Mar 7, 2014

The world’s largest dog show continues Friday, a mural in Hong Kong has returned to its former home, and a protest in Lisbon includes off-duty colleagues of the officers containing it.

: Rifleman Stuart Gray leaps across an overgrown ‘trench’ in a practice WW1 battlefield in Gosport, in southern England, on March 6, 2014. Remains of an entire practice battlefield, with two sets of opposing trench systems and a No Mans Land between, used for training troops before they were sent to the Front in the First World War, has been discovered on Ministry of Defence heathland in Gosport, Hampshire.
CREDIT: CHRIS ISONCHRIS ISON/ – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius leaves court after the fifth day of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, March 7.
CREDIT: MIKE HUTCHINGS – REUTERS

: A giant doll boy is seen at an apartment parking area in downtown Shanghai March 7.
CREDIT: CARLOS BARRIA – REUTERS

: An Indian stock trader monitors share prices on his terminal during intra-day trade at a brokerage house in Mumbai on March 7. Indian share prices surged to a record high as the BSE benchmark Sensex index reached 21,866.51 points for the first time.
CREDIT: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: A Basset Hound sleeps in its kennel on the second day of the Crufts dog show at the NEC on March 7 in Birmingham, England. Said to be the largest show of its kind in the world, the annual four-day event features thousands of dogs, with competitors travelling from countries across the globe to take part. Crufts, which was first held in 1891 and sees thousands of dogs vie for the coveted title of ‘Best in Show’. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: Dachshund hounds are judged in a show ring on the second day of the Crufts dog show at the NEC on March 7 in Birmingham, England. Said to be the largest show of its kind in the world, the annual four-day event, features thousands of dogs, with competitors traveling from countries across the globe to take part. Crufts, which was first held in 1891 and sees thousands of dogs vie for the coveted title of ‘Best in Show’. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks during the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center at National Harbor. The CPAC annual meeting brings together conservative politicians, pundits and their supporters for speeches, panels and classes. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

: A British legal professional carries a puppet representing Justice Secretary Chris Grayling during a demonstration against planned cuts to the legal aid budget in London on March 7. Thousands of lawyers staged a walkout at major courts in England and Wales in protest at government plans to cut the legal aid budget by £220 million. Crown court proceedings in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool faced disruption, with only five out of 18 criminal courts sitting at the Old Bailey, while hundreds of solicitors and barristers also marched on the Houses of Parliament.
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: Barristers in their wigs and robes shout slogans outside the Department for Justice during a protest against cuts to the legal aid budget in central London, March 7.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ANDREW WINNING – REUTERS

: Barristers in their wigs and robes shout and hold placards during a protest against cuts to the legal aid budget outside Parliament in central London, March 7.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ANDREW WINNING – REUTERS

: Argentinian artist Marta Minujin (C), the Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires Hernan Lombardi (R), and Argentinian artist Antonio Segui (L) take part Friday in an inaugural ceremony in honour of a new set of colorful hopscotch games covering a square in Paris which were created to honour Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar. Argentinian-born writer Julio Cortazar eventually settled and lived in Paris for many years and the city is holding a variety of events this week to mark the hundred years since the author’s birth.
|| CREDIT: JOEL SAGETJOEL SAGET/ – AFP/GETTY IMAGES

: Protesters take cover from Venezuelan security forces during an anti-government demonstration on Thursday in Caracas, Venezuela. Three weeks of protests against the federal government have shaken the country as business in much of the nation has come to a standstill. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signs an autograph as he visits the mountain village on the eve of the opening of the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Krasnaya Polyana, March 6, 2014. Picture taken March 6, 2014.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ALEXEI NIKOLSKYI/RIA NOVOSTI/KREMLIN – REUTERS

: A Crimean Tatar arrives for Friday prayers at the Khan Chair mosque in Bakhchisaray, near Simferopol March 7, 2014. Earlier this month, Tatars of Ukraine’s Crimea came out in their thousands, chanting Allahu Akbar in a show of loyalty to the new authorities in Kiev and opposition to separatist demands by the region’s Russian ethnic majority. But now, with Moscow’s military forces having unexpectedly seized control, the indigenous Muslim people of the isolated Black Sea peninsula have all but vanished from the public square, keeping their heads down to avoid being sucked into war.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: THOMAS PETER – REUTERS

: PFC William Berczik from Houston, Texas wth 4th Squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment stands on top of a Stryker vehicle following a live-fire exercise with 120mm mortars in the desert on March 6, near Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

: People walk past a copy of an Pac-Man art piece by French urban artist “Space Invader”, in Hong Kong March 7. The original piece, which was in the same place, was removed by the Hong Kong government for “safety” reasons in February 13, according to local media.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: BOBBY YIP – REUTERS

: Armed paramilitary policemen stand guard next to train ticket booths after a knife attack last Saturday, at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province March 7. Beijing police have told prominent users of the microblogging site Weibo to cease comments deemed hurtful, including suggestions that authorities misled the public with accounts of a deadly train station attack blamed on militants from Xinjiang. At least 29 people were killed and police shot dead four people they labeled as attackers.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: STRINGER – REUTERS

: Police stand guard in front of the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon March 6, 2014. Police and security forces members marched to parliament to protest against austerity cuts.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: HUGO CORREIA – REUTERS

: A car passes a 50-foot snowman named “Granddaddy” in Gilman, Minnesota, on Thursday. The snowman began to take shape earlier this winter when farmer Greg Novak needed to move mounting snow piles away from his rural greenhouses.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: ERIC MILLER – REUTERS

: A multiple exposure picture shows Alina Fodorova of Ukraine as she competes during the women’s shot put pentathlon event at the world indoor athletics championships at the ERGO Arena in Sopot March 7.
|| PHOTO CREDIT: KAI PFAFFENBACH – REUTERS

Hounds in Birmingham, a restored Pac Man mural, protests in Lisbon | March 7

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