News photos of the day
Date: 4/30/2012 Album ID: 1461459
Photos by Associated Press
News photos from around the world, April 30, 2012
Dave Wallace, a tow truck driver for Bolin Wrecker Services, hooks up three damaged vehicles from an apartment complex on Woodhaven Lane Maryland Heights on Monday, April 30, 2012. All were damaged in a  Saturday afternoon hail storm.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Russian honor guard soldiers stretch during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 67 years of the victory in WWII, in Moscow, late Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Russian army T-90 tanks make their way down a road during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 67 years of the victory in WWII, in Moscow, late Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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A visitor is trying to pass light barriers at the new spy museum in Oberhausen, Germany, Monday, April 30, 2012. The exhibition Top Secret explains the work of secret services and shows unique original details from the Russian KGB, the CIA and the east German STASI during the cold war. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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An arm prosthesis with a gun is on display at the new spy museum in Oberhausen, Germany, Monday, April 340, 2012. The exhibition Top Secret explains the work of secret services and shows unique original details from the Russian KGB, the CIA or the east German STASI during the cold war. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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This photo taken Friday, April 27, 2012, shows an aerial view over northern Uganda. Some locals in Gulu in northern Uganda have other concerns that complicate the military mission of forces now hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, such as the fear of reprisal attacks if they are thought to be helping the authorities find him, or concerns that troops hunting him will not be able to distinguish between the regular LRA fighters and their abducted children. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Photojournalists place their cameras on the floor during a demonstration condemning the alleged murder of fellow journalist Regina Martinez in Mexico City, Sunday April 29, 2012. The Mexican government's human rights commission said Sunday that it will investigate the apparent slaying of a correspondent for Proceso newsmagazine who often wrote about drug trafficking. Police found the body of Martinez on Saturday inside the bathroom of her home in the Veracruz state capital, Xalapa.  (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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The sun reflects on a building as it rises Monday April 30, 2012, including One World Trade Center, center left, in New YOrk as seen from Jersey City, N.J. One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday.   (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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A torn safety net on One World Trade Center provides a window view of the Manhattan skyline, Monday, April 30, 2012 in New York. One World Trade Center is being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks. It reached just over 1,250 feet on Monday. That's just taller than the observation deck on the Empire State Building. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool)
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Naval personnel watch as the missile frigate, Yuncheng (571), of the Chinese Navy makes a port call in Hong Kong Monday, April 30, 2012, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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In this April 29, 2012 photo, a rider drives his motorcycle around with his dog as a passenger under a sweltering heat which soars to over 36 Degrees Centigrade in a suburb of Alabang, south of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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The relatives of inmates embrace and cry outside La Planta prison as National Guard troops try to gain control of the prison in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 30, 2012. National Guard troops have been trying to take control of the jail since Sunday night, after authorities foiled plans for a prison break on Friday. Authorities say they discovered a tunnel that inmates had dug leading to a sewer. The white marks on the man's face are from toothpaste to help ease the effects of tear gas. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Police investigate the destroyed van that plunged over the Bronx River Parkway, Sunday April 29, 2012, in New York. Authorities say the out-of-control van plunged off a roadway near the Bronx Zoo, killing seven people, including three children. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A wounded member of the Afghan police reaction force waits for treatment in Alingar, Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 30, 2012. A bomb exploded next to the opium poppy fields during a poppy eradication campaign in Alingar, wounding two Afghan police reaction forces, police officials said. Afghanistan supplies most of the world's opium. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Anti-Syrian regime mourners carry the body of activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, during his funeral procession, in the Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Two freshly shaved alpacas stand on a green field at Alpaca-Land farm in Goeming in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Sunday April, 29, 2012. The annual shearing is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months. This will give them plenty of time to grow a thick new coat before winter. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
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People are silhouetted on the OCBC Skyway linking the Supertrees, ranging from 25-50 meters in height and serving as vertical gardens in the nearly completed Gardens By The Bay just next to Singapore's busy financial district on Monday April 30, 2012 in Singapore. This is part of the city-state's efforts to bring and nurture greenery within the city and capture the essence of Singapore as a tropical city.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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A woman dressed as a witch dances in front of a fire during the Walpurgis Night at the famous Hexentanzplatz (Witches' dance ground)' in the Harz mountains near Thale, northern Germany, Monday, April 30, 2012. Hundreds of costumed devils and witches meet to celebrate Walpurgis Night, a traditional religious holiday of pre-Christian origins. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Dylan Stanley Dougherty, 27, cries in district court Monday, April 30, 2012 in Walsenburg, Colo., where he was sentenced to 32 years in prison on charges stemming from the shootout and capture of him and his brother and sister in Colorado.  All three siblings were sentenced on Monday. Dougherty's sister Lee Grace Dougherty received a 24-year prison term, while his brother Ryan Dougherty, 22, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. The three are accused of shooting at a police officer and staging a daring bank robbery in a cross-country crime spree that included Georgia and Florida. The manhunt for them ended after an Aug. 10 freeway chase and shootout with police in southern Colorado. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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An Austin police officer holds a childseat at the scene of where a 32 year-old man was killed and two children were injured Monday morning April 30, 2012, in a crash involving a Capital Metro train at a private rail crossing in North Austin, Texas on the southbound frontage road of Mopac near Parmer Lane. The MetroRail train hit a white sedan at Kahlbau Road, a dirt and gravel road between McNeil Drive and Oak Creek Drive. The man was pronounced dead at the scene and two young boys were taken to Dell Children's Hospital. The train was able to continue on after the wreckage was cleared and all the passengers on board were evacuated safely and given bus transportation to other stations. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Ralph Barrera)
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