A selection of some of the best photographs from South Africa and around the world.
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Actor Alan Rickman’s (playing Hans Gruber) Screen-Matched Radio along with an NYPD Badge and Credentials and Zippo Lighter from the movie “Die Hard” are seen at the preview of Julien’s Auctions Hollywood Sci-Fi, Action Fantasy and More auction in Beverly Hills, California, March 10, 2021. – A prototype of the terrifying monster from “Alien,” a mobster’s three-piece suit worn by Al Pacino in “Scarface” and Harry Potter’s wand are among 800 items from classic Hollywood movies up for auction next month in Los Angeles, April 28 and 29. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)
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Some of the over 800 items on auction are seen at the preview of Julien’s Auctions Hollywood Sci-Fi, Action Fantasy and More auction in Beverly Hills, California, March 10, 2021. – A prototype of the terrifying monster from “Alien,” a mobster’s three-piece suit worn by Al Pacino in “Scarface” and Harry Potter’s wand are among 800 items from classic Hollywood movies up for auction next month in Los Angeles, April 28 and 29. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)
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Colombian Air Force members fly on a Black Hawk helicopter as they transport a container with Sinovac vaccines against COVID-19 to be distributed in the rural areas of Antioquia, Colombia, on March 10, 2021. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)
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Waves crash over the harbour wall in Newhaven, south coast of England on March 11, 2021 as heavy gusts hit the south coast. (Photo by GLYN KIRK / AFP)
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French writer, historian and visual artist Pascal Convert poses in front of one of his works “Panoramique de la Falaise de Bamiyan, Afghanistan” during the exhibition “Bamiyaan – La falaise et la grotte” at the Louvre Lens museum on March 11, 2021 in Lens, northern France, twenty years after the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan. (Photo by FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP)
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A Hindu devotee offers prayers during the Maha Shivaratri festival at a Hindu temple in Colombo on March 11, 2021. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP)
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Hindu devotees attend evening prayers after taking a holy dip in the waters of the River Ganges on the Shahi Snan (grand bath) on the occasion of the Maha Shivratri festival during the ongoing religious Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar on March 11, 2021. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
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Hindu devotees attend evening prayers after taking a holy dip in the waters of the River Ganges on the Shahi Snan (grand bath) on the occasion of the Maha Shivratri festival during the ongoing religious Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar on March 11, 2021. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)
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People look at a banner displayed by culture workers occupying the Theatre Graslin, in Nantes, western France, on March 11, 2021, to demand the reopening of cultural places and theatres, a year after the first closing measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. – They are following the example of the action at the Odeon Theatre, occupied since March 4 by cultural actors and workers who are demanding the reopening of cultural venues and a financial aid. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
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A man walks holding an umbrella under the rain in Cali, Colombia, on March 11, 2021. – The Ideam (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies) reported the increase of rainfall prior to the start of the rainy season in Colombia that will last until June and will be influenced by the La Niña phenomenon. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
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Culture workers display a banner as they occupy the Theatre Graslin, in Nantes, western France, on March 11, 2021, to demand the reopening of cultural places and theatres, a year after the first closing measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. – They are following the example of the action at the Odeon Theatre, occupied since March 4 by cultural actors and workers who are demanding the reopening of cultural venues and a financial aid. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
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Madrid regional government president Isabel Diaz Ayuso and Spanish People’s Party (PP) leader Pablo Casado (back) arrive to attend a ceremony marking the European Day in Memory of the Victims of Terrorism at the Royal Palace in Madrid on March 11, 2021. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP)
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Team Jumbo rider Germany’s Tony Martin (C) competes with the pack before falling during the 5th stage of the 79th Paris – Nice cycling race, 200 km between Vienne and Bollene, on March 11, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
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A man walks near Comercio Square in Lisbon on March 11, 2021 as Portugal announced it will start to ease restrictions due to a decrease in coronavirus cases. (Photo by CARLOS COSTA / AFP)
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Culture workers prepare banners that will be displayed after occupying the Theatre Graslin, in Nantes, western France, on March 11, 2021, to demand the reopening of cultural places and theatres, a year after the first closing measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. – They are following the example of the action at the Odeon Theatre, occupied since March 4 by cultural actors and workers who are demanding the reopening of cultural venues and a financial aid. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives for First Minister’s Questions at the Scottish Parliament on March 11, 2021 in Edinburgh. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell / POOL / AFP)
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Team Jumbo rider Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey gestures as he competes after falling during the 5th stage of the 79th Paris – Nice cycling race, 200 km between Vienne and Bollene, on March 11, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)
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A campaign banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Hebrew slogan “Come Back to Life” hangs on a building hosting the headquarters of his Likud party in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2021, ahead of the March 23 general elections. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
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Forensic officers conduct a search in woodland near Ashford, southeast England following the discovery of human remains on March 11, 2021. – An officer in London’s diplomatic protection branch was arrested yesterday on suspicion of murder, police said, as investigators searching for Sarah Everard, a missing 33-year-old woman discovered human remains. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)
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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 11: Acting U.S. Attorney General Monty Wilkinson (L) greets newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as he arrives for his first day at the Department of Justice March 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. Garland, a one time Supreme Court nominee under former President Barack Obama, was confirmed by a Senate of vote of 70-30. Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
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