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Day in photos Polar swimming, New Years celebrations, Key West Red Shoe Drop, shark fins and more.
Jan. 1, 2013
People wearing costumes take part in the Coney Island Polar Bear Club's New Year's Day swim in Brooklyn. The annual event attracts hundreds who brave the icy Atlantic waters and temperatures in the upper 30s as a way to celebrate the first day of the new year.
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Jan. 1, 2013
Thousands of New Year swimmers, many in costume, braved freezing conditions in the River Forth during the annual Loony Dook Swim in South Queensferry, Scotland. Thousands of people gathered last night to see in the New Year at Hogmanay celebrations in towns and cities across Scotland.
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Jan. 1, 2013
Two people enjoy a kiss as they join others in the Loony Dook Swim.
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Jan. 1, 2013
Barbara Seifert of Shorewood, Minn., center left, and Harrison Egerman of Minneapolis take the plunge during the Active Life and Running Club’s New Year’s Ice Dive at Lake Minnetonka in Excelsior, Minn. Seifert has dived 12 times in the event and Egerman, 15 times. More than 1,000 divers took part in the New Year's tradition.
Bruce Bisping
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(Minneapolis) Star Tribune via AP
Jan. 1, 2013
Joe Taylor, left, yells as he rides with others during the 36th annual Ski Freeze in Wolf River harbor in downtown Memphis.
Mike Brown
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(Memphis) Commercial Appeal via AP
Jan. 1, 2013
Duane Griffith is dragged upside down across Wolf River Harbor to barefoot ski backwards during the Ski Freeze in Memphis.
Mike Brown
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Commercial Appeal via AP
Jan. 1, 2013
Maurizio Palmulli of Italy dives into the Tiber River from the Cavour bridge, as part of traditional New Year celebrations. Four men dived the muddy waters of the Tiber from the bridge, continuing an annual tradition which dates back to 1946.
Tony Gentile
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Reuters
Dec. 31, 2012
Gary Marion, portraying female impersonator Sushi, hangs in an oversized replica of a woman's red high heel shoe over Duval Street at the Bourbon Street Pub Complex in Key West, Fla. The Red Shoe Drop has become a New Year’s Eve tradition.
Andy Newman
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Florida Keys News Bureau via Getty Images
Jan. 1, 2013
Jane Goodall, a conservationist and chimpanzee expert, serves as grand marshall during the 124th Annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif.
Jonathan Alcorn
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Reuters
Jan. 1, 2013
Dancers from El Salvador perform during Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif. )
Jonathan Alcorn
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Reuters
Jan. 1, 2013
A reveler dressed as a demon reacts as he performs during the 29th Cochin Carnival at Fort Kochi, in the southern Indian city of Kochi. The carnival is held annually to welcome the start the year.
Sivaram V
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Reuters
Jan. 2, 2013
Women in New Delhi carry placards as they march to mourn the death of a gang rape victim. Since the gang rape was first reported more than two weeks ago, similar protests have broken out across the country. The banners read "India won't tolerate women's insult and We want respect not violence in life."
Dar Yasin
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AP
Jan. 1, 2013
A man prays during a mass for peace held at a cathedral in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. In a matter of weeks, fighters from the country's Seleka rebel coalition took over large swathes of the impoverished equatorial nation. Closing in on the capital, the rebels have called on President Francois Bozize to stand down.
Sia Kambou
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 1, 2013
An Ivory Coast soldier stands next to the belongings of people involved in a deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. At least 61 people were killed early Tuesday in a stampede following a New Year's fireworks display in Ivory Coast's commercial center, said officials. The death toll is expected to rise, according to rescue workers.
Emanuel Ekra
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AP
Jan. 1, 2013
A mother tends to her young son suffering from measles at a Red Cross hospital in the southern Sindh province city of Sukkur, Pakistan. More than 300 Pakistani children died of measles last year, a staggering increase on the previous 12 months and a result of three consecutive years of flooding, officials said. The United Nations' World Health Organization said 306 children died of the highly infectious illness last year, 210 of them in the southern province of Sindh, where the worst floods occurred in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Shahid Ali
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2013
Surrounded by Israeli border police, Jewish settlers from the Esh Kodesh settlement outpost sit in a field in an attempt to prevent Palestinians from farming land in the northern West Bank. Both the settlers and Palestinians living in the area claim ownership of the land.
Majdi Mohammed
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AP
Jan. 1, 2013
Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Tamoun, near Jenin. Palestinians say a raid by Israeli soldiers disguised as vegetable vendors to seize members of a militant group has sparked clashes in the northern West Bank.
Mohammed Ballas
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AP
Dec. 31, 2012
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lights a torch during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Mohamad Torokman
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Reuters
Jan. 2, 2013
A man dries incense in preparation for Tet, the traditional Vietnamese lunar new year, in Hong Chau village, outside Hanoi. Tet is Feb. 9-17.
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Reuters
Dec. 31, 2012
African immigrant workers stand on scaffolding near a watch tower during restoration works of the 17th century fortifications of Valletta, Malta.
Darrin Zammit Lupi
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Reuters
Dec. 31, 2012
Upset with the state of the nation and the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, retired Marine Rick Reed takes down a tattered flag and hangs up a new one upside down — the international sign of distress — outside his home in Chipita Park, Colo. "There's nobody doing anything," Reed said in regard to the fiscal cliff negotiations. "Everyone is trying to be politically correct and I'm not trying to be politically correct. I'm just trying to make a living in this downtrodden economy." Congress passed a compromise bill on Tuesday.
Michael Ciaglo
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Colorado Springs Gazette via AP
Dec. 31, 2012
Revelers gather in Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve on December 31, 2012 in New York. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square.
Monika Graff
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Jan. 2, 2013
More than ten thousand pieces of shark fins are dried on the rooftop of a factory building in Hong Kong. Local sales of the luxurious gourmet food have fallen in recent years due to its controversial nature, but activists demand a total shark fin ban in the city, labeled by some as the shark fin capital of the world.
Bobby Yip
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Reuters
Dec. 31, 2012
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Jayhawk helicopter crew delivers personnel to the Shell oil drilling rig Kulluk, which ran aground southeast of Kodiak, Alaska. Response crews have been fighting severe weather in the Gulf of Alaska while working with the Kulluk and its tow vessel Aiviq. The Kulluk broke away from one of its tow lines and was driven to rocks just off Kodiak Island.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Klingenberg
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U.S. Coast Guard via Reuters
Jan. 1, 2013
A person walks surrounded by fog as the sun rises in Ajmer, India. North India continues to face extreme weather conditions with dense fog affecting flights and trains.
Deepak Sharma
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AP
Dec. 31, 2012
The shadow of Mount Rainier is cast by the rising sun as seen from North Tacoma, Wash.
Peter Callaghan
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(Tacoma) News Tribune via AP
Jan. 1, 2013
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, a Seyfert galaxy. The larger-scale structure of the galaxy is barely visible. But this galaxy, about 45 million light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Fornax, is particularly attractive for astronomers. Lurking at the very centre of the galaxy, a super-massive black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun is gradually sucking in the matter around it. The distinctive ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation due to an inflow of material toward the central bar of the galaxy.
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NASA via Reuters
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