Celebrating the new year in Southeast Asia

In this photo by Khin Maung Win, a boy runs as he is sprayed with water during the opening of the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar. The water festival, known as Songkran in Thailand, marks the new year across Southeast Asia. Traditionally, people sprinkle water on their family members and elders and pay their respects to Buddha. In the region's big cities, the festival is three days of water-soaked play, with locals and tourists being splashed with buckets of water, hoses and super soakers as they gather in the streets.

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A worker, wearing a face mask to protect against dust particles, pauses while arranging freshly cut stones at a quarry in the desert of Minya, southern Egypt on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Around 45,000 people work in an estimated 1,500 quarries, digging out stones that later will be used in construction or powdered to be used by pharmaceutical and ceramic companies inside Egypt and abroad.

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In this Nov. 29, 2014 photo made with a slow shutter speed, a member of the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club is seen through trees during a fox hunt in Monkton, Md. 

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People watch the total solar eclipse from Svalbard, Norway on Friday March 20, 2015.

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As the sun rises, Chinese paramilitary policemen watch over Tiananmen Square from a rooftop across from the Great Hall of the People ahead of the closing ceremony of the annual National People's Congress in the hall in Beijing on Sunday, March 15, 2015.

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A Marine salutes Air Force One as it departs with President Barack Obama and the first family on board Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Montgomery, Ala.

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A reveler from the Sao Clemente samba school poses for a photo as he waits for the start of the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015.

Aero India 2015

Two planes of Redbull team scraped each other during stunts display at the Aero India show, in Bengaluru.