Austria’s Gregor Schlierenzauer flies through a training jump at the Men’s Large Hill Ski Jumping event at the FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships in Predazzo, Italy.
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Just another day in the neighborhood for this guy, strolling past a Damascus house damaged by Syrian government forces.
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Buddhist monks pray at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Makha Bucha Day.
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A woman walks through a creation by Argentinean artist Julio Le Parc at a preview of the artist’s exhibition ‘Soleil Froid’ (or cold sun) at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
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A Palestinian protester throws stones during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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Jason Price and his son Dorian, age 4, arrive at the Peoria Sports Complex before an exhibition game between the Seattle Mariners and the Los Angeles Angels in Peoria, Ariz.
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Pakistanis crossing a Karachi street darkened in a nationwide power outage that lasted over two hours.
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Members of dance troupe Fighters perform during the Battle Four by Four breakdancing competition at the Fine Arts theater in Guatemala City.
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A Hindu priest washes his face with seawater during a religious ceremony called Melasti in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Thijs Glas admires frozen hydrangeas in a nursery garden in Heerhugowaard, Netherlands. Glas sprayed the plants to freeze the buds, a method of protecting them from the freezing night.
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Hot-air balloons rise into the sky over Goreme National Park in Goreme, Turkey.
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Filipino protesters push back against the shields of riot cops sent to quell a demonstration outside the US embassy in Manila. The protesters are calling for the immediate withdrawal of American troops stationed there.
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Six-year-old Theresa looks at a fried egg jellyfish at SeaLife Aquarium in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews are covered in foam from some messy celebration of the festival of Purim in Jerusalem.
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Indian commuters hang out of the door of a packed local line in Calcutta, India.
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A trio of nuns walk through St Peter’s Square in Vatican City as the Catholic Church prepares for Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement later this week.
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Dancer perform with Honduran singer Angela Bendeck (not pictured) during competition at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Chile.
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Boys play in floodwaters outside a school in Narathiwat province, Thailand.
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A parrot grabs a snack from a bush on the outskirts of Guwahati, India.
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Granddaughters of the late Stephen Knapp, Alyssa, left, and Sabrina, leave roses at the Sept. 11th Memorial in New York during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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Workers wash the glass roof of the National Grand Theatre in Beijing, China.
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Goodyear workers burn tires outside the company’s Amiens, France, plant in protest of plans to close the money-losing site, which employs 1,173.
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An upside-down and costumed Andrew Garfield films a scene for ‘The Amazing Spiderman 2’ in Midtown Manhattan.
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Miami defensive back Brandon McGee misses a diving grab during drills at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.
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Chardon, Ohio, High School students march to a memorial ceremony for three classmates killed in a shooting one year ago. The march ended at the courthouse where shooter T.J. Lane, 18, pleaded guilty to all charges.
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A paraglider soars through the clouds, past the summit of The Kramer near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
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A student protester shields himself from the baton of a member of the national police during demonstrations against government secrecy in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Chocolate Labrador Chloe totes a large stick on a walk with owner Dave Carcaterro in the snowy streets of Clarence, NY.
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An employee returns a Yangtze alligator to a pool after an examination at a conservation area in Huzhou, China. Around 50 of the reptiles will be reintroduced to the wild in early April.
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel bows after speaking to service members and civilian employees at the Pentagon on his first day.
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A firefighter walks through the still-burning Merced market during an early morning blaze at what is Mexico City’s biggest traditional marketplace.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful as he arrives in St Peter’s Square to hold his last general audience at the Vatican.
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Lavern Heitzman clears snow from his driveway in Dubuque, Iowa, as a massive snowstorm continues to bury the country’s midsection.
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Supporters of Yemen’s ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, scale flagpoles during a rally in Sanaa marking a year since his handover of power.
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State Police inspect a crashed bus in Georgetown, Mass, that was carrying University of Maine basketball players.The driver and several students were hurt when the bus hit a stand of trees alongside I-95.
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A model presents a pom-pom-like creation by Gareth Pugh at the designer’s fall/winter collection show in Paris.
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A laborer sorts watermelons at the Gaddiannaram market in Hyderabad, India, on the day the country’s government earmarked $1.9B to combat malnutrition.
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The Eiffel Tower shines into a foggy Paris night.
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Pope Benedict XVI leaves after greeting the faithful and delivering his last public blessing as pope from the balcony window of the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo.
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Greenhouses in the village of Monospitovo, Macedonia, sit flooded following three days of torrential rains in the Strumica Valley.
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A fisherman works at sunrise on Pusong Beach in Lhok Seumawe, Indonesia.
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House Speaker John Boehner sneers at a question from reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill to discuss tomorrow’s sequester.
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Circus trainer Wang Yun smooches six-year-old black bear Lisa in Shanghai, China.
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Chinese special cops run through an anti-terror drill in Huaibei.
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Five-year-old Jasper Cords rides a swing at a West Richland, Wash., playground.
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Gun owners and advocates rally against the New York’s new gun-control laws outside the capitol in Albany.
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A bird sits perched on the barbed wire that surrounds the Jilava prison, near Bucharest, Romania.
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Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian man during a protest outside Ofer — an Israeli military prison near Ramallah — in support of Palestinian prisoners.
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