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Photos of Londoners in costume sprinting with frying pans on Pancake Day

By The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Racers dressed in costumes including a number two pencil, a penguin and a strawberry ran with a frying pan in hand through a central London square to compete in the annual pancake flipping competition. The celebration of Pancake Day takes place each year on Shrove Tuesday, also known as Fat Tuesday, the final day before the 40-day Christian fasting season of Lent.

This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Rotten fish sauce that has long stunk up a small Canadian town is finally being removed

By The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The townspeople of St. Mary's can breathe a sigh of relief. They are finally getting rid of the foul smell of rotten fish that has for years — when the wind blows their way — wafted over their tiny community in Canada 's easternmost province. And the culprit for the unpleasant odor that has vexed the picturesque town of about 300 people in Newfoundland and Labrador? About 110 tanks that were left behind — each holding 3,000 gallons of fermented fish sauce — when the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company was abandoned more than 20 years ago. The place was left to ruin: windows got broken, the roof blew off, a January storm knocked out a wall. The sauce kept on fermenting as the bacteria did their job — and the townspeople could smell it.
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