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Photo: ANDY CLARK/REUTERS
Speed skater Cindy Klassen of Canada tightens her
skate laces during a training session before the Vancouver 2010 Winter
Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Games begin February
12.
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Photo: PHILIPPE MERLE/AFP/Getty Images
Around 300 people, most of them employees of
German industrial group Siemens, their faces covered with a mask, and
wearing black outfits march in line as they demonstrate against a
scheduled lay off at the Saint Chamond Siemens plant in Saint Chamond,
France.
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Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
A Kashmiri muslim man negotiates curfew imposed
streets in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Soldiers dressed in riot gear
patrolled the streets of Srinagar after an informal curfew was imposed
in order to quell the recent unrest sparked by the death of a teenage
boy last Sunday.
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Photo: ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS
A man talks on a mobile phone after the evening
prayer inside a mosque at the shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya in
New Delhi.
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Photo: ADREES LATIF/REUTERS
Revellers watch as a devotee dances outside the
mausoleum of Data Ganj Bakhsh during a three-day festival commemorating
the anniversary of Sufi saint's death in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Photo: ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS
Students in lion dance costumes perform along a
main street in Manila in preparations for Chinese New Year celebrations
on February 14.
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Photo: YIORGOS KARAHALIS/REUTERS
People wait to be served steaks at Athens' meat
market, during the Tsiknopempti holiday in Athens. People celebrate
this holiday by partaking in a feast of meat, before the start of a
lent on Ash Monday, 40 days before celebrating the Orthodox Easter.
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Photo: LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS
Light trails made by a passing bus illuminate the night sky in front of Britain's Houses of Parliament in London.
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Photo: RADOVAN STOKLASA/REUTERS
Residents of the small Slovakian village of
Mikusovce build a giant snowman. The 6 metre-high snowman is the
largest to be built in Slovakia and will qualify for entry into the
Slovakian Book of Records.
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Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
An armadillo prepares to cross a gravel road as
the space shuttle Endeavour rests on the launch pad at Kennedy Space
Center before the scheduled launch of STS-130 in Cape Canaveral,
Florida. The STS-130 will launch on February 7, 2010.
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Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images
A man carries a girl through a flooded street in
the Arenal neighbourhood of Mexico City. Heavy rains swelled the canal
of Bordo Xochiaca causing the wall to collapse.
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Photo: ANDY CLARK/REUTERS
Speed skater Cindy Klassen of Canada tightens her
skate laces during a training session before the Vancouver 2010 Winter
Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Games begin February
12.
-
Photo: PHILIPPE MERLE/AFP/Getty Images
Around 300 people, most of them employees of
German industrial group Siemens, their faces covered with a mask, and
wearing black outfits march in line as they demonstrate against a
scheduled lay off at the Saint Chamond Siemens plant in Saint Chamond,
France.
