2015 - Images of FEBRUARY - Feb 01 - Feb 08

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PhotographerRupak De Chowdhuri

LocationPURULIA, India

Reuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Dancers hold their masks as they pose for pictures after

taking part in the day long village festival of Chhau, at Maltivillage in Purulia district, in the eastern Indian state of West

Bengal, January 31, 2015. Chhau is a traditional folk dance which involves singing, dancing and drama, and is performed

to celebrate the successful harvest during springtime, according to the villagers. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

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PhotographerDanish IsmailLocationSRINAGAR, IndiaReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Kashmiri Muslim women raise their arms in prayers upon seeing a relic of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, a Sufi saint, on his death anniversary outside his shrine in Srinagar, February 1, 2015. Thousands of Kashmiri Sufi Muslims gathered at the shrine of Jeelani, also known as Shah-e-Baghdad (King of Baghdad), on his 875th death anniversary to offer special prayers. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

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The wife of sandy Porter from a cargo ship in the capital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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A Syrian Civil Defense personnel carrying a dead child after the bombing raids that news stated that due to Syrian Government forces carried out in the city of Aleppo in the North.

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H-IIA rocket, carrying a satellite radar support for intelligence gathering activities of the

Government, fired from the launchers of the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima

island in southern Japan (photo by Kyodo News Agency)

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A demonstration against the Government, in the costume of Batman begins, the fight against corruption and the inauguration of the new Parliament's deputies in Brasilia, Brazil

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A person who is involved in the competition Who Brave (Tough Guy)

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The motorcycle riders involved in the race "Enduropale" comes on the sand beaches of Le Touquet, Northern France

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PhotographerPascal RossignolLocationLE TOUQUET, FranceReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Bikers power through sand during a traffic block as they take part in the Enduropale motorcycle endurance race on the beach of Le Touquet, northern France, February 1, 2015. About 1,000 motorbikes and 500 quad bike riders descend on Le Touquet every year for the event. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Feb. 1 , 2015


Pro-Russian separatists ride on a tank in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, February 1, 2015.

Feb. 1 , 2015


PhotographerAthit PerawongmethaLocationMelbourne, AustraliaReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Novak Djokovic of Serbia holds up his trophy after defeating Andy Murray of Britain to win their men's singles final match at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne February 1, 2015. REUTERS/AthitPerawongmetha

Feb. 1 , 2015


Reaction of 2 Japanese women when reading a newspapers in

Tokyo posted a video on the net is believed to be an element for a

war Islamic State group beheaded a Japanese journalist

Kenji Goto.

Feb. 1 , 2015


People who wear uniforms and wearing masks according to the traditional SchleicherlaufenFestival in the Western town of Telfs, Austria

Feb. 1 , 2015


The car with the iconic US President Barack

Obama (left) President of China XI Jinping

(middle) and Russian President Vladimir Putin

was named "The Big Cold" joining parades on

the Viareggio in Italy

Feb. 1 , 2015


Smoke rises after suicide attack by bombers in Gombe, a day before Nigerian President GoodluckJonathan visited the State to campaign trail

Feb. 1 , 2015


Singer Katy Perry performed during the break between innings of the final Super Bowl XLIX of

the National Rugby League between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England

Patriots in Glendale, Arizona, on February 1, 2015.

Feb. 1 , 2015


PhotographerSoe Zeya TunLocationYANGON, MyanmarReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015A boy sleeps in a hammock while his mother works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

Feb. 1 , 2015


PhotographerStefano Rellandini

LocationVENICE, Italy

Reuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015People walk on the flooded St. Mark's

Square during a period of seasonal high water and on the first day of carnival, in

Venice, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

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PhotographerPhil NobleLocationPERTON, United KingdomReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015A competitor crawls beneath barbed wire during the Tough Guy event in Perton, central England, February 1, 2015. The annual event to raise cash for charity challenges thousands of international competitors in a cross country run followed by an assault course consisting of obstacles including water, fire and tunnels. REUTERS/Phil Noble

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PhotographerJim YoungLocationCHICAGO, United StatesReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Two men walk past the Crown Fountain in blizzard conditions in Chicago, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

Feb. 1 , 2015


PhotographerThomas Peter

LocationMELBOURNE, Australia

Reuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Serena Williams of the U.S. poses with

the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after winning the women's singles final match at the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament during a

photo call at Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building, February 1, 2015.

REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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PhotographerLucy NicholsonLocationGlendale, United StatesReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Katy Perry performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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PhotographerBrian SnyderLocationGLENDALE, United StatesReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman celebrates his fourth quarter touchdown catch against the Seattle Seahawks with teammate Danny Amendola during Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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PhotographerIssei KatoLocation

Melbourne, AustraliaReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015

A line judge reacts as a protester is removed from the court by a

security personnel during the men's singles final match between Novak

Djokovic of Serbia and Andy Murray of Britain at the Australian Open

2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne, February 1, 2015.

REUTERS/Issei Kato

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PhotographerTyrone Siu

LocationHONG KONG, China

Reuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Thousands of pro-democracy protesters

hold up yellow umbrellas, symbols of the Occupy Central movement, during a

march in the streets to demand universal suffrage in Hong Kong, February 1,2015.

REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

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PhotographerJorge LopezLocationCHILPANCINGO, MexicoReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015A member of the Community Police of the FUSDEG (United Front for the Security and Development of the State of Guerrero) searches for a man, who ran away upon seeing the Community Police approach as they patrolled a street, in the village of Petaquillas, on the outskirts of Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, February 1, 2015. Approximately 500 members of the Community Police from the FUSDEG took control of the security...more

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDERAA, SyriaReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Residents look for belongings amid damage from what activists said were air strikes by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Saida village, in Deraaprovince, Syria, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Wsam Almokdad

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PhotographerSTRINGER IraqLocationNAJAF, IraqReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Shi'ite fighters who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, take part in field training in the desert in Najaf, south of Baghdad, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015Men load the body of a victim of shelling into a vehicle at a site hit by shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015A man talks on a phone as workers repair a heating pipeline at a site hit by shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerBrian Snyder

LocationGlendale, United States

Reuters / Sunday, February 01, 2015New England Patriots quarterback

Tom Brady holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after his team

defeated the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale,

Arizona, February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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An RNLI lifeboat crew carried out an unusual rescue after a young seal was found taking refuge from heavy seas in a shelter on the promenade in Redcar, Yorkshire.

Feb. 2 , 2015


A refugee sits with her sleeping boy as they wait with others to be repatriated to Afghanistan, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Feb. 2 , 2015


Lewis Hamilton (right), of Great Britain and Mercedes, is seen alongside the Red Bull car of Daniil Kvyat, of Russia, on day two of Formula 1 Winter Testing at Circuito de Jerez in Spain.

Feb. 2 , 2015


A white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetusalbicilla) is released, having been brought back to health by the PrzemyslProtected Animal Rehabilitation Centre in Poland.

Feb. 2 , 2015


A man accused of belonging to a local gang is held in a lorry by members of the self-styled "community police" force in Petaquillas, Mexico. Approximately 500 members of the "community police" took control of the village at the request of residents tired of organised crime in the area.Vice President of the Przemysl Protected Animal Rehabilitation Centre Jakub Kotowicz releases a white-tailed eagle in Starzaw, Poland

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A Ukrainian soldier throw a plate across the port when the fire was extinguished after the soldiers of the battalion volunteered Aydar of Ukraine burned tires in front of the entrance to the Ministry of defence in Kiev in a demonstration protesting the possible dissolution of their battalion.

Feb. 2 , 2015


Palestinian protesters fled when the Israeli army fired stun grenades into a crowd of demonstrators protesting the visit of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to the West Bank city of Hebron is occupied.

Feb. 2 , 2015


The sheep is focused on a road still River Vjosa surges of water

inundated the village Darzeze, district of Fier, 115 km south of the

capital Tirana, Albania. Southern Albania has suffered flooding due

to heavy rains in the past days, prompting hundreds of villagers to

evacuate after the River, flooding thousands of acres of land,

hundreds of homes and many roads.

Feb. 2 , 2015


A woman holding up her hat before the strong wind during a storm in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Boston, currently buried under 60 centimeters of snow from a Blizzard late last week, is expected to bear more 30 cm of snow again after a massive winter storm swept across the northeast of the United States of America.

Feb. 2 , 2015


A man in uniform of the Red Army during the second world war the monument Mother motherland during celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of battle of Stalingrad 72 years in the city of Volgograd in southern Russia, formerly called Stalingrad.

Feb. 2 , 2015


Rattlesnakes are corralled at the Texas Capitol, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, in Austin, Texas. Members of the Sweetwater Jaycees brought rattlesnakes to promote their annual rattlesnake round-up and help educate visitors. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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A Jordanian child holds a poster with a picture of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muathal-Kaseasbeh, who is held by the Islamic State group militants, with Arabic that reads, “we are all Muath,” during a candle vigil in support of Japan, in front of the Japanese embassy, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. The wife of slain Japanese hostage Kenji Goto said Monday that she was devastated but proud of her husband, who was beheaded by Islamic State extremists. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Sledding enthusiasts are silhouetted against the sky as they wait for their turn on a snow

covered hill near Soldier Field Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, in Chicago. The National Weather Service says Chicago saw 19.3 inches of snow after the

Sunday storm. Schools were canceled in Chicago and across the metro area on Monday.

(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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People walk through an underground passage leading out of the King’s Cross

and St. Pancras underground tube station, London, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Some 1.265 billion passenger journeys

are made annually on London’s underground which opened in 1863.

(AP Photo/David Azia)

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The image is projected onto a wall in the light Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

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Mr. Juris (left) and Mrs. Lois Greste, parents of Australian journalist Peter Greste, and brother Andrew (middle) go to a press conference in the city of Brisbane, Australia. Peter Greste, correspondent of the TV station Al Jazeera English was released from prison and deported to Egypt after more than a year behind bars.

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Italy’s Gran Paradiso National Park

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015An injured man reacts, after what activists said were seven air-strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Duma in Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerAntara Photo AgencyLocationDENPASAR, IndonesiaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015U.S. citizens Tommy Schaefer and his girlfriend Heather Mack arrive at a court in Denpasar on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, February 2, 2015. Schaefer and Mack are accused of the murder of Heather's mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Bali last August. REUTERS/Antara Foto/NyomanBudhiana

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PhotographerFayaz AzizLocationPESHAWAR, PakistanReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015An Afghan refugee woman, clad in a burqa, waits with others to be repatriated to Afghanistan, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office on the outskirts of Peshawar, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationATHENS, GreeceReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A Greek flag flutters above the statue of Greek philosopher Plato outside the Athens Academy, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/YannisBehrakis

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PhotographerChaiwat SubprasomLocationBangkok, ThailandReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Police forensic experts work at the site of a blast on an elevated walkway linking the overhead rail line to the mall in central Bangkok, February 2, 2015. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha ordered security to be tightened in Bangkok on Monday after two small bombs rattled a luxury shopping mall and stoked tension in a city under martial law since a coup in May. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Residents carry an injured man, after what activists said were seven air-strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Duma in Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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Crisis in east Ukraine


PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDONETSK, UkraineReuters / Saturday, January 31, 2015A woman gathers water from a puddle into a bucket in Donetsk, January 31, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A woman stands in her house, which was damaged by recent shelling, in central Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

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PhotographerValentyn OgirenkoLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A serviceman from the battalion Aydar waves a Ukrainian flag during a protest against the disbanding of the battalion, in front of Ukraine's Defence Ministry in Kiev February 2, 2015. REUTERS/ValentynOgirenko

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakieve, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A woman reacts as she looks at the debris inside a flat at a residential block damaged by recent shelling in Yenakievetown, northeast from Donetsk, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerValentyn OgirenkoLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015People react during a funeral ceremony for Ruslan Boburov and Vadym Zherebylo, members of self-defence battalion Aydar, who were killed in the fighting in Luhanskregion in eastern Ukraine, at Independence Square in central Kiev, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

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PhotographerValentyn OgirenkoLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Servicemen from the battalion "Aydar" prepare to throw tires during a protest against the disbanding of the battalion in front of Ukraine's DefenceMinistry in Kiev, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/ValentynOgirenko

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PhotographerMaxim Shemetov

LocationYenakieve, Ukraine

Reuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A man stands in a flat at a residential block

damaged by a recent shelling in Yenakieve town, northeast from Donetsk, February 2, 2015.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerValentyn OgirenkoLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A Ukrainian serviceman guarding Ukraine's Defence Ministry tries to arrest a member of the "Aydar" battalion who entered the ministry compound, during a protest against the disbanding of the battalion in Kiev February 2, 2015. REUTERS/ValentynOgirenko

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PhotographerValentyn Ogirenko

LocationKiev, Ukraine

Reuters / Monday, February 02, 2015

Servicemen from the battalion "Aydar" throw a

Ukrainian flag from the building of Ukraine's

Defence Ministry, during a protest against the

disbanding of the battalion, in Kiev February

2, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn

Ogirenko

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PhotographerValentyn OgirenkoLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffin bearing the body of VadymZherebylo, a member of self-defense battalion "Aydar", who was killed in the fighting in Luhanskregion in eastern Ukraine, during a funeral ceremony at Independence Square in central Kiev February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakieve, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Women run from a damaged residential block during a recent shelling in Yenakievetown, northeast from Donetsk, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakieve, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A woman reacts as she stands near a multi-storey block of flats damaged by shelling in Yenakieve town, northeast from Donetsk, Ukraine, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerValentyn OgirenkoLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A Ukrainian serviceman guarding Ukraine's DefenceMinistry is helped up by his colleagues after failing to arrest a member of the Aydar battalion who entered the ministry compound, during a protest against the disbanding of the battalion in Kiev, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/ValentynOgirenko

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Air strikes in Damascus


PhotographerStringer .Location

DAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Wednesday, January 21, 2015Residents inspect a damaged site after

what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighborhood of

Damascus, January 21, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohmad Badra

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Wednesday, January 21, 2015An injured child rests in a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, January 21, 2015. REUTERS/Mohmad Badra

Jan. 21 , 2015



PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Friday, January 23, 2015Residents inspect dead bodies after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Hamouria main square and market, Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, January 23, 2015. REUTERS/Msallam Abd Albaset

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Friday, January 23, 2015Residents react to dead bodies after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Hamouria main square and market, Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, January 23, 2015. REUTERS/ Msallam Abd Albaset

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DAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Friday, January 23, 2015

Residents carry an injured man near a burning shop, after what activists said

was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Hamouria

main square and market, Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, January 23,

2015. REUTERS/Msallam Abd Albaset

Jan. 23 , 2015



PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Friday, January 23, 2015An injured man rests in the back of a pick-up truck after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Hamouriamain square and market, Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, January 23, 2015. REUTERS/Msallam Abd Albaset

Jan. 23 , 2015



PhotographerDiaa Al-DinLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Sunday, January 25, 2015Smoke rises after what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, January 25, 2015. REUTERS/Diaa Al-Din

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Sunday, January 25, 2015A man inspects a damaged site after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Doumaeastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, January 25, 2015. REUTERS/ Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerMohammed BadraLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015WARNING: GALLERY INCLUDES IMAGES OF A GRAPHIC NATURE: A man gives medical assistance to an injured man as two wounded children wait nearby at a field hospital after what activists said was an air strike by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohammed Badra


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PhotographerBassam Khabieh

LocationDAMASCUS, Syria


A child runs for cover after what activists said were seven air-strikes

by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Duma in Eastern

Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam

Khabieh

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Reuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Residents inspect damage, after

what activists said were seven air-strikes by forces loyal to Syria's

President Bashar al-Assad, in Duma in Eastern Al-Ghouta, near

Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A man helps an injured child, after what activists said were seven air-strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Duma in Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

Feb. 2 , 2015



PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Residents and a member of the Syrian Red Crescent carry an injured man, after what activists said were seven air-strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Duma in Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

Feb. 2 , 2015



Her smile Lauren Cachbaux when taking photos with a rattlesnake at the Texas Capitol building in Austin, 2/2/15

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerStringer .LocationPORT-AU-PRINCE, HaitiReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015People pass a burning barricade during protests in Croix des Bouquets on the outskirts of Port au Prince, February 2, 2015. Traffic was minimal in the normally clogged streets of Haiti's capital on Monday, after a key minibus drivers union called a two-day general strike to protest high fuel prices. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerEdgard GarridoLocationMexico City, MexicoReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Musicians rest on the grass during a celebration 40 days after the birth of Jesus, in Xochimilco on the outskirts of Mexico City, February 2, 2015. Mexicans traditionally attend mass on this day and celebrate the Feast of Candelaria, carrying elaborate effigies of the young Jesus to be blessed 40 days after Christmas. REUTERS/EdgardGarrido

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerGonzalo Fuentes

LocationLILLE, France


Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn rides in the backseat of a car as he leaves after the first

day of trial in the so-called Carlton Affair, in Lille, France, where 14

people including Strauss-Kahn stand accused of sex offences

including the alleged procuring of prostitutes, February 2, 2015.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerMuhammad Hamed

LocationAMMAN, Jordan


Jordanians hold up a poster of pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh, who is

being held captive by Islamic State militants, during a candlelit

vigil in a show of solidarity with Japan, in front of the Japanese

embassy in Amman, February 2, 2015. Jordanians on Monday

staged a candlelit vigil outside the Japanese embassy in a

tribute of solidarity with Japan and the family of Japanese

journalist Kenji Goto, who was killed by the Islamic State,...more

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerPeter Nicholls

LocationLONDON, United Kingdom

Reuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Emergency services work at the scene

of a bus accident on the Kingsway in central London, February 2, 2015. A

number 91 double-decker bus had its roof ripped off after hitting a tree,

causing injury to passengers and passers-by, local media reported.

REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerJim YoungLocationCHICAGO, United StatesReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A man walks past an ice-covered tree along Lake Michigan in Chicago, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerNir EliasLocationRAHAT, IsraelReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Migrating starlings fly in formation across the sky near the southern Israeli town of Rahat, February 2, 2015. The phenomenon known murmuration is most common during the winter months. REUTERS/Nir Elias

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerUmit BektasLocationSANLIURFA, TurkeyReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A Kurdish refugee girl from the Syrian town of Kobani washes her face at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Suruc, Sanliurfaprovince, Turkey, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Feb. 2 , 2015


PhotographerMark BlinchLocationToronto, CanadaReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A student works a computer that is projecting former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden as he appears live via video during a student organized world affairs conference at the Upper Canada College private high school in Toronto, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Injured girls lie in a field hospital, after what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, February 3, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohammed Badra

Feb. 3 , 2015


PhotographerNavesh Chitrakar

LocationBhaktapur, Nepal

Reuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Devotees offer prayer as they stand on the bank of the

Hanumante River during the final day of the month-long Swasthani

festival at Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, Nepal, February 3,

2015. During the festival, devotees recite one chapter of a Hindu tale daily from the 31-chapter sacred

Swasthani Brata Katha book, that is dedicated to God Madhavnarayanand Goddess Swasthani, alongside various other gods and goddesses

and the miraculous...more

Feb. 3 , 2015


PhotographerSiphiwe SibekoLocationSoweto, South AfricaReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Sinovuyo Bhungane (R), 9, looks on as her studies are interrupted by her cousin Yonga, as she studies using candle light during load shedding in Soweto, south Africa, February 3, 2015. South Africa's power utility Eskom will implement rolling blackouts on Tuesday from 1500 GMT to 2000 GMT, the state-owned company said on its official Twitter account. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Feb. 3 , 2015


PhotographerEric GaillardLocationNICE, FranceReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A French soldier gestures outside a Jewish Community center, where two French soldiers were attacked and wounded in a knife attack in Nice, February 3, 2015. The soldiers were on patrol in a central square where a Jewish organisation and radio station are based. The attacker was arrested. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

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Madame Tussauds artist Katie Ashton puts the finishing touches to Yoda's figure, as set designers work on an atmospheric recreation of his Dagobah swamp scene from Star Wars. Other scenes from the first six films in the series are set to be re-created at the attraction.Residents of Oruro throw confetti over Bolivia's President Evo Morales

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Residents of Oruro throw confetti over Bolivia's President

Evo Morales as he dances during a ceremony to open a road that

links the city to La Paz.

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Devotees offer prayer by rolling during the final day of the month-long Swasthani festival at Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, in Nepal.

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Italy's newly elected President Sergio Mattarella (waving) is seated next to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome having been sworn in.

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Fireworks explode over Vail Village during the Opening Ceremony of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA

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A member of the Haitian police force helps escort a group of firefighters (not seen) to extinguish burning tyres placed by demonstrators in Port-au-Prince during a strike against high oil prices.

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Spectators photographed the balloons focussing on Lake Upper East rock formations have been, during the week of the international hot air balloon in the Arosa mountains in Alp, Switzerland

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Supporters of presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressive Party Congress, surrounding his car when he visited Prince Gombe, Abukar Shehu-Abubakarn at the Prince's Palace, during the campaigning in Gombe, Nigeria

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A practising Hindu bathing, a part of the rite of baptism, first pilgrimage, on the Thaipusam Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistani children gather in a mud house to learn from a man volunteering to teach them how to write the alphabet at a makeshift school in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/MuhammedMuheisen)

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A Hindu woman devotee gets her cheeks pierced with a metal rod as she participates in a religious procession during Thaipusam festival in Chennai, India, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Thaipusam, which is celebrated in honor of Hindu god Lord Murugan, is an annual procession by Hindu devotees seeking blessings, fulfilling vows and offering thanks. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)

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A man works on a carnival float at the Mangueira Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Brazil has begun preparing for its pre-Lenten world famous festival that starts on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Jennifer Conforti, of Fayetteville, Ga., holds a portrait of her autistic daughter, Abby, 4, while attending a rally in favor of House Bill 1, which would legalize possession of cannabis oil for treatment of certain illnesses, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Atlanta. Abby suffers from seizures and Confortibelieves the cannabis oil would help her daughter. The bill goes before a committee for testimony hearings Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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A man rides a bicycle with a woman on a road through rice fields at dawn in Dala, a suburb of Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/GemunuAmarasinghe)

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People try to catch lucky beans and confectionery scattered by celebrities during "Mame-maki," a bean throwing ceremony, at Zojyoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. The ritual believed to bring in good luck and drive away the evil is performed annually to mark the beginning of the spring in the lunar calendar. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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French President Francois Hollande expressed reverence before the coffin draped in the flag of 9 French forces soldier placed in the courtyard Invalides in Paris. The

soldier was killed in an accident at the base are NATO trainer-An F-16 fighter of Greece crashed after takeoff

from Albacete, Spain, a Madrid 150 km to the Southeast, 16/ 1, 2015

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Indian Hindu devotees gather on the banks of the river Ganges to take a 'holy dip' on the occasion of Maghi Purnima during the annual traditional fair 'Magh Mela' in Allahabad.

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Snow White is a farm in the mountains near the town of Fellhorn Oberstdorf, Germany

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PhotographerJonathan ErnstLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015First Special Service Force veterans Eugene Gutierrez (L) and Charles Mann (R), of Canada, smile after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony honoring them and their fellow members of the First Special Service Force at the U.S. Capitol in Washington February 3, 2015. The "Devil's Brigade" special operations unit was comprised of 1,800 soldiers from the United States and Canada during World War Two. ...more

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SINJAR, IraqReuters / Tuesday, February 03,

2015Kurdish peshmerga forces look at

bones in a mass grave on the outskirts of the town of Sinjar, Iraq

February 3, 2015. Police said the mass grave contained remains from 25 people belonging to the minority

Yazidi sect, apparent victims of killings by Islamic State militants.

REUTERS/Ari Jalal

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PhotographerJonathan ErnstLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Video journalists crowd into a room as Jordan's King Abdullah arrives to meet with members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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PhotographerSTRINGER El SALVADOR

LocationSan Salvador, El Salvador


People look at a picture of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar

Romero at the national cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador

February 3, 2015. Pope Francis ruled that Romero, who was

murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980 and is an icon of the

Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, had died as a martyr and will be beatified, the Vatican said.

REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

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PhotographerDenis Balibouse

LocationANZERE, Switzerland

Reuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015An artificially triggered avalanche thunders

down a mountain side at the Vallee de la Sionne in Anzere near Sion, Switzerland,

February 3, 2015. The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site is providing scientists and engineers of the Swiss Institute of Research of Snow and Avalanches with essential data

to understand and model avalanche motion, according to the Institute website.

REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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PhotographerSergei KarpukhinLocationMOSCOW, RussiaReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Employees adjust an electronic transparent screen, which shows social advertising on the front of a building, as it snows in central Moscow, February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

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PhotographerManuel SilvestriLocationVENICE, ItalyReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Tourists walk on raised platforms above flood waters in St. Mark's square during a period of seasonal high water in Venice, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri

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PhotographerHandout .

LocationHAVANA, Cuba

Reuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Former Cuban President Fidel Castro

talks to President of Cuba's University Students Federation Randy Perdomo

during a meeting in Havana in this picture provided by Cubadebate.

Photographs of Castro, 88, appeared in official media on for the first time since

August, showing him slightly hunched over while seated, but appearing

animated as he spoke with the student leader. The pictures of Castro with

Perdomo were taken on January...more

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PhotographerOlivia HarrisLocationKUALA LUMPUR, MalaysiaReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Hindu devotees climb the steps to BatuCaves temple during Thaipusam in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 3, 2015. Hindu devotees across Malaysia on Tuesday celebrated Thaipusam, a religious celebration dedicated to the Hindu deity Lord Murugan. Piercing various parts of their body with silver skewers, devotees carry often large contraptions known as Kavadi, thereby taking on a physical burden through which the devotees implore for...more

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PhotographerChina Stringer Network

LocationZHUJI, China

Reuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A man looks at a installation made of

sock textiles on display at a demonstration hall of the local sock-

making industry in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, China, February 2, 2015.

European and Chinese factories slashed prices in January as production

flatlined, heightening global deflation risks that point to another wave of

central bank stimulus in the coming year. REUTERS/Stringer

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PhotographerAlexander Ermochenko

LocationDonetsk, Ukraine


People walk outside a house, which according to locals was recently damaged by shelling, in Donetsk, February 3, 2015.

REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakieve, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015Local residents leave a residential block during a recent shelling, in the town of Yenakieve, northeast from Donetsk, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakieve, UkraineReuters / Monday, February 02, 2015A man shows a staircase at a multi-storey block of flats damaged by shelling in Yenakieve town, northeast from Donetsk, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDebaltseve, UkraineReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A boy looks through a bus window before departure, as people flee due to the military conflict, in Debaltseve, Ukraine February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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PhotographerAlexander ErmochenkoLocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A woman and a firefighter walk amidst the debris of a house, which according to locals was recently damaged by shelling, in Donetsk, February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

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Debaltseve, UkraineReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015

People sit inside a bus before the departure, as they flee due to the

military conflict, in Debaltseve, Ukraine, February 3, 2015.

REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationMARIUPOL, UkraineReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A boy jumps over a puddle near Soviet-era hammer and sickle sculptures at a residential sector affected by shelling in Mariupol, a city on the Sea of Azov, eastern Ukraine, February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerSusana VeraLocationALMONACID DEL MARQUESADO, SpainReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015Believers dressed as "diablos" (devils), enter a church to attend a face-washing ceremony of the statue of their village's patron saint San Blas (Saint Blaise) in Almonacid del Marquesado, central Spain, during the "Endiablada" festival, February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Susana Vera

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Traditional dancers who performed for Gangarama Temple of Sri Lanka during the Navam Perahera Festival in Colombo, on 3 February, 2015.

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PhotographerKevin LamarqueLocationWASHINGTON, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015President Obama meets with Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House, February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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A full moon sets behind the parish church of Schoenach near the Bavarian city of Regensburg in southern Germany.

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Cyclists take part in the first stage of the Dubai Tour, which will cover 660km (410 miles) in four days.

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A member of the crime investigations unit at Kruger National Park in South Africa inspects the carcass of a rhino that was killed for its horn.

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Classic motorcycles and cars parked in a display at the Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris ahead of a vintage vehicles auction by Bonhams.

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Locals push a freezer after looting it from a shop during protests against the local authorities in Mohlakeng, west of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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A woman looks at an artwork called Pink et Rouge by Hungarian artist Vera Molnar at an exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland.

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A South Korean army soldier stands at the Military Armistice Committee meeting room at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Houthi Shiite Yemenis wearing army uniforms chant slogans during a rally to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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An Afghan refugee child stands outside her family’s mud home in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the Middle, stumble upon spoke before supporters on his return from a meeting of the African Union in Ethiopia.

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Ivan Timofeenko, co-founder of interactive science museums "Newton Park," to see what is called the Mirror dialog box creates the mirror image varies, while preparing for a concert for the students of Russian science day at the Museum Center in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

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Supporters of India's Congress Party waiting to be let in during an election campaign rally before the election in the State of Delhi, New Delhi.

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A Metro-North train and a car damaged SUV in Valhalla,

New York. Five passengers and the driver of the SUV was killed in the crash in Valhalla, about 20 miles north of New York City.

Authorities said the impact so strong that third rail

electric leads turned up and crashing through the train.

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PhotographerMike SegarLocationVALHALLA, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A car sits crushed into the front of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Metro North Railroad commuter train near the town of Valhalla, New York, February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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PhotographerShannon StapletonLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Workers attempt to release the vehicle that was struck by a commuter train from the tracks in Mount Pleasant, near Valhalla, New York, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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PhotographerAdrees LatifLocationMOUNT PLEASANT, United StatesReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Firefighters stand outside the damaged car of a commuter train which struck a vehicle in Mount Pleasant, near Valhalla, New York February 3, 2015. A crowded New York commuter train struck a car near suburban White Plains during Tuesday evening's rush hour, sparking an explosion and a fire that killed seven people, officials said. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

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PhotographerMohamed Nureldin AbdallahLocationEl-Fashir, SudanReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A girl removes belongings from a donkey after it fell onto its side upon arrival at the Zamzam IDP camp for Internally Displaced Persons, near El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan February 4, 2015. Thousands have fled areas in east Jebel Marraand north of Tawilla due to clashes between government forces and armed opposition groups, according to local media. REUTERS/ Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

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PhotographerSiphiwe SibekoLocationRANDFONTEIN, South AfricaReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Locals react as they are shot at by a policeman (not in picture) while looting from a shop, believed to be owned by a foreigner, during service delivery protests in Mohlakeng, west of Johannesburg February 4, 2015. Local media reported that violence broke out on Wednesday morning when locals barricaded roads and burnt tyres during a service delivery protest. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDebaltseve, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015An elderly woman reacts while sitting with a child inside a bus before the departure as people flee due to a military conflict in Debaltseve, Ukraine, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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PhotographerStefan Wermuth


Reuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Sumatran tiger Melati looks inside a present box put out to

celebrate the first birthday of her cub triplets in their enclosure at London Zoo in London, February 4, 2015. The Zoo left gifts for the cubs in their enclosure, but they

were afraid to approach the boxes, leaving their mother to

enjoy their contents. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

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PhotographerMuhammad HamedLocationAMMAN, JordanReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Jordanian police are seen following the execution of two Iraqi prisoners at Swaqaprison near Amman, February 4, 2015. Jordan hanged two Iraqis on Wednesday, including female militant Sajida al-Rishawi, hours after Islamic State released a video appearing to show captured Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh being burnt alive, a security source and state television said. Rishawi and fellow prisoner Ziyad Karboliwere executed in...more

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015An elderly woman walks inside a hospital in Donetsk, Ukraine, February 4, 2015. At least two shells landed near a hospital in the separatist-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing at least three people nearby, a Reuters eyewitness said. REUTERS/Maxim Sergeev

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PhotographerReuters TVLocationNEW TAIPEI CITY, TaiwanReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A still image taken from an amateur video shot by a motorist shows a TransAsiaAirways plane cartwheeling over a motorway soon after the turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft took off in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/AMVID via Reuters TV

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The images taken from video provided by the TVBS television station showed the moment of commercial aircraft to scratch a bridge and into a river in Taipei, Taiwan. At least 25 people were killed and nearly 20 others are still missing.

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PhotographerPichi ChuangLocationTaipei, TaiwanReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Rescuers carry out rescue operations after a TransAsia plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City, Taiwan, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/PichiChuang

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PhotographerPichi Chuang

LocationNew Taipei City, Taiwan


Rescuers pull a passenger out of the TransAsia Airways plane which

crash landed in a river, in New Taipei City, Taiwan, February 4,

2015. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

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PhotographerStringer Taiwan

LocationTaipei, Taiwan


Emergency personnel retrieve the body of a

passenger from the wreckage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop ATR 72-600

aircraft after it crashed in a river, in New Taipei City,

February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

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The wreckage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft is

recovered from a river, in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Pichi

Chuang

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PhotographerPichi ChuangLocationTaipei, TaiwanReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Rescuers and soldiers remove airplane parts after a TransAsia plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

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PhotographerTony GentileLocationVATICAN CITY, Vatican CityReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Pope Francis blesses newlywed couples during his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

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PhotographerDavid RyderLocationSEATTLE, United StatesReuters / Tuesday, February 03, 2015A view of the screen of a ZaZZZ vending machine that contains cannabis flower, hemp-oil energy drinks, and other merchandise at Seattle Caregivers, a medical marijuana dispensary, in Seattle, Washington February 3, 2015. Vending machines selling medical marijuana opened for business in Seattle on Tuesday, in what the company providing them billed as a first-in-the-state innovation that it expects to expand to other cities and...m

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Rebel advance in Ukraine

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A woman reacts outside a damaged hospital in Donetsk, Ukraine February 4, 2015. At least two shells landed near a hospital in the separatist-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, killing at least three people nearby, a Reuters eyewitness said. Pictures from the scene showed a huge crater in the ground in front of Hospital no. 27 in Donetsk's Kirovsky district, a southwestern suburb, after shells struck the area....more

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LocationVuhlehirsk, Ukraine


A member of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed

Donetsk People's Republic looks on near a building destroyed during battles with the Ukrainian armed

forces in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A man walks near a building, which according to locals was damaged by shelling, in Donetsk February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Donetsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015

The bodies of victims are seen outside a building neighboring a hospital in Donetsk, February 4,

2015. A shell hit a hospital in the east Ukrainian rebel-controlled city of Donetsk on Wednesday,

killing or injuring several people, the city administration said. REUTERS/Maxim Sergeev

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakiieve, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A tank of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic is seen near Yenakiieve, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Reuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015The body of a member of the armed forces of

the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, who was killed in battle with the Ukrainian armed forces, is seen in

Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Debaltseve, UkraineReuters / Tuesday, February 03,

2015An elderly woman collects water

from a puddle in Debaltseve, Ukraine, February 3, 2015.

REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Members of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic gather near a burnt armored vehicle in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A member of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic shows the body of his comrade-in-arms, who was killed in battle with the Ukrainian armed forces, in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A member of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic walks near a burnt tank turret in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Pieces of broken glass and blood on the ground in clinic 27, damaged after shelling, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Heavy shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon killed at least five people and damaged a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, local officials said. (AP Photo/Vadim Braydov)

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Members of the armed forces of the separatist self-

proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic gather near an

armored vehicle destroyed during battles with the

Ukrainian armed forces in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region,

February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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The covered body of a member of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, who was killed in battle

with the Ukrainian armed forces, is seen in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk

region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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A tank of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, damaged

during battles with the Ukrainian armed forces, is seen on the roadside

outside Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim

Shemetov

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Reuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Members of the armed forces of the

separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic gather near a building

destroyed during battles with the Ukrainian armed forces in Vuhlehirsk,

Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A member of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic looks at the body of a soldier of the Ukrainian armed forces in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015People gather outside a damaged hospital in Donetsk February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDebaltseve, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015An elderly woman reacts as her acquaintances board a bus to flee due to a military conflict in Debaltseve, Ukraine, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationYenakiieve, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Members of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic drive armored vehicles, with Saint George slaying the Dragon displayed on a red flag, near Yenakiieve, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Artemivsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday,

February 04, 2015A multiple rocket launcher

system of the Ukrainian armed forces is seen behind

bushes on the outskirts of Artemivsk, Donetsk region,

February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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Reuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015An armoured vehicle and a building, destroyed during

battles between the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and the Ukrainian

armed forces, are seen in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Members of the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic walk near a burnt truck in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic gather at a

checkpoint in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4,

2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerStringer .LocationArtemivsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Members of the Ukrainian armed forces ride on an armored personnel carrier on the outskirts Artemivsk, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic drive an armoured

vehicle in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 4,

2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationMakiivka, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A row of trucks of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic is seen in Makiivka, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerStringer .LocationArtemivsk, UkraineReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Ukrainian servicemen gather on a road near Artemivsk, Donetsk region, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Sergey Polezhaka

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PhotographerStringer .LocationPort-au-Prince, HaitiReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Demonstrators chant slogans as they march during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 4, 2015. Hundreds of people took to the streets to demand the resignation of Haiti's President Michel Martelly. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares

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PhotographerAl Youm Al SaabiLocationCAIRO, EgyptReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Egyptian political activist Ahmed Douma attends his trial in Cairo, February 4, 2015. An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Douma to life in prison on Wednesday, judicial sources said, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamist and liberal government opponents. Douma, a leading figure in the pro-democracy revolt that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, was convicted of rioting, inciting violence and attacking security forces in...more

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PhotographerSTRINGER Mexico

LocationCiudad Juarez, Mexico


A forensic technician walks away from the dead body of a

woman at a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,

February 4, 2015. The woman's body was found wrapped in a

baby blanket and with her hands and feet tied with a rope

and underneath a car bridge, according to local media.

REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

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PhotographerToru HanaiLocationTOKYO, JapanReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe closes his eyes during a lower house committee session at the parliament in Tokyo, February 4, 2015. Abe said on Wednesday he was deeply angry over the "outrageous" killing of a Jordanian pilot, who was apparently burnt to death by Islamic State militants, and repeated Japan's resolve not to give in to terrorism. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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PhotographerMAXIM ZMEYEV

LocationVYAZMA, Russia


Russian activist Svetlana Davydova prepares infant food

in the kitchen after she returned home in Vyazma, Russia,

February 4, 2015. Russia has conditionally released the

activist accused of high treason for phoning the Ukrainian

embassy in Moscow to warn that Russian soldiers might be

heading to eastern Ukraine, her husband said on February 3.

Anatoly Gorlov told Reuters by telephone that Svetlana

Davydova was on her way home. But...more

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PhotographerShannon StapletonLocationNEW YORK, United StatesReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015The vehicle that was struck by a commuter train is lifted from the tracks in Mount Pleasant, near Valhalla, New York, February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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PhotographerSusana Vera

LocationMADRID, Spain


Real Madrid's Karim Benzema (R) clashes with Sevilla's

goalkeeper Beto during their Spanish first division soccer

match at Santiago Bernabeustadium in Madrid, February

4, 2015. REUTERS/Susana Vera

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PhotographerBobby YipLocationGUANGZHOU, ChinaReuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015A boy reacts after getting an autograph from former Portugal forward Luis Figoduring a Figo Football Academy training session in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, February 4, 2015. FIFA have confirmed that Figo, incumbent Sepp Blatter, Dutch FA president Michael van Praagand Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan have bid to stand for president. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

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Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste has returned to Brisbane, Australia, to be reunited with his family following his release from an Egyptian prison. MrGreste and two colleagues were arrested in 2013. They were convicted of spreading false news and aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

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Security guards knock on the door of an aeroplane carrying the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, and his wife after their arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, in Sepang, Malaysia. The visit coincides with a row between the two countries over an advert in Malaysia for a robot vacuum cleaner that told consumers: "Fire your Indonesian maid now."

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People look at the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta, in the Queen's Robing Room at the Houses of Parliament in central London. Written in 1215, Magna Carta laid the foundations for democracy in Britain.

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A surfer rides a wave during a night-time competition in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod.

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A runner taking part in the 38th Annual Empire State Building Run-Up is pictured arriving on the 86th floor of the New York building.

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The Prince of Wales and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, are seen during a visit to the Art Workers' Guild in London.

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Capoeira teacher Eiwer Carbonell warms up before a lesson in Havana, Cuba. Capoeira combines elements from dance, acrobatics and martial artsFeb. 5 , 2015

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Greek Orthodox priests attend a special parliament session before a swearing in ceremony for Greece's new lawmakers in the parliament in Athens.

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Sunset over Manila Bay, Philippines

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Protective rail on the highway "Autovia A-67" near Aguilar de Campoo, Spain, after the snow falls

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Home gardening Ellie Biondi fix a work with Orchid flowers prepared for exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, West London.

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A Bahraini anti-government protester taking cover behind a wall waves a

national flag during clashes with riot police firing tear gas in Bilad al-

Qadeem, a suburb of the capital of Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Clashes erupted after a march

as tension remains high in the wake of the arrest of opposition leader Sheikh

Ali Salman, seen on posters on the wall at left, and Bahrain’s uprising

approaches its fourth anniversary. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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A tree is covered by the ice as the snow covers the landscape in the Pyrenees small town of Roncesvalles, northern Spain, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. A cold spell has reached northern Spain with temperatures plummeting far below zero. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

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Indian rescued child laborers stand in a queue to board a train to be reunited with their parents in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, at a railway station in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Police have rescued hundreds of children working in hazardous industries in a southern Indian city despite laws that ban child labor. In a series of raids on leather tanning and plastic factories in Hyderabad over the past 10 days, police rescued at least 350 children. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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Visitors stand in front of the painting ‘White cliffs of Ruegen’ (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich during the

press preview of the exhibition ‘Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes’ in the Albertinum, a museum of the

Dresden State Art Collection (SKD), in Dresden, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-

1840) and Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857) are regarded as the

leading figures of Nordic landscape painting in the Romantic era. For the

first time, the exhibition is directly juxtaposing an extensive selection of

around 120 paintings and drawings by both artists and others from the same

period and region. The exhibition starts on Feb. 6, 2015 and lasts until May 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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Starlings swirl in the sky in a phenomenon known as murmurationin the Negev Desert at dusk near the

Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP

Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Pakistani labor Arshad Massi, 34, showers under a water supply

pipe in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP

Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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PhotographerPetra PetraLocationKARAK, JordanReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Jordan's King Abdullah offers his condolences to Safi al-Kasaesbeh, the father of Jordanian pilot Muathal-Kasaesbeh, at the headquarters of the family's clan in Karak, Jordan February 5, 2015.REUTERS/Petra News Agency

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HaitiReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015

A woman covers her face from tear gas as she runs past graffiti reading "100 goud (Haitian Gourdes) = 1 gallon gaz (gasoline)" during clashes between police and protesters near Champs Mars in Port-au-Prince,

Haiti February 5, 2015. Protesters continued to demand the resignation of Haiti's President Michel Martelly and lower fuel prices after a key

Haitian minibus drivers union called a two-day general strike on Monday....more

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PhotographerNacho DoceLocationIGARATA, BrazilReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A former resident of the re-emerging old city of the Igarata, Irene De Almeida, 65, holds a photograph of the city before its was submerged in 1969, as she sits on the main street of the old city in front of Jaguari reservoir, in Igarata, Sao Paulo State, Brazil February 4, 2015. The ruins of a sunken town which had remained underwater since 1969 have re-emerged, as parts of Brazil grapple with the country's worst drought in 80...more

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PhotographerAmr DalshLocationMALABO, Equatorial GuineaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A Ghana fan poses before their semi-final soccer match of the 2015 African Cup of Nations against Equatorial Guinea in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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PhotographerMarcelo del PozoLocationSEVILLE, SpainReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A model presents a creation by Rocio Peralta during the International Flamenco Fashion Show SIMOF in Seville, Spain February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo

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PhotographerDenis Balibouse

LocationLUSSY, Switzerland

Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015The lights of a car are seen through a gust of

wind on a secondary road in Lussy near Lausanne, Switzerland February 5, 2015.

REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

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PhotographerYannis BehrakisLocationAthens, GreeceReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Greek Prime minister Alexis Tsipras makes a sign to a colleague as he sits for the first time in the Prime Minister's seat in the parliament before a swearing in ceremony for Greece's new lawmakers in the Greek parliament in Athens, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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PhotographerHannibal Hanschke

LocationBERLIN, Germany

Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Cast members Rinko Kikuchi, Juliette

Binoche (C) and director Isabel Coixe (R) take their seats for the screening of the

movie "Nobody Wants the Night", during the opening gala of the 65th Berlinale

International Film Festival, in Berlin, Germany February 5, 2015.

REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

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Rescue teams in Taiwan are continuing to search for the 12 people who remain

unaccounted for after a plane crashed in a river. Thirty-one people are now

known to have died when the TransAsia ATR-72 plane came down in Taipei's Keelung River on Wednesday

morning. Fifteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage, including a two-

year-old boy.

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PhotographerPichi ChuangLocationNEW TAIPEI CITY, TaiwanReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Emergency teams remove pieces of wreckage at the site of the crashed TransAsiaAirways plane Flight GE235 in New Taipei City, Taiwan, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

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Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015

Baggage is placed near the wreckage of TransAsia Airways

plane Flight GE235 after it crash landed into a river, in New Taipei

City, Taiwan, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

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PhotographerChina Stringer Network

LocationAKQI, China


Herdsmen from the Kyrgyz ethnic group hold their

falcons as they ride on horses during a hunting competition

in Akqi county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous, China,

February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

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PhotographerSuhaib SalemLocationGAZA CITY, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A Palestinian militant of Hamas' armed wing takes part in a news conference with other representatives of various Palestinian armed factions to condemn the decision of an Egyptian court that banned Hamas' armed wing, in Gaza City, February 5, 2015. An Egyptian court last week banned Hamas' armed wing and listed it as a terrorist organization, prompting Hamas to reject Egypt as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, a role...more

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PhotographerAmir Cohen

LocationASHDOD, Israel


A dog sits with spectators as they watch a night-surfing competition

in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Israel, February 4, 2015.

REUTERS/Amir Cohen

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PhotographerAdnan AbidiLocationDELHI, IndiaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015India's Congress party vice president Rahul Gandhi (top C) gestures as he stands a top a vehicle during a road show ahead of state assembly elections in the old quarters of Delhi, India, February 4, 2015. Delhi goes to the polls on Saturday. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

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PhotographerEric GaillardLocationNICE, FranceReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A worker puts the final touches on giant figures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande during preparations for the carnival parade in Nice, France, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationTaipei, TaiwanReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeoumeets with family members of a passenger who died in a TransAsia Airways plane crash, at a funeral parlor in Taipei, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Central News Agency/Pool

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PhotographerAmir Cohen

LocationASHDOD, Israel

Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A surfer rides a wave during a night-

surfing competition in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Israel, February 4, 2015.

REUTERS/Amir Cohe

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PhotographerYuya ShinoLocationTOKYO, JapanReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015McDonald's Holdings Co (Japan) President and Chief Executive Officer Sarah Casanova bows to apologize during a news conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, February 5, 2015. The Japanese unit of McDonald's posted its first annual operating loss since going public in 2001 with sales battered by a food safety scandal and a shortage of french fries. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

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Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Protesters hold up pictures of Jordan's King

Abdullah and pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh as they chant slogans during a rally in Amman to show their loyalty to the King and against the

Islamic State, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

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PhotographerPetra Petra

LocationJORDAN, Jordan


A bomb with Koranic verses is pictured on a Royal Jordanian

Air Force plane at an air base in Jordan before its launch to

strike the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria February 5, 2015.

REUTERS/Petra News Agency

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LocationJORDAN, Jordan

Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A Royal Jordanian Air Force plane takes off

from an air base in Jordan to strike the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria February 5,

2015. REUTERS/Petra News Agency

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PhotographerPetra PetraLocationJORDAN, JordanReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A Royal Jordanian Air Force plane takes off from an air base in Jordan to strike the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Petra News Agency

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LocationKARAK, Jordan


Jordan's Queen Rania offers her condolences to the family of pilot

Muath al-Kasaesbeh, at their family home in Karak February 5, 2015.

REUTERS/Petra News Agency

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A Jordanian protester kisses a poster bearing the image of

pilot Muath al-Kasaesbehduring a rally to show their

loyalty to King Abdullah and against the Islamic State in Amman February 5, 2015.

REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A Ukrainian tank is seen near the eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich


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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDONETSK, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A resident covers the window of his apartment with a plastic sheet inside a residential block, that was damaged by a shelling on Wednesday according to locals, in Donetsk, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Local residents wait to board a bus to flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Local residents flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/GlebGaranich

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A woman and a child look through a bus window before leaving as people flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerGleb Garanich

LocationDEBALTSEVE, Ukraine

Reuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Local residents wait to board a bus to

flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015.

REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A child draws near her house in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDONETSK, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A municipal official looks through the window of a residential block, which was damaged by a shelling on Wednesday according to locals, in Donetsk, Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Local residents prepare to flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/GlebGaranich

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Local residents wait for a bus to flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A general view of the destruction after what activists said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohammed Badra

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PhotographerLocation

DAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Thursday, February

05, 2015An injured girl is transported to a field hospital after what

activists said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-

Assad in the Doumaneighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/

Mohammed Badra

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A man stands near a donkey as he inspects damage after what activists

said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma

neighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/ Bassam

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DAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015

An injured civilian receives medical assistance in a field hospital after what

activists said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-

Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/

Mohammed Badra

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A man mourns over the body of his relative killed after what activists said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A man holds his injured daughter as they wait in a field hospital after what activists said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Doumaneighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohammed Badra

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PhotographerBassam KhabiehLocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A man, covered with dust, carries a chicken as he walks on debris after what activists said were at least 20 air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/ Bassam Khabieh

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PhotographerJason LeeLocationBEIJING, ChinaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Passengers are seen through the window of a train at Beijing Railway Station, China, February 5, 2015. Chinese Ministry of Transport said a total of 2.807 billion trips are expected to be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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PhotographerAmr DalshLocationMALABO, Equatorial GuineaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015A police helicopter hovers over Equitorial Guinea fans as they throw objects during the 2015 African Cup of Nations semi-final soccer match against Ghana in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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PhotographerPOOL NewLocationKiev, UkraineReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Secretary of State John Kerry reaches out to shake hands with Ukrainian Prime Minister ArseniyYatsenyuk during a bilateral meeting in Kiev, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool

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PhotographerAmr DalshLocationMALABO, Equatorial GuineaReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Riot police shield Ghana's John Boye and team mates from objects thrown by Equatorial Guinea fans at the end of the first half of the 2015 African Cup of Nations semi-final soccer match in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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New priests lie on the floor during their ordination ceremony at a gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea. There are more than five million Catholics in South Korea.Golfer Lee Westwood of England

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a news conference after talks at the chancellery in Berlin.

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People gathered outside the Greek parliament in support of the new

government's tough stance over the country's debt. The newly elected Greek government is in talks with international

creditors over the terms of its €240bn (£179bn) bailout, which it thinks are too

harsh.

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An aerostat is deployed at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in the US. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) uses traditional technologies like radar while overcoming limitations by deploying the sensors in the air using a pair of tethered blimps.

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New Audi Q3 vehicles are lined up at the port in

Barcelona. The production of cars in Spain last year rose 9% to a total of 1.8

million, the best figures for the past five years.

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Turkish police arrested the demonstrators before the new mansion controversial RecepTayyip Erdogan President. Protesters denounced the police will not be punished after killing a 16-year-old boy in the protests in June 2013 in Ankara.

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Three riders dressed in British chess figure walking to the position on the race on natural ice Run in the Cresta prone skaters International Match in Switzerland.

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Piton de la Fournaisevolcano erupted on 5/2/ 2015, on the island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean French. This is the second eruption in the last year after three years of quiet.

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Queen Rania of Jordan held portraits of the pilot being killed Islamic State groups marched in the capital Amman to express solidarity.

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An Indian agricultural workers exposed to new chilli was taken to a farm in Sertha, about 25 km from Ahmedabad.

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One person contests the shell used to call deer during the exhibition "Jagd & Hund" in Dortmund. Those contests using the special tool design or croissants to imitate the call of Red Deer mating.

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A woman taking pictures with flower decoration of the upcoming Chinese new year in Hong Kong. The lunar new year falls on February 19 of the calendar.

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The Kashmir people Muslim prayers when the priests (not in picture) on

a relics of Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani of Sufi leaders

at his shrine in Srinagar, India. Thousands of

faithful have poured into the temple where this relic on Friday after the annual

celebration.

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The Catholic Bishop from the different dioceses in India joined a candlelight demonstration against the recent Muslim attacks against the Church, in the city of Bangalore in southern India. Five churches in the Indian capital were reporting arson, vandalism and theft.

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Masks of the carnival image Brazilian President Dilma'sface Rousseff in the plant Condal, Rio de Janeiro.

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PhotographerMAXIM ZMEYEVLocationMoscow, RussiaReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and French President Francois Hollandeattend a meeting on resolving the Ukraine crisis at the Kremlin in Moscow, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev

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PhotographerStringer .LocationDAMASCUS, SyriaReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Blood covers the hands of an injured boy lying in a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Doumaneighborhood of Damascus, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/ Mohammed Badra

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PhotographerAmmar AwadLocationJERUSALEM, IsraelReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Palestinians herd sheep in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Empty buses, intended for internally displaced persons, wait along a road while travelling in the direction of the village of Debaltseve to evacuate the residents, in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 6, 2015. Signs on the front of the drivers' windows read, 'Evacuation to Donetsk'. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Fleeing east Ukraine

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDonetsk region, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Ukrainian servicemen keep watch at no-man's land outside Debaltseve, Donetsk region, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A local resident rides his bicycle along a street in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A woman cries as she flees the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/GlebGaranich

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Empty buses, intended for internally displaced persons, wait along a road beside a burnt-out tank turret while travelling in the direction of the village of Debaltseve to evacuate the residents, in Vuhlehirsk, Donetsk region, February 6, 2015. Signs on the front of the drivers' windows read, 'Evacuation to Donetsk'. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Reuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Local residents wait for a bus to flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine,

February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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Reuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Local residents react as they watch their relatives board buses to flee the conflict

in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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Reuters / Friday, February 06, 2015

A member of the Ukrainian armed forces assists local

residents onto a bus to flee the military conflict, in

Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 6, 2015.

REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationDEBALTSEVE, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Local residents wait for a bus to flee the conflict in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/GlebGaranich

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationDebaltseve, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A man carries his bag before leaving as people flee the conflict in Debaltseve, Donetsk region, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerMaxim ShemetovLocationVuhlehirsk, UkraineReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Armoured vehicles, destroyed during battles between the armed forces of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and the Ukrainian armed forces, are seen in Vuhlehirsk, Ukraine, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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PhotographerAmmar AwadLocationABU DIS, Palestinian TerritoriesReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Palestinians perform Friday prayers on land that they said was confiscated by Israel, during a protest against land confiscations near the West Bank town of Abu Dis near Jerusalem, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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PhotographerPhil NobleLocationMANCHESTER, United KingdomReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Cake maker Rosie Dummer puts the finishing touches to a life size cake model of Christian Grey from the book Fifty-shades of Grey as part of a display entitled "Fifty shades of cake", on the opening day of the Cake International show in Manchester, northern England, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Phil Noble

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PhotographerChina Stringer NetworkLocationNANCHANG, ChinaReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Men have their faces shaved next to an excavator working at a demolition site in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, China, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

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PhotographerHazir Reka

LocationPRISTINA, Kosovo


Kosovars, many of them hoping to reach the European Union and seek

asylum, board buses headed for Serbia, in the capital Pristina,

Kosovo February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Hazir Reka

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Exodus from Kosovo Exodus from Kosovo

PhotographerHazir Reka

LocationPRISTINA, Kosovo

Reuters / Wednesday, February 04, 2015Kosovars, many of them hoping to reach the

European Union and seek asylum, board buses headed for Serbia, in the capital

Pristina, Kosovo February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Hazir Reka

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationASOTTHALOM, HungaryReuters / Thursday, February 05, 2015Kosovar migrants walk on a road after illegally crossing the Hungarian-Serbian border near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerMarko DjuricaLocationSUBOTICA, SerbiaReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Serbian border police stop Kosovars, who are trying to cross the border to Hungary, as they walk in a field near the town of Subotica, Serbia, February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationASOTTHALOM, HungaryReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015Kosovar children cry after they crossed illegally the Hungarian-Serbian border with their family, near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationASOTTHALOM, HungaryReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A Kosovo man carries his baby as he crosses illegally the Hungarian-Serbian border near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary, February 6, 2015. The European Union is experiencing a steep rise in the number of Kosovo citizens smuggling themselves into the affluent bloc, with 10,000 filing for asylum in Hungary in just one month this year compared to 6,000 for the whole of 2013. It follows a relaxation of travel rules allowing Kosovars...more

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PhotographerMarko Djurica

LocationSUBOTICA, Serbia

Reuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A Serbian border policeman

collects documents from a group of Kosovars, after they were detained while trying to cross the border to

Hungary, near the town of Subotica, Serbia February 6, 2015.

REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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PhotographerLaszlo Balogh

LocationASOTTHALOM, Hungary

Reuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A Kosovar woman holds her child as

they warm up around an open fire after they crossed illegally the

Hungarian-Serbian border near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary

February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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PhotographerLaszlo BaloghLocationASOTTHALOM, HungaryReuters / Friday, February 06, 2015A Kosovo man carries his baby as he crosses illegally the Hungarian-Serbian border near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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A baby is held at the window of a bus with people waiting to leave the town of Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. At left is a sign reading Slovyansk. Pro-Russia rebels and the Ukrainian authorities agreed Friday on a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine as German and French leaders prepared to bring their peace plan to Moscow. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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An Afghan man gives his son a massage as they take a bath at a public bath, or "hamam," in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The public baths are a tradition in the country, mostly found in larger cities and used by ordinary citizens including those who had their home boiler facilities damaged during its decade-long war. The use of a hamambath costs less than a dollar for the public, and a person could pay extra to have a massage. (AP Photo/RahmatGul)

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A woman dancer competes in the intertribal dance competition in

Hollywood, Fla., Friday, Feb. 6, 2017. The Seminole Tribe of Florida

is hosting its three-day 44th annual celebration of Native

culture and arts at its Seminole Tribal Fair and Pow Wow. The fair

offers Native arts, crafts, foods, and music. The Fair was expanded

to host a pow wow dance and drum competition. (AP Photo/J Pat

Carter)

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Top model Chantelle Brown-Young, known as Winnie Harlow, who has a rare skin pigmentation disorder, gets her make up applied before displaying a Spring/Summer design by Desigual at Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

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A Kashmiri Muslim woman carries her daughter while praying as the head priest displays a relic of Sufi saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani at his shrine in Srinagar, India, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine which houses the relic of the saint on the Friday following the saint's Urs, or yearly commemoration. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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People are silhouetted as they wait for their trains at Kings Cross station in London, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Houthi Shiite rebels and their supporters release fireworks after Shiite rebels

announced that they have taken over the country and dissolved parliament in

Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. Yemen's powerful Shiite rebels

announced on Friday that they have taken over the country and dissolved

parliament, a dramatic move that finalizes their monthslong power grab.

(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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A fan watches during the women's downhill at the alpine skiing world championships on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)Feb. 6 , 2015

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PhotographerAntonio BronicLocationDonja Stubica, CroatiaReuters / Saturday, February 07, 2015Locals re-enact the 1573 medieval battle of SeljackaBuna in Donja Stubica, Croatia, February 7, 2015. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

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PhotographerMichael DalderLocationMUNICH, GermanyReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Secretary of State John Kerry reacts during the chairman's debate at the 51st Munich Security Conference at the 'Bayerischer Hof' hotel in Munich, Germany, February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

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PhotographerMike SegarLocationAugusta, United StatesReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015U.S. golfer Matt Kuchar (R) looks down at his ball laying on the lap of spectator Ricky Earl of Toronto after Kuchar's approach shot landed and came to rest on Earl's lap on the 18th hole during the final round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia April 13, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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PhotographerKCNA KCNALocationPYONGYANG, North KoreaReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Members of North Korea's Ministry of the People's Armed Forces (MPAF) dance during a celebration of the anniversary of the February 8 founding of the regular revolutionary armed forces of Korea, at an undisclosed location in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on February 8, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

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PhotographerSuzanne PlunkettLocationLONDON, United KingdomReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Eddie Redmayne poses after receiving the award for best leading actor for "The Theory of Everything" at the British Academy of Film and Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

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PhotographerDavid W CernyLocationLIBEREC, Czech RepublicReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015A man climbs an artificial wall of ice in the city of Liberec February 8, 2015. Freezing temperatures hit Czech Republic over the weekend. REUTERS/David W Cerny

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PhotographerStefan Wermuth


Reuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Muslim demonstrators hold placards during

a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet

Mohammad in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, near Downing Street in

central London February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

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PhotographerNir EliasLocation

JERUSALEM, IsraelReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy walks

in front of a garbage bin set on fire during a protest in Jerusalem's Mea

Shearim neighbourhood, against the jailing of Jewish seminary students

who failed to comply with a recruitment order, February 8, 2015.

REUTERS/Nir Elias

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PhotographerMario Anzuoni

LocationLOS ANGELES, United States

Reuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015

Singer Sia (R) and dancer Maddie Ziegler arrive at the

57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, February 8, 2015.

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

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PhotographerAlkis KonstantinidisLocationAthens, GreeceReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) speaks with Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis (C) and Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Minister Nikos Voutsis before Tsipras' first major speech in parliament in Athens February 8, 2015. REUTERS/ Alkis Konstantinidis

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PhotographerMathieu Belanger

LocationQUEBEC CITY, Canada

Reuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015

Team Bota Bota competes during the Quebec Winter

Carnival ice canoe race on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec

City, February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger

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PhotographerAl Youm Al Saabi

LocationCAIRO, Egypt

Reuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Policemen and soccer fans are seen

through barbed wire as fans attempt to enter a stadium to watch a match, on the outskirts of Cairo February 8,

2015. At least 14 Egyptian soccer fans were killed in the clashes that broke

out when security forces barred them from entering a stadium,

hospital doctors told Reuters. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi

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PhotographerDavid GrayLocationSYDNEY, AustraliaReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015A woman lies on a towel sunbathing on a hot summer day in a park located near Sydney's Bondi Beach, Australia, February 8, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationARTEMIVSK, UkraineReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015A Ukrainian serviceman stands on a tank near Artemivsk, eastern Ukraine, February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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PhotographerLucy NicholsonLocationLOS ANGELES, United StatesReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015Madonna performs "Living for Love" at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, February 8, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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PhotographerGleb GaranichLocationArtemivsk, UkraineReuters / Sunday, February 08, 2015An injured Ukrainian serviceman reacts as he receives help from medics at a hospital in Artemivsk February 8, 2015. REUTERS/GlebGaranich

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