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- Devotees walk around candles stuck to jars of honey, forming a Holy Cross shape, during mass for the ‘sanctification of honey’ at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the town of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Honey and beehives are sanctified by performing a ritual for health and rich harvest, marking the day of St. Haralampus, Orthodox patron saint of bee-keepers
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- A worker arranges a saree, a traditional cloth used for women’s clothing, as it is hung out to dry after dyeing it at a workshop in Shardarpara village, India.
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- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner for his role in fighting apartheid, greets local dancers who performed for him in Dharmsala, India. Hundreds of exiles cheered as the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile felicitated the Archbishop at the Tsuglakhang temple. Tutu is in the country to support the ‘Girls Not Brides’ initiative started in 2011 to tackle child marriage in African and South-East Asian countries.
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- A duck tries to grab a piece of bread from a group of swans at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds site in Fairburn Ings, northern England. The birds are feeding in a small area of open water. Most of the lake is frozen as severe winter weather continues in parts of the United Kingdom.
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- A child, eyelashes covered with hoarfrost, walks along a street in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia. The air temperature in Yakutsk is about minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit.
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- Technicians inspect wind turbine blades at Alstom’s offshore wind site in Le Carnet, on the Loire Estuary, in France. French power and transport engineering company Alstom will start its new direct drive Haliade 150-6MW offshore wind turbines in April.
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- Workers representing the charity organization Ecodom carry sheaves of reed near the village of Stakhovtsy, Belarus. The reeds are used in the construction of buildings, including houses for migrants from the Chernobyl zone. Members of the Belarussian charity and its German partner Heim-statt Tschernobyl e.V. (Houses instead of Chernobyl) have built houses since 1994 for Belarusian migrants from Chernobyl, the place where the world’s worst civil nuclear accident took place.
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- During a ceremony at the Marine Corp Recruit Depot in San Diego, US Marine Sgt. Philip A. McCulloch Jr. (r.) receives the Silver Star medal from Brigadier General Daniel D. Yoo for ‘conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action’ while serving in Afghanistan.
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- Marco Pichlmayer of Austria soars through the air during official training ahead of the Nordic Combined World Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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- Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice of Australia swims in the women’s 400 meter individual medley event at the New South Wales swimming championships in Sydney. Australia’s top swimmers are attending the event in preparation for the 2012 London Olympic trials next month in Adelaide, South Australia.
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