A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 24, 2015
![For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rain forest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish. (Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)](https://gdb.voanews.com/63c464df-d95d-41bc-8fab-bcd2819b8f93_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rain forest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish. (Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
![Huge waves crash on the San Esteban de Pravia seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e01f5051-3283-4f65-9576-1a1d6c2b70bc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Huge waves crash on the San Esteban de Pravia seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.
![Egyptians walk carrying their belongings toward the Libyan side of the Ras Djir border crossing as they head to Tunisia for a flight evacuating them back to Cairo. Since the release of a video showing the beheading of Egyptian Christians by Islamic State group militants on a beach in Libya, Cairo has urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8cfe7f6e-cfa5-4a6b-b06e-b56f24d997d7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Egyptians walk carrying their belongings toward the Libyan side of the Ras Djir border crossing as they head to Tunisia for a flight evacuating them back to Cairo. Since the release of a video showing the beheading of Egyptian Christians by Islamic State group militants on a beach in Libya, Cairo has urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia.
![Government workers from the Bureau of Customs destroy counterfeit footwear products in Manila, the Philippines. A government statement said over 150,000 pairs of fake shoes and slippers of various brands, worth PHP 50 million ($1.13 million). were smuggled from China.](https://gdb.voanews.com/ed4ca17c-9180-484a-92dc-6729d5ae1cd9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Government workers from the Bureau of Customs destroy counterfeit footwear products in Manila, the Philippines. A government statement said over 150,000 pairs of fake shoes and slippers of various brands, worth PHP 50 million ($1.13 million). were smuggled from China.