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Day in photos Lovesick parrot, whales trapped in the Hudson Bay, Steve Jobs tribute, President Richard Nixon’s daughters and more.
Jan. 10, 2013
Parrot-owner Abdul Wadud poses with Princess, a macaw, outside a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The lovesick parrot has been on a hunger strike since being parted with her male partner. A court decided Friday it could not reunite the pair due to a dispute between their owners. Princess has refused food since Jan. 3, when her longtime companion Prince was returned to his owner, Iqram Selim, who had left him in the hands of a private zoo in Dhaka for safe keeping five years ago.
Munir Uz Zuman
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AFP/Getty Images
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Jan. 9, 2013
Children play in the snow in Aley, Lebanon. At least 17 people have died due to storms in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Schools in some areas have been shut for days; refugee camps have flooded and villages have been isolated by closed roads.
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Jan. 9, 2013
A stray dog chases geese near a restaurant on Mount Cobenzl in the north of Vienna.
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Reuters
Jan. 10, 2013
Hunter Pavel Vasilyev kneels next to a trapped wolf outside the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic. Local authorities declared a state of emergency and will start a three-month hunting campaign on Jan. 15 to reduce growing population of wolves. Wolves killed more than 16,000 domesticated reindeer last year, according to the regional government.
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Jan. 9, 2013
Three killer whales surface through a breathing hole in the ice of Hudson Bay near the community of Inukjuak, Quebec. The three whales are part of a pod that is trapped in the sea ice of the Hudson Bay. The whales are taking turns breathing through a hole in the ice about the size of a pickup truck. Inukjuak's mayor has called upon the Canadian government to send an icebreaker to save them.
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Reuters
Jan. 10, 2013
A man looks at a recently erected iPhone-shaped monument in memory of Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs at the State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg. The 74-inch-tall interactive glass and metal sculpture, designed by Gleb Tarasov, is a WiFi hotspot and can withstand temperatures as low as minus-22 degrees, according to local media.
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Reuters
An open container of nanopatches is seen in a laboratory in Brisbane, Australia. When it comes to protecting millions of people from deadly infectious diseases, Mark Kendall thinks these fingertip-sized patches, covered in thousands of vaccine-coated microscopic spikes, are the future. After 160 years of using needles and syringes for immunization, he says, at-risk people — especially those living in poorer, tropical, remote countries — need something simpler, stabler and easier to use.
Julian Kingma
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Rolex Awards via Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
A TOSY Robotics robot dances at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. The CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs until Saturday and features 3,100 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 150,000 attendees.
Joe Klamar
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Jan. 9, 2013
A man experiments with MAG 2, a video game gun by G-Mate, at the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas.
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013
Karen Murry of Parker, Colo., stands outside the Colorado State Capital during a rally against gun control legislation organized by Guns for Everyone in Denver. Vice President Biden said Wednesday the White House plans to act quickly to curb gun violence and will explore all avenues — including executive orders that would not require the approval of Congress — to try to prevent incidents like last month's massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Mark Leffingwell
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Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announces a newly launched program aimed at providing security around schools in Anthem, Ariz. Arpaio plans to start deploying a volunteer posse to Phoenix-area schools as part of a new program to boost security for students following the Newtown, Conn., shootings.
Laura Segall
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Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) talks about one of his photographs on display at the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier, Vt. Leahy, an avid photographer, selected a collection of his images for a show titled “The Eye of Senator Leahy – A Front Row Seat to History,” including photos of presidents, world leaders and other people from around the globe.
Toby Talbot
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AP
Jan. 10, 2013
Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson speaks to the media during a briefing upon his arrival from North Korea at Beijing Capital International Airport. Richardson and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt failed to secure the release of a Korean American being held in North Korea since December during a controversial trip to the secretive state.
Petar Kujundzic
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Reuters
Jan. 10, 2013
A woman wails in grief after seeing the slain bodies of her relatives, who were killed during an attack in the Kenyan village of Kibisu. At least 10 people were killed Thursday when armed raiders torched more than a dozen houses in Kenya's restive Tana River area, the Red Cross said, the latest tit-for-tat attack police say is linked to upcoming elections.
Siegfried Modola
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Reuters
Jan. 10, 2013
Women embrace after an attack in Kibisu.
Siegfried Modola
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Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
Buddhist monks launch paper lanterns into the sky at a temple in Thailand’s Suphan Buri province. The lanterns were released during a traditional pilgrimage to pay homage to Buddha and bless Thailand as it enters the new year.
Sukree Sukplang
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Reuters
Jan. 8, 2013
A wildfire near Deans Gap, Australia, crosses the Princes Highway. Firefighters are battling scores of wildfires in southeastern Australia as authorities evacuate national parks and warned that hot, dry and windy conditions were combining to raise the threat to its highest alert level.
James Morris
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New South Wales Rural Fire Service via AP
Jan. 9, 2013
An Israeli firefighter throws a rope to his colleague after they rescued passengers who were swept away in their car during flash floods near Jerusalem. At least 17 people have died due to a winter storm in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Meteorological agencies in Israel and Lebanon have called it the worst storm in 20 years.
Baz Ratner
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Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
Clamshells lie on the drying lakebed of the Itumbiara hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian city of Itumbiara. The dam is running at only 9 percent of capacity due to low water levels, according to the dam's operator. One of the worst droughts in Brazil's history is depriving many dams of the water they need to generate electricity, but Brazil looks less vulnerable today than it did during a similar energy crisis in 2001, as the government has since built dozens of thermoelectric power plants to reduce the country's dependence on hydro power from 88 percent to about 75 percent.
Ueslei Marcelino
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Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
Puppies sit inside a cage at a city dog pound in Mexico City. Authorities have captured dozens of dogs near the scene of four fatal maulings in the capital’s Iztapalapa district. Photos of the dogs brought a wave of sympathy for the animals, doubts about their involvement in the killings and debate about the government’s handling of the stray dog problem.
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AP
Jan. 8, 2013
Enrique Martinez shows a photograph of his brother Samuel, who according to authorities was killed by feral dogs on Saturday, during an interview at his home in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City. The fatal mauling of four people by feral dogs in a Mexico City park set off debate Tuesday about the city's relationship with its dog population, and the guilt or innocence of 25 animals trapped near the scene of the nightmarish killings.
Eduardo Verdugo
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AP
Jan. 9, 2013
A patient lies under a mosquito net at a dengue fever ward in a hospital in the Paraguayan city of Villa Elisa. Paraguay's Health Ministry declared an epidemic alert in the entire country after some 400 new cases of dengue fever were reported between Wednesday and Thursday, totaling more than 6,000 confirmed cases with 70 deaths in the past three months.
Jorge Adorno
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Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013
Retired boxer Mike Tyson signs autographs at the SMS Audio booth at the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas.
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Jan. 9, 2013
Tricia Nixon Cox, left, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughters of President Richard Nixon, attend a reception at the Richard Nixon Centennial Birthday Gala at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Jan. 9, 2013
An injured passenger of the Seastreak Wall Street ferry is aided by firefighters in New York. The ferry, from Atlantic Highlands, N.J., banged into the mooring as it arrived at South Street in lower Manhattan, injuring as many as 50 people, at least one critically, officials said.
Richard Drew
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AP
Jan. 9, 2013
Tulips begin to sprout on the corner of Arlington Heights Road and Northwest Highway in an unseasonably warm Arlington Heights, Ill.
Bob Chwedyk
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Daily Herald via AP
Jan. 10, 2013
Adelheid, a cane toad, leans against a toy scale during the annual inventory at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. Employees of the zoo counted 3,306 animals from 247 species.
Jochen Lübke
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AFP/Getty Images
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