People shield themselves from the blowing snow as a blizzard arrives in the Back Bay neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts on February 8. Massachusetts and other states from New York to Ma...
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People begin to dig out from the big blizzard. Two people ski along Congress Street past the Old State House in Boston, Massachusetts on February 9
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A couple mourns next to a Tunisian flag during the funeral procession for late Chokri Belaid (the secular opposition leader) in the Jebel Jelloud district of Tunis on February 8. Tens of th...
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A man, whose wife was killed in a stampede in Allahabad, India, on February 10, is consoled whilst arranging the release of her body the next day. According to Indian government sources, at...
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Hindu devotees bathe on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India on February 9. The Ku...
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Um Jaafar, a woman fighter in the Free Syrian Army, with her husband Abu Jaafar, a Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) battalion commander, and her daughter Faten at their home in Aleppo, Syria o...
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A little girl is flanked by grooms as she accompanied her father (rear) to register before a mass wedding organised by the government's Home Development Mutual Fund in Quezon City, Metro Ma...
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Revellers use fire extinguishers during a flour fight at the ‘O Entroido’ festival in Spain's northwestern village of Laza on February 11
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Bratislav Stojanovic, a homeless man, holds candles in a tomb which he inhabits, in the southern Serbian town of Nis on February 9. Stojanovic, 43, a Nis-born construction worker, never had...
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An Iberia worker is arrested by a Spanish riot police officer during clashes at Madrid's Barajas Airport on February 18. Workers at the loss-making Spanish flag carrier Iberia began a five-...
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Lightning strikes St Peter's Dome in Vatican City on February 11 as Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign as the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, with effect from Feb...
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The trail of a falling object is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, in this still image taken from a video shot on February 15. A powerful blast rock...
