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Teresa Lerma, right, passes smoke around Maricella Garcia during the annual Cesar Chavez march in Sacramento on Saturday, April 6, 2013. The two are members of the Kalpulli Itzkuauhtli Aztec dance group. This is the annual Cesar Chavez march, which this year comes a week after the labor leader's birthday on March 31 (that was Easter Sunday). Marchers showed support for immigration reform. -
Members of Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans and light flares during a rally in front of the prosecutor general's office in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Thousands of activists took to the streets Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of a leading opposition group, the April 6 Youth Movement, and to push a long list of demands on Morsi, including the formation of a more inclusive government amid a worsening economy. -
Marine Corp veteran and economics major Hector Rodriguez, left, gets some help on his math homework from fellow Marine veteran and aerospace engineering major Adam Frye on Monday, March 25, 2013, at the Veteran's Club at Miracosta College in Oceanside, Calif. -
Robert Tannenbaum sits among the red seats at the Community Center Theater, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Tannenbaum will become the new director of the Sacramento Region Performing Arts Alliance. -
Local artist Danny Scheible, owner of Tapigami, moves tubs of his masking tape art work into a new art space and gallery in the Downtown Plaza. He and his business manager Tre Borden are moving into their new art space and gallery, which is inside a former Hundai dealership at Downtown Plaza. When Scheible wanted to raise $15,000 for a new business venture, he went the route of many creative professionals: crowd funding. In a matter of weeks, his online appeal to launch a new line of quirky eyeglasses went viral and he wound up with another $1,000 beyond his goal. -
Canada's Vasek Pospisil returns while teamed with Daniel Nestor against Italy's Daniele Bracciali and Fabio Fognini during the third set of a Davis Cup tennis doubles match in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday, April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/ The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck) -
A South Korean Army soldier walks on Unification Bridge in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Saturday, April 6, 2013. More South Koreans on Saturday began to leave North Korea and the factory park where they work, four days after Pyongyang closed the border to people and goods. -
A Nepalese woman performs rituals at a temple in Bhaktapur, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Bhaktapur, also known as city of devotees, is an ancient city and part of the Katmandu valley. -
An ambulance believed to be transporting former president Nelson Mandela arrives at the home of Mandela in Johannesburg, Saturday, April 6, 2013. The South African Presidency has confirmed that Mandela has been discharged after spending nine days in hospital in Pretoria. Spokesman Mac Maharaj says the elder statesman was discharged, “following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition,” and thanked all South Africans and people around the world for their support. He says Mandela will now receive home based high care. Mandela was admitted to hospital on March 27 with pneumonia. Since then the 94-year-old former statesman has had fluid drained from his lungs to ease his breathing. -
Cincinnati Reds' Joey Votto falls off the plate after being hit in the hands by a pitch from Washington Nationals starting pitcher Ross Detwiler in the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Cincinnati. Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos catches the pitch at right. -
An Egyptian protester wears a head band with Arabic writing that reads, "leave" during a rally of Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement in Mahalla, 125 kilometers (about 77 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Thousands of activists took to the streets Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of a leading opposition group, the April 6 Youth Movement, and to push a long list of demands on Morsi, including the formation of a more inclusive government amid a worsening economy. -
A lone skier makes his way up a hill in Sonamarg, 106 kilometers (66 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Sonamarg, which means meadow of gold, is a popular tourist destination that is inaccessible during winter due to heavy snowfall and avalanches. -
Hifazat-e-Islam activists gather for a rally to demand authorities enact an anti-blasphemy law punishing people who insult Islam, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Saturday's rally is taking place amid heightened security in Dhaka and elsewhere after the Hifazat-e-Islam members targeted a group of bloggers who they say are atheists. The bloggers, who deny they're atheists, are seeking capital punishment for those found guilty of war crimes during the nation's 1971 independence war and also want a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamic party. -
An Afghan policeman stands guard in central Kabul, Saturday, April 6, 2013. NATO says a blast in Afghanistan has killed four coalition service members and two civilians working with the alliance. The blast from a roadside bomb occurred Saturday in southern Afghanistan. -
Miami Marlins' Placido Polanco, left, scores from third base as New York Mets catcher John Buck turns to make the late tag in the fifth inning of a baseball game at Citi Field, Saturday, April 6, 2013 in New York.
