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Jan. 19, 2012
A woman is helped while taking a dip in the icy waters of the Bazaikha River after the Orthodox Epiphany service, with the air temperature at about minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit, in the suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Orthodox Christians celebrate the religious holiday of Epiphany according to the Julian calendar on Jan. 19.
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Jan. 19, 2012
A woman prepares to take a dip in icy waters of the Ob River in sub-zero temperatures during Orthodox Epiphany celebrations in the city of Barnaul, Russia.
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Jan. 19, 2012
People plunge into ice-cold water to mark Orthodox Epiphany in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Jan. 19, 2012
People enact a battle as part of celebrations for the Orthodox Epiphany in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Jan. 19, 2012
A woman gets out after dipping into the icy waters of a lake near the village of Pilnitsa, Belarus.
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Jan. 19, 2012
Servicemen of the Belarusian Interior Ministry's special unit pose for a picture after they dipped into the icy waters of a lake near the village of Zadomlia, about 25 miles east of Minsk, Belarus.
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Jan. 19, 2012
Divers perform a dragon dance during an event to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year at the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium. The Lunar New Year begins on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac.
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Jan. 17, 2012
An Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician is hoisted to an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter attached to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. The Stennis is deployed to the Arabian Sea.
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Jan. 19, 2012
Keeper Robert Donoso counts jellyfish in an aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. The annual inventory of the thousands of sea creatures is necessary to see if they grow correctly and get enough food.
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Jan. 18, 2012
The head of S.O.S Rescate de Fauna Marina, Richard Tesore, takes a bath with a 15-day-old male baby seal in the sea before feeding it near the sea side resort of Piriapolis in Uruguay.
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Jan. 19, 2012
An Indian man shares his shawl with a stray dog in Ahmedabad, India, on a cold morning. A cold wave continued across northern India, claiming 165 lives this winter.
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Jan. 19, 2012
Students make their way across a damaged suspension bridge to go to their school on the other side of Ciberang River in Lebak, Indonesia. The bridge was badly damaged after it was hit by a flood last week.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Two Israeli Ethiopian youths have their faces painted as they take part in a demonstration against racism and discrimination in Jerusalem. Thousands of young Ethiopian immigrants and other supporters gathered on Wednesday outside the Israeli parliament to protest racism directed at them.
Sebastian Scheiner
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Jan. 17, 2012
Anti-Syrian regime protesters chant slogans and flash the victory sign as they march during a demonstration at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border. As diplomats debated, opposition activists said Syrian troops shelled the mountain resort town of Zabadani, which has come under the control of army defectors. Syria's powerful Russian ally said Wednesday it would block any attempt by the West to secure U.N. support for the use of force against the regime in Damascus, Syria, which is under intense international pressure to end its deadly crackdown on dissent.
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Jan. 19, 2012
An employee poses with a Mercedes-shaped coffin from Ghana at the Southbank Center in London. An exhibition entitled "Boxed: Fabulous Coffins from U.K. and Ghana" runs at the center from Jan. 20 to 29.
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Jan. 19, 2012
An employee poses with a guitar-shaped coffin at the Southbank Center in London.
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Jan. 19, 2012
A lion-shaped coffin is seen at the Southbank Center in London.
Stefan Wermuth
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Jan. 19, 2012
An employee stands next to a cocoa-pod shaped coffin from Ghana at the Southbank Center in London.
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Jan. 18, 2012
One of the crew members, second left, who survived the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster is welcomed by relatives at the Lima, Peru, airport. About 44 Peruvians were part of the crew of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Angel Paredes, right, one of the crew members that survived the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster, is welcomed by relatives at the airport in Lima, Peru.
Mariana Bazo
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Jan. 19, 2012
Serena Williams of the United States yells in frustration during her second-round match against Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Williams eventually won the match 6-0, 6-4.
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Jan. 17, 2012
Gwen Leggett, from Tampa, visits a new gallery display at the Hillsborough Community College Dale Mabry Campus art gallery titled "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats" during a reception in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival. The photographer, Michael Cunningham, was on hand for the reception and book signing.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Men with Cabot Oil & Gas work on a natural gas valve at a hydraulic fracturing site in South Montrose, Pa. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, stimulates gas production by injecting wells with high volumes of chemical-laced water in order to free up pockets of natural gas below. The process is controversial with critics, who say it could poison water supplies, while the natural-gas industry says it's been used safely for decades.
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Jan. 18, 2012
A window of a home displays an outdoor motif in struggling downtown Binghamton, N.Y. Binghamton is at the epicenter of the hydraulic fracturing debate in the state. While New York state has yet to decide whether to allow fracking, economically struggling Binghamton has passed a drilling ban, which prohibits any exploration or extraction of natural gas in the city for the next two years. The Marcellus Shale Gas Field extends through parts of New York state, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and could hold up to 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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Jan. 18, 2012
A truck with the natural gas industry, one of thousands that pass through the area daily, drives through the countryside to a hydraulic fracturing site in Springville, Pa.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Ray Kemble delivers fresh water to a home that had its water contaminated due to hydraulic fracturing in Dimock, Pa.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), left, gestures next to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) during a GOP news conference about the Keystone XL pipeline decision on Capitol Hill. Boehner said on Wednesday that Republicans in Congress will continue to fight for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline that the Obama administration rejected.
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Jan. 18, 2012
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney hands out flags as they wait for his arrival at a campaign rally at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs after receiving a Los Angeles Lakers basketball jersey as a gift from global cultural ambassador and former NBA basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at the State Department in Washington. Abdul-Jabbar will travel the world to engage a generation of young people to help promote diplomacy.
Jacquelyn Martin
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Jan. 18, 2012
Protesters hold signs at the Occupy London camp outside St. Paul's Cathedral. The City of London Corp. has won its legal battle to have the Occupy London movement removed from the pavements outside St .Paul's.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Jorge Mendoza, 13, left, adds snow to a snow hut he and his brother Luis, 11, are building in front of their Kennewick, Wash., home. A winter storm blasted the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday, dumping near-record amounts of snow in some areas, hammering parts of Oregon with winds as high as 110 mph and bringing much of the region to a standstill.
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Jan. 18, 2012
A truck skid off a road after it left an off-ramp of Interstate 5 near Nisqually, Wash., during a snowstorm. Heavy snow from a winter storm clogged roadways in the area and led to widespread school and business closures.
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Jan. 18, 2012
Collin Beritich shovels snow off the roof of the Frisko Freeze hamburger stand in Tacoma, Wash.
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Jan. 17, 2012
The Big Lake community, east of Mount Vernon, Wash., is covered in snow. From Olympia, Wash., to the Oregon coast, schools are closed, roads are clogged with snow and hundreds of accidents, and dozens of flights have been canceled as a winter system battered the Pacific Northwest.
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Jan. 18, 2012
A winter snow inspires Lincoln neighborhood residents to take an early morning walk in Vancouver, Wash.
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