April 11, 2014

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A Sotheby's employee poses with the "Graff Vivid Yellow," at 100.09 carats - one of the rarest yellow diamonds of its size, in central London ahead of the forthcoming New York auctions of contemporary, impressionist and modern art.

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Thai Buddhist women take part in a blindfolded boxing bout as part of celebrations of the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat. The Thai new year falls on April 13.

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A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-story residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.

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Masked pro-Russian activists pass by a barricade as they guard a regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine.