Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed.
The air force planes were part of a multinational search operation launched after Flight MH370 fell off radar screens less than an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday morning. (AP)
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Photos of the day - March 8, 2014
A farmer shouts while running alongside his oxen as they race through a paddy field during the Kakkoor Kalavayal festival at Kakkoor village in the southern Indian state of Kerala, newly graduated soldiers of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry march during their commencement parade at a military base on the outskirts of Srinagar, India and a woman displays her Leopard cat during a cat exhibition in Minsk are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Reuters)
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'Women's Day – Mothers and Daughters': Portraits and stories from around the world
On March 8th activists celebrate International Women’s Day, which dates back to the early 20th century and has been observed by the United Nations since 1975.
In the run-up to the event, Reuters photographers in countries around the globe took a series of portraits of women and their daughters. They asked each mother what her profession was, at what age she had finished education, and what she wanted her daughter to become when she grew up.
They also asked each daughter at what age she would finish education and what she wanted to do in the future. The series of images offers an insight into the lives of women and girls around the world. (REUTERS)
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A powerful thunderstorm rolled into Sydney on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. The ominous clouds that accompanied it were captured by photographers and social media users who shared plenty of dramatic images. The area was soon pounded by thunder, lightning and rain. The storm generated high gusts of wind, was blown out to sea. (Yahoo News)
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Photos of the day - March 5, 2014
Storm clouds and dust can be seen in the sky above a woman as she walks at dusk along Mollymook Beach, Australia, a young oriental small-clawed otter at the zoo in Neumuenster, Germany and a frontier soldier from the People’s Liberation Army jumps through a ring of fire as part of training in Heihe, Heilongjiang are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Reuters)
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Photos of the day - March 4, 2014
A Brazilian Carnival participant in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. Sec of State John Kerry visits memorials in Kiev, a Tibetan Monk carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Nepal and pancakes are flipped to mark Shrove Tuesday in Salibury, England are just a few of the photos of the day for March 4, 2014.
(Photos by Buda Mendes/Getty Images, US Dept of State/EPA/handout, Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo, Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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This footage is described as showing armed men patrolling Simferopol in the early hours of March 3, appearing to conduct checks on car passing by. Later the same day, Deputy Ukrainian Interior Minister Mykola Velykovych claimed that Russia was preparing violent provocations to justify using military force in Crimea. Credit: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Several hundred people gathered outside the Odessa Regional Administration during a special meeting of the region’s elected representatives on March 3, chanting “referendum” and carrying Russian flags. They were refused entry to the building. Behind them, a demonstration in support of the new administration in Kiev was taking place. Police kept the two protests apart. Credit: Graham Phillips
