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Free Syrian army fighters talk as they carry their weapons before heading to the front line in Aleppo on Jan 8, 2013. Picture taken Jan 8, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A group of men perform physical exercise training as sun set at Galle Face green in Colombo on Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Unemployed Jose Manuel Martinez, 57, peers into a rubbish bin in the Andalusian capital of Seville on Jan 9, 2013. Spain plans to sell more debt this year than it did in 2012, reflecting funding needs that have soared as the economy has slumped and keeping nervous investors focused on an expected request for aid. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he appears as a guest on the RAI television show Porta a Porta (Door to Door) in Rome on Jan 9, 2013. Berlusconi has little chance of destabilising a centre-left government after Italy's February election and outgoing premier Mario Monti is the most likely to become kingmaker, one of Italy's top experts on voting trends said on Wednesday. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Actress Anne Hathaway arrives at the National Board Of Review Awards in New York on Jan 8, 2013. Hathaway and the cast of the film Les Miserables won the Best Ensemble Award. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A picture of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes is shown in courtroom sketch from a preliminary hearing in Centennial, Colorado on Jan 9, 2013. Prosecutors wrapped up their pretrial case on Wednesday against the man charged with killing 12 people in last summer's Colorado movie theatre massacre by showing photos he took of himself before the shooting, posed with guns and body armor. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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French President Francois Hollande sits in an armoured military vehicle as he visits the troops of 12th cuirassiers regiment at the military base of Olivet, central France, as part of his New Year's greetings to the French army forces, Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Kuwait's Fahad Al-Ansari (left) challenges Iraq's Humam Tareq during their Gulf Cup Tournament soccer match at Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town, Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Leftists displaying banners and portraits of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong demonstrate outside the office of the liberal Southern Weekly newspaper in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou Jan 9, 2013, denouncing the newspaper as "a traitor newspaper" for defying the party. The Communist Party chief of Guangdong province stepped in to mediate a standoff over censorship at a Chinese newspaper on Tuesday, a source said, in a potentially encouraging sign for press freedoms in China. Chinese characters on the protest banner reads "Traitor". -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A victim of a commuter ferry crash is cared for by an FDNY EMT on the scene in New York, Jan 9, 2013. At least two of the people injured in a Wednesday morning commuter ferry accident in New York are in critical condition, and nine others are in serious condition, a city official said. The accident occurred at 8.43am (9.43pm, Singapore time) as the high-speed catamaran was docking in lower Manhattan. More than 50 people were injured in the incident, New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said at a press briefing held near the scene. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Devotees struggle to hold the Black Nazarene during a procession in Manila Jan 9, 2013. The Black Nazarene, a life-size wooden statue of Jesus Christ carved in Mexico and brought to the Philippines in the 17th century, is believed to have healing powers in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. It is paraded through the narrow streets of Manila's old city from dawn to midnight. Police said about 500,000 people joined the procession on Wednesday. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A woman waits for customers in front of a funfair in the Egyptian Delta town of Zagazig Jan 7, 2013. Egypt's economy, once strong and popular among investors, has been in tatters since the revolt of 2011 that ousted Hosni Mubarak and shook the country to its foundations. As in other parts of Egypt, people in Zagazig see complex economic trends in terms of the daily hardships they must endure, and it is President Mohamed Mursi's government and his Muslim Brotherhood allies who get the blame. Picture taken Jan 7, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Two coffins containing the bodies of Indian Army soldiers are placed in a military helicopter at a garrison in Rajouri district, about 170km north-west of Jammu, Jan 9, 2013. India slammed Pakistan on Wednesday over a rare firefight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two Indian soldiers were killed, but the spat between the nuclear-armed rivals appeared unlikely to escalate into a full-blown diplomatic crisis. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Buddhist monks release paper lanterns into the sky in Suphan Buri province on Jan 9, 2013. The lanterns were released during a traditional pilgrimage to pay homage to Lord Buddha and bless Thailand as it enters the new year. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Children play on self-made swings on scaffolding at a construction site in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, Jan 8, 2013. Picture taken on Jan 8, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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Florian Mayer of Germany misses a shot against Bernard Tomic of Australia during their men's singles match at the Sydney International tennis tournament on Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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A portrait of a woman is seen near the entrance of the female compartment of a suburban train at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway Station in Mumbai on Nov 2, 2012. In India some train compartments, or sometimes whole trains, are reserved specifically for female passengers in an effort to make their travel easier and more secure. The role and treatment of women in society has recently become a hot political issue in the country, since the Dec 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi, who later died of her injuries, and whose case has led to widespread protests in the region against violence against women. Picture taken Nov 2, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
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People put up crosses bearing the names of victims of an arson attack outside a casino in Monterrey on Jan 8, 2013. Family members attached the crosses and photographs back on a fence surrounding the remains of the burnt building, after the owners had removed them, according to local media. Gunmen of the Zetas drug cartel attacked the Casino Royale on Aug 25, 2011, where at least 53 people were killed, in Nuevo Leon's capital Monterrey. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Free Syrian army fighters talk as they carry their weapons before heading to the front line in Aleppo on Jan 8, 2013. Picture taken Jan 8, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A group of men perform physical exercise training as sun set at Galle Face green in Colombo on Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Unemployed Jose Manuel Martinez, 57, peers into a rubbish bin in the Andalusian capital of Seville on Jan 9, 2013. Spain plans to sell more debt this year than it did in 2012, reflecting funding needs that have soared as the economy has slumped and keeping nervous investors focused on an expected request for aid. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he appears as a guest on the RAI television show Porta a Porta (Door to Door) in Rome on Jan 9, 2013. Berlusconi has little chance of destabilising a centre-left government after Italy's February election and outgoing premier Mario Monti is the most likely to become kingmaker, one of Italy's top experts on voting trends said on Wednesday. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Actress Anne Hathaway arrives at the National Board Of Review Awards in New York on Jan 8, 2013. Hathaway and the cast of the film Les Miserables won the Best Ensemble Award. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A picture of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes is shown in courtroom sketch from a preliminary hearing in Centennial, Colorado on Jan 9, 2013. Prosecutors wrapped up their pretrial case on Wednesday against the man charged with killing 12 people in last summer's Colorado movie theatre massacre by showing photos he took of himself before the shooting, posed with guns and body armor. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
French President Francois Hollande sits in an armoured military vehicle as he visits the troops of 12th cuirassiers regiment at the military base of Olivet, central France, as part of his New Year's greetings to the French army forces, Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Kuwait's Fahad Al-Ansari (left) challenges Iraq's Humam Tareq during their Gulf Cup Tournament soccer match at Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town, Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Leftists displaying banners and portraits of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong demonstrate outside the office of the liberal Southern Weekly newspaper in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou Jan 9, 2013, denouncing the newspaper as "a traitor newspaper" for defying the party. The Communist Party chief of Guangdong province stepped in to mediate a standoff over censorship at a Chinese newspaper on Tuesday, a source said, in a potentially encouraging sign for press freedoms in China. Chinese characters on the protest banner reads "Traitor". -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A victim of a commuter ferry crash is cared for by an FDNY EMT on the scene in New York, Jan 9, 2013. At least two of the people injured in a Wednesday morning commuter ferry accident in New York are in critical condition, and nine others are in serious condition, a city official said. The accident occurred at 8.43am (9.43pm, Singapore time) as the high-speed catamaran was docking in lower Manhattan. More than 50 people were injured in the incident, New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said at a press briefing held near the scene. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Devotees struggle to hold the Black Nazarene during a procession in Manila Jan 9, 2013. The Black Nazarene, a life-size wooden statue of Jesus Christ carved in Mexico and brought to the Philippines in the 17th century, is believed to have healing powers in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. It is paraded through the narrow streets of Manila's old city from dawn to midnight. Police said about 500,000 people joined the procession on Wednesday. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A woman waits for customers in front of a funfair in the Egyptian Delta town of Zagazig Jan 7, 2013. Egypt's economy, once strong and popular among investors, has been in tatters since the revolt of 2011 that ousted Hosni Mubarak and shook the country to its foundations. As in other parts of Egypt, people in Zagazig see complex economic trends in terms of the daily hardships they must endure, and it is President Mohamed Mursi's government and his Muslim Brotherhood allies who get the blame. Picture taken Jan 7, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Two coffins containing the bodies of Indian Army soldiers are placed in a military helicopter at a garrison in Rajouri district, about 170km north-west of Jammu, Jan 9, 2013. India slammed Pakistan on Wednesday over a rare firefight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two Indian soldiers were killed, but the spat between the nuclear-armed rivals appeared unlikely to escalate into a full-blown diplomatic crisis. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Buddhist monks release paper lanterns into the sky in Suphan Buri province on Jan 9, 2013. The lanterns were released during a traditional pilgrimage to pay homage to Lord Buddha and bless Thailand as it enters the new year. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Children play on self-made swings on scaffolding at a construction site in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, Jan 8, 2013. Picture taken on Jan 8, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
Florian Mayer of Germany misses a shot against Bernard Tomic of Australia during their men's singles match at the Sydney International tennis tournament on Jan 9, 2013. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
A portrait of a woman is seen near the entrance of the female compartment of a suburban train at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway Station in Mumbai on Nov 2, 2012. In India some train compartments, or sometimes whole trains, are reserved specifically for female passengers in an effort to make their travel easier and more secure. The role and treatment of women in society has recently become a hot political issue in the country, since the Dec 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi, who later died of her injuries, and whose case has led to widespread protests in the region against violence against women. Picture taken Nov 2, 2012. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
People put up crosses bearing the names of victims of an arson attack outside a casino in Monterrey on Jan 8, 2013. Family members attached the crosses and photographs back on a fence surrounding the remains of the burnt building, after the owners had removed them, according to local media. Gunmen of the Zetas drug cartel attacked the Casino Royale on Aug 25, 2011, where at least 53 people were killed, in Nuevo Leon's capital Monterrey. -- PHOTO : REUTERS
From a Catholic procession in Manila to Anne Hathaway arriving at the National Board Of Review Awards in New York, have a look at Reuters' selection of pictures from around the world in the last 24 hours.
