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For those who only attend Church on Easter Sunday...

“Many of you won’t be back here until next Easter so I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas.”

Elephant calves at play

Elephant calves play at an elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka - formerly known as Ceylon.

Improvised memorial wall in Ukraine

Flowers, candles and beads are seen on an improvised wall made of pavement stones at Independence Square, in Kiev, Ukraine.

Devoted couple die 15 hours apart after 70 years of marriage

A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.

Helen Felumlee, of Nashport, died at 92 on April 12. Her husband, 91-year-old Kenneth Felumlee, died the next morning.

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The Ram Navami festival in India

An Indian artist dressed as the Hindu goddess Kali participates in a procession to celebrate the Ram Navami festival in Allahabad.

Hindu devotees celebrate the festival of Ram Navami, the birth anniversary of Lord Rama, across India, which also marks the end of the nine-day long fasting and Navaratri festival.

Female members of the Palestinian presidential guard train in Jericho

Female members of the Palestinian presidential guard take part in a training session in the West Bank city of Jericho.

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Obama thanks Sebelius for her tireless work on ObamaCare

What is this American plane owned by a small Utah bank doing in IRAN?

On Tuesday, a New York Times reporter in Iran spotted an American plane at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, an extremely unique sight given the harsh sanctions imposed on the country by the United States and other Western nations.

For an American plane to enter Iran legally, a number of hoops would need to be jumped through. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control needs to give approval for an American aircraft to travel to Iran—they gave a “no comment” to the Times reporter who spotted the plane.

Complicating things further, the jet’s engines are made by General Electric, meaning that the Commerce Department would also have to sign off on allowing American-made equipment to enter the isolated country.

The plane is owned by a small bank chain in Utah. Adding to the mysgtery, the bank is a trustee for 1,169 planes, “more planes than just about any other bank.”

Owning the plane through a trust allows the owner privacy. A bank employee said that the bank has no operation control or financial exposure to the planes. They're owners by proxy.

The plane is a Bombardier Challenger CL-604.

Obama sends Putin a really strong warning

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Hillary fundraiser pleads guilty to witness tampering and unlawful donations

Noted hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal, pictured below with Barack Obama, faces a maximum of nearly six years in prison at sentencing on July 31 and must forfeit $1 million. He is free on $750,000 bond secured by property in Manhattan.

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Caption: “I don’t care where you were born either.”

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Chatwal entered the plea to evading contribution limits and witness tampering in federal court in Brooklyn as part of a plea deal.

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