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| Athens, Greece: a man reads his newspaper as a beggar walks by |
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| Tegucigalpa, Honduras: a relative of an inmate killed in the Comayagua prison fire cries as she attempts to identify his body in a morgue |
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| Bagram, Afghanistan: a man aims a slingshot towards US soldiers at the gate of Bagram air base during a protest against an alleged desecration of the Qur'an by Nato forces |
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| Jerusalem: Israeli soldiers stretch after completing an overnight march as part of their training before they are awarded the paratrooper's red beret |
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| Maragojipe, Brazil: revellers participate in a masked ball during carnival celebrations |
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| New Delhi, India: a man holds his son as his other children stand in front of their derelict home |
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| Binche, Belgium: revellers perform a traditional dance while dressed as 'Gilles of Binche' during a carnival parade |
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| Lille, France: former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives by car for questioning at the police station. Strauss-Kahn was to be questioned by police over his alleged implication in illicit prostitution orgies set in high-end hotels in a case dubbed the Carlton Affair |
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| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: people cheer from the stands as Salgueiro samba school parades during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome |
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| Laza, Spain: a man walks through shadows on the street |
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| London: models during the McQ Alexander McQueen 2012 autumn/winter collection show at London fashion week |
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| Idlib, Syria: pigeons fly over a man near the Turkish border |
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| Beijing, China: Tibetan monks dressed as demons perform during the ghost banishing ceremony on the eve of Tibetan new year at the Yonghegong Lama temple |
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| Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain: people throw talcum powder at one another as they take part in the carnival on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma |
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| Thiruvananthapuram, India: schoolgirls watch a performance of Indian classical dance during the Mahashivratri festival in Kerala |