Images this week around the world
Passenger Philomena Fischetti, top, hangs from her seat belt while leaning on Kathleen Futoma as the women look through the front windshield of Futoma's car near Berwick, Pa., Wednesday.
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A Benin supporter looks on during their African Cup of Nations Group C soccer match against Nigeria at the Ombaka National Stadium in Benguela, Angola, Saturday Jan. 16.
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Cpl. Stephanie Lanning from Clinton, Arkansas of the 293rd Military Police Company out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, U.S. meets Afghan girls during an information gathering operation in Kandahar City, southern Afghanistan Wednesday.
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President Barack Obama approaches the podium in the Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, before signing a presidential directive ordering a new crackdown on federal contractors who don't pay their taxes.
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 16, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals.
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A Russian Orthodox believer jumps into an ice hole made in the shape of a cross, during a traditional Epiphany celebration in a lake near Valdai-Iverskiy Monastery,
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Drivers posse with a fan after the end of the Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally 2010 in Bolivar, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 16.
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Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during a general audience he held at the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday.
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Brooke Castile, top, and Benjamin Okolski perform their short program during the U.S. figure skating championships in Spokane, Wash., Friday, Jan. 15.
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A model displays a footwear creation by Chinese designer Guo Pei at the annual Hong Kong Fashion week Monday, Jan. 18.
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Ukrainians take a dip in an icy pond to mark the upcoming Epiphany in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday. In temperatures of 14 degrees, thousands queued overnight and into dawn to dunk themselves into a hole in the ice and rise again in a ritual symbolizing rebirth.
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Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, celebrates in Boston, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, after winning a special election held to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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Volkswagen's driver Mark Miller, of the US, and co-driver Ralph Pitchford, of South Africa, drive past a fan walking besides his horse in the 13th stage of the Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally 2010 between San Rafael and Santa Rosa, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 15.
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A man tries to jump into a moving pick-up truck which was carrying tents for distribution to displaced people in Port-au- Prince Wednesday. The truck, carrying fewer than 10 tents, had gone to a camp where roughly 200 earthquake survivors had gathered.
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People wash off in water spraying from a pipe that broke during a magnitude-6.1 aftershock in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday.
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In this image provided by ACT Alliance, showing earthquake victim Ena Zizi as she takes a drink of water after being carried alive from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Tuesday Jan. 19.
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Michael Glasder of U.S. soars through the air during the FIS World Cup ski jumping in Sapporo, northern Japan, Saturday, Jan. 16.
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A woman stands in line with about 2,000 other people as U.S. Army soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division distribute one liter of water each at a camp set up on a golf course in Port-au- Prince, Wednesday,.
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Keynote speaker Cornel West gestures as he speaks during the Martin Luther King Jr commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church Monday, Jan. 18.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden acknowledge mayors in the audience before they addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Thursday at the White House in Washington.
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People walk through fire and rubble in the market area in Port-au-Prince, Monday. On the streets, people are still dying, pregnant women are giving birth and the injured are showing up in wheelbarrows.
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