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News in pictures on Friday 12th Feb. 2010

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News in pictures on Friday

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A women dressed as Hindu Goddess Kali participates in a procession ahead of Shivratri in Jammu, India. Shivratri, a festival dedicated to the worship of Hindu God Shiva, will be marked across the country Friday. -- PHOTO: AP


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The sun shines on the snow covered ground of the Washington Monument in Washington, Thursday. The Washington area began cleaning up, a day after a another snow storm hit the area. -- PHOTO: AP


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A giraffe foal tries to walk shortly after it was born at Aalborg zoo in northern Jutland. -- PHOTO: AFP


 

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The light of a police helicopter illuminates the work of activists after they stopped work for the night on covering up the iconic 450-foot-long Hollywood sign during an effort to prevent the building of houses there in Los Angeles, California. The message will read Save the Peak. The Trust for Public Land is draping the sign as it campaigns to raise enough funds to buy Cahuenga Peak and stop developers from purchasing the 138-acre parcel to build mansions around the Hollywood sign. -- PHOTO: AFP

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This image provided by Nasa shows the Solar Dynamics Observatory, designed to make important discoveries about the sun and space weather launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida atop an unmanned Atlas V rocket. -- PHOTO: AP

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This file photo shows two giant pandas from China, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, displayed in their new enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Muzha. Taiwan's top animal attraction will be given some privacy over the Lunar New Year -- in the hope they will finally breed. Taipei Zoo is to put the pandas, who have attracted more than three million visitors since their arrival from China in late 2008, in the same enclosure after the female panda, Yuan Yuan, recently went into heat. -- PHOTO: AFP


 

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People crowd the dance floor of the state opera during the traditional Opera Ball, in Vienna, Austria. -- PHOTO: AP


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The Perentzada Hotel in Greece is number ten on a list of the top 10 sexiest hotel bedrooms by boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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In this photo provided by Sotheby's auction house in New York, a photo entitled Tetons and Snake River, by Ansel Adams is shown. The photo is one of more than 1,200 photographs from Polaroid's historic collection that will go up on the block at Sotheby's in the summer of 2010. -- PHOTO: AP



 
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