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A newly initiated Hindu monk of the Shri Panchayati Naya Udasin "akhara," or sect, peers out from behind a tent during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Jan. 29, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to attend the Maha Kumbh festival, which is one of the world's largest religious gatherings that lasts 55 days and falls every 12 years.

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A newly initiated Hindu monk of the Shri Panchayati Naya Udasin "akhara," or sect, peers out from behind a tent during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Jan. 29, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to attend the Maha Kumbh festival, which is one of the world's largest religious gatherings that lasts 55 days and falls every 12 years.
Saurabh Das/AP Photo
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Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco uses his transplanted arm to brush his hair back during a news conference, Jan. 29, 2013, at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq.
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An Indian man walks on a road leading to an illuminated Raisina hill, which houses India's most important ministries and presidential palace, after the Beating Retreat ceremony, in New Delhi, India, Jan. 29, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, which marks the end of republic day celebrations.
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A man reads the Koran next to the bodies of Syrian civilians executed and dumped in the Quweiq River, in the grounds of the courtyard of a Yarmouk School, in the Bustan al-Qasr district of Aleppo, Syria, Jan. 29, 2013. The bodies of at least 65 young men, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, were found in a river in Aleppo.
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ArcelorMittal workers take part in a protest near the Belgian Wallon Region Government headquarters in Namur, Belgium, Jan. 29, 2013. Steel giant ArcelorMittal announced plans, Jan. 24, 2013, to cut around 1,300 jobs in the Belgian city of Liege, prompting fierce government protest and a call to strike action.
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A Hayward Gallery employee poses for photographers inside artist Anthony McCall's installation entitled 'You and I, Horizontal' at the gallery in London, Jan. 29, 2013. The exhibition "Light Show," featuring 25 illuminated installations and sculptures by artists from the 1960's to the present, will run from Jan. 30, 2013 to April 28, 2013.
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A Malian man tries to break the lock off a store front as looters and residents stand by in the streets of Timbuktu, Mali, Jan. 29, 2013. Hundreds of Malians looted stores in Timbuktu, saying the shops belonged to "Arabs" and "terrorists" linked to the radical Islamists who occupied the desert town for 10 months.
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An Egyptian anti-government protester waves the national flag as he gestures towards riot police during clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square, Jan. 29, 2013. Intense fighting for days around central Tahrir Square engulfed two landmark hotels and forced the U.S. Embassy to suspend public services.
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Ultra Orthodox Jewish men stand at a train station in Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2013.
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