Japanese women in kimonos trudge through heavy snowfall at Tokyo’s Toshimaen amusement park on their way to a ceremony celebrating Coming of Age Day. Twenty-year-olds across Japan are honored on the holiday.
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A French soldier lies on the ground during first-aid training at the Malian army air base in Bamako, Mali, where the Fench military has amassed a strong presence and is assisting in anti-terror operations.
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Eighteen-month-old Joshua Palumbo watches a Maple Leafs training camp session in Toronto as teams (finally) begin preparing for this weekend’s start of the NHL season.
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A flock of ducks swarms on some food tossed into a pond at the Royal Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland.
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The Houston Texans’ Jay Brunetti, director of equipment services, helps clear the team’s lockers in Houston after their 41-28 loss Sunday to the Patriots ended their season.
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Drivers steer their cars through heavy snow and wind on the A25 highway in Godewaersvelde, France.
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Completely immodest Indian Hindu holy men celebrate in the water in Allahabad, India on the first day of the Maha Kumbh Mela congregation, an annual pilgrimmage.
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Deer lounge and graze in snowy Wollaton Park in Nottingham, England.
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Nelba Marquez Greene (left) and Nicole Hockley, both mothers of Sandy Hook Elementary massacre victims, console each other during a press conference on the one month anniversary of the shooting.
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Visitors inspect a glass facade reflected in the floor at the Schueco company’s stand at the ‘BAU’ construction trade fair in Munich, Germany.
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A pair of penguins slog through the snow in their enclosure at the ZSL Whipsnade zoo in Bedfordshire, England.
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Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska signs autographs for fans on her way to the tunnel after beating Australia’s Bojana Bobusic in the first round of the Australian Open.
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