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Week In Photos: Feb. 4-8, 2013

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An artist glues trim onto a float being prepared in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of carnival celebrations. ZUMA Press

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An overhead shot catches French daredevil Alain “Spider-man” Robert as he scales the 27-floor Habana Libre hotel in Havana, Cuba. The feat, without a harness or net, took about a half-hour. Reuters

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A teacher checks students’ chalk boards in a classroom in Gao, Mali. Schools have reopened officially after the town was freed from radical Islamists’ occupation last week by French and Malian forces. AFP/Getty Images

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A member of the SIRO-A performance troupe — touted as Japan’s answer to the Blue Man Group — does his thing at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. ZUMA Press

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A quartet of revelers make a statement dressing as corrupt judges in Haiti’s legal system as Carnival celebrations begin in the streets of Jacmel. AP

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An Egyptian man mourns amid a funeral for activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi outside Omar Makram Mosque in Tahrir Square. AFP/Getty Images

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Mathias Menanteau, a French violin maker, works on the body of a cello in his workshop in Rome. After studying and working in England and Germany, Menanteau set up shop in Italy where he builds and restores instruments for notorious musicians. AFP/Getty Images

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A woman releases sparrows as an offering in mourning Cambodia’s former King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh. AP

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Activists from the group Animal Naturalis sprawl across the plaza at the Revolution Esplanade Monument in Mexico City to protest bullfighting. Getty Images

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An Afghan woman begs for alms in the snow as she sits on a slush-filled road in Kabul. AFP/Getty Images

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A Venezuelan soldier, his face painted with the colors of the national flag, attends a military parade in Caracas commemorating the 21st anniversary of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s attempted coup d’etat. Reuters

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Syrian man carries his sister to safety after a government airstrike hit their neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria. AP

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A Pakistani man arranges cauliflower at a vegetable market in Lahore. AFP/Getty Images

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Workers repair a towering electricity pylon situated amid farmland in Chuzhou, China. Reuters

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A clergyman prays during an early morning mass at the historic al-Muharraq Monastery, a centuries-old site in the province of Assiut, Egypt. AP

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Vancouver’s Alex Burrows cracks Edmonton goalie Devan Dubnyk in the mask while trying to tip the puck into the net during what would turn out to be a 3-2 Canucks win in overtime. Reuters

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A Palestinian boy cries over the remains of his family’s home, demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. AP

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The Ravens’ Torrey Smith hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy as he and teammates ride in their Super Bowl victory parade through Baltimore. UPI

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Researcher Bertolt Meyer, the model for the world’s first “bionic man,” Rex, poses with the humanoid at the Science Museum in London. Rex boasts prosthetic limbs, a functional artificial circulatory system, an artificial pancreas, kidney, spleen and trachea. AFP/Getty Images

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Indian Hindu devotees walk through a dust storm at the Sangam in Allahabad, where celebrations of the Maha Kumbh festival continue. AFP/Getty Images

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US skiier Lindsey Vonn is airlifted over Schladming, Austria, after crashing during the women’s Super G race at the World Alpine Skiing Championships. Reuters

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A hawker waits for customers from his perch atop the Great Wall of China in Mutianyu. AFP/Getty Images

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A group of kindergarteners pour cold water on themselves during fitness classes at a school in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, where the air temperature sits at about 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Reuters

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An employee inspects sculptures, one of them (left) depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a factory that manufactures floats for the annual Purim parade in Holon. Reuters

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Lanterns brighten up a gloomy, polluted evening in Chongqing, China, ahead of Chinese new year celebrations. AFP/Getty Images

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A newly released NASA photo shows the Orion nebula as captured by the space program’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. EPA

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People clambor for a bag of oranges as Greek farmers distributed more than 50 tons of free fruit and vegetables outside the Agriculture Ministry in Athens as a protest against high fuel and production costs. AFP/Getty Images

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Protestors show their disdain for cutbacks in education in Barcelona, Spain. AP

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A man tries to extinguish a fire from a balcony in a burning building in Damascus hit by a Syrian Army mortar shell. Reuters

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A child seems perplexed by the bare-bottomed Hindu holy men parading past during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India. AP

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Members of The Flying Bulls aerobatics team from the Czech Republic fly in formation in their Zlin Z-50s over the Yelahanka Air Force station in Bangalore, India AFP/Getty Images

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A student activist binds the eyes of a statue depicting participants in Bangladesh’s war for independence amid rallies demanding death for Abdul Quader Mollah. A war crimes tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment for numerous offenses during the 1971 war. Reuters

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Members of Honourable Artillery Company fire a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London in honor of the 61st anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. AFP/Getty Images

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A model — maybe looking to catch a few snowflakes — sticks out her tongue while showing off a creation from the Degen collection on the first day of New York Fashion Week. Reuters

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A demonstrator smashes through a glass wall at a tram stop in Strasbourg, France, during protests by European steel workers near the European Parliament. AFP/Getty Images

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Nigeria’s Victor Moses battles Mali’s Fousseiny Diawara for a header in their African Cup of Nations semifinal match. Nigeria prevailed, 4-1. AFP/Getty Images

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A US marine is shrouded in smoke as he participates in a winter military drill alongside South Korean soldiers in Pyeongchang. Reuters

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Artists perform during a ceremony marking a year until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. AP

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Two men row past the crowds on the shore of the Sangam during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India. AFP/Getty Images

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Free Syrian Army fighters flee up a dust-filled stairwell after firing on Syrian Army soldiers in Damascus. Reuters

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Four wax figures of Whitney Houston — each destined for a different museum — are unveiled by Madame Tussauds at a ceremony in New York. Getty Images

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A worker scales a large salt pile as employees of the Eastern Salt Company in Chelsea, Mass., prepare for a weekend blizzard. AP

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Spaniards rally against cuts in the agricultural sector during a protest called by the Union of Small Farmers and Stockbreeders near European Union headquarters in Madrid. AP

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A Pakistani laborer climbs through a massive pile of recycled plastic in Lahore. ZUMA Press

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An Afghan boy sells balloons in the streets of Kabul. AFP/Getty Images

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Chino, a champion Afghan hound from Sweden who won best in breed in last year’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, takes a drink during a press conference for this year’s show. Reuters

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A Tunisian demonstrator hoists a computer keyboard like a gun during a demonstration in Tunis. AP

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