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| Blackpool, England: Fishermen brave wind-whipped waves on Blackpool promenade |
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| Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica: An Adelie penguin on the ice |
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| Titanyen, Haiti: A woman who lost both her arms in the January 2010 earthquake attends a memorial service at a mass grave site |
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| Sagar Island, India: Hindu pilgrims perform rituals at the Gangasagar festival. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims arrive for the Gangasagar, which culminates in a dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal |
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| Sagar Island, India: Workers arrange straw mats before delivering them to temporary camps for the Gangasagar pilgrimmage and festival |
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| Sagar Island, India: A Hindu pilgrim offers prayers after taking a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal |
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| Islamabad, Pakistan: A worker arranges bricks at a factory |
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| Islamabad, Pakistan: A man combs a rubbish tip for items that can be sold to a recycling factory |
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| Kabul, Afghanistan: Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri, the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of the Qur'an, turns a page of the book |
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| Moscow, Russia: A soldier from the presidential regiment guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside a snow-clad Kremlin wall |
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| Nairobi, Kenya: Pedestrians cross a bridge on the Nairobi-Thika highway |
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| Arequipa, Peru: A biker competes during the 11th stage of the Dakar rally from Arica to Arequipa |
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| Tauranga, New Zealand: The stern section of the container ship Rena sinks after splitting away. The ship had been wedged on a reef off the east coast of the North Island since October |
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| Beijing, China: A woman performs stretching exercises under rows of red lanterns in Ditan park |