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Day in photos The discovery of a king, the cremation of another, gun violence, climbing a hotel in Cuba and more.
Feb.4, 2013
Sri Lankan Navy personnel fire a 21-gun salute on the capital's seafront Galle Face promenade in Colombo to mark the island nation's 65th Independence Day. Sri Lanka issued a thinly veiled denunciation of Western moves to pass a new resolution against the island at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Ishara S.Kodikara
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Feb. 4, 2013
A woman releases sparrows as an offering to mourn Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh. Sihanouk's body had been lying in state at the Royal Palace after being flown from Beijing where he died Oct. 15 of a heart attack at the age of 89. The cremation, the climax of seven days of mourning, took place Monday.
Wong Maye-E
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AP
Feb. 4, 2013
French daredevil Alain Robert scales the Habana Libre hotel in Havana without using ropes or a safety net. Once the city's Hilton, Robert was able to reach the top of the 27-story building in 30 minutes.
Ramon Espinosa
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AP
Feb.4, 2013
Robert, known as the French Spiderman, has climbed more than 100 of the world's tallest buildings, including the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Sears Tower in Chicago and the 88-story Jin Mao Building in Shanghai,
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Feb.4, 2013
Robert reaches into his chalk bag as he scales the Habana Libre. He says his main concern was that the hotel is in disrepair like other Havana landmarks.
Ramon Espinosa
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AP
Feb.4, 2013
An apartment block of the "23 de Enero" neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, is seen through a banner of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Chavez is still in Cuba recovering from a cancer surgery, and since Dec. 8, he has not been seen in public.
Jorge Silva
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Reuters
Feb.4, 2013
An Afghan woman begs for alms as she sits on a slush-filled road as snow falls in Kabul. As winter sets in across Central Asia, many Afghans struggle to provide adequate food and shelter for their families.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb.4, 2013
An Egyptian man cries outside Omar Makram Mosque in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the funeral of Egyptian activists Amro Saad and Mohammed al-Guindi. Saad died in clashes during anti-government protests on Feb.1, while Guindi, 28, went missing last month after joining protests demanding change on the second anniversary of Egypt's uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak and then slipped into a coma following days in police custody, according to the health ministry and his party.
Gianluigi Guercia
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb.4, 2013
Mourners carry the coffin of Mohammed al-Guindi, one of two Egyptian activists, during the funeral outside Omar Makram Mosque in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Gianluigi Guercia
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 4 2013
These remains, found underneath a parking lot last September at the Grey Friars excavation in Leicester, England, have been declared "beyond reasonable doubt" to be the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years.Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet monarchs of Britain, was killed at the battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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University of Leicester via AP
Feb.5, 2013
A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is displayed at a news conference in central London. The reconstruction is based on a CT scan of the human remains found in September. Richard III was immortalized in a play by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies, including those of his two young nephews that he ordered murdered in the Tower of London, on his way to the throne.
Andrew Winning
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Reuters
Feb.4, 2013
Malta's Prime Minister and Nationalist Party leader Lawrence Gonzi stands in front of a cosmetics poster while visiting Toly Products, which manufactures packaging components for cosmetic companies, at the Bulebel industrial estate outside Valletta. National elections will take place in Malta on March 9.
Darrin Zammit Lupi
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Reuters
Feb.5, 2013
An office worker with a shopping bag is reflected on the roof of a building in central Sydney. The photo is rotated 180 degrees. Australia’s central bank has decided to keep its benchmark interest rates at a record low 3 percent, in hopes of boosting the economy.
Daniel Munoz
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Reuters
Feb.3, 2013
A Cambodian girl sell sweet sticky rice cooked in a bamboo called ''Khao Laam'' for people who come to pray and pay their respect for the late former king Norodom Sihanouk near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. Thousands of Cambodians have paid their last respects to their beloved former king.
Nicolas Asfouri
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb.4, 2013
A Pakistani man arranges cauliflowers at a vegetable market in Lahore. Year-on-year inflation stood at 6.9 percent in November, the State Bank of Pakistan said in a statement, a faster fall than had been estimated. Food inflation dropped to 5.3 percent and non-food inflation to 8.1 percent.
Arif Ali
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AFP/Getty Images
Feb.4, 2013
An Afghan boy looks out from a photo studio in Kabul.
Omar Sobhani
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Reuters
Feb.4, 2013
A child looks across the frozen Yenisei River in the taiga area about 30 miles south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
Feb.5, 2013
Workers check on electricity pylon situated amid farmlands in Chuzhou, in China’s Anhui province. A leading think tank of China predicted that China's economy will grow in 2013 at a rate of 8.4 percent, up by 0.6 percentage points from that of 2012, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
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China Daily via Reuters
Feb. 4, 2013
Cambodian mourners cry and pray outside a crematorium as the late King Norodom Sihanouk is cremated in Phnom Penh. Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Cambodia's capital Monday for the cremation of Sihanouk, the revered "King-Father," who survived wars and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime to hold center stage in the Southeast Asian nation for more than half a century.
David Guttenfelder
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AP
Feb.4, 2013
A boy poses for a photo under a tree decorated with red lanterns after a snowfall, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Ditan Park in Beijing . The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on Feb.10 and marks the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Jason Lee
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Reuters
Feb.4, 2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy review a guard of honor at the Chancellery in Berlin.
Fabrizio Bensch
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Reuters
Feb.4, 2013
Tahitah Myles is supported by a friend as she collapses while viewing the body of Ronnie Chambers, 33, the father of her son and a victim of gun violence in Chicago. Chambers was the last of Shirley Chambers’s four children: three boys and a girl. All were victims of gun violence in Chicago over a period of 18 years.
John Gress
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Reuters
Feb.4, 2013
President Obama boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews as he departs Washington to travel to Minneapolis, where he delivered speeches about ways to curb gun violence.
Kevin Lamarque
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Reuters
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