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Thousands of French young people and trade unionists have held street protests to reject the government's new labor changes. More than 100 high schools were closed across the country Thursday due to the protests called by student organizations and backed by some worker unions. University students demonstrate in Paris, Thursday, March 17, 2016. Students and workers unions have called for another day of protests against planned labor reforms.

According to a post by David Oyedepo Foundation, the adorable baby girl pictured here was abandoned in the bush two weeks after birth and was taken to Lady Atinuke Oyindamola Home. She is now called Oluwapelumi- God is with me and is doing great. See another photo after the cut...

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A group from County Kerry, Ireland, marches up Fifth Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York. The 2016 parade marks the centennial anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising against British rule. Tourism officials forecast a record crowd for the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, centerpiece of a weeklong festival celebrating Ireland's patron saint. An estimated 125,000 visitors are joining hundreds of thousands of locals at Thursday's two-hour parade down O'Connell Street to St. Patrick's Cathedral in central Dublin.

William Shakespeare died 400 years ago, but his stock has never been higher. To coincide with the anniversary of the Bard's death, Christie's is selling copies of the first four editions of his plays — a collection the auctioneer's head of books, Margaret Ford, calls "the holy grail of publishing." A Christie's member of staff displays an unrecorded copy of the First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, widely considered the most important literary publication in the English language, in London, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The book contains 36 plays, 18 of which appear here for the first time in print, and is estimated at 800,000-1.2 million UK pounds (1,127,760- 1.69 million US dollars). William Shakespeare died 400 years ago, but his stock has never been higher. To coincide with the anniversary of the Bard's death, Christie's is selling copies of the first four editions of his plays - a collection the auctionee...

Jhene Aiko married a Yoruba man named Oladipo Omishore, aka DotDaGenius, a music producer who was born and lives in the US. Looks like she's learnt the Yoruba language...

People ride chairlifts while others ski at the Masik Pass Ski Resort in Wonsan , North Korea. Imported snowmobiles from China were buzzing up and down its slopes even as the U.N. Security Council was discussing how to crack down after the North’s latest nuclear test in January and subsequent rocket launch. Despite an occasional power outage, its Doppelmayr chairlifts from Austria were working just fine. Judge Merrick Garland plans to visit Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy as Democrats hope to put unbearable election-year pressure on Republicans refusing to consider any Obama nominee.

Shaharzad Hassan, 8 year-old from the Syrian city of Aleppo poses with a drawing she made at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Friday, March 11, 2016. At an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, 8-year-old Shaharzad Hassan draws pictures of the harrowing events in her life over the past 18 months: Pictures of death in her home town of Aleppo, Syria, and her perilous journey to Europe IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — As other children play among the tents of a rain-soaked refugee camp in northern Greece, 8-year-old Shaharzad Hassan sits quietly with her spiral notepad and a set of cheap marker pens.

The Latest on European efforts to respond to massive migration (all times local): 10:45 a.m. Greece is insisting that European Union leaders meeting in Brussels must provide for sanctions against member states that unilaterally decide to shut out refugees. A refugee boy pushes a trash can through the mud between tents in a makeshift migrant camp at the northern Greek border post of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Hundreds of migrants and refugees walked out Monday of an overcrowded camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, determined to use a dangerous crossing to head north but were returned to Greece.