Puddles, the Oregon Ducks mascot, is lowered to the court during pre-game ceremonies before the Dukes faced USC Trojans at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore.
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Sarah Flanagan inspects Water-Towers, Bruce Munro’s newest light and sound installation, in Salisbury Cathedral’s medieval cloisters in Salisbury, England. Located in the south and west cloisters of the 750-year-old cathedral and on display until the end of February.
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A Muslim girl walks past Indian policemen during a demonstration against efforts by local authorities to demolish what police described as an illegally built mosque in New Delhi.
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Visitors climb to the summit at the top of Germany’s highest mountain, Zugspitze, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. It reaches 9,718 feet.
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A Palestinian protester uses a slignshot to hurl a stone at Israeli troops during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin near Ramallah.
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Birds fly past a monument to St. Sava, the first archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church, in central Belgrade, Serbia. Orthodox Serbs celebrate the beginning of the new calendar year on Jan. 14, according to the Julian calendar.
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Jose Lopez Ripodas works the land near an ancient aqueduct at Noain, northern Spain as fog covers the landscape early in the morning. The north of Spain frequently suffers early morning fog in the winter.
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Demonstrators scatter after police officers use teargas during a protest in Tunis.
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A man walks among the wreckage caused by mudslides in Nova Friburgo, some 100 miles from downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Days of flooding and mudslides have left thousands of people without homes and over 520 dead in southeast Brazil.
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Chinese soldiers undergo a training session in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang region.
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A Enzo Ferrari (C) is seen as people attend an exhibition held to celebrate Ferrari’s 999th car sold in China from 2004 to 2010. The number nine, representing longevity, is considered auspicious in Chinese culture.
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Hindu devotees are silhouetted while bathing at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the annual month-long Hindu religious fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India.
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An artist performs a traditional Indian art form of dance called Ottamthullal during the annual temple festival in the southern Indian city of Kochi. The art form was created during the 18th century by legendary Malayalam poet Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar.
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Laborers erect an electric tower on a roadside at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India’s power output rose an annual 4.34 percent in December, faster than the previous month, on improved operations at coal-based plants and better demand from states.
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Palestinian fishermen collect fish from nets that they had set earlier in the morning at Gaza City’s beach. The fishermen go out every morning hoping that they will be allowed to go out to sea, but Israeli navy forces rarely allow them to leave the shallow waters.
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Two Sudanese wrestlers fight during a weekly friendly traditional competition organized by athletes from the southern region of Kordofan that attracts local fans of the sport, which symbolizes strength and a war skill among regional trips. It’s held in an open ring at the outskirts of the capital Khartoum, Sudan.
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The mud-covered friends of Andrew Taylor (second from right), pose around a destroyed piano as they help his family clean their house after flood waters receded in the Brisbane suburb of Westend. Australia’s third-largest city began cleaning up stinking mud and debris in flood-hit areas on Friday, but whole suburbs remained submerged, smaller towns braced for more inundations and forecasters pointed to a threat of cyclones.
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School children sit around a fire to warm themselves up during their recess break inside a school on a cold day in Jammu, India.
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