Snapshots of the Fortnight (April 17-May02)

By: Forbes India Photo Team

Published:
15/05/2013 12:00 AM

Image by : Getty Images

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Image by : Getty Images

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Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers are pictured at the scene after an eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25. Survivors cried out to rescuers from the rubble

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Image by : Getty Images

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The 16.5-metre-tall inflatable Rubber Duck art installation is seen at the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on May 2, 2013. The inflatable duck by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman will be on display in the former British colony until June 9

Image by : Suzie Wong / Reuters

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Image by : Suzie Wong / Reuters

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A woman cries amongst collapsed houses in Ya'an, Sichuan province on April 22. Hundreds of survivors of an earthquake that killed nearly 200 people in southwest China pushed into traffic on a main road, waving protest signs, demanding help and shouting at police

Image by : Lee Jae-Won / Reuters

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Image by : Lee Jae-Won / Reuters

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A customs officer checks as a vehicle of a South Korean company carrying products made in inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea arrives at the customs, immigration and quarantine (CIQ) office, just south of the demilitarised zone separating the North from South Korea in Paju, north of Seoul, on April 27. Pyongyang has rejected a call for formal talks to end a standoff that forced operations at the joint industrial complex to be halted. South Korea, in turn, has said it would pull out all its remaining workers from Kaesong

Image by : Reuters

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Image by : Reuters

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US President Barack Obama makes light of his wife's new bangs with a mock pictures of himself with the same hairdo in this humorous photo created by the White House shown at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington on April 27. Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite

Image by : Hamid Khatib / Reuters

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Image by : Hamid Khatib / Reuters

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A Free Syrian Army fighter and a boy hold up weapons on a street at the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the border with Turkey on April 23

Image by : Damir Sagolj / Reuters

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Image by : Damir Sagolj / Reuters

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Hla Hla May, a Rohingya Muslim woman displaced by violence, holds her one-year old daughter Roshan at a former rubber factory that now serves as their shelter, near Sittwe on April 29. Myanmar must urgently address the plight of Muslims displaced by sectarian bloodshed in western Rakhine State and double the number of security forces to control the still-volatile region, an independent commission said

Image by : Wong Campion / Reuters

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Image by : Wong Campion / Reuters

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Paramilitary policemen stand guard during Monihei Carnival in Cangyuan county, Yunnan province on April 30. Ethnic Wa people throw and smear muddy water onto each other during the annual Monihei festival. Wa people consider the muddy water, which contains special plant juice, sacred and as a sign of good fortune

Image by : Mohammad Ismail / Reuters

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Image by : Mohammad Ismail / Reuters

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A schoolgirl who fell ill after smelling gas at her school, cries inside an ambulance in Kabul on May 1. Over 150 schoolgirls in Afghanistan's capital fell sick after smelling gas and drinking water and were being examined for possible poisoning, hospital officials said

Image by : David W Cerny / Reuters

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Image by : David W Cerny / Reuters

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Injured people leave an area after an explosion in Prague on April 29. The explosion in central Prague injured about a dozen people and others were trapped in a building damaged by the blast, a Reuters witness and emergency services officials said

Image by : Reuters

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Image by : Reuters

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Workers set up dust screen on a demolition site in Xi'an, Shaanxi province on April 27. According to local media, along with the city's recent environment protection acts, construction sites are required to take measures controlling dust in order to improve air quality

Image by : Mike Segar / Reuters

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Image by : Mike Segar / Reuters

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Dancers perform at an open audition to join the world famous Rockettes at New York City's Radio City Music hall on April 30. Hundreds of aspiring dancers try out each year for a spot with the dance company to star in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular

Image by : David Gray / Reuters

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Image by : David Gray / Reuters

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An Indian cricket supporter kneels in front of a wax figure of Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar during a promotional event at the Sydney Cricket Ground on April 20. A group of Indian cricket supporters known as the Swami Army attended the unveiling of the wax figure, which will go on permanent display at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Sydney

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