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| Beijing, China: Actors perform the dragon dance ahead of the Lunar New Year and the year of the Dragon at a park |
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| Bagram, Afghanistan: Two US gunners aboard a US Chinook helicopter |
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| Kranjska Gora, Slovenia: Emi Hasegawa of Japan crashes during the World Cup women's slalom |
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| Berlin, Germany: A model holds hair rollers for the stylist amid preparations for Stephan Pelger's fashion show |
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| Nyack, New York, US: A Red-bellied woodpecker perches on a suet feeder during a winter storm |
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| Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghans gather around a fire to keep warm. Afghanistan is enduring a harsh winter daytime temperatures falling minus 15 degrees Celsius |
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| Bata, Equatorial Guinea: A young woman wears a wig in the colours of Equatorial Guinea's football team outside the Estadio de Bata stadium ahead of the African Cup of Nations opening match |
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| Sofia, Bulgaria: Bulgarian Orthodox bishops attend a service celebrating Patriarch Maxim's day in St Nedelia cathedral |
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| Tiwanaku, Bolivia: Bolivian indigenous women joke during commemorations for the second year of President Evo Morales's government |
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Giglio Porto, Italy: Statues of the
Madonna and Jesus in storage after they were recovered from a chapel on
board the sunken Cruise ship Costa Concordia
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| Muharraq, Bahrain: Bahraini youths react to teargas fired during the politically charged funeral of Yousif Mowali |
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| Kolkata, India: Indian police officials adjust their uniforms in front of the Victoria Memorial before a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade |
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| Park City, Utah, US: A man stands in a snowstorm holding a sign asking for tickets outside the Eccles Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival |
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| Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A girl carries a religious image as she leads a procession of missionaries from the Apostolic church to attend Mass |