In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017 photo, a woman covered in fake blood shouts slogans defending a women’s right to have an abortion during protest marking International Women’s Day in Brasilia, Brazil. Many women stayed home from work, joined rallies or wore red to demonstrate as International Women’s Day was observed with a multitude of events around the world.
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Part of Rio Carnival float collapses, injuring 17
An injured person lies on a stretcher on the top of a float as she is being rescued during the performing of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school for the Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Part of a float has collapsed during Rio de Janeiro’s world famous Carnival parade, injuring several people, according to doctors at the scene.
Global warming could steal postcard-perfect weather days
Global warming is going to steal away some of those postcard-perfect weather days in the future, according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather. On average, Earth will have 10 fewer days of mild and mostly dry weather by the end of the century, the researchers estimate.
Unruly Passenger on Flight from Australia Delays Holiday Travelers
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New subway station has public art rarely seen: A gay couple
The sight of two men holding hands is far from uncommon, but a mural of two men doing just that is showing up in an unusual place – on the walls of a new subway station in New York City. “It was like winning the lottery,” Thor Stockman, 60, said of finding out that he and his husband of 3 A1 2 years, Patrick Kellogg, were going to be part of artist Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers,” a series of life-size mosaic portraits of everyday New Yorkers gracing the walls of the new subway station at 72nd Street.