Pictures Of Recent Events 02.01 – 02.16 2013 (91 Photos)

Author: jone Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2882

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A Burkina Faso soccer fan waits for the start of the African Cup of Nations semi-final soccer match at Mbombela Stadium against Ghana in Nelspruit, South Africa, on February 6, 2013. (Photo by Themba Hadebe/Associated Press)

An exiled Tibetan monk sets himself on fire at Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013. A Tibetan monk doused himself in petrol in a Kathmandu restaurant and set himself on fire, marking the 100th self-immolation bid in a wave of protests against Chinese rule since 2009. Police in the Nepalese capital told AFP that the exile had burned himself in an eatery near Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa, one of the world's holiest Buddhist shrines, terrifying tourists who were having breakfast. (Photo by STR/AFP Photo)

England's prop Dan Cole (3L) goes head to head with Ireland's lock Donnacha Ryan (2R) during the Six Nations international rugby union match between Ireland and England at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on February 10, 2013. England won the game 12–6. (Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP Photo)

Revellers take part in the [Cordao do Bola Preta] traditional carnival band parade along Rio Branco avenue, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 9, 2013. Carnival was under way in Rio on Saturday with millions set to take to the streets for days of rowdy, joyous parades and festivities, bringing the nation to a halt for its annual wild party. Nearly 800,000 Brazilian and foreign tourists were expected join Rio's six million residents in the celebrations, whose climax comes on Sunday and Monday with the city's top samba schools putting on their extravagant processions led by sexy dancing queens. (Photo by Vanderlei Almeida/AFP Photo)

A young boy wears a Momotxorro costume during the Alsasua carnival in the northern Spanish village of Alsasua, in Navarra province, on February 12, 2013. During the traditional Alsasua carnival local residents cover their clothes, arms and face with cow blood and parade in the village. (Photo by Rafa Rivas/AFP Photo)

A performer passes a snake through his nose and mouth during a show at a fair as part of lunar new year festivities at the Temple of Earth park in Beijing on February 11, 2013. A billion-plus Asians are ushering in the lunar Year of the Snake with a week of festivities. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)

A reveler performs during the Samba School Group A parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 9, 2013. (Photo by Vanderlei Almeida/AFP Photo)

Visitors watch Mirella Ferraz, known as Brazilian mermaid, as she swims with fish in a giant tank during a show at an aquarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 10, 2013. (Photo by Nelson Almeida/AFP Photo)

A reveller of Barroca Zona Sul samba school stands atop a float during the last day of the carnival parades at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 12, 2013. Barroca this year is focusing its carnival theme on the history of Jabaquara, an ethnically diverse district that includes Jardim Oriental, a community that is home to many Japanese. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)

A Syria girl stands at the entrance of a makeshift home set up in the catacombs of the ruins of an ancient building in the ancient Roman city of of Serjilla, in northwestern Syria, on February 11, 2013, after fleeing the fighting between rebel forces and pro-government troops in the town of Kfar Nubul, in the northwestern province of Idlib. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP Photo)

An Israeli settler sits praying among the rubble of his house that was demolished by Israeli police in the outpost of Maale Rehavam, in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, on February 13, 2013. The house was built without any authorization outside the larger state-sanctioned settlement. The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank grew by 4.7% in 2012, according to figures obtained by AFP from a settler organisation. (Photo by Janos Chiala/AFP Photo)

Syrian rebels fire a rocket towards regime forces stationed at Kwiriss airport in Al-Bab, 30 kilometres from the northeastern Syrian city of Aleppo, on February 14, 2013. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem and opposition National Coalition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib will make separate visits to Moscow for talks in the coming weeks, a top Russian diplomat said. (Photo by Elias Edouard/AFP Photo)

Malian soldiers stand guard on February 10, 2013 in the Malian northern city of Gao. Fights between Islamist rebels and Malian soldiers broke out in the center of Gao, recently taken over by the French military to Malian armed Islamist groups, hit by two suicides bombings within two days. (Photo by Pascal Guyot/AFP Photo)

Anti-riot police hold shields after protestors threw them eggs as US Goodyear Tire & Rubber workers demonstrate in front of the group's headquarters in France, in Rueil-Malmaison, a Paris suburb, on February 12, 2013, at the time of an extraordinary central works council on the plan to shut down Goodyear's plant in Amiens, northern France. [Closing the factory is the only option after five years of unsuccessful negotiations], said a French-language statement issued on January 31, 2013 by Goodyear Dunlop Tires France, which employs about 3,200 people in the country across four sites. (Photo by Patrick Kovarik/AFP Photo)

US President Barack Obama plays a learning game while visiting children at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center February 14, 2013 in Decatur, Georgia. Obama is in Georgia to promote economic and educational initiatives he spoke about in this week's State of the Union. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP Photo)

Two girls look for a taxi in the snow in Times Square in New York on February 8, 2013 during a storm affecting the northeast US. The storm was forecast to bring the heaviest snow to the densely-populated northeast corridor so far this winter, threatening power and transport links for tens of millions of people and the major cities of Boston and New York. New York and other regional airports saw more than 4,500 cancellations ahead of what the National Weather Service called [a major winter storm with blizzard conditions] along most of the region's coastline. (Photo by Mehdi Taamallah/AFP Photo)

Brandon and Natasha Green, of Minneapolis, give each other a smooch after a ceremony during which eleven couples were married in a ceremony at the Mall of America Ice Castle in Bloomington, Minnesota, on February 14, 2013. (Photo by Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)

Slovenia's Tina Maze reacts as she sees Vonn crashing during the women's super-G on February 5, 2013. (Photo by Kerstin Joensson/Associated Press)

Anti-government protesters participate in a rally in Sitra, Bahrain on February 13, 2013. Clashes erupted in several opposition villages around the kingdom on the eve of the second anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising. (Photo by Hasan Jamali/Associated Press)

A man dressed as a pig uses a phone during the start of the street-carnival with its tradition of fools entering the town halls and women cutting off men's ties with scissors on carnival's so called [Old Women's Day] in Cologne, Germany, on February 7, 2013. (Photo by Frank Augstein/Associated Press)

Ukrainian AN-24 plane is seen after crash outside an airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Thursday, February 14, 2013. The plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match between Ukraine's Shakhtar and Borussia Dortmund, skidded past the landing strip and overturned, killing five people. The plane was carrying 44 people from the Black Sea port of Odessa. (Photo by Irina Gorbaseva/Associated Press)

A worker puts the finishing touches on a train made with lemons and oranges during the 80th Lemon festival in Menton on February 15, 2013. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau/Associated Press)

A man wearing a carnival mask wades through high water with floating ice in a flooded St. Mark's Square, in Venice, Italy, early Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. The phenomenon of high water, which floods the Venice lagoon, occurs mainly between autumn and spring when tides are reinforced by seasonal winds. The recent snow falls and low temperatures formed ice blocks in the water. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

Participants in the Color Run Las Vegas throw colored powder into the air after participating in the run and walk on February 16, 2013. (Photo by John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

The King of the Nice Carnival's float parades during the celebrations in Nice, France on February 16, 2013. The carnival celebrates the theme [King of the 5 continents]. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau/Associated Press)

Aleksander and Anna prepare to bathe their two month old son Viktor during an ice swimmer's event in St.Petersburg, Russia, where the temperature is around 27 F (–3 °C), on February 10, 2013. (Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)

Temple goers burn incense as they pray for health and fortune on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing, on February 10, 2013. Millions across China are celebrating the arrival of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake, marked with a week-long Spring Festival holiday. (Photo by Andy Wong/Associated Press)

A man carries his sister, who was wounded in a government air strike, in Aleppo, Syria, on February 3, 2013. The Britain-based activist group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said government troops bombarded a building in Aleppo's rebel-held neighborhood that killed more than10 people, including at least five children. (Photo by Abdullah al-Yassin/Associated Press)

A man weeps as he holds his wife who was killed in a stampede on a railway platform at the main railway station in Allahabad, India, on February 10, 2013. At least ten Hindu pilgrims attending the Kumbh Mela were killed and more then thirty were injured during a stampede on an overcrowded staircase. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)

San Bernardino County Sheriff's officer Ken Owens searches a home for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner in Big Bear Lake on February 10, 2013. The hunt for Dorner, suspected in three killings, entered its fourth day, a day after the police chief ordered a review of the disciplinary case that led to the fugitive's firing and new details emerged of the evidence he left behind. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

Dancers of the Pilobolus Dance Theater perform in Muenster, Germany on February 6, 2013. (Photo by Friso Gentsch/Associated Press)

The Thom Browne Fall 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, on February 11, 2013. (Photo by Louis Lanzano/Associated Press)

Bratislav Stojanovic, a homeless man, holds candles as sits in a tomb where he lives in southern Serbian town of Nis February 9, 2013. Stojanovic, 43, a Nis-born construction worker never had a regular job. He first lived in abandoned houses, but about 15 years ago he settled in the old city cemetery. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reutars)

Workers check on electricity pylon situated amid farmlands in Chuzhou, Anhui province, February 5, 2013. A leading think tank of China predicted that China's GDP will grow in 2013 at a rate of 8.4 percent, up by 0.6 percentage points from that of 2012, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Photo by China Daily/Reuters)

US actor Robert De Niro shows off his hands after making an imprint in cement during a ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California USA, 04 February 2013. De Niro, a two time Academy Award winner is currently nominated for an Academy Award for [Best Supporting Actor] for his role in the film Silver Linings Playbook. (Photo by Bret Hartman/EPA)

A cyclist rides on a snow-covered cycling path along the banks of the Elbe river in Dresden, Germany, 06 February 2013. Snowfalls in the evening hours of the previous day had covered many regions in Germany with a fresh white coating. (Photo by Arno Burgi/EPA)

Palestinian protesters resist arrest by Israeli soldiers as they forcefully remove demonstrators from a new camp set up to protest against Jewish settlements near the West Bank village of Burin on February 2, 2013. An AFP correspondent said the Israeli army used tear gas and violence to remove hundreds of people who had set up four temporary huts and three tents near Burin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyen/AFP Photo)

Small planes are snowed in at the closed Bridgeport, Connecticut airport in the aftermath of Nemo, the Blizzard of 2013. (Photo by Craig Ruttle/Associated Press)

Dancers perform a fire dragon dance in the shower of molten iron spewing firework-like sparks during a folk art performance to celebrate traditional Chinese Spring Festival at an amusement park in Beijing February 10, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begun on February 10 and marked the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Brianna Belladonna performs at Immortal Love Pop-up Experience – Freakshow & Immortalized on February 7, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/AMC)

German model Micaela Schaefer wearing a gummy bear bikini poses with a giant gummy bear on the [Boulevard of the Stars] next to a Berlinale poster in Berlin on February 1, 2013. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP Photo)

Malian people stand by the remain of a suicide bomber who blew himself up the day before in front of a police station in the northern Mali's largest city of Gao, on February 11, 2013. France bombed an Islamist hideout today in Gao, where troops rattled by guerrilla attacks intensified a security lock-down as the French-led campaign against the extremists entered its second month. (Photo by Pascal Guyot/AFP Photo)

Prasit Rangsitwong, left, and Varutton Rangsitwong run away from a giant flower ball as a part of an adventure-themed wedding ceremony in Prachinburi province, Thailand, Wednesday, February 13, 2013, on the eve of Valentine's Day. (Photo by Wason Wanichakorn/AP Photo)

Indian Air Force helicopters cross paths while performing an aerobatic flight on the second day of the Aero India 2013 at Yelahanka air base in Bangalore, India, on February 7, 2013. More than 600 aviation companies along with delegations from 78 countries are participating in the five-day event. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/Associated Press)

A woman holds a rosary and prays on Ash Wednesday at Saint Mary's Basilica in Hyderabad, India, on February 13, 2013.(Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press)

South Korean Army 155 mm howitzers fire live rounds during an exercise at Fire Training Field in Cheorwon, South Korea, on February 15, 2013. (Photo by Lee Sang-hack/Yonhap)

A student activist puts black scarves on the eyes of Shoparjito Shadhinota, a sculpture that represented all sections of people in Bangladesh's liberation War in 1971, demanding capital punishment for Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami senior leader Abdul Quader Mollah, after a war crimes tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment, in the campus of University of Dhaka February 6, 2013. The war crimes tribunal sentenced Quader Mollah, 64, to life in prison on Tuesday, the second verdict in trials that have reopened wounds about the country's independence war and sparked riots. He was found guilty of charges including murder, rape, torture and arson during Bangladesh's war to break away from Pakistan in 1971. (Photo by Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

Men mourn the victims of a ferry that capsized on the banks of the Meghna River on February 8, 2013.The passenger ferry capsized after colliding with another ship on a river dumping as many as 100 people into the water. (Photo by A.M. Ahad/Associated Press)

A woman sits in a street begging for money from motorists in Kabul, Afghanistan, on February 4, 2013. (Photo by Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

Irish Examiner News: Conor O'Donoghue getting hit by a wet sponge during Rag week at UCC on February 12, 2013. (Photo by Dan Linehan)

Australian surfer Marti Paradisis rides a wave near Pedra Branca Rock, south of Tasmania in the Southern Ocean in this in this file photograph taken in Nov

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