Mar 22, 2014

Rhythmic gymnastics championships, Michigan same-sex marriages, Palestinian protests and more in today’s photo brief.

: Gymnasts on the Azerbaijan team perform during the group all-arround competition of the GAZPROM World Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics at Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. (Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images)

: Florida Gators forward Will Yeguete (15) of the reacts in the second half while taking on the Pittsburgh Panthers during the third round of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

: Newly married Roland Smith and Paul Mattson kiss after their brief wedding ceremony outside the Oakland County Courthouse a day after a Federal judge ruled a Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the U.S. Constitution. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)

: A same-sex couple receives their marriage license from Lisa Brown (seated), the Oakland County Clerk, after getting married at the Oakland County Courthouse in Pontiac, Mich. Same-sex marriages started a day after a Federal judge overturned Michigan’s ban. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

: Diamondbacks pitcher Wade Miley throws the first ball to Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers during the opening game of the Major League Baseball season between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

: Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Wade Miley throws the opening pitch to Yasiel Puig of the Los Angeles Dodgers during the opening game of the 2014 Major League Baseball season at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia. (David Gray/Reuters)

: Fiji’s Pio Tuwai is tackled by Samoa’s Sani Niue (6) and Gtegory Foe during their Tokyo Sevens 2014 match, part of the Rugby Sevens World Series, in Tokyo. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

: Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge celebrates scoring a goal against Cardiff City during their English Premier League soccer match at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. (Rebecca Naden/Reuters)

: Ugandan soldiers belonging to the African Union Mission in Somalia patrol the area from a tank in the early morning hours before advancing towards the town of Qoryooley, Somalia, in this handout provided by the AU/UN Information Support Team. (Tobin Jones/AU/UN Information Support Team/via Reuters)

: Palestinians shout slogans as they carry the body of Yazan Jabarin through the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians on March 22 during a raid on a home in the occupied West Bank to capture Hamza Abu Alhija, a wanted Hamas Islamist militant, the Israeli military said. Hamas supporters carried three bodies through the streets of the West Bank city of Jenin, shouting slogans against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, involved in U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)

: A Palestinian man is detained by Israeli border policemen during clashes near the Damascus Gate at Jerusalem’s old city. Palestinians protested after Israeli forces shot three Palestinian militants dead during a raid and arrest attempt on a home in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin earlier in the day. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

: Members of a pro-Russian self-defense unit chase and detain an unidentified man outside a military airbase in the Crimean town of Belbek near Sevastopol. Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea with armored vehicles, automatic gunfire and stun grenades on, injuring a Ukrainian serviceman and detaining the base’s commander. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

: A boy takes a bath in the southern Indian city of Chennai as World Water Day is celebrated.A boy takes a bath in the southern Indian city of Chennai as World Water Day is celebrated. (Babu/Reuters)

: A man, his wife and their child use a zip-line to cross the Nujiang River in Lazimi village of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture. Residents have been using the zip-line for years to cross the river as there is no bridge nearby, local media reported. (Wong Campion/Reuters)

: Qishi Li of China competes in the 500m Ladies Race during day one of the Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships at the Thialf Stadium in Heerenveen, Netherlands. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

: Switzerland’s second Franziska Kaufmann delivers a stone during her semi-final game against South Korea at the World Women’s Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)

: Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, fire a mortar round during a training exercise on FOB Lightning near Gardez, Afghanistan. The mission of the brigade is to advise and assist the Afghan National Army on nearby FOB Thunder. Most U.S. troops no longer undertake combat roles in Afghanistan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

: Kenyan bride Hawa Abdulkadir poses for a photograph during her traditional Nubian wedding ceremony in Nairobi’s Kibera Slum. (Noor Khamis /Reuters)

: Kseniya Moustafaeva of France performs with the hoop during individual competition of the GAZPROM World Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics at Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. (Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images)

: A satellite image taken March 18, 2014, of an object spotted in the southern Indian Ocean by the Gaofen-1 high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite of the China National Space Administration. Chinese satellites have spotted the new object in the southern Indian Ocean that could be wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 carrying 239 people, and ships are on their way to investigate, China and Malaysia said. (CNS/Reuters)

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