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This photo released by Indonesia's National Rescue Team shows rescuers at the crash site of a Lion Air plane in Bali, Indonesia on April 13, 2013. The plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew overshot a runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali and crashed into the sea, injuring nearly two dozen people, officials said.
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American musician and artist Patti Smith, right, is greeted by Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Smith told the media afterwards that she found the new pontiff "very interesting" and "liked him a lot." In her current exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Smith has a pair of Pope Benedict XV’s slippers on display, which she acquired in a sale at a monastery. She wanted them because he was often referred to as “the pope of peace” ahead going into the First World War.
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Treasures dating back 400 years were recently recovered from the Tortugas shipwreck, in the Straits of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. The site, called the "Tortugas" excavation, was first discovered back in 1965. The galleon Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario, of the Tierra Firme treasure fleet, was sailing back to Spain after collecting colonial treasures back in 1622. It was struck down by a fierce hurricane off the southwest tip of Florida, about 400 miles from the Florida Keys. Photos courtesy of Odyssey Marine Exploration, via Reuters.
Five Mexico City and Peruvian silver coins
A selection of the 27 gold bars recovered
A Spanish olive jar being recovered using the limpet suction device
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REUTERS/Haleem Al-HalabiA man drinks water as he searches for survivors in the rubble of a damaged area, what activists said was a result of an airstrike by the Syrian regime, in Al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo April 7, 2013. REUTERS/Haleem Al-Halabi
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Relatives of Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, a Palestinian prisoner who died of cancer while in Israeli detention, comfort each other at Al-Ahli hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of his funeral on April 4, 2013. The Palestinian leadership has accused Israel of medical negligence, despite moves by the prison service to secure his early release on compassionate grounds, with news of his death sparking angry clashes with the army, notably in Hebron. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian police escort the body of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh during his funeral in Hebron on Thursday. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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