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.
EPA
