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Feb 4, 2014

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A Canadian ice hockey player walks through Olympic Park after practice on Tuesday ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. AP

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A worker stands atop the Olympic cauldron in Sochi on Tuesday. AP

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The village at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort Ski Resort seen from a gondola ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. AP

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A man holds a Ukrainian flag in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country’s unrest, in Kiev, Ukraine on Tuesday. AP

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A man takes a holy dip into the Sangam for the Hindu celebration of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India on Tuesday. AP

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A Hindu devotee offers prayers on Basant Panchami, the fifth day of spring, in Allahabad, India on Tuesday. AP

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A child's tricycle sits in front of a collapsed house hit by ash from the Mount Sinabung eruption at Sibintun village in Karo district

A child’s tricycle sits in front of a collapsed house hit by ash from Mount Sinabung’s latest eruption in North Sumatra, Indonesia on Tuesday. Reuters

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A baboon yawns while breastfeeding its baby at the Tsavo West national park within the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem, southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi

A baboon yawns while breastfeeding her baby at the Tsavo West National Park in Mangani, Kenya. Reuters

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An elephant stretches during their aerial census at the Tsavo West national park within the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem, southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi

An elephant stretches its legs at the Tsavo West National Park in Mangani, Kenya. Reuters

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Palestinian girl dressed in a military uniform and traditional kufiya (headscarf) attends a mass wedding in Gaza City

A Palestinian girl dressed in a military uniform and traditional headscarf attends a mass wedding in Gaza City on Tuesday. Reuters

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Sadhus perform prayers while sitting inside circles of burning "Upale" on banks of river Ganges during the Magh Mela festival in Allahabad

Hindu holy men pray inside circles of burning cow dung on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India on Tuesday. Reuters

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A man hangs a wish tablet on a tree to pray for wealth and good fortune on the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Dongyue Temple in Beijing

A man hangs a wish card on a tree to pray for wealth and good fortune during the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing on Tuesday. Reuters

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Sri Lanka's navy fires a gun salute as a part of main celebrations for Sri Lanka's 66th Independence Day in Colombo

Sri Lanka’s navy fires a gun salute for Sri Lanka’s 66th Independence Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Reuters

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Yachts lay on their sides at a damaged dock after an earthquake hit the island of Kefalonia in Greece on Monday. AP

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A shaman of Malaysia's indigenous Mah Meri tribe performs prayers on the beach during a thanksgiving ritual in the village of Pulau Carey

A shaman of the Mah Meri tribe performs prayers for Puja Pantai, a ritual to appease sea spirits, in Pulau Carey, Malaysia on Tuesday. Reuters

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A bee hay is seen surrounded by ice-capped broken trees in Rakitnik

A bee hive hut is surrounded by ice-covered broken trees in Rakitnik, Slovenia. Reuters

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