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Flock of teals, aluminum protest, snowman (15 images)

8 February

SOUTH_KOREA_Baikal_teal_flock

A massive flock of Baikal teals fly over Geumgang Lake in Gunsan, South Korea on Monday. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

Arkansas_snowman

A snowman sits in the middle of a road on Monday, in Mountain Home, Ark. Snow fell over northern Ark., Monday, with some area receiving nearly 10 inches. (AP Photo/The Baxter Bulletin, Kevin Pieper)

INDIA_watermelon_market

A worker walks over watermelons at a wholesale fruit market in Hyderabad, India on Monday. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A)

BOEING_FREIGHTER_jumbo_jet

Engines on the Boeing 747-8 Freighter are started just prior to the plane's first flight on Monday, in Everett, Wash. The 747-8 is the largest jumbo jet Boeing has built. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

TRAIN_DERAILMENT_Kenosha

Part of a Union Pacific train is seen after derailing on Monday, in Kenosha, Wis. Police in Kenosha County say no one was injured after about 24 Union Pacific freight cars derailed. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Gregory Shaver)

INDIA_MONKEY_car

A monkey tries to climb on a car in Nadani, at Jammu-Srinagar highway, India on Monday. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

BRITIAN_aluminum_protest

Amnesty International campaigners wrapped in aluminum foil protest outside Vedanta Resources, central London, to highlight their claims of human rights abuses linked to Vedanta's aluminum refinery in Orissa, India on Monday. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld)

CZECH_endangered_golden_takin

One of three new-born endangered golden takin (budorcas taxicolor bedfordi) calfs is seen with an adult at the Zoo in Liberec, some 62 miles north of Prague, Czech Republic. The golden takins' herd in Liberec is the only one kept in captivity besides those in China and Japan. (AP Photo/CTK, Radek Petrasek)

CZECH_golden_takin

One of three new-born endangered golden takin (Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi) calfs plays in the snow at the Zoo in Liberec, north of Prague, Czech Republic. Three males were born in January and joined the herd in their outside enlosure on Monday. (AP Photo/CTK, Radek Petrasek)

Washington_DC_sled

Kevin McMahon of Washington, uses an oven pan as he slides on the slope of the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tutu_One_Young_World_summit

Archbishop Desmond Tutu addresses the young people during the opening ceremony of the One Young World World Summit at Old Billingsgate in London on Monday. The event will bring together over 600 delegates age 25 and under from over 100 countries to discuss important world issues.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)

CHINA_LUNAR_NEW_YEAR

A worker hangs red lanterns on a tree for a temple fair during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, China on Monday. The Chinese Lunar New Year begins on Sunday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

INDONESIA_sweet_cake

Indonesian workers make toffee-like sweet cake "dodol," one of the traditional delicacies served during Chinese New Year celebrations, in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday. Ethnic Chinese communities in the world's most populous Muslim country are preparing to celebrate the start of the Year of the Tiger. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Minnesota_peacocks

A pair of peacocks and a peahen perch on a porch railing at the August Schell Brewery in New Ulm, Minn, on Monday. The peafowl, who are native to a more tropical area, look out at the falling snow. The birds have been raised on the brewery grounds for many years. (AP Photo/The Journal of New Ulm, Kevin Sweeney)

AFGHAN_Children_snow

Afghan children have fun as they form a chain while sliding down a snowy slope at a graveyard in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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