A protester clutches stones as he faces down riot police during the fifth day of clashes at the state security building in Port Said, Egypt.
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A Hindu holy man applies paint to his forehead at his ashram in Kathmandu ahead of this weekend’s Shivaratri festival.
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Statues of the Buddha sit under a starry sky at a religious site near the Kyaiktiyo pagoda in Myanmar’s eastern Mon state.
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Workers cordon off a leaning three-storey apartment building in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi after a traffic tunnel being constructed for the 2014 Winter Olympics collapsed nearby.
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Pilgrims stand in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City as Catholic Cardinals began talks on a start date for the conclave that will chose the church’s new leader.
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A firefighter inspects the burnt remains of a train compartment at Kamlapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Three compartments of the train were set on fire on the second day of a country-wide strike.
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Australian dancer Alison McWhinney is captured preparing for the Emerging Dancer 2013 competition finals at Southbank Centre in London.
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An Egyptian man gives a kick to a police vehicle burnt by angry protesters following clashes in Cairo.
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An election official checks the identification of a voter by the light of a mobile phone at a polling station without electricity in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A massive crowd of mourners join in the funeral for those killed in a car bombing Sunday evening in Karachi, Pakistan.
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A Palestinian man lies in front of an Israeli convoy in Jenin, West Bank — a protest supporting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
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Patterns are left in the sand by the incoming tide on Filey Beach in England.
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Paramilitary policemen stand guard at Tiananmen Square as the sun sets over China’s hazy capital.
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Anti-Mursi protesters launch a tear gas cannister back at riot cops during clashes in front of the national Security Directorate in Port Said.
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A banner bearing the face of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is seen from inside a military hospital’s chapel, in Caracas. The leftist revolutionary leader has died, the Venezuelan government announced.
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Tampa Bay’s Wil Myers rubs dirt into his hands between pitches during the fourth inning of an exhibition game against the Minnesota Twins.
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Georg Holm of Sigur Ros performs at the Apollo in Manchester, England.
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A Bahraini woman passes a wall plastered with pictures of Mahmoud al-Jazeeri, 20, during his funeral procession in Nabih Saleh. Al-Jazeeri died two weeks ago after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by riot police.
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Charlie Regenold, 5, gets a ride to his Minneapolis, Minn., bus stop from his dog Rodney.
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Models present a cagey creation by Alexander McQueen fashion house at its Paris Fashion Week show.
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Locusts land on a dune in Israel’s Negev Desert, part of a larger swarm that crossed the border from Egypt the day before, touching off fears of a plague of biblical proportions.
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An Indian child, dressed as Hindu god Lord Shiva, plays in the sand at the Sangam in Allahabad.
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Mourners embrace during a funeral for Rabbi Menachem Froman in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Tekoa. Froman was the town’s chief rabbi and a well-known advocate of peace with the Palestinians.
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Everitt Cisnado-Davis, 7, clambors through a model of a Glyptodont shell on display during the Extreme Mammals exhibition at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta.
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An Indian forestry worker walks past the body of an elephant, struck by a train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal.
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A fire lights up the night at the Naples, Italy, museum park. Four buildings were damaged by the blaze.
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A worker checks what will be the first line to implement the European Train Control System in Profondeville, Belgium. The system halts trains that neglect a red light or exceed the maximum speed.
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A Bihari Hindu priest stands smeared with colored powder after the completion of a ritual in Allahbad, India.
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Red leaps to grab a shovel-full of snow tossed by owner Bill Groves of Mount Jackson, Va., as the DC area faces what could be its heaviest snowfall in two years.
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Supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez mourn together as his coffin passes in the streets of Caracas. Chavez’s corpse was taken from the hospital where he died to a military academy where it will lie in state.
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Just another day in Port Said, Egypt, as locals cover their faces to avoid tear gas during clashes between protesters and riot police near the state security building.
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An up-close look at Rolls-Royce’s iconic mascot “the Spirit of Ecstacy” on the hood of the new Wraith model car displayed at its world premiere at the Geneva car show.
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A Somali woman sits on a bed with her son in a clinic at the Mogadishu headquarters of the Burundi contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia.
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A month-old endangered Bornean Orangutan sleeps atop his mother Miri at their home in The Singapore Zoo.
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A visitor observes ‘Pope in the cage’ by artist Birgid Helmy during the 10th ‘art Karlsruhe’ fair in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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A llama seeks shelter near an abandoned school bus in Centreville, Va., as a blizzard pounded the mid-Atlantic.
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A police officer helps bomb-disposal expert Hank Houda adjust her protective suit during a training session at a police barracks in Algiers.
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An Emerald Dove is weighed — by being placed in a mug — during the annual bird health check at Chester Zoo in northern England.
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Seventy-year-old Indian salt worker Walbai Ayyubbhai lugs a giant rake at the Little Rann of Kutch salt marsh in Gujarat, India.
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Riot cops line up against angry Goodyear employees protesting the closing of a plant in Rueil Malmaison, France.
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Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast of Scituate, Mass., as a messy nor’easter traveled up the East Coast.
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A supporter pays her respects to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at a Caracas military academy, where he lies in state.
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After seven years of restoration, new lighting brightens the towering interior of the Fourviere Basilica in Lyon, France.
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A student protester in Santiago, Chile, flees riot cops who began firing a water cannon at a rally demanding changes to the country’s public education system.
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A Malaysian soldier stands guard in Felda Sahabat for Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has rejected a ceasefire call by the self-proclaimed Philippine sultan whose Islamic fighters have launched a deadly incursion into Malaysia.
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People walk through still-falling snow outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, amid the city’s worst storm in two years.
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A delivery man works in the still-wet, narrow streets of Barcelona, Spain, as the sun rises following a stormy night.
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PETA protesters, including one in an elephant suit, rally outside the Washington, DC, city hall a few weeks ahead of the arrival of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in town.
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Thai paramilitary rangers train in a camp in the country’s troubled Yala province. Thailand has agreed to pursue peace talks with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, a Muslim group fighting for autonomy in the region.
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