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A model displays a creation from the Mi&Go collection by Long Jing during China Fashion week in Beijing on March 27, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
Penitents from the ‘Hermandad Penitencial de las Siete Palabras’ brotherhood take part in a procession during Holy Week in the northwestern Spanish city of Zamora on March 26, 2024. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)A picture taken on March 27, 2024 shows one of the Spain’s famous Osborne Bull billboards painted with the Palestinian flag and a writing reading “Free Palestine” in Cabanillas de la Sierra, near Madrid. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)From left, jockey’s Barty Leisher, Johnny Geroudis, S’manga Khumalo and Piere Strydom (all former winners of the Durban July), pose for a photograph at the launch of the Champions Day fields at Turffontein, 27 March 2024. Champions Day takes place on Saturday, April 6 at Turffontein – the third race day of the Championships, which culminates in the Championships Finale on April 27. Picture: Michel Bega/The CitizenA worker prepares vermicelli at a workshop, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, 27 March 2024. Vermicelli is used in the production of seviyan (vermicelli pudding), which is a very popular dessert, especially in the month of Ramadan. The Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in the Koran was during its last 10 nights. It is celebrated yearly by praying during the night and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. It is also a time for socializing, mainly in the evening after breaking the fast, and a shift of all activities to late in the day in most countries. Picture: EPA-EFE/SHAHZAIB AKBERRafts full of tulips are launched in the pond in the Vondelpark, as part of the tenth edition of the Tulip Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27 March 2024. During this festival, tens of thousands of tulips bloom throughout the Amsterdam districts. Picture: EPA-EFE/RAMON VAN FLYMENPenelope Prince (2) visits the Checkers Easter Village in Canal Walk, Cape Town ahead of the upcoming Easter weekend. Picture: SuppliedDemonstrators wearing prisoner uniforms, monkey masks, and carrying piles of coconuts on wheelbarrows protest against Thailand’s monkey-used coconut-picking industry in front of the Thai Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 27 March 2024. PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has said that the Thai coconut milk industry still uses illegal monkey labor, in which monkeys are chained and forced to pick coconuts. Demonstrators said the coconuts used for the protest were humanely picked in Vietnam. Picture: EPA-EFE/KIMIMASA MAYAMAA Palestinian man carries a mirror recovered from debris following Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)This picture taken on March 25, 2024 shows a grassland earless dragon lizard at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve located on the outskirts of the Australian capital city of Canberra. Australia’s grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie as it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an enormous challenge in the years ahead: to avoid extinction. As recently as 2019, scientists in Canberra counted hundreds of grassland earless dragons in the wild. This year, they found 11. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)Workers fix cables on a transmission tower in Yichun, in central China’s Jiangxi province on March 27, 2024. (Photo by AFP)Geldhof Chocolatier’s Handmade Belgian chocolate staff Elsie Mmabatho poses for a picture with two Giant Bunnies at Chocolate Factory in Randburg, 27 March 2024. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The CitizenThis handout screegrab courtesy of the National Transportation Safety Board taken on March 26, 2028, shows part of the steel frame of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sitting on top of the container ship Dali after the bridge collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024. A major bridge collapsed in Baltimore on March 26, 2024, blocking one of the busiest US commercial harbors, after a heavily laden cargo ship lost power and smashed into a support column despite desperate attempts to stop in time. Six people — all members of a nighttime construction crew repairing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge — were missing and feared dead, according to officials and media reports. (Photo by National Transportation Safety Board / Youtube / AFP)
