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Twins Edgar (L) and Gabriel pose for photographers between Vincent van Gogh's paintings Sunflowers,1888 (L) and Sunflowers, 1889 at the National Gallery in London. The two paintings have been reunited in London for the first time in 65 years and will be on display for three months from Jan. 25.

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A boy watches on as devotees take part in Friday prayers during the Biswa Ijtema in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of Muslims joined the first phase of the Bishwa Ijtema (World Congregation), the second biggest gathering of Muslims after the Haj.

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A man stands in rubble after an explosion at the Egyptian police headquarters in downtown Cairo. Three bombings hit high-profile areas around the city on Friday, including a suicide car bomber who struck the police headquarters.

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Young boys mourn during the funeral of Bilal Samir Oweida, a 20-year-old Palestinian, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Oweida was "shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers" east of Jabaliya according to a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry. Israeli forces said Oweida had entered "a prohibited area".

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Supporters of Egypt's army and police gather at Tahrir square in Cairo, on the third anniversary of Egypt's uprising.

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People visit the Chitose-Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival illuminated by colorful light to produce a fantastic world in Chitose, Japan, Jan. 24, 2014.

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India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers ride their camels during a rehearsal for the 'Beating the Retreat' ceremony in New Delhi, India, Jan. 24, 2014.

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The Olympic torch is tested before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia. The Bolshoi Ice Dome is the background.

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Joaldunak, also caled ''Zanpantzar,'' prepare to take part in the Carnival of the Pyrenees village of Ituren, northern Spain. In one of the most ancient carnivals in Europe, dating from before the Roman empire, groups of Joaldunak (cowbells) involving the residents of two towns, Ituren and Zubieta, parade the streets in costume.

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WWII-era Soviet T-34 tanks drive during a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad in St.Petersburg, Russia. More than one million people died, mainly from starvation, during the 900-day siege.

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A placard with a photo of legal scholar Xu Zhiyong is raised by a demonstrator protesting against a Chinese court’s decision to sentence him to prison, outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong. Xu was sentenced Sunday to four years in prison on the charge of disturbing order in public places.

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Tents are set up for the participants in the Campus Party Brazil, a technological event in Anhembi, a northern zone of Sao Paulo. About 160,000 visitors are expected to attend the event that runs from Jan.27 to Feb. 2.

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Members of Israeli parliament, the Knesset, attend a ceremony to mark the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. The Nazis killed some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, at the camp during World War II.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, gets a haircut in a barbershop in Old Havana, Cuba. Ban, as well as leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean, are arriving in Havana to participate in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC summit.

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Participants dressed as Vikings prepare to participate in the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, northeast of Britain. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 'guizers' (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight later in the evening.

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Soldiers shovel the snow in front of a house after heavy snowfall in Vadu Pasii village, 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Bucharest. A powerful snowstorm hit southern Romania over the weekend causing traffic and heating problems in the Balkan country.

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Health workers in full protective gear bag chickens, suffocated by using carbon dioxide at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong. Authorities began culling 20,000 birds at a wholesale market after poultry from southern mainland China tested positive for the H7N9 virus, the first time it had been found in imported poultry in Hong Kong.

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The Central Secretariat and Parliament buildings are illuminated during the Beating Retreat Ceremony at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi, India. The ceremony is a culmination of Republic Day celebrations, and dates back to the days when troops disengaged themselves from battle at sunset.

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Belgium's King Philippe (back C) delivers a speech during a traditional new year reception for international institutions' representatives, government members and business leaders at the Brussels Royal Palace.

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People rest in the aisle of a Publix grocery store after being stranded due to a snow storm in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Emergency service personnel rescue local residents from the village of Muchelney on the Somerset Levels, near Langport in south west England. Surrounded by flood water, Muchelney has only been accessible by boat for several weeks.

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Indian Bohra Muslims take part in a gathering to endorse their solidarity to their new spiritual leader Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin in Mumbai. Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin now leads the community following the death of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who passed away in Mumbai on January 17 at the age of 102.

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An Israeli soldier shouts as he holds his weapon in front of Palestinians during clashes in Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Clashes broke between stone-throwing protesters and Israeli soldiers, two days after Muhammad Mubarak, 21, a resident of the refugee camp was killed by Israeli soldiers who said he had opened fire on their position near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.

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A villager runs as Mount Sinabung erupts at Sigarang-Garang village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

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Olympic rings are displayed in Paris, France, with images against restriction of speech and freedom of information, repression of demonstrations, discrimination due to sexual orientation and migrant's exploitation, as part of a protest by human rights organizations a week before of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

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Village headman Jo Kyu-sang, 92, takes video during Lunar New Year celebration at Gangneung, South Korea.

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Fireworks from the Philippines light up the sky at the opening of the 5th Philippine International Pyromusical Competition at suburban Pasay city, south of Manila. The fireworks display, which will run for six consecutive weekends, features 11 countries, including Australia, China, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, the United States and the host country Philippines.

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Honor guards stand near a monument in Minsk, Belarus, commemorating the Soviet victims of the war in Afghanistan, along with many former Soviet states, marked the 25th anniversary of the Soviet troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan where they fought for more than nine years.

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Large waves hit the lighthouse and harbor at Newhaven in Sussex, southern England. Britain was hit by a third storm in a week causing damage and compounding the record levels of floodwaters in the south and west of the country.

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Soldiers and rescuers carry a woman to a truck following the eruption of Mount Kelud, in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.

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A villager walks near houses covered by ash from the eruption of Mount Kelud at Ngantang village in Malang, Indonesia's East Java province, Feb. 16, 2014.

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A Thai anti-government protester (R) stands next to soldiers during a protest against the government's repeatedly delayed payments for rice submitted to the pledging scheme at the government's temporary office in Bangkok.

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A woman sits on a bench on a flooded Thames riverside path in Staines, southern England, Feb. 17, 2014. Tens of thousands have been left without power, others evacuated from their homes after the wettest January on record pushed river banks to breaking point.

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An unidentified North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative's hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea. The final group of Koreans to participate in reunions ends Tuesday. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Ji-eun)

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An anti-Yanukovych protester cries near a memorial for the people killed in clashes with the police at Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday delayed the formation of a new government, reflecting political tensions and economic challenges following the ouster of the Russia-backed president. Parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchinov, who was named Ukraine's interim leader after President Viktor Yanukovych fled the capital, said that a new government should be in place by Thursday, instead of Tuesday, as he had earlier indicated. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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A woman cries at a memorial for the people killed in clashes with the police at Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Ukraine has been consumed by a three-month-long political crisis. President Viktor Yanukovych and protest leaders signed an agreement last week to end the conflict that left more than 80 people dead in just a few days in Kiev. Shortly after, Yanukovych fled the capital for his powerbase in eastern Ukraine but his exact whereabouts are unknown. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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The cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen outside Giglio harbor, Italy. Captain Francesco Schettino returns to Giglio island for the first time since the shipwreck of the cruise liner in 2012 in which 32 people died. The captain is expected to tour the wreck as part of his ongoing trial.

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Francesco Schettino (R), the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner (pictured at rear), boards a ferry as he leaves Giglio harbour February 27, 2014. Schettino, went back on board on Thursday for the first time since the huge cruise liner sank with the loss of 32 lives just over two years ago, accompanying experts investigating the capsize. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

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Dancers of the state opera ballet perform during a dress rehearsal for the Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria.

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Members of the Nepalese army demonstrate their skills during the Army Day celebrations, which falls on the same day as the Shivaratri festival, in Kathmandu.

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Demonstrators use slingshots against National Guard troopers during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in San Cristobal, about 410 miles (660 km) southwest of Caracas.

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A participant in the competition for the longest ash is dizzied by the smoke of his cigar during the XVI Cuba Cigar festival, in Havana, Feb. 27, 2014.

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Members of the opening committee perform at the Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, Feb. 27, 2014. The 18 to 24-year-olds spent weeks rehearsing for a performance that lasts just three or four minutes but had a huge audience at home and abroad.

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A woman plays a piano in a street near Kyiv's Independence square, Ukraine. Pro-Russian forces tightened their grip on Crimea as the Kremlin vowed to help restore calm on the restive Ukrainian peninsula and Washington warned of "costs" to Moscow should it order in troops.

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Participants march during Sydney's annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras night parade in Australia. Some 10,000 revelers on 144 individual floats marked the journey down Oxford Street, hub of the city's gay and lesbian nightlife, in a vibrant show featuring drag queens, political parodies and plenty of glitter.

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A stock trader dressed up as nun works at the traditional stock exchange carnival in Frankfurt, Germany.

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British parliamentarians Lord St John of Bletso (R) and Julian Huppert MP (2nd R) take part in the annual parliamentary pancake race on Shrove in central London.

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A Tibetan Monk carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during festivities marking the last day of the Tibetan New Year, or Losar, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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A woman in tears is helped by airport workers to a bus waiting for relatives of the missing Malaysian airliner: AP

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A New York City firefighter climbs on top of rubble from a building that collapsed following an explosion on Park Ave. and 116th St. in New York City on Wednesday March 12, 2014. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

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Fireworks thrown by anti-government protesters explode behind riot policemen near central Taksim square in Istanbul March 12, 2014. Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to push back thousands of demonstrators close to Istanbul's central Taksim square on Wednesday during a protest triggered by the death of a teenager wounded in street clashes last summer. (REUTERS/Murad Sezer)

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An Ukrainian soldier removes a tyre piercing road block at the gate of the Ukrainian infantry base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The Group of 7 world leaders said in a statement released from the White House on Wednesday that they won't recognize results of a referendum for the Crimea region to split from Ukraine and join Russia.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Pope Francis poses for pictures with the audience after Palm Sunday service in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday. Gregorio Borgia/AP

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A Pakistani lawyer taking a thumb impression from nine-month-old toddler Mohammad Musa on a bail bond in Lahore. Baby Musa has been accused of attempted murder in a case observers say highlights endemic flaws in the country's legal system. The baby along with his father and other family members was booked for throwing rocks at gas company officials in the working-class Ahata Thanedaran neighbourhood on Feb. 1, the family's lawyer Chaudhry Irfan Sadiq told AFP.

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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill releases a white dove to mark Annunciation Day in the Kremlin in Moscow. In Christianity, Annunciation celebrates the relevation to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a son, Jesus.

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A school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at the Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines.

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Tulip farmers look for weeds in a field of tulips near the city of Noordwijkerhout, western Netherlands.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel reviews the honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Mongolian Ministry of Defense in Ulaanbaatar.

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A pro-Russia protester stands at a barricade outside a regional government building in Donetsk, Ukraine.

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Edmond Aviv sits on a street corner holding a sign in South Euclid, Ohio declaring he's a bully, a requirement of his sentence because he was accused of harassing a neighbor and her disabled children for the past 15 years...

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A relative waits for their missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea.

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Pope Francis lies on the floor as he prays during the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

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A visitor takes a picture in one of the greenhouses of the Royal Palace in Laeken, near Brussels, Belgium. The Royal Greenhouses open once a year to the public for a blooming extravaganza of 5,000 plants including giant ferns and exotic trees, some 250 years old.

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Felipe VI becomes Spain's king, calls for unity with diversity
Spain's new King Felipe VI (C), his wife Queen Letizia (3rdR), Princess Leonor (2ndL) and Princess Sofia (L) and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (2ndR) review troops as they arrive at the Congress of Deputies to attend the swearing-in ceremony in Madrid, June 19, 2014. Spain's new king, Felipe VI, was sworn in on Thursday in a low-key ceremony which monarchists hope will usher in a new era of popularity for the troubled royal household. (REUTERS/Sergio Barrenechea/Pool)

Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy in Bangladesh Dr. Ferdinand von Weyhe awards Amzad Hossain a lifetime membership of the German football fan club. He also gave Hossain a football and a flag of the German national team.  Hossain sold a farm to make a 3.5 km long German flag to hail his team in the World Cup.  The story reached the German embassy, and the envoy went to Magura went to see the flag. 

Hossain, 65, is not a fan of Germany for no reason. He claimed that, in 1987, he was afflicted by an incurable disease that failed all treatment. Then a medicine from Germany gave him back his life.

Since then, Amzad has been a diehard fan of Germany.

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A doll lies at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP)

Palestinians sleep at a United Nations school, where people who fled heavy Israeli shelling in the Shejaia neighbourhood sought refuge during fighting, in Gaza City on July 21, 2014. Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinian militants on Monday after they crossed the border from Gaza through two tunnels, the military said, as the death toll from the two-week conflict passed 500. The overnight raids lifted the Palestinian death toll to 484, mostly civilians, since fighting started on July 8. Israel says 18 of its soldiers have also died along with two civilians. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)

A woman cries during a religious service held by villagers in memory of the victims at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. AP

A man sits next to a notice displayed by traders reading: "The market is closed today to mourn over Peshawar's school attack incident" in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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...the Pakistan Taliban released photographs purportedly showing the group of militants who attacked the Peshawar school. They are pictured holding an array of guns and other weapons.


The faces of the Taliban militants who carried out the Peshawar attack

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The Pakistan Taliban released this photo of the attackers (AP)

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