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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