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The collision of two black holes - detected for the first time ever - is seen in this computer simulation image. The collision causes ripples in space and time.

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A crowd looks at the wreckage of a train crash that injured 69 people near Cairo.Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

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Black kites fly by a murmuration of starlings near the southern Israeli city of Rahat.Menahem Kahana/AFP / Getty Images

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South Korean businessmen are stopped on a highway after North Korea expelled all South Koreans from a jointly-run industrial zone and seized their assets.Ed Jones/AFP / Getty Images

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A girl begs for help to pay a medical bill for her sick father in the besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

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Villagers have a communal lunch to celebrate the Spring Festival, in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, China.Reuters

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Pictures of North Korean flags and leader Kim Jong Un are burned by anti-North Korea protesters in downtown Seoul.Lee Jin-man/The Associated Press

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Internally-displaced Afghan children watch a girl jump with a skip rope at a refugee camp in Ghazni.Sayed Zakeria/AFP / Getty Images

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A dried-up river is seen next to sand dunes and salt pans in outback Australia.David Gray/Reuters

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Palestinian, Omar Ibrahim, breeds more than 40 rare snakes, like this albino Python Molurus, at his Nablus house.Ahmad Gharabali/AFP / Getty Images

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