A Bahraini anti-government protester tries to conceal a molotov cocktail before tossing it at riot police during clashes in Malkiya.
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A homeless man sits wrapped in blankets and surrounded by others at a shelter in the old quarters of Delhi, India. A cold snap in India’s northern areas killed more than 100 homeless, an aid group said last week.
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One man holds a ladder for another in order to climb to the second floor of an Ortley Beach, NJ, home heavily damaged by superstorm Sandy.
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Spectators snap shots through showering sand as France’s Laurent Duverney-Pret passes on his quad during the third stage of the Rally Dakar 2013 outside Lima, Peru.
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A group of Palestinian men team up to remove a fallen tree left at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city by nasty storms.
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An officer patrols the rooftop of a building near the Arapahoe County Justice Center during a court appearance by James Holmes, the accused shooter in the July 20 movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo.
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A pod of hundreds of dolphins splashes around off the coast of Dana Point, Calif., about an hour south of Los Angeles, where someone aboard a local whale-watching craft snapped this shot of the stampede.
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A campaign billboard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looms over everyday Israelis in Bnei Brak. General elections in Israel are only two weeks away.
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Smoke and ash escape the mouth of the Plosky Tolbachnik volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. Before last week, the last time Plosky Tolbachnik erupted was in 1976.
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Police rush to to disperse rioters who’d reportedly hijacked and set fire to a car on the Woodstock Link on the fourth consecutive night of violence in Belfast, Ireland.
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Participants march with national flags during a religious procession in celebration of the Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Barcelona forward Lionel Messi accepts his fourth Ballon d’Or award (FIFA player of the year) at a ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. Messi scored a record 91 goals in 2012.
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Flyers fan Jeanine Wagner isn’t the only happy hockey fan around today as she watches her team train in Voorhees, NJ. The NHL and its players have come to a lockout-ending deal; the season will start later this month.
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