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Day in photos Epiphany Day, New Year’s dive, rescued barn owls, Sherlock Holmes’s birthday, French zoo protest and more.
Jan. 6, 2013
Greek Orthodox men reach out to retrieve a wooden crucifix in Istanbul’s Golden Horn during Epiphany Day celebrations.
Osman Orsal
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Reuters
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Jan. 7, 2013
Servicemen of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special unit line up to kiss an Orthodox cross after a service at a military base in Minsk, Belarus. Most Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar, two weeks after most Western Christian churches, which abide by the Gregorian calendar.
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
People skate on chained sleds on a frozen lake in Beijing. Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, official media said over the weekend. Since late November the country has been struck by temperatures of an average of 25 degrees below zero, the chilliest in 28 years, state news agency Xinhua said Saturday, citing the China Meteorological Administration.
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Jan. 7, 2013
Students practice defending themselves with brooms during an anti-violence exercise at a primary school in Rugao, in China’s Jiangsu province. According to local media, around 700 students and their teachers took part in the exercise Sunday.
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Jan. 6, 2013
A reveler takes part in the Devil's Carnival in Riosucio, Colombia. UNESCO has named Riosucio's Carnival, which takes place every two years, an Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Fredy Amariles
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2013
An actor portraying the Holly Man arrives at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre during Twelfth Night celebrations in London. A troupe of actors took part in the celebration’s wassail event, an ancient English tradition for waking the apple trees and scaring away evil spirits in order to ensure there will be a good harvest the next autumn.
Chris Helgren
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Reuters
Jan. 5, 2013
With temperatures around 46 degrees, a man jumps into the North Sea during the traditional New Year's Dive in Ostend, Belgium.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert
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AP
Jan. 5, 2013
A humpback whale breaches along the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
Stephen M. Katz
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Virginian-Pilot via AP
Jan. 5, 2013
From left: Jason Chapman, Corey Hetrick and Eric Henderson climb an ice-covered silo on a farm west of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Climbers have been scaling the silo each winter since 2001 — an idea started by University of Northern Iowa physical education instructor Don Briggs.
Matthew Putney
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Waterloo Courier via AP
Jan. 6, 2013
A man dressed in traditional Befana costume competes in the Regatta of Befane (witches' race) on the Grand Canal in Venice.
Manuel Silvestri
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Reuters
Jan. 5, 2013
People pass by a toppled fiberglass dinosaur at the abandoned Spreepark in the Plaenterwald district of Berlin. The German capital is littered with relics of its communist past, and one of the eeriest is the Spreepark, where the remains of what was once East Germany's only amusement park still stands.
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Reuters
Jan. 7, 2013
Ashok Joshi, an inspector with the Indian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), holds two injured barn owls that had been found entangled in kite string in Amritsar, India.
Narinder Nanu
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2013
Boys participate in an attempt to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records at a field in Titabar, a town in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. A total of 14,833 Assamese people played the drums for 15 minutes nonstop, organizers said.
Utpal Baruah
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Reuters
Jan. 7, 2013
Participants fly a large heart-shaped kite at the International Kite Festival in Mumbai.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Jan. 5, 2013
Visitors attend the opening ceremony of the 2013 Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 5, 2013
Master of ceremonies Doug Parrott leads a torchlit procession to an orchard during the wassailing ceremony at Old Mill Farm in Bolney, England. In this ancient ritual, villagers surround the oldest and largest tree in the orchard and drive the evil spirits out, encouraging good spirits to produce a bountiful apple crop for the following year's cider drink.
Peter Macdiarmid
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Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2013
Children sing a hymn during a midnight Christmas service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia.
David Mdzinarishvili
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Reuters
Jan. 5, 2013
People dress up as characters from Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle's stories as they celebrate the birthday of detective Sherlock Holmes, one of Doyle's most famous fictional characters, in Riga, Latvia. From 1979 to 1986, most of the episodes of a Soviet TV adaptation of ”The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson” were shot in Riga.
Ints Kalnins
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Members of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association display their balancing skills atop bamboo ladders during a New Year’s demonstration by the fire brigade in Tokyo.
Toru Hanai
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Reuters
Jan. 5, 2013
A dummy dressed up in army fatigues and a mask of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stands in the Salaheddine neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. Saudi Arabia and Egypt called for a peaceful solution to the conflict, but said the terms of a settlement to end the bloodshed there must be defined by the Syrian people.
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2013
Young men from the Central African Republic’s Jeunes Patriotes movement, which is supportive of President Francois Bozize, listen to a speech encouraging them to guard against rebels attacks at the football stadium in the nation’s capital, Bangui.
Luc Gnago
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
A woman dressed in an elephant costume holds a sign during a protest the Tete d'Or zoo in Lyon, France. Elephants named Baby and Nepal, owned by a touring circus and thought to be carrying tuberculosis, are currently housed in the Tete d'Or zoo, and were ordered to be put down by a court in Lyon. The sign reads, “No to euthanasia of Nepal and Baby.”
Robert Pratta
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
Elephants named Baby and Nepal, owned by a touring circus and thought to be carrying tuberculosis, walk around their enclosure in the Tete d'Or zoo in Lyon. French screen star Brigitte Bardot on Friday threatened to ask for a Russian passport in protest against the treatment of the two elephants, who were ordered to be put down by a court in Lyon.
Robert Pratta
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Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013
The Plosky Tolbachnik volcano erupts in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The volcano last erupted in 1976.
Alexander Petrov
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AP
Jan. 5, 2013
Sgt. Dennis Stough and his daughter Savannah hold hands at a deployment ceremony in Huntsville, Ala., for the Alabama Army National Guard 128th Military Police Company, which is leaving for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Bob Gathany
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AL.com via AP
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