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| April 4, 2012 |
Daily life: March 2012
Nearly 2,000 images moved across the wires last month under the category “daily life.” Many of those slice-of-life images came from the 1,400 newspapers in the United States that make up the Associated Press, as well as AP staff photographers, but also from Getty Images, Reuters, and AFP. Some of the images are surprising, some dramatic, and others just an interesting view of something quite ordinary. They may not be photographs that fit into any particular news category or event, but we'd hate not to share them with you, so we're adding an occasional feature on The Big Picture blog: daily life captured around the globe. Here is the first installment. -- Lloyd Young (31 photos total)

Zoltan Kohari, known as the Slovak Batman, patrols around his home in the town of Dunajska Streda, some 34 miles (55 km) south of Bratislava on March 9. Kohari (26) lives alone in an abandoned building without water, heat or electricity. For local residents he became known as the hero in a Batman's costume. While he has not fought crime yet, he does believe in justice and wants to help the police. In the mean time, Kohari, who is poor, does what he can to help the residents to make their daily life easier. In return, some of these residents give him food. (Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters) #

Carolyn and Jeffrey Bern with their 'Chinese lantern' they released during Earth Hour from Hampstead Institute's Downtown Farm in Montgomery, Ala. March 31. Earth Hour takes place worldwide at 8.30 p.m. local time and is a global call to turn off lights for 60 minutes in a bid to highlight the global climate change. (Lloyd Gallman/Montgomery Advertiser via Associated Press) #

With cheers from supporting family members and friends, Lauren Wigginton (10) of Yorktown reacts to her new look after getting a buzz cut during St. Baldrick event at the Westin Virginia Beach Town Center Hotel in Virginia Beach, Va. on March 17. (Hyunsoo Leo Kim/Virginian-Pilot via Associated Press) #

Second-grade students in Joleen Smith's class watch a tour through the universe in the ExploraDome at Jefferson Elementary School in Winona, Minn. on March 6. The portable planetarium gave students a chance to view Mars, constellations and the Milky Way galaxy. (Andrew Link/Winona Daily News via Associated Press) #

Principal James Hale kisses a pig during an assembly at Forge Road Elementary School in Palmyra, Penn., on March 30. Hale challenged the students to read 3,000 books during the month in March for Read Across America, and if they met this challenge he would kiss a pig. Holding the pig is Michael Knauer. (Ashley Walter/Lebanon Daily News via Associated Press) #

University of Memphis students Mason Lin (left) and Christina Dang battle it out in a sumo competition on March 30 during the school's inaugural Asian American Awareness Week sponsored by the Asian American Association in Memphis. This is the first year for the U of M Asian American Association on campus and the group has seen its numbers grow from 15 members last semester to over 80 this semester and hopes the event will help bring in more new members and also shine a light on the discrimination of Asian Americans including the recent racial slurs towards NBA player Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. (Mark Weber/The Commercial Appeal via Associated Press) #

Street performers play in Santiago a day after Pope Benedict XVI held a historic mass in the city on March 27 in Santiago de Cuba. Fourteen years after Pope John Paul II visited Cuba, Pope Benedict is making his first trip to the communist country. Benedict, who arrived from Mexico, conducted a mass in the city of Santiago de Cuba first followed by a mass in Havana before leaving on the 28th. Tensions are high in Cuba between dissidents and the government as activists hope the international exposure of the Papal visit will result in renewed attention to their struggle for greater freedoms. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #























