Reflections: A Book

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Australian journalist Peter Greste, third right, of Al-Jazeera and his colleagues stand inside the defendants cage during their trial for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo's Tora prison, on March 5. The high-profile case has sparked a global outcry and is seen as a test of the military-installed government's tolerance of independent media, with activists fearing a return to autocracy three years after the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

6 The Valentine Murderer!
Oscar Pistorius leaves court during a lunch break on the third day of his murder trial in Pretoria, South Africa on March 5. Pistorius is standing trial for the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.

7's nice and artistic, worth mentioning.

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People walk along a street heading to Kiev's Independence Square, Ukraine on March 4, the same day that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the city.

11 This is especially gorgeous and interesting since I'm going to my lil cousins ball this month, my first ever; oddly enough, we don't do this in the South (least not in my neck of the GA woods), where I would expect such outdated ceremonies to take place....
Debutants dance during the opening ceremony of the Vienna Opera Ball at the State Opera in Vienna, Austria on Feb. 27.

12 The perceptively odd ones are my favorite!
A man covers his face in oil and soot as he gets ready to participate in a carnival festival in the small village of Luzon, Spain on March 1.

13 Makes sense to me, didn't know mud wrestling was still seriously considered as such a big sport. I personally rank it as the male equivalent of somewhere around the ball park of a wet t-shirt contest....or jello/oil wrestling.
Wrestlers practice as others rest in the mud at the Akharra traditional Indian wrestling center in Mumbai on March 4. Kushti (mud wrestling) is a traditional sport in India, but more and more young athletes are now training to wrestle on mats instead of mud to gain access to top international competitions like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games.

14 This pic doesn't thrill in comparison, but the description gripped me.
Palestinians look at the body of Palestinian Mousab Al-Zaanin through the window of a hospital morgue in northern Gaza on March 3. An Israeli air strike on Monday killed the Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip, who Israel's military said had been preparing to launch a rocket across the border. Palestinian sources said the 24-year-old militant was killed, but it was unclear which group he was affiliated with.

A boy holds his baby sister who was saved from under rubble, after what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Masaken Hanano in Aleppo on Feb. 14.