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Feb. 6, 2012
A worker puts the final touches on a float with the giant figure of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during preparations for the Nice Carnival parade in Nice, France. The 128th Nice Carnival will start on Feb. 17 and end March 4, and the theme for this year's parade is "King of Sport.”
Eric Gaillard
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Reuters
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Feb. 6, 2012
Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk Richard Jewson, left, head teacher Gayle Platt, center, and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II laugh together as the queen visits Dersingham Infant and Nursery School in Dersingham, England, to mark the start of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Queen Elizabeth II renewed her vow to serve on Feb. 6 as she marked her 60th year on the throne.
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Feb. 6, 2012
A schoolboy bows to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in front of a display as she visits Dersingham Infant and Nursery School in Dersingham, England, to mark the start of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, which will last for five months.
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Feb. 6, 2012
Members of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery prepare to fire a 41-gun salute in Hyde Park to mark the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in London. The 41-gun salute also signifies the official start to the celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
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Feb. 6, 2012
Fireworks explode in the air to celebrate the Lantern Festival, which traditionally marks the end of Lunar New Year celebrations, in Beijing.
Lintao Zhang
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Feb. 6, 2012
A lantern show takes place at the Lantern Festival, which traditionally marks the end of Lunar New Year celebrations, in Beijing.
Lintao Zhang
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Feb. 7, 2012
A swan sits on partly frozen water in the Strasbourg harbor in France as sub-freezing temperatures continue to hit Europe.
Vincent Kessler
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Reuters
Feb. 7, 2012
A bargeman uses a pole to break up ice around the hull of his blocked barge on the partially frozen Saint Quentin Canal in Cambrai, France.
Pascal Rossignol
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Reuters
Feb. 6, 2012
Huts are covered with snow on Maiensaess Lafet mountain above Castiel, Switzerland. Europe has been hit by a cold spell, with temperatures plummeting far below zero.
Arno Balzarini
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AP
Feb. 7, 2012
Smoke rises from chimneys on a cold winter morning near Weimar, Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
Feb. 7, 2012
Emergency workers and volunteers remove a dead calf in the village of Biser, Bulgaria. A dam wall broke and flooded the village in southern Bulgaria after a heavy rain and snow melt. Four people drowned and more than 50 were evacuated, the Interior Ministry said. Four more people died when their cars were swept away by high water.
Stoyan Nenov
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Reuters
Feb. 6, 2012
A man stands next to a collapsed house in the flooded village of Biser, Bulgaria. At least eight people died as torrential rains and overflowing rivers broke a dam wall and swept through villages in southern Bulgaria on Monday, officials said.
Bulfoto
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Feb. 6, 2012
A man who suffered frostbite sits in a hospital in Kiev, Ukraine.
Gleb Garanich
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Reuters
Feb. 7, 2012
Soldiers ride their motorcycles past a road destroyed by an earthquake in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Rescuers searched for 29 residents of a mountainside community feared dead after a landslide, triggered by an earthquake, engulfed their homes. The magnitude-6.7 quake struck on the central Philippine island of Negros. Fifteen people are known to have been killed while several remote towns have been cut off because of damage to roads and bridges.
Erik De Castro
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Reuters
Feb. 7, 2012
A man shouts into a tiny hole in a pile of rubble after rescuers heard a voice from a survivor in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Erik De Castro
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Reuters
Feb. 7, 2012
Pakistani fishermen use cranes to pull the carcass of a whale shark from the waters at a fish harbor in Karachi, Pakistan. The 40-foot whale was found dead in the Arabian Sea in the port city of Karachi.
Asif Hassan
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 6, 2012
An Indian man paddles a raft to a concrete island, meant to be part of an overpass construction project but now derelict, as he searches for items to salvage in the holy Yamuna River, in New Delhi. The Yamuna River is one of the world's most polluted rivers and supplies more than 60 percent of the water needed by the Delhi region.
Kevin Frayer
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AP
Feb. 7, 2012
A devotee has his body pierced with hooks before taking part in the Thaipusam procession at Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Singapore. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated on the full moon in the month of Tamil. Devotees pray and make vows, which they fulfill by piercing parts of their body such as their cheeks, tongues and backs before carrying a “Kavadi,” or physical burden, along a two-mile route.
Chris McGrath
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Feb. 6, 2012
A worshiper pierces his cheeks with metal skewers during the Cap Go Meh festival that marks the end of Lunar New Year celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Tatan Syuflana
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AP
Feb. 6, 2012
A man looks for a dress at the workshop of costume designer Stefano Nicolao in downtown Venice. Nicolao is one of the biggest costume designers in Venice, with more than 10,000 costumes designed for the theater, for the cinema and for renting during the Venice carnival.
Tony Gentile
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Reuters
Feb. 6, 2012
A craftsman prepares a template for carnival masks at a factory assembly line in Sao Goncalo, near Rio de Janeiro. A total of 250,000 masks will be made for the upcoming "Brazil Carnaval" festival from Feb. 18 to 21, according to the manufacturer.
Sergio Moraes
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Reuters
Feb. 6, 2012
Hungarian acrobats of the Duo la Vision troupe perform during the Capital Circus of Budapest gala.
Attila Kisbenedek
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2012
Former British two-time Olympic gold medalist and London 2012 Olympic chairman Seb Coe, back center, smiles as he participates in a sporting event at the Kibasila Secondary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Coe is in the country for a two-day inspirational tour ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games to meet students participating in a London Olympic Games global sports development program.
Khalfan Said
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AP
Feb. 6, 2012
Academy Award Best Actor nominees Jean Dujardin, left, of "The Artist," and George Clooney, of "The Descendants," are shown during a group photo of nominees at the 31st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 84th Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Feb. 26.
Chris Pizzello
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AP
Feb. 6, 2012
"Extra" hosts Mario Lopez, right, and Maria Menounos, who is an avid New England Patriots fan, makes good on her Super Bowl bet with her fellow show correspondent, Giants fan A.J. Calloway, and bares all in a New York Giants Bikini in Times Square in New York. The Giants beat the Patriots 21-17 in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
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Feb. 6, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum speaks at the Cable Center in Denver, one day before the Colorado caucuses.
Chris Carlson
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AP
Feb. 6, 2012
Anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. The United States closed its Syrian embassy on Monday in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts at the U.N. to end the crisis collapsed.
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Feb. 6, 2012
A wounded girl sits next to her mother in Baba Amro, a neighborhood in Homs, Syria. Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city, which has become a center of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.
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Reuters
Feb. 6, 2012
A wounded man flashes a victory sign in Baba Amro, a neighborhood of Homs, Syria.
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Reuters
Feb. 7, 2012
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is seen inside a car as pro-Syrian regime protesters cheer in Damascus, Syria. Thousands of Syrians waving Russian flags cheered Russia's foreign minister as he arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for talks with embattled President Bashar al-Assad on the country's escalating violence, as activists reported a fourth day of gunfire in Homs and worsening humanitarian conditions.
Bassem Tellawi
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AP
Feb. 6, 2012
A masked Egyptian protester is seen during clashes with riot police near the Interior Ministry in Cairo. One protester was killed in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt.
Mahmud Hams
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 6, 2012
The moon is seen through the branches of a tree in Gaiberg, Germany.
Daniel Roland
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 6, 2012
A satellite view of Antarctica is seen. Russian scientists are close to drilling into the prehistoric sub-glacier Lake Vostok, which has been trapped under Antarctic ice for 14 million years.
NASA
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Reuters
Feb. 3, 2012
Jessica Moss, of the North Carolina children’s museum KidSenses, takes Boiling Springs Elementary School students on a trip through space in the traveling planetarium in Shelby, N.C. KidSenses offers the traveling planetarium so schools save money and a school day from not having to travel for a field trip.
Brittany Randolph
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AP
Feb. 6, 2012
A view of the eastern hemisphere of earth from space is shown. NASA's second “Blue Marble” image was created from data acquired by a new instrument aboard the Earth-observing satellite Suomi NPP.
NASA
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Reuters
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