Reuters

    Vehicles are driven down a precarious stretch of a mountainous road after the Srinagar-Leh highway was opened to traffic in Zojila, 108 km (67 miles) east of Srinagar April 25.

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    Kashmiri porters on horseback travel past walls of snow along the newly-reopened Srinagar-Leh highway in Zojila, about 108 km (67 miles) east of Srinagar, on April 25, 2012. The 443 km (275 mile) long highway was opened for the season by Indian Army authorities after remaining snow at Zojila Pass, some 3,530 metres (11,581 feet) above sea level, had been cleared. The pass connects Kashmir with the Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region, a famous tourist destination among foreign tourists for its monasteries, landscapes and mountains.

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    Vehicles ply the Srinagar-Leh highway in Zojila, about 108 km (67 miles) east of Srinagar, on April 25, 2012. The 443 km (275 mile) long highway was opened for the season by Indian Army authorities after remaining snow at Zojila Pass, some 3,530 metres (11,581 feet) above sea level, had been cleared.

     

  • Hector Guerrero / AFP - Getty Images

    A massive fire is seen at 'La Primavera' forest in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 25. More than 700 firefighters were sent to the site where the fire has been burning uncontrolled for almost five days.

    Hills lit up as a massive forest fire continues to burn in Mexico preserve

    Nearly 10,000 acres have burned in the forest preserve in the past five days. The cause of the fire is unknown, though there is speculation that it started at an illegal garbage dump. The International Business Times reports that authorities have previously found outdoor drug labs in Jalisco's forests. The Latin American Herald Tribune reported that gunmen were preventing some firefighting teams from reaching the fire.

    See another photo from the fire posted previously on PhotoBlog.

  • Remembering World War I and the battle of Gallipoli

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    An Australian wearing an WWI uniform, walks past graves at the Australian War Memorial in the northern French city of Villers-Bretonneux, on April 25, as part of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day ceremony.

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    Australian visitors attend the wreath-laying ceremonies at the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France, during Anzac Day, April 25. The ceremony marks the 94th anniversary of the recapture of the village of Villers-Bretonneux on April 25,1918.

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    Australians and New Zealanders take part in a dawn service, part of Anzac Day commemorations, April 25, at Gallipoli, to mark the anniversary of the ill-fated landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during World War I. More than 10,000 New Zealand and Australian servicemen died in the failed eight-month campaign on the peninsula, and Gallipoli has become a defining symbol of courage and comradeship for the two nations.

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    Children watch veterans march through Sydney streets as tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders gathered on April 25, 2012 to honor their war dead, attending sombre dawn services and veterans parades in memory of those who fought in war.

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    Parade participants take part in the Anzac Day Parade at Martin Place on April 25 in Sydney, Australia. Veterans, dignitaries and members of the public today marked ANZAC (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) Day, when First World War troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey in 1915, commemorating the event with ceremonies of remembrance for those who fought and died in all wars.

     More information about ANZAC Day from the Australian War Memorial website.

  • Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP - Getty Images

    Incandescent materials, ash and smoke are spewed from the Popocatepetl volcano, seen from Santiago Xalitzintla, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on April 24. Residents at the foot of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano no longer sleep soundly since the towering mountain roared back into action over a week ago, spewing out a hail of rocks, steam and ashes. The volcano, Mexico's second highest peak at 5,452 metres, started rumbling and spurting high clouds of ash and steam on April 13, provoking the authorities to raise the alert to level five on a seven-point scale.

    Popocatepetl volcano eruption lights up the night sky over Mexico

    More photos of the Popocatepetl volcano on PhotoBlog.

  • North Koreans pay tribute on the 80th anniversary of the army

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    A North Korean father and his son look at the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il after they paid tribute during a holiday in honor of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Army in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 25.

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    A North Korean pays tribute to the statue of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Army in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 25.

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    A North Korean family, four of them military personnel, pay tribute to the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Army in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 25.

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    North Korean pay tribute to the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during a holiday marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Army in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 25.

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    A North Korean boy pays tribute to the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during a holiday in honor of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Army in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 25.

     

  • Indian family face up to life on the streets

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    A homeless family sleeps under an overpass in New Delhi, India, on April 25, 2012. Already the second most populous country on the planet with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion even as hundreds of millions of people remain trapped in abject poverty.

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  • Israel marks Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers

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    A man weeps as he grips a stone monument to fallen soldiers that carries the name of a close relative at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 25, 2012.

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    Israeli soldiers stand still as a siren marks the annual Memorial Day for fallen Israeli soldiers, near the Israel border with the Gaza Strip, on April 24, 2012.

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  • NASA releases photo of meteor blazing across Nevada skies

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    An image provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a meteor over Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012.

    NASA has released a photograph of a flaming meteor that unleashed a powerful sonic boom Sunday morning, rattling houses in California and Nevada when its disintegration released energy equivalent to a 5-kiloton explosion.

    The former space rock entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PT on April 22 and exploded over California's Central Valley, according to NASA, which pinpointed the location in a map posted on its website.

    According to space.com, several witnesses initially thought they had experienced an earthquake.

    "An event of this size might happen about once a year," said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office. "But most of them occur over the ocean or an uninhabited area, so getting to see one is something special."

    Sergei Remezov / Reuters

    The Month in Space: Take a look at zero-gravity antics, rocket launches, planetary views and other spaced-out pictures from March 2012.

    NASA space photographs exhibit at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. KNBC-TV's Cary Berglund reports.

  • Indian milkmen protest price cuts

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    Indian milkmen pour milk and break their earthen pots during a protest in New Delhi on April 25, 2012. The milkmen were protesting against the decision of milk products-producing companies to reduce the purchasing price of milk and demanding a minimum support price for milk procurement.

    Manish Swarup / AP

     

  • Culture clash: Fan spills yogurt on Obama in Boulder

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    The president's fourth year at the White House in pictures — follow along as it happens.

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    NBC News reports: While working the ropeline outside of a Boulder restaurant, a young woman spilled yogurt on the President. After realizing what had happened, the President was laughing and told the crowd, "Oh, you got me!" He asked the people around him for a towel and the women started apologizing profusely. The President assured her she now has a good story to tell.

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    Protesters put James Murdoch's head in a box


    Protesters from the campaign group 'Avaaz' demonstrate outside the High Court with a large James Murdoch mask as the real James Murdoch, former News International chairman, gives evidence to The Leveson Inquiry on April 24 in London, England.

    This phase of the inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the United Kingdom is looking at the owners of various media groups. Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, will give evidence tomorrow.

  • Tomo Therapy gives dogs, owners hope

    Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle via AP

    Bo the dog is anesthetized for his radiation treatment in the TomoTherapy unit at Texas A&M's Veterinary Medicine College in College Station, Texas.

    Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle via AP

    Karan Crooks, of Willis, holds her dog Nutmeg, who received radiation treatment for cancer last year, as she talks about the experience at Texas A&M's Veterinary Medicine College in College Station, Texas.

    Texas A&M's Veterinary Medicine College is home to one of the country's two animal TomoTherapy units, a $3 million machine that combines radiation therapy and CT scanning technology to treat tumors once considered untreatable.

    This is a place of last refuge, intractable hope and boundless love, the entrance to a battlefield between cutting-edge science and cancer.

    --The Houston Chronicle

    Continue reading High-tech vet clinic at Texas A&M draws praise at Chron.com.

     

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  • Thai girls accept temporary ordination as Buddhist nuns

    Sukree Sukplang / Reuters

    A Buddhist nun speaks with novice Thai nuns at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation centre in Bangkok on April 20. (All images captured by Sukree Sukplang of Reuters on April 20)

    Novice Thai nuns walk in line at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation centre in Bangkok.

    A novice Thai nun smiles at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation centre in Bangkok.

    A small but growing group of Thai girls are choosing to spend part of the school holiday as Buddhist nuns, down to having their heads shaven. This year, to celebrate 2,600 years since the Buddha gained enlightenment, the Sathira Dammasathan centre arranged for the ordination of 137 women between the ages of five and 63.

    The ordination involved shaving their hair off and living as a Buddhist nun for 20 days, including going on rounds to collect alms from worshippers at dawn, wearing simple white cotton clothes, and daily meditation classes. 

    --Reuters

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    Novice Thai nuns play at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation centre in Bangkok.

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    Novice Thai nuns stand in line to receive food from people at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation centre in Bangkok.

    A Buddhist nun prays with novice Thai nuns at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation centre.

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  • Medical students in Bolivia join doctors in protest

    Juan Karita / AP

    Medical students run from tear gas fired by police as they protest in solidarity with striking public doctors in La Paz, Bolivia on April 24. Public doctors are on their 28th day of an indefinite national strike in response to a decree by President Evo Morales that extends professional working hours from six to eight hours per day.

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  • Automakers unveil new models at Beijing show

    

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    A model poses next to a Lexus ES 300h at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing on April 24.

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    A model poses next to a Mini Cooper at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in China on April 24.

                               

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    A model stands next to a Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe at Auto China 2012 in Beijing on April 24.

    China's leading car show opened in Beijing on April 23 with automakers from around the world presenting more than a thousand car models. The automobile exhibition, also known as Auto China Show 2012, will run until May 2. Associated Press reports that automakers are looking to China to drive revenue amid weakness in the United States and Europe. But explosive sales growth that hit 35 percent in 2010 fell to just 2 percent in the first quarter of this year.

    Related MSNBC.com stories on Auto China 2012

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    Vincent Thian / AP

    The latest BMW concept vehicle i8 Spyder is on display during the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Chinca on April 24.

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    A Fiat 500C is on display at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing on April 24.

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    A Cadillac CIEL is on display at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition on April 24 in Beijing, China.

     

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  • Life goes on for villagers displaced by 2010 flood in Pakistan

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    Pakistani girls, who were displaced from a village near Multan, Pakistan by floods in 2010, play with stones in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 24.

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    Pakistani men, displaced from a village near Multan by floods in 2010, play a game of pool in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on April 24.

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    A Pakistani child, whose family was displaced from their village near Multan, Pakistan by floods in 2010, sleeps in a hammock attached in a makeshift tent in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 24.

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    Pakistani Nori Basheer, 25, who was displaced by 2010 floods from a village near Multan, Pakistan, plays with her son Baber, while sitting outside her makeshift tent in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad on April 24.

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    A Pakistani family makes a tandoor, a clay oven used in cooking and baking, outside their makeshift tent on April 24 in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

     

    Footage of 2010 floods in Pakistan.

     

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    Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.

  • Italy's Mount Etna volcano glows during evening eruptions

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    In this photo taken Monday, April 23, lava flows during an eruption of the snow capped Mount Etna volcano, near the Sicilian town of Catania, southern Italy.

    Europe's only active volcano, Mount Etna, put on a spectacular display on Monday evening with red hot lava spewing into the night-time sky. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.

     

    See more PhotoBlog posts on the Mount Etna volcano's recent activity.

  • Ahoy! Historic Cutty Sark clipper ship set to open after restoration

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    General view of the newly-restored "Cutty Sark" tea clipper in Greenwich, east London on April 24. The clipper was closed to the public in 2006 ahead of a major restoration project but suffered major damage during a fire in 2007. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to officially re-open the Cutty Sark on April 25.

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    Rigging crews look towards the mast as they work on the newly-restored "Cutty Sark" tea clipper in Greenwich, east London on April 24. The clipper was closed to the public in 2006 ahead of a major restoration project but suffered major damage during a fire in 2007. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to officially re-open the Cutty Sark on April 25.

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    This 1914 photo of the 212 foot long Cutty Sark clipper ship which was launched in taken in 1869 from Dumbarton, Scotland.

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    A general view of the figurehead on the newly refurbished Cutty Sark on April 24, in London, England. The restored Cuttty Sark, a 19th century tea clipper, is due to reopen to the public on April 26, after an extensive restoration which was severly hampered buy fire back in May 2007 at a cost of more than GBP 50 million.

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    Conservators work to restore the Cutty Sark on April 4, 2012 in London, England. The restored vessel will include the largest collection of merchant navy figureheads in the world and features the Cutty Sark's own original figurehead 'Nannie'. The Cuttty Sark, a 19th century tea clipper, is due to reopen to the public on April 26, 2012 after an extensive restoration following a severe fire in 2007.

     Heading to London this summer? Here are five free way to see the city.

     

  • A history of New York City in 870,000 photographs

    Eugene de Salignac / Department of Bridges, Plant & Structures -New York City Municipal Archives via AP

    July 29, 1908: Workers dig in the street along the sidewalk on the north side of Delancey Street.

    New York City Municipal Archives via AP

    Circa 1983-1988: 172 Norfolk Street, which is now the Angel Orensanz Foundation.

    870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations are being made available to the public on the Internet for the first time, The Associated Press reports .

    The photos, some of which date back to the mid-1800s, come from the city's Municipal Archives collection, and they feature all manner of city oversight - from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings. 

    Search the New York City Department of Records online gallery

    It also features the results of an ambitious plan to photograph every building in the city in the mid-1980s. An earlier set of pictures of every city building taken between 1939 to 1941 has yet to be digitized.

    Video: Take a look at the newest addition to the Manhattan skyline

    Taken mostly by anonymous municipal workers, some of the images have appeared in publications but most were accessible only by visiting the archive offices in lower Manhattan over the past few years. Read the full story.

    Eugene de Salignac / Department of Bridges, Plant & Structures - New York City Municipal Archives via AP

    October 7, 1914: Painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge.

    Works Progress Administration - Federal Writer's Project via New York City Municipal Archives via AP

    A man hands a program to baseball legend Babe Ruth, center, as he is joined by his second wife Clare, center left, and singer Kate Smith, front left, in the grandstand during Game 1 of the 1936 World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York on September 30, 1936.

    Borough President Manhattan - New York City Municipal Archives via AP

    May 18, 1940: A man standing on 6th Ave. and 40th St reads a newspaper with the headline: "Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris."

    Detective Charles A. Carlstrom / NYPD Evidence Collection - New York City Municipal Archives via AP

    1918: Police work a homicide after children found the body of Gaspare Candella stuffed in a burlap-covered drum out in the middle of a Brooklyn field.

     

  • Five states vote in primaries with 222 delegates up for grabs

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    Election worker Khalid Battle reads a book as he waits for voters to cast their ballots in Pennsylvania primary election at Memorial Gospel Crusades Church, Tuesday, April 24, in Philadelphia.

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    Brendan Reilly, right, completes an election affidavit prior to casting his ballot at a polling station in the lobby of his apartment building on Wall Street in New York, Tuesday, April 24. Voters in New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania are voting in the presidential primaries Tuesday. Reilly, who voted for Ron Paul, is hoping for a brokered Republican convention to block Mitt Romney's nomination.

     For the latest updates on the primaries in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware click here.

     

  • Jacky Naegelen / Reuters

    Police gather at the entrance to the Chaussee d'Antin La Fayette Metro station in Paris after a car accidentally drove into it, April 24, 2012

    SUV drives into Paris subway station

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    A Proton-M carrier rocket with the YahSat 1B telecommunications satellite aboard, blasts off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on April 24, 2012. The Russian carrier rocket successfully launched the satellite built by Astrium/Thales Alenia Space consortium for the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company of United Arab Emirates, the RIA Novosti news agency reported

    Russian rocket blasts Emirati satellite into orbit

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