Snapshots Of the Fortnight (11-25 April 2012)

By: Forbes India Photo Team

Published:
30/04/2012 12:00 AM

A model from the Boston Rock Gym "walks" face first down the face of the newly opened Rev

Image by : Brian Snyder / Reuters

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Image by : Brian Snyder / Reuters

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A model from the Boston Rock Gym "walks" face first down the face of the newly opened Revere Hotel Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts on April 18, 2012. The vertical fashion show showcased the hotel's uniforms, which were designed in partnership with students at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, as well as Spring/Summer 2012 looks from British designer label Ted Baker London

A member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club lies on floating ice from the spring melting on the Ye

Image by : Ilya Naymushin/ Reuters

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Image by : Ilya Naymushin/ Reuters

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A member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club lies on floating ice from the spring melting on the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

Image by : Sebastien Pirlet / Reuters

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Image by : Sebastien Pirlet / Reuters

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A would-be passenger lays on the ground as around 100 pro-Palestinian activists stage a protest at Brussels national airport in Zaventem. Some 1,200 Palestinian supporters throughout Europe have bought plane tickets for an April 15 visit to the West Bank as part of a campaign called "Welcome to Palestine". Organisers said the aim was to help open an international school and a museum, but Israel has denounced the activists as provocateurs and said it would deny entry to anyone who threatened public order

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Image by : Stefan Wermuth/ Reuters

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Arsenal's Robin van Persie (L) challenges Wigan Athletic's Maynor Figueroa during the English Premier League soccer match at the Emirates Stadium in London

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Image by : Allison Joyce/ Reuters

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Cyrus Fakroddin (L) and his pet goat Cocoa ride the downtown C train in New York. Cocoa is a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with Cyrus in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin has raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. "Cocoa doesn't even know she is a goat and you see that in her, but she loves hanging out with people," Fakroddin said. Picture taken April, 2012

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Image by : Marcelo del Pozo/ Reuters

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French matador Sebastian Castella performs a pass as the bull stabs his horns into the arena, during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in Seville

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Image by : Robert Galbraith/ Reuters

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People smoke marijuana joints at 4:20 p.m. as thousands of marijuana advocates gathered at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The event was held on April 20, a date corresponding with a numerical 4/20 code widely known within the cannabis subculture as a symbol for all things marijuana

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Image by : Gretchen Ertl/ Reuters

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Wellesley College Sophomore Mayrah Udvardi, of Canberra, Australia, gives a runner a kiss along the route of the 116th Boston Marathon in Wellesley, Massachusetts

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Image by : Vasily Fedosenko/ Reuters

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Villager Ivan Shamianok (L), 87, meets with former neighbours on the eve of "Radunitsa", or the Day of Rejoicing, a holiday in the Eastern Orthodox Church to remember the dead, at a cemetery in the abandoned village of Tulgovichi, near the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Minsk. Shamianok never left his village in spite of the Chernobyl blast, and he is now one of six last villagers that still live in Tulgovichi. Belarus. Ukraine and Russia will be marking the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion, the world's worst civil nuclear accident, which took place on April 26, 1986

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