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Haitian barber mirror, sorting peppers, NY subway (17 images)

3 February

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Haitian barber Raymond Matin, 47, retrieves a mirror from the rubble of his shop in downtown Port-au-Prince last Saturday. Matin, who lost his fourteen-year-old daughter in the earthquake, returned to work with the few things he found among the debris of the business he owned for 26 years. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A man pulls a load of salvaged metal from earthquake rubble on Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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This photograph of the man-made archipelagos near Dubai, United Arab Emirates was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station last January. Palm Island, Jumeirah (lower left), was begun in 2001 and required more than 50 million cubic meters of dredged sand to raise the islands above the Persian Gulf sea level. Creation of the 300 World Islands (upper right) was begun in 2003 and completed in 2008, using 320 million cubic meters of sand and 37 million tons of rock for the surrounding 16.8 mile-long protective breakwater. (AP Photo/NASA)

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Mei Xiang, mother of 4-year-old panda Tai Shan, rolls herself down a snowy hill on Tai Shan's last day at the National Zoo in Washington on Wednesday. Tai Shan, who was born at the zoo in 2005, will be sent to China on Thursday to become part of a breeding program. Under the Smithsonian's panda loan agreement, any cub born at the zoo must be returned to China for breeding. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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People walk near a tiger-shaped lantern set up for the coming Chinese lunar new year, also the Year of the Tiger, in Lanzhou, in northwest China's Gansu province on Tuesday. The Chinese lunar new year begins on Feb. 14. (AP Photo)

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Auctioneer Henry Wyndam sells the sculpture 'Walking Man I' or 'L'Homme qui marche I', by Alberto Giacometti, at Sotheby's auction rooms in London on Wednesday. The life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold at the London auction for US$104 million. Sotheby's says the sale set a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The auction house said Wednesday it took just eight minutes for bidders to reach the hammer price for the item. (AP Photo / Anthony Devlin, pa)

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Sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama throws packs of parched soybeans over a crowd gathered at the Naritasan Shinshoji Buddhist temple in Narita, east of Tokyo on Wednesday. A ritual of the bean-throwing ceremony believed to bring good luck was performed to mark the beginning of the spring in the Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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A construction worker waits for materials to be lifted up to him as he works on a ventilation shaft for the new 34th street subway station on Wednesday in New York City. The $2.1 billion project is the first subway expansion in Manhattan for decades. The subway extension is expected to transform the Hudson Yards area into a vibrant 24-hour neighborhood. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

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A performer from Trinidad does the limbo under a flaming bar while rehearsing for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a military music festival, in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

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A dancer of the U.S. Momix Dance Theatre Company performs a scene of "Bothanica" during the Rome's premiere. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village, about 12.5 miles north of Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Villagers earn US$ 0.14 for 44 pounds of red chili sorted out by breaking their petioles. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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A woman tries on a pair of Angel wings in the warehouse of Angels Costumiers ahead of Saturday's Retro Sale on Wednesday in London, England. Angels Costumiers are selling over 25,000 items of clothing and accessories from their warehouse in Wembley. The Retro Sale features fashion items from the 1950s to the 1990s as well as period military uniforms. Angels is the world's longest-established supplier of costumes to film and theater. Founded in 1840, the company supplies costumes to over 1000 productions per year. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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A child selling feed for birds reads a newspaper as a laborer sweeps the area in New Delhi, India on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

VATICAN_POPE

Acrobats of Italy's American Circus perform in front of Pope Benedict XVI during a weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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The North Grounds of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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A robin looks for berries as snow clings to the branches of the trees, in Fort Washington, Md. on Wednesday, after a winter storm left up to six inches of snow in the Washington area. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Ultra Orthodox Jewish men take cover from rain under umbrellas as they stand at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's old city on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Birds flock around a donkey on the roadside of Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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