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Day in photos: Feb. 12, 2013

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St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina takes batting practice during the team’s first pitchers-and-catchers workout in Jupiter, Fla. AP
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Revellers parade through Tenerife, Canary Islands, during Carnival celebrations in the Spanish territory. EPA
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A demonstrator faces off with French riot police during protests against job cuts at Goodyear Dunlop’s Rueil Malmaison headquarters. Goodyear confirmed last month its plan to close a plant near Amiens, France. Reuters
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A trader at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, dons a Carnival outfit, an annual tradition at the market’s headquarters. Reuters
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This shot captures just a handful of the record 4,483 hula-hoopers gyrating their way to the Guinness record book with seven minutes of hula hooping at Thammasat University stadium near Bangkok, Thailand. Reuters
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A worker adjusts the head of a giant figure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel near another of French President Francois Hollande in preparation for the carnival parade in Nice, France. Reuters
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Members of an anti-North Korea civic group tear a North Korean flag at a rally near the US embassy in Seoul, South Korea, against North Korea’s reported testing of a nuclear bomb. Reuters
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A couple strolls though through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on a foggy afternoon in New York City. Getty Images
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A TV news crew sets up at dusk outside St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, one day after Pope Benedict XVI announced he will resign. AFP/Getty Images
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A homeless man sits in the tomb where he lives in the southern Serbian town of Nis. REUTERS
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Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany wipes out during the national team event at the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Schladming, Austria. Reuters
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Syrians ride past the remains of a building in Kfar Nubul allegedly destroyed by government fighter jet. AFP/Getty Images