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Sep 2, 2013

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The aurora borealis, or northern lights, light up the sky above the village of Grotfjord, near Tromso, northern Norway. AP Photo

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Afghan refugee boys wait for their lunch outside their home inside a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. AP Photo

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Seen here is the landscape of dunes in the Takla Makan (Taklamakan or Taklimakan) Desert on Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China is expected to build its first desert airport in Takla Makan Desert in the next five years. ZUMAPRESS.com

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French lovers David, 22 and Charlene, 23, lock a padlock to mark Valentine’s day in front of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. The padlocks on the railings of the bridge are left by lovers who lock their padlocks onto the fence and throw the key into the Seine river as a symbol of enduring love. AP Photo

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A woman cross-country skis on the ice outside Helsinki. Finland has experienced this winter’s record low temperature, – 37,9 Celsius, in Utsjoki, northern Finland. AP Photo

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Children swing burning small rice bags in a festival to pray for good health and harvests in the coming year at Kakunodate, northern Japan. The centuries old event took place around this time of the year in the northern Japanese prefecture known for its rice production. AP Photo

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A boy rides a skate board as a gap in the clouds appears to form a heart shape over the Mediterranean sea on Valentines Day in Tel Aviv, Israel. AP Photo

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An art installation called ‘The Runner’ is seen on top of a car park in Liverpool, northern England. The artwork is one of 11 pieces on public display across the city as part of the month long Liverpool Discovers festival. REUTERS

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An engaged couple sits on a bicycle as they pose for wedding photographs to the theme of “naked wedding”, on a pedestrian bridge on Valentine’s Day in central Beijing. “Naked wedding” is a popular new expression in China which means young couples get married with no houses, cars or little bank savings. REUTERS

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Egyptian policemen take part in a protest demanding for higher wages in front of the Interior Ministry in Cairo. REUTERS

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People make their way past snow covered cars during a heavy snowfall in Gangneung, South Korea. The biggest snowfall in a century has buried cities in eastern South Korea and prompted rescue operations involving some 12,000 soldiers, as the coldest winter in years grips the peninsula. REUTERS

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Girls charge during a pillow fight in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid. The pillow fight was organized by a flashmob though the internet and by cell phone messages. AP Photo

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An Egyptian workers sweeps sand away at the entrance of the Giza pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo. The upheaval of recent weeks and media coverage of days of violent clashes have combined to scare off visitors and stifle Egypt’s key tourism industry, threatening thousands of jobs. AFP/Getty Images

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A picture combo illustration shows kissing couples on Valentine’s Day. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A view of an illuminated mosque is seen during celebrations marking Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammad, in Karachi. Muslims across Pakistan will celebrate the birth of the Prophet Mohammed on February 16. AFP/Getty Images

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A woman walks under snow-covered trees during snowfall in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. AFP/Getty Images

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A person carries a traditional “torito”, made of paper, as people run away from fireworks exploding around them in Zapotitlan, outskirts of Mexico City, to celebrate the day of Saint Santiago. The” toritos” are bulls made of paper and fireworks that men carry on their backs among onlookers they run with the fireworks exploding. AP Photo

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Passengers push a car across a busy intersection in China. AP Photo

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Activists from women’s rights organization “Femen” take part in a protest against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in front of Italy’s embassy in Kiev. REUTERS

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Belarusian servicemen are seen during a ceremony at a memorial on the Island of Tears in Minsk. The ceremony was held to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan. The Island of Tears is a memorial set up in 1988 to commemorate Belarusian soldiers killed in the war in Afghanistan. AP Photo

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A boy plays cricket on a beach at Sunset in Mumbai, India. The international cricket landscape has changed dramatically, with India now the commercial powerbase of the sport and the nation of almost 1.2 billion people expecting its team to win a World Cup in the subcontinent. AP Photo

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Demonstrators flee as Somali government forces open fire during a protest in Mogadishu. Three people were reported to have died and several other wounded in the incident. REUTERS

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This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, shows X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, or STScI. Arp 147 contains the remnant of a spiral galaxy (right) that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left. This collision has produced an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring containing an abundance of massive young stars. These stars race through their evolution in a few million years or less and explode as supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes. AFP/Getty Images

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A view of an illuminated mosque during celebrations marking Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammad, in Peshawar. Muslims across Pakistan will celebrate the birth of Mohammed on Feb. 16. AFP/Getty Images

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Japan’s Shohei Tochimoto competes during the FIS World Cup Ski Flying competition in Vikersund, eastern Norway. AFP/Getty Images

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A man drinks tea outside a makeshift tea-stall near a construction site in Mumbai, India. REUTERS

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Waleed al-Maqtari (2nd R), a journalist for al-Jazeera, and bystanders take shelter from rocks being hurled by government backers against anti-government protesters in Sanaa. Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators and government loyalists fought with rocks and batons in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday in political unrest fueled by the Egyptian uprising. REUTERS

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A relative of one of the 39 Kenyan crew hijacked along with two Korean and two Chinese crew reacts in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa as the crew of the Korean-flagged fishing vessel MV Keumi (Golden Wave) arrives following five months of being held captive by Somali pirates. AFP/Getty Images

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A US 2nd Marines Air Wing soldier arriving at Camp Dwyer in Gamser, Helmand province. There are around 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban, who were ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001 following the Sept. 11 attacks. AFP/Getty Images

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Genevieve Morton and Damaris Lewis sign copies of the Sports Illustrated 2011 Swinsuit issue at the Walgreens Time Square Store in New York City. Roger Wong/INFphoto.com

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Donnie Wahlberg films ‘Blue Bloods’ in New York City. Elder Ordonez/INFphoto.com

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Vanessa Hudgens smiles while out and about around Lincoln Center during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. WireImage

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Cheryl Cole arrives on the red carpet for The BRIT Awards 2011 at the O2 Arena in London, England. Getty Images

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Keri Hilson poses backstage at the Diesel Black Gold Fall 2011 fashion show at Pier 94 in New York City. Getty Images for IMG

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Isla Fisher attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Rango” at the Regency Village Theatre, Westwood, CA. BauerGriffinOnline.com

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Rihanna attends The BRIT Awards 2011 at The O2 Arena in London. Getty Images

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Johnny Depp attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Rango” at the Regency Village Theatre, Westwood, CA. BauerGriffinOnline.com

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Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp stroll through Manhattan. BauerGriffinOnline.com

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Alexa Ray Joel poses for photos backstage at the Max Azria Fall 2011 fashion show at the Lincoln Center in New York. PacificCoastNews.com

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Rebecca Romijn arrives bright and early for a morning yoga class in Los Angeles. PacificCoastNews.com

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Alesha Dixon hits the red carpet for The BRIT Awards 2011 in London. AP Photo

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Cristiano Ronaldo shops at the Jeffrey store in New York City. Jae Donnelly/INFphoto.com

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Karolina Kurkova unveils the new Mercedes-Benz 2012 CLS at the Fashion Week, Lincoln Center in New York. Everett Collection

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Robert Blake returns to his BMW after having a bite to eat in Los Angeles, California. INFphoto.com

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Kim Kardashian hosts Valentine’s Day at Marquee nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada. WireImage

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Irina Shayk holds a copy of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition featuring herself on the the cover at NBC Studios in New York City. Roger Wong/INFphoto.com

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Kat DeLuna and Eve attend the Derek Fabulous It Gets Better Fashion Lounge at the Empire Hotel in New York 310pix.com

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People gather at the harbor front to watch ‘Wonder Full’ – a light and water show to mark the official grand opening of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. ‘Wonder Full’ is a 13-minute long, light and water spectacular, using LED’s, lasers, video projectors , water screens and searchlights to give a 360-degree experience all choreographed to a soundtrack performed by a 140 piece symphony orchestra. Getty Images

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U.S. Marines from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company lift weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan. REUTERS

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German cycling fan and inventor Didi Senft, also known as El Diablo presents his latest construction, a Eurovision song contest bicycle, in the eastern German town of Storkow. The Eurovision song contest will take place in Duesseldorf, Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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Soldiers play Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance during a drill’s gap at Xinjiang Military Region in Xinjiang, China. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Rough surf lashes a pier near a lighthouse at Douro’s river mouth in Porto, Portugal. Strong winds and heavy rain have been battering Portugal in the past few days. AP Photo

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A Vatican Swiss Guard stands in a corridor at the Vatican AP Photo

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Spanish firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Magic Palace theater in Torremolinos, in the southern province of Malaga, Spain. EPA

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Protestors crowd the State capitol building as members of the Wisconsin state government discuss the proposed bill by Republican Governor Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin. The proposal by Walker to curb the bargaining rights of public unions in order to make immediate budget savings has sparked outrage among union workers in the state. REUTERS

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President Obama joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California, Feb. 17. Pete Souza/The White House

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Buffalo roam the Black Hills in the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. ZUMA Press

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U.S. Army and German soldiers attend to injured German soldiers at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base in Pul-e Khumri, south of Kunduz, Afghanistan. AP Photo

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Montreal Canadiens skater Ryan White, falls next to Edmonton Oilers’ Liam Reddox as Ryan Jones, not seen, scores on goalie Carey Price during the third period. AP Photo

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Relatives of Ali Massour Khodier, 22, who died during clashes between Bahraini anti-government and riot police on Thursday, mourn over his coffin during his funeral procession in Sitra village, Bahrain. AP Photo

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Tens of thousands of Egyptians pray and celebrate the fall of the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, and to maintain pressure on the current military rulers, in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. AP Photo

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Trainees in spacesuits assisted by scuba divers train in a pool at the Russian Cosmonauts Training Center at the Star City outside Moscow. Underwater training simulating conditions of weightlessness is part of space crew training. AP Photo

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Kashmiri Muslim devotees raise their hands for prayers as a head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Eid Milad-un Nabi, marking the birth anniversary of the Prophet, in Srinagar, India. AP Photo

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Belarussian workers from the charity organization “Ecodom” stack harvested reeds on a frozen lake near the village of Stakhovts north of Minsk. The reeds will be used in summer in the construction of houses for migrants from the Chernobyl zone. REUTERS

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Carnival masks decorate a wall at a mask making factory in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Brazil carnival celebration starts March 4. AP Photo

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Traffic sits in a heavy snow storm after the Sea to Sky Highway was closed south of Squamish, British Columbia. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police closed the road for several hours after the storm and snow made driving treacherous on the mountain roads north of Vancouver. REUTERS

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Artisanal miners dig for gold in an open-pit concession near Dunkwa, western Ghana. REUTERS

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President Obama looks into Intel’s Transmission Electron Microscope during a tour of the semiconductor manufacturing facility at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. REUTERS

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Yemeni riot police charge towards anti-government demonstrators during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen. Anti-government demonstrators clashed with supporters of Yemen’s longtime ruler and riot police, who fired tear gas and shots in the air to disperse the crowd on what organizers called a “Friday of Rage” across the country. In the city of Taiz, what appeared to be a hand grenade was thrown at a group of protesters, seriously wounding at least eight people in the blast and stampede that followed. AP Photo

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Felix Hawkins and his wife Chirley Hawkins lay out and enjoy the warm weather at White Rock Lake in Dallas. The couple have been married for 58 years. AP Photo

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