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The Sacramento Kings Tyreke Evans, (13) drives to the basket against against the Oklahoma City Thunder James Harden, (13) at Power Balance Pavilion on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 in Sacramento. View a gallery -
A veiled Kashmiri Muslim woman prays as the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Eid Milad-un Nabi, marking the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad, in Srinagar, India, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet. -
A woman walks across a snow covered square in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Friday Feb. 10,2012. Europe has been battling a deep freeze that started in late January. -
Maldives' former President Mohamed Nasheed, center, lifts a child as he walks out from a Mosque following prayers with his supporters in Male, Maldives, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. -
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in fighting apartheid, listens to a speech by the Dalai Lama during a felicitation event for him in Dharmsala, India, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Hundreds of exiles cheered as the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile felicitated the Archbishop at the Tsuglakhang temple. Tutu is in the country to support the "Girls Not Brides" initiative started in 2011 by "The Elders", a group of independent global leaders working for peace and human rights, to bring together civil society organizations from across the world working to tackle child marriage in African and South-East Asian countries. -
Unidentified women comfort a wailing relative of Gul Mohammad Dar, a pro-India party worker and a rural body head, during his funeral procession in Hawoormisshipora village, some 65 Kilometers (40 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Police in Indian Kashmir say unidentified gunmen shot dead a political worker and a rural body head of pro-Indian party and wounded another late Thursday night. At least 698 politicians including leaders and workers were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir since 1990, according to a 2011 government statistic. -
A Tamil Hindu priest has antiseptic powder on his face after a ceremonial steal rod was removed during a blessing ritual for the festival of Thaipusam outside a temple in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Thaipusam, an annual festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, marks the day when Goddess Parvati presented a weapon to Murugan, her son with Hindu God Shiva, to vanquish a demon army. -
Jerry Sandusky, center, a former Penn State assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys, at the Centre County Courthouse for a bail conditions hearing Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 in Bellefonte, Pa. -
A protester throws a petrol bomb toward riot police during clashes in Athens, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Thousands took to the streets of Athens as unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures on Friday, a day after Greece's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone. -
Riot police clash with a protester in Athens, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Thousands took to the streets of Athens as unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures on Friday, a day after Greece's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone. -
Hong Kong's Harry Hau Yin Lee performs in the men's short program during the Four Continents figure skating championships, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in Colorado Springs, Colo. -
Models get their make-up done before the Tadashi Shoji Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. -
Pakistani police use water cannon to disperse protestors trying to march towards the U.S. Consulate during a rally demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan. Activists of Pakistani social party Pasban took part in rally demanded the release of Siddiqui, who was convicted in Sept. 2010 of trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan. -
Syrian rebels march in a show of strength during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. -
A tourist sits in the entrance of a hotel next to row of mannequins at the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil, Thursday Feb. 9, 2012. A police strike and a resulting wave of violence is scaring off visitors to Brazil's third-largest city leaving the cash registers unusually quiet. Police demanding better pay and benefits walked off the job in the northeastern state of Bahia more than a week ago, doubling the number of murders and flooding Brazilian airwaves with alarming footage of looted banks and businesses. -
Paul McCartney acknowledges the fans as he is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a dedication ceremony in Los Angeles, Thursday. -
Presidential opposition candidate Pablo Perez embraces a supporter as she talks with him during a campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday. In the run-up to the Feb. 12 primary, Perez looks to be one of the favorites to face President Hugo Chavez in the presidential election on Oct. 7. -
First lady Michelle Obama and Bob Harper of Biggest Loser, right in blue shirt, do the Interlude dance during a Let's Move event with children from Iowa schools, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, at the Wells Fargo Arena in De Moines, Iowa, during her three day national tour celebrating the second anniversary of Let's Move. -
San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, right, walks with his caddie 49ers quarterback Alex Smith on the second fairway at Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday. -
Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. -
A pair of cats take over for the watch dog as they keep a lookout on the front yard of their owner's home Thursday, on the 900-block of Sixth Street in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. -
Israelis from different organizations hold banners during a protest calling on the government not to attack Iran, in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday. -
A soldier stands in a room full of barrels containing white and yellow powder after a seizure of a small ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday. According to the Mexican army, 15 tons of pure methamphetamine were seized at the ranch, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009. -
Nine-year-old Ashley Villatoro, left, holds a poster showing an image of former teacher Martin B. Springer as students arrive at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles, Thursday. Children are returning to the school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. -
French director Benoit Jacquot, actor Xavier Beauvois and actresses Virginie Ledoyen, Lea Seydoux and Diane Kruger, from left, arrive on the red carpet for the film Farewell My Queen (Les adieux a la Reine) during the 62th edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday. -
A model participates in a run through before the Tadashi Shoji Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday. -
French ornithologist Frederic Lamouroux feeds pink flamingoes of the Camargue region at the Pont du Gau ornithological park near Saintes Maries de la Mer, southern France, Thursday. France's Bird Protection League says the cold snap has left some pink flamingoes dead and called on members intervene to save flamingoes suffering from the cold. -
Animal rights' activists hold a sign calling for demonstrations against bullfighting in two of the main Colombian cities, during the protest against bullfighting held in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday. -
Colombia's Hector Buitrago, aka "Martin Llanos", front, and his brother Nelson Buitrago are escorted by National Guard officers during their deportation to Colombia at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday. The Buitrago brothers were captured last Feb 4 in Venezuela's eastern town of El Tigre. -
A man works on a float of the 'Uniao da Ilha' samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Brazil's carnival runs February 17-21.
