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An immigrant pushes an empty shopping cart past graffiti in a poor Athens neighborhood. REUTERS

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A man takes part in the ancient carnival of Ituren in the northern Spanish province of Navarra, where “Joaldunak” (those who play the bell) march carrying big cowbells tied to their backs. AFP/Getty Images

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A Sadhu, or a Hindu holy man, takes a dip at Sangam, confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus bathe at the confluence during the astronomically auspicious 45-day period of Magh Mela. AP Photo

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Frost-covered trees can be seen at the Essigberg near the central German city of Kassel. A Siberian cold front brought temperatures near 10 degrees below zero in some parts of the country. AFP/Getty Images

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Sri Lankan President Rajapakse inspects the ear of visiting boxer Evander Holyfield in Colombo. Holyfield had part of his ear bitten off during an infamous boxing match with Mike Tyson in 1997. Rajapakse hosted Holyfield for breakfast at his Temple Trees residence in Colombo. AFP/Getty Images

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Public buses are seen from the observation deck of Sapphire Tower as they are parked at the Levent garage in Istanbul. The 856 Sapphire Tower of Istanbul is the country’s highest building. REUTERS

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Chinese people explode firecrackers on the ground to mark the opening of business after the Lunar New Year holidays in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. AP Photo

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A man walks with his dog in a park in Bucharest. Temperatures plunged to 16 degrees below zero in central Romania AFP/Getty Images

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An Occupy DC demonstrator walks at the camp in Freedom Plaza in Washington. AP Photo

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney throws bags of chips at traveling reporters on his campaign charter plane in Jacksonville, Fla. AP Photo

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Miss Adriana Santos of Bahia state walks the runway during the Miss Brazil Plus-Size beauty contest in Sao Paulo. REUTERS

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Oil recovery experts aboard a dinghy approach the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. AP Photo

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Thai woman makes a withdrawal from an ATM at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. AP Photo

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A model walks the runaway during the Gianni Molaro fashion show in Rome, Italy. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Rescue teams work in the aftermath of three collapsed buildings in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At least 17 people were killed in the accident. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Dutch men skate near Lytse Wielen, in the north of the Netherlands. AFP/Getty Images

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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks out from a vehicle as she arrives at Nyaung Oo, on her way to the airport after her trip in Bagan Township. REUTERS

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An Italian firefighter is lowered from an helicopter onto the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. AP Photo

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A school boy walks past the early morning sunlight filtered by fog, smoke and the branches of a tree in the Hauz Khaz neighborhood of New Delhi. AFP/Getty Images

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Samajwadi Party supporters listen to party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at an election rally in Allahabad, India. AP Photo

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Workers check the tap-water pipes after suspected industrial waste discharge polluted a river with toxic cadmium, threatening drinking supplies for millions in Liuzhou, south China’s Guangxi province. AFP/Getty Images

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A man rides a bicycle on an icy street in Sofia, Bulgaria. AFP/Getty Images

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Employees of Newco, a contractor to Spanair, protest in front of the Spanair desk at El Prat airport in Barcelona, Spain. The regional government of northeastern Catalonia says it can no longer supply struggling airline Spanair with funds to continue operating. AP Photo

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Tourists ski in the Thuringian Forest near Oberhof, central Germany. AP Photo

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Laborers remove kites tangled up in electric power cables after the end of the kite flying season in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. REUTERS

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A man walks his dog near the Neris river in the Vilnius, Lithuania, as morning temperatures plummeted. AP Photo

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A woman walks along a snow-covered street in the northern Kazakhstan town of Pavlodar. REUTERS

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Indian musician sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, 92, looks on during a function to launch 23rd edition of Limca book of records in music, in New Delhi. AP Photo

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A woman walks under the snowfall in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, wth a statue of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in the background. AFP/Getty Images

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One World Trade Center, now up to 90 floors and heading to 104 floors, towers over the lower Manhattan skyline. The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex’s signature tower. AP Photo

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Scott Floyd, of Des Moines, rides his wagon down a bike path with his dogs Ringo and Bugz by Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway bridge and Fleur Drive near the Raccoon River in Des Moines, Iowa. AP Photo

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A small cutter carrying a pilot to the Harmaja lighthouse makes its way at sea off the coast of Helsinki, Finland. REUTERS

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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, arrives with his legal team at the Supreme Court in London. Assange is appearing in court for his final appeal against his extradition to Sweden, where he is sought for questioning over alleged sex crimes. Getty Images

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Syrian rebels take their position behind a wall as they fire their guns during a battle with the Syrian government forces, at Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria. AP Photo

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This image obtained from NASA shows an enhanced-color image of sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. AFP/Getty Images

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A giant anti-Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin billboard set up by the opposition Solidarity movement is seen on a building, left, which faces the Kremlin in downtown Moscow. The Kremlin’s wall and a towers are on the right. The poster reads: “Putin Go Away.” AP Photo

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Jyoti Amge, the smallest woman in the world, campaigns for a right-wing party during the upcoming municipal corporation election in Mumbai, India. Jyoti Amge has become the world’s smallest election campaigner. Shripad Naik/Barcroft India

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A man walks beside the Neris river in the Vilnius, Lithuania, as morning temperatures plummeted to below 9 degrees. AP Photo

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Indian dancers from Karnataka wearing traditional clothing and masks perform at the opening of the Surajkund Fair in Faridabad, Haryana, just outside New Delhi, India. The fair is held for two weeks and features culture and crafts from all of India’s states, its South Asian neighbors and other countries in the world. AP Photo

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A fisherman sits on a boat alongside other boats among water hyacinths floating on the water surface on Minjiang River in Wankou village, Fujian province. The fishing industry there has been threatened due to the spread of water algae in the river since Jan. 16. REUTERS

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A cross-country skier makes his way through a snowy winter landscape on the Schauinsland mountain near Freiburg, southwestern Germany. AP Photo

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Mitt Romney celebrates his decisive win in the Florida Republican Presidential primary at the Tampa Convention center in Florida. UPI

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A windmill is seen on the hills covered by snow next to the small village of La Couvertoirade, on the Larzac, Southern France. Twenty-four French departments are on orange alert due to sub-zero temperatures. EPA

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A Yemeni tribesman gestures while standing on a rock overlooking a mountain village where armed tribesmen are holding six aid workers after they kidnapped them in the al-Ahjer area, west of Sana’a, Yemen. EPA

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Police Detective Lt. Patrick Glynn, displays a TruNarc drug identification scanner and a bag containing what the scanner identified as cocaine at police headquarters, in Quincy, Mass. The device, developed by Waltham-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, uses a low-power laser to scan small bags of drugs and gives police near-instant identification. AP Photo

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A model walks down the runway during the Beckmans College of Design A/W 2012 show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Pavilion in Stockholm, Sweden. Getty Images

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Groundhog Club handler John Griffiths holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-predicting groundhog, during the 126th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. Phil saw his shadow, forecasting six more weeks of winter weather. AP Photo

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Media personnel beat up a spectator who was allegedly stealing at an election rally addressed by Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi in Meerut, India. India’s biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, will be choosing its state assembly in elections testing the popularity of the national government’s ruling Congress Party. AP Photo

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Egyptians crowd a train station waiting for their friends and relatives’ arrival from Port Said in Cairo, Egypt. AP Photo

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A woman looks out of a window covered in frost on a bus in Bucharest, Romania. At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia’s mountains, authorities said, as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s weeklong deep freeze rose. AP Photo

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A model displays an autumn/winter design by Amaya Arzuaga during the Madrid’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Madrid. AP Photo

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Villagers perform a dragon dance to pray for good luck and celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lantern Festival in Taizhou, Zhejiang province. The dragon, made with bamboo and paper, is a traditional in Xiage county and celebrates the Lantern Festival. REUTERS

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Oil barriers are set next to the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island. REUTERS

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Toto Tiongco, a fishmonger, dries his daily catch of herring locally known tambang before selling the fish at a wet market in Manila . Tiongco said herrings are sold at around 100 pesos ($2.32) per kilo. REUTERS

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Egyptian women react after hearing about the death of their relatives during clashes at a soccer stadium, outside a morgue in Cairo, Egypt. AP Photo

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Diadora-Pasta Zara’s Giorgia Bronzini, left, of Italy, crashes during the second stage of the Tour of Qatar women’s cycling race in Al Shimal Corniche, north of Doha. REUTERS

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A man walks as snow and frozen wind billows cross the region, in Roncesvalles, northern Spain. AP Photo

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A homeless man has his lunch at a sports hall in Istanbul. The sports hall was set up as a shelter for homeless people by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality which currently hosts some 300 people. REUTERS

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Melinda Gates speaks to the media while her husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, left, and his father, William H. Gates, listen during an advanced tour of the newly constructed $15 million visitor center at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $500 million campus in Seattle, Washington. The 900,000-square-foot construction, which occupies more than 12 acres in downtown Seattle, is scheduled to open to the public on Feb. 4 REUTERS

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A statue is covered with snow near the Quirinale in Rome. A rare mantle of snow blanketed the historic center of Rome as temperatures in the Alpine region of Piedmont in northern Italy went as low as minus 22. AFP/Getty Images

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A “sperm bike” in Copenhagen. Nordisk Cryobank (European Sperm Bank), one of Europe’s leading sperm banks, created a custom-designed bike with a cooling system to transport its sperm samples to fertility clinics around Copenhagen. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Ice-covered stones lay on the banks of the river Elbe as cranes of the port of Hamburg, northern Germany, are seen in the background. AFP/Getty Images

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Performers dance in celebration of the upcoming Lantern Festival outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China. AP Photo

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A young couple enjoys a cold afternoon ice skating on a frozen pond in Prague, Czech Republic. AP Photo

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A pedestrian passes a beggar off Athens’ main Syntagma Square. AP Photo

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Indian disaster response personnel search as onlookers gather around derailed cars of a passenger train following an accident at Sathi Sarapa village near Gauhati, India. AP Photo

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People gather on a road submerged by flood waters near the town of Moree north of Sydney. REUTERS

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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at Tehran University. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran’s oil exports. REUTERS

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President Obama makes remarks on the economy at Fire Station No. 5 in Arlington, Va. Ron Sachs/startraksphoto.com

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Dobrosav Gavric, the fugitive killer of the Serbian warlord known as Arkan, appears in a Cape Town, South Africa, court to apply for bail in his extradition hearing. His bail was denied. REUTERS

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Vehicles drive through blizzards near Lehliu railway station east of Bucharest. REUTERS

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The Giants Super Bowl team photo is taken on media day at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. AP Photo

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County fire and emergency officials, along with mutual aid from Conway and Myrtle Beach firefighters, battle a two-alarm fire at a welcome center located on U.S. 501 near Conway, SC. AP Photo

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General view of the city of the western town of Freudenberg, early morning. REUTERS

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Members of the Mashco-Piro tribe observe an expedition of the Spanish Geographical Society from across the Alto Madre de Dios river in the Amazon basin of southeastern Peru, as photographed through a telescope by Spanish explorer Diego Cortijo, and distributed by Survival International. Survival International has the Mashco-Piro tribe listed as one of around 100 uncontacted indigenous tribes in the world. REUTERS

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Bobcats dancer and American Idol contestant Brittany Kerr in action during the Washington Wizards against the Charlotte Bobcats game at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC. Getty Images

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A model presents a creation by Spanish designer Andres Sarda on the second day of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain. EPA

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