Georgia coach Mark Richt is doused with Gatorade by Chris Conley #31 after the Capital One Bowl win against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at the Citrus Bowl.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) walks out after a second meeting with House Republicans at the US Capitol. Lawmakers are under pressure to pass at least some form of fiscal cliff crisis legislation before financial markets open on Wednesday, but it was increasingly unclear whether that could be done.
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Lily Cole goes for a swim while on holiday with friends in St. Barths.
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A fan of the Florida State Seminoles eats a hotdog in the stands prior to Florida State playing Northern Illinois during the Discover Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens.
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Singer Fergie hosts Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve at CBS studios in Los Angeles, California.
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Comedian Artie Lange sleeping on a sun lounger on New Year’s Day in Miami Beach, FL. Artie, 45, was visibly tired after ringing in 2013 on South Beach.
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Jude Law was all smiles as he celebrates New Years Day with a splash in the Ocean in Maui. The “Anna Karenina,” star played with his son and joked with a friend as he frolicked shirtless in the Hawaiian sea.
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Officiant DJ Valentine, groom Gerald Sapienza and bride Nicole Angellio during their live wedding atop “The Love Float” at the 124th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
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People run into the cold waters of Deep Cove in Indian Arm, North Vancouver during the Penguin Plunge on New Year’s Day.
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Participants react after taking to the frigid waters of English Bay during the annual Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) meets with South Korean rapper-singer Psy, who has risen to worldwide fame due to his megahit music video ‘Gangnam Style’ during a meeting at the headquarters of the United Nations.
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The Dole “Dreaming of Paradise” float, which pays tribute to the beauty and bounty of the tropical paradise of Latin America, took the Sweepstakes Trophy for most beautiful entry in the 124th Tournament of Roses Parade held in Pasadena, California.
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Monica Rossano and her husband Sal hold their daughter Anna-Sofia, who was born 12:01 a.m., during a news conference at the Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. “It wasn’t induced labor or anything. It was totally natural. We weren’t trying to be the first,” Intermountain Medical Center spokesman Jason Carlton told The Associated Press.
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Stanford Cardinal head coach David Shaw reacts as he coaches against the Wisconsin Badgers during the 99th Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, California.
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A massive blaze engulfs an oil warehouse sending a towering plume of smoke into the Rio de Janeiro sky. Firefighters eventually contained the flames, and no one was injured.
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A young Argentinian places one of the last noseprints on the window of a wooden carriage car on the historic Buenos Aires subway system. The city announced the almost 100-year-old trains will soon be replaced.
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Czech goalie Matej Machovsky stops Team USA’s Cole Bardeau (and the puck) from going into the net in the second period of their U20 World Junior Hockey Championship quarter-final game in Ufa, Russia. The US would go on to win, 7-0.
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A perplexed-looking young snowy owl stares down the camera invading its space at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany.
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Bangladeshi boatmen sit waiting for passengers looking to cross the Buriganga River in Dhaka.
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Five-year-old Renisha Albert squeezes through a column of soldiers after going to say goodbye to her dad, who’s to be deployed with the 67th Expeditionary Signal Battalion from Fort Gordon, Ga.
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A Jewish woman and her child — surrounded by Israeli security forces — stage a sit-in in an attempt to prevent Palestinians from working in their fields in Jalod, West Bank.
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A Free Syrian Army fighter yells to his bretheren while on patrol in Aleppo’s Bustan Al Qaser district.
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A French gunner surveys a snow-covered Kabul, Afghanistan, from a patrolling military helicopter.
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Visitors take in an exhibit on display during the ‘Art Experiment’ exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Cultures in Moscow.
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A Filipino trader blows a horn in celebration of the year’s first day of trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange in Makati.
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Ice fishermen dot Lake Vileika during a clear morning’s sunrise near the Belarussian village of Kasun.
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A mud-slathered bullfrog is inspected as zookeepers at the London Zoo take their annual count of the more than 17,500 animals in residence.
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Norway’s Tom Hilde prepares to take off from the ski jump during a practice session at the four-hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.
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A school bus stops for a pick-up in front of angel placards along the roadside. It was the first day of classes for Sandy Hook Elementary students since the Dec. 14 shooting. Chalk Hill School in nearby Monroe was overhauled to host them temporarily.
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Shimmering bride Fatme Ulanova, a Bulgarian Muslim from the village of Ribnovo, stands during her wedding. The people of this mountain village are famous for performing their unique wedding ceremonies only in the wintertime.
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Two passengers brave the freezing temperatures while riding outside on a ferry crossing the misty Casco Bay in Portland, Maine.
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A man carries a television set across the Capavari river in Xerem, Brazil, where flooding displaced more than 200 and killed at least one.
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Behind that cloud of hashish smoke is a Muslim devotee paying tribute outside the shrine of Muslim Sufi Saint Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore on the anniversary of the holy man’s death.
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A therapy dog takes a liking to Ringling Bros. clown Genevieve Flati during a visit by circus performers to young patients at Tampa General Hospital in Florida.
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A man struggles against the wind on the French island of La Reunion (near Madagascar), as cyclone Dumile approaches.
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Shiite Muslim worshippers in Karbala, Iraq, beat themselves inside the holy shrine of Imam Hussein as they mark the occasion of the the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson.
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House Speaker John Boehner swears in the new and re-elected members of the 113th Congress on the House floor in Washington DC.
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A rescue vessel traverses the ice-covered Han River in Seoul, South Korea, clearing passage for vessels conducting emergency rescue operations in temperatures as low as 2 degrees Farenheit.
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A boy looks at a tiger made of ice, at the Ice Sculpture festival in Bruges, Belgium.
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Mountain goats square off during a fight in their enclosure at a zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.
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A woman holds her child as they cool off at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
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Clouds from a nearby bushfire are seen over Mount Wellington in Hobart, Australia.
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Anglers try to catch fish on the Galata Bridge during a heavy, early-morning fog in Istanbul.
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Israeli soldiers walk through black smoke rising from burning rubber tires during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
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A boy walks past aluminum buckets displayed for sale on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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A Syrian man uses his mobile phone to capture a child using a megaphone to lead others in chanting Free Syrian Army slogans during a demonstration in Aleppo.
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A large construction vehicle carries remnants of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, NJ.
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Revelers march through an underpass during the Three Kings Day Parade in East Harlem, New York.
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Mathilde Johansson of France serves during her singles match during day seven of the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia.
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Two lions relax in their enclosure at the zoo in Stralsund, Germany.
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