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A look at the lives of Afghan civilians on The Big Picture.

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Sugar and salt on The Big Picture.

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A female Bornean orangutan named Mari sat with her male newborn at the Singapore Zoo.

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The Big Picture: Holi celebrations 2013

Boys spray colored foam during Holi celebrations at a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, India on March 26, 2013. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) 

A soldier’s photographs sat in a box for 45 years after the Vietnam war.  He shares them now on The Big Picture.