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A Seminole County firefighter foams down what is left of “The Senator,” a 3,500-year-old cypress tree that burned down in Big Tree Park in Longwood, Fla. AP Photo

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Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman departs the stage after announcing the suspension of his 2012 presidential bid in Myrtle Beach, SC. REUTERS

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A riot police officer fires a tear-gas shell towards protesters in the center of Bucharest during a demonstration against the government’s austerity program and Romanian President Traian Basescu. AFP/Getty Images

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A worker inspects a dragon lantern decoration with energy-saving LED lights at the Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen temple in Jenjarom, some 31 miles Southwest of Kuala Lumpur. AFP/Getty Images

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Soldiers mounted on camels participate in a rehearsal for the Beating Retreat ceremony in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

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Lebanese Red Cross members carry a dead body while a rescue team, background, searches for residents and dead bodies among the debris of a collapsed building, in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo

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China’s former NBA superstar Yao Ming, a newly elected member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Shanghai, takes part in a meeting of Shanghai People’s Congress. Not content with owning a basketball team, studying business and making wine, Ming has now become the youngest — and tallest — legislative advisor in Shanghai. AFP/Getty Images

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Peter Reilly casts a line on the opening day of the salmon fishing season at the head of the river Tay in Kenmore, Scotland. REUTERS

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A woman walks past red lanterns, which were put up as decoration for an upcoming temple fair, at an entrance of Longtan park in Beijing. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. REUTERS

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President Obama paints a quotation attributed to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during a day of service in King’s honor at the Browne Education Campus school in Washington. The quotation reads, “The time is always right to do what is right.” REUTERS

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The US Coast Guard cutter Healy (L) and the Russian-flag bearing tanker Renda sit off the coast of Nome, Alaska after reaching the frozen Alaskan port with emergency fuel supplies. The mission is the first mid-winter marine delivery to western Alaska and comes as oil and gas development and climate change increase commercial traffic along trade routes in the Arctic. REUTERS

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A rescue boat and a helicopter patrol near the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks on Jan. 13. The owner of the luxury liner said its captain had made “errors of judgment.” AFP/Getty Images

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The Bootmobile is driven down a street in Kissimmee, Fla. In 1912, LL Bean sold its first pair of boots. The privately held company expects to have $1.5 billion in sales in its 2011 fiscal year. The bootmobile was created to help the company celebrate being in business for 100 years. AP Photo

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A man crosses Chelsea Bridge during sunset in London. REUTERS

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Thousands of Turkish Cypriots gather for the funeral of Rauf Denktash in northern Nicosia. Turkey’s leaders flocked to north Cyprus for the funeral of Denktash, a champion of Turkish Cypriot independence but reviled by Greek Cypriots as an architect of the island’s partition. REUTERS

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An unusual view of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away. The picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are invisible in images taken in visible light, as well as bringing to light a rich background of stars and galaxies. AFP/Getty Images

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A demonstrator wears a Guy Fawkes mask during an Occupy Congress rally at the West Front Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, DC. Getty Images

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People ride on top of a crowded commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains, hosing down the scofflaws with red paint, threatening them with dogs and appealing for help from religious leaders. AP Photo

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A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. AP Photo

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Tibetan exiles shout slogans after being detained by police during a protest outside the venue of a meeting between Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo and India’s National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon in New Delhi. REUTERS

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Visitors walk through a tunnel made up of lanterns that have been set up for the upcoming Spring Festival in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. REUTERS

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A commuter emerges from a closed subway station during a 24-hour metro strike in Athens, Greece. REUTERS

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Hindu devotees wearing headsets listen to a fortune-telling machine at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. REUTERS

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Hungary’s Dora Vaas performs her rhythmic gymnastics routine during the Gymnastics qualification event for the London 2012 Olympic Games at the North Greenwich Arena in Britain. EPA

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A satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia lying on its starboard side just off the tiny Tuscan island of Isola del Giglio, Italy. As the ship keeps shifting on its rocky ledge, many have raised the prospect of a possible environmental disaster if the 2,300 tons of fuel on the half-submerged cruise ship leak. Satellites are used to monitor the area while authorities are preparing to remove the fuel from inside the vessel. AP/DigitalGlobe

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A supporter waving a flare cheers Citroen pilot Sebastien Loeb and his co-pilot Daniel Elena during the second special stage of the 80th Monte Carlo rally between Burzet and Saint Martial, southeastern France. AP Photo

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Nadine Wolf wears tape over her mouth as she joins a protest by the technology organization New York Tech Meetup against proposed laws to curb Internet piracy outside the offices of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. AFP/Getty Images

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A Martian meteorite “Tissint” sits at the Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico,in Albuquerque. The fall of this meteorite was witnessed by bedoins in Morocco last July during a meteorite shower but the meteorite in several pieces was collected only at the end of December. This is only the fifth time in history scientists have chemically confirmed Martian meteorites that people witnessed falling. Carl B. Agee/AFP/Getty Images

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A man walks along a walk decorated with traditional red lanterns to welcome the lunar new year at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. EPA

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A man plunges into ice cold water to mark Orthodox Epiphany in Kiev, Ukraine. AFP/Getty Images

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Students make their way across a damaged suspension bridge over the Ciberang river to go to their school in Lebak, Banten province, Indonesia. AP Photo

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The cruise ship Costa Serena, in the background, sails as its sister ship Costa Concordia lies on its side after it ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island. No deadline has been set for ending the search for missing people on the wreck. REUTERS

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A Chilean student faces a riot police car during a protest against the government of President Sebastian Pinera in Santiago. AFP/Getty ImagesAFP/Getty Images

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View of the port of Piraeus during sunset, in Athens, Greece. EPA

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A man cleans foam from his body after taking a bath in the polluted waters of river Yamuna on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India. REUTERS

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Workers walk past the Kodak corporate headquarters in Rochester. Eastman Kodak Co., which invented the hand-held camera and helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon, filed for bankruptcy protection, capping a prolonged plunge for what remains one of America’s best-known companies. REUTERS

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Protesters gather in front of the Agos newspaper office during a demonstration to mark the fifth anniversary of the killing of Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink in Istanbul. A man was sentenced to life in prison in Turkey this week for the 2007 killing of prominent journalist Dink in a verdict that drew criticism from rights groups for failing to explore alleged complicity of state officials. REUTERS

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Nike’s newest product, the Nike Plus FuelBand, is displayed during a product release announcement in New York. The wristband provides an athletic measurement of daily physical movement in time, calories and steps that integrates with the iphone and social media networks for sharing. AP

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A Foreign tourist walks at the Galle fort. The number of foreign tourists visiting Sri Lanka has swelled since the island ended a 37-year separatist conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009. AFP/Getty Images

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Anti-government protesters march in Bucharest, Romania, in a rally called by opposition groups. Police had clashed with a small contingent of around 1,000 protesters in the capital, after four days of demonstrations against austerity measures turned violent. AP Photo

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A damaged road due to flooding in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Hundreds of people have been left homeless by heavy flooding in South Africa and Mozambique. Heavy rain in a short period of time in this part of Southern Africa caused the floods, prompting many to seek refuge on rooftops and in trees and an evacuation of the Kruger National Park, a game reserve in northern South Africa. EPA

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Indian women look on during Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s fast in Godhra, India. AP Photo

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A man falls as protestors knock down a barricade in front of the Supreme Court building on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, in Washington. REUTERS

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Crew members of the Sierra Leone-flagged Kayan-1 are evacuated in Istanbul’s Bosphorus. Thirteen crew members of a cargo ship involved in a collision in Turkey’s Bosphorus strait, one of the world’s busiest waterways, were evacuated as the vessel was in danger of sinking, shipping agency GAC said. REUTERS

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Indian Border Security Force Officers sit atop camels during preparations for the upcoming Beating Retreat ceremony on Raisina Hill near the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

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A ”Tamborillero” wearing his uniform crosses the street during the El Dia Grande, the main day of the San Sebastian feasts, in northern Spain. AP Photo

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A Pakistani man looks inside a garbage container while collecting items he hopes to sell to a recycling factory in Islamabad. AP Photo

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A snow-covered bicycle is locked to a bridge as unusually light traffic drives past below on Highway 520 near the University of Washington in Seattle. AP Photo

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India’s Railway Protection Force personnel rehearse for the Republic Day parade amid dense fog on a cold winter morning in New Delhi. REUTERS

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Giraffe statues stand in the grounds of the Dotcom Mansion, home of accused Kim Dotcom, who founded the Megaupload.com site and ran it from the $30 million mansion in Coatesvill. The US government shut down the content sharing website, charging its founders and several employees with massive copyright infringement, the latest skirmish in a high-profile battle against piracy of movies and music. REUTERS

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A Palestinian demonstrator kicks a burning tire towards Israeli security officers during clashes at a weekly protest against a nearby Jewish settlement in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. REUTERS

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Firefighters wait as the Washoe Drive Fire makes its way down a hill off Highway 395 in Washoe City, Nev. The wind-driven fire raged through parched brush, engulfing a number of homes and prompting residents and livestock to flee by the thousands as belching smoke from the blaze forced the closure of a major highway. Reuters

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Visitors take pictures in front of a dragon-shaped lantern that was set up for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Beijing. REUTERS

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A bench engraved with the name of the grounded Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen washed up on the shore of Giglio island. Reuters

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A woman walks down a fog-covered trail at Montie Beach Park in Houston. AP Photo

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A model presents a creation at the Baltic Fashion Catwalk show Autumn/Winter 2012/2013 during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, Germany. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A model presents a creation by Berlin-based label Kaviar Gauche fashion show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. AP Photo

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Hong Kong Pole Dance champion Tessa Yung performs during a promotional event for the upcoming International Pole Championship contest in Hong Kong. The IPC will be the first time held in Hong Kong on March 15. AP Photo

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