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January 26: Indian school children wave Indian national flags during a Republic Day parade in Bangalore on January 26, 2011. India celebrated its 62nd Republic Day under heavy security, with tensions running high in Kashmir over efforts by Hindu nationalists to hold a rally in the troubled region's state capital.
 

January 26: Indian school children wave Indian national flags during a Republic Day parade in Bangalore on January 26, 2011. India celebrated its 62nd Republic Day under heavy security, with tensions running high in Kashmir over efforts by Hindu nationalists to hold a rally in the troubled region's state capital.

Photograph by: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR, AFP/Getty Images

 
January 26: Indian school children wave Indian national flags during a Republic Day parade in Bangalore on January 26, 2011. India celebrated its 62nd Republic Day under heavy security, with tensions running high in Kashmir over efforts by Hindu nationalists to hold a rally in the troubled region's state capital.
January 26: Models display creations by Lebanese designer Elie Saab during the Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture Collection Show on January 26, 2011, in Paris.
January 26: A man films a 25-meter long dead whale after it washed ashore on the beach overnight in the park of San Rossore in Pisa on January 26, 2011.
January 26: Visitors take a look at a new giant aquarium in Hong Kong on January 26, 2011. The aquarium at a local theme park contains over 5,000 marine animals and is one of the top ten largest in the world.
January 26: A three-day old female baby Rotschild giraffe stands in front of her mother Kleopatra at the Prague Zoo on January 26, 2011 in the Czech capital.
January 26: Tall ships parade the length of Sydney Harbour past the Opera House (back L) to mark the annual Australia Day celebrations in Sydney on January 26, 2011. Australia used its national holiday on January 26 to call for Britain to hand over a map drawn by explorer Matthew Flinders in 1804 that depicted the vast continent under its modern name for the first time.
January 26: A Pakistani customs official uses a steamroller to crush bottles of liquor in Islamabad on January 26, 2011, during a ceremony on the occasion of the International Customs Day. Pakistani Customs Collectorate destroyed hundreds of illicit liquor bottles and drugs smuggled into the country. Prohibition has been enforced in the Islamic republic since the 1970s but clandestine production of alcohol is rampant especially in the rural areas. Officially one brewery operates in the country to provide liquor to non-Muslim communities, who form less than five percent of the 167-million-member Muslim state.
January 26: Schoolchildren perform during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 26, 2011. India celebrated its 62nd Republic Day on Wednesday.
JANUARY 26 - Eight-year-old Rupa performs on a tightrope at a roadside in Kolkata January 26, 2011. Rupa and her family members earn nearly 200 Rupees ($4.39) a day entertaining pedestrians.
January 25: Egyptian demonstrators pray in central Cairo during a protest to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and calling for reforms on January 25, 2011. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Cairo, facing a massive police presence, to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in a protest inspired by Tunisia's popular uprising.
January 25: Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery of the Medical Art of Tibet during a opening ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History's "Global Weekends: Brain and the Tibetan Creative Mind" event series continuing through Sunday.
January 25: The coffin of Private Marcin Pastuniak arrives at Warsaw Airport. Private Pastuniak died in an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
January 25: Children play as they pose for a picture at the Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The slum was a refuge for drug gangs for more than three decades before a major anti-gang operation.
January 25: Nolan Kasper of the US clears a gate during the second run of the men's "Night race" slalom at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Schladming, Austria.
January 25: Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, right, sits with his attorney Edward Chernoff at Los Angeles Criminal Courts, where he pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges stemming from the singer's June 2009 death.
January 25: A model presents a creation by Italian designer Maurizio Galante during the Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture Collection Show on January 25, 2011, in Paris.
January 25: A Lebanese woman walks past a burning tire during a demonstration in support of the caretaker prime minister Saad Hariri on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidon, south of Beirut on January 25, 2011, as hundreds of people converged on the northern city of Tripoli to take part in a 'day of rage' over the likely appointment as prime minister of Hezbollah-backed tycoon Najib Mikati.
January 25: A model presents a creation by French designer Stephane Rolland during the Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture Collection Show on January 25, 2011, in Paris.
January 25: An Indian vendor holds a fish at a market in Siliguri on January 25, 2011. India's central bank hiked interest rates by 25 basis points, its seventh increase in less than 12 months in a bid to tame rising inflation as the country's economy booms. The Reserve Bank of India has been one of the most aggressive central banks in raising the cost of borrowing as the nation has powered out of the global downturn with economic growth of nearly nine percent.
January 25: Czech Martina Bocek performs on January 25, 2011 during the women's free skating event of the European Figure Skating Championships in Bern.
January 25: A Palestinian refugee boy walks past graffiti in the Balata refugee camp in the northern West bank city of Nablus on January 25, 2011, a day after it was leaked by the Al-Jazeera Arab television satellite station in revealed documents that Palestinian negotiators accepted Israel's proposal at the start of 2009 peace talks that it would only take in a fraction of the 1948 Palestinian refugees.
January 25: Swiss children stand under a banner of Bern's hockey team as they watch Switzerland's Romy Buehler performing in Women's Free Skating during the preliminary round of the European Figure Skating Championships on January 25, 2011.
January 25: A street vendor sells frozen navaga fish from the Okhotskoye sea in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok January 25, 2011. The fish is sold for 65 Roubles ($2.2) per kilo.
January 25: Li Na of China plays a stroke during her women's singles quarter-final match against Andrea Petkovic of Germany on the ninth day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 25, 2011. Li Na won 6-2. 6-4.
January 25: Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldier looks on at Srinagar s central square Lal Chowk on January 25, 2011. The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has organised a rally of youth members to Srinagar, the main city of Muslim-majority Kashmir, where they want to raise the national flag on Republic Day January 26, 2011.
January 25: Some of Will Ryman's "The Roses", a new site-specific installation on New York City's Park Avenue January 24,2011 . The installation of 38 larger than life sculptures of colossal rose blossoms towering as high as 25 feet alongside 20 individual rose petal sculptures are featured between 57th and 67th Streets. The Roses will remain on view January 25 May 31, 2011.
January 25: An Elmo doll with a "Pro Life" sticker afixed, is held by a marcher in front of trhe Supreme during the March for Life on January 24, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.The march marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (officially Jan. 22), a landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
British Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland perform their free-dance routine on January 24, 2011 during the European Figure Skating Championship in Bern.
January 24: Esther Yeoh walks in the rain along Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver January 24, 2011.
January 24: Palestinian girls hold images of loved ones as they sit during a protest outside the Red Cross offices in Gaza City calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, on January 24, 2011.
JANUARY 24 - Spectators cheer for Rafael Nadal of Spain during his fourth round men's singles match against Marin Cilic of Croatia on the eighth day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 24, 2011. Nadal won 6-2. 6-3. 6-4.
January 24: Ice covers the statues of lions of the Cibeles fountain on January 24, 2011 in the centre of Madrid.
January 24: A protester, demonstrating outside Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office in Tunis on January 24, 2011, holds a defaced portrait of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Thousands of protesters rallied in the main government quarter in Tunis on January 24, calling for Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to resign after the fall of Ben Ali. Security forces fired tear gas and sealed off the area with barbed wire as some protesters threw stones, charged police lines and smashed up a police car at the start of a make-or-break week for Tunisia's new transition government.
January 24: Indian policemen from the state of Andhra Pradesh, participate in the final full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad on January 24, 2011. India will celebrate its 62nd Republic Day on January 26, 2011.
January 24: Spanish mounted bullfighter Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza makes his performance with a bull during a bullfight at La Santamaria bullring on January 23, 2011 in Bogota, Colombia. Hermoso de Mendoza cuts four ears and one tail.
JANUARY 23 - Lorenzo Quinn's Vroom Vroom sculpture is installed in its new setting on Park Lane in London, England. The four-metre high sculpture, consists of a vintage Fiat 500, the first car that the sculptor ever bought, grasped by an oversized aluminium child's hand modelled from Quinn's son.
South African cricket players celebrate the dismissal of India's batsman Yusuf Pathan who was caught out by Faf du Plessis during their fifth and final one day international cricket match at Super Sport Park Stadium in Centurion, January 23, 2011.
Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stage a protest over a drawing of a gagged face during a march to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the return of democracy after the 1958 coup in Caracas January 23, 2011. Supporters and opponents of Chavez commemorated the anniversary of the ending of Marcos Perez Jimenez's dictatorship, who was ousted after a popular uprising in 1958. They also took the opportunity to express their support and rejection to Chavez's socialist policies.
Actor Sean Penn (L) and U.S. Army Officer Brian Woolworth arrive at the Producers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California January 22, 2011.
America striker Vicente Sanchez of Uruguay kicks the ball during their Mexican league championship soccer match against Tigres at Azteca stadium in Mexico City January 23, 2011.
 
 
 
 
 

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