IN THE DARK: Suspected Taliban waited with their eyes and ears covered at a police station in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday. Police arrested 11 men in a recent operation. (Rahmat Gul/Associated Press)
SPRAYING AWAY: A farmer sprayed insect repellent on a crop in Karawang, Indonesia, Tuesday. (Adi Weda/European Pressphoto Agency)
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Freelance photographer Karla Murray of New York photographs a grand piano that recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Miami, on Jan. 26. Whoever put the piano there placed it at the highest point of the sandbar so that it?s not underwater during high tide.
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Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, on the territory of the zoo in the capital Dushanbe, Jan. 20. Employees take the lion from its cage to have a promenade along the territory two times a week while holding a piece of meat to attract Vadik's attention so it walks nearby.
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A Boeing Delta 4 Heavy rocket, which may someday be used to send humans into space, rises from the launch pad during its first unmanned launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Thursday Jan. 20.
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A devotee with metal nail sandals leaves Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple during the Thaipusam Festival procession in Singapore, on January 20, 2011.
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Australian freestyle motocross rider Robbie Maddison jumps into the sunset during a training session in the Sahara desert in preparation for the second stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour.
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A student prepares mealworm quiches at the Rijn IJssel school for chefs in Wageningen, Jan. 12.
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A newly-born giraffe calf which has yet to be named, plays with his mother Gia at the Johannesburg Zoo in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Jan. 17. The calf was born on 11 January and expanded the giraffe family at the zoo to five.
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Frost clings to the statue of Lord Alfred Tennyson as freezing fog surrounds the tower of Lincoln Cathedral as plummetting temperatures continue to grip the UK on Dec. 20, in Lincoln, United Kingdom.
