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A man climbs up an artificially made wall of ice near the Swiss mountain resort of Pontresina January 28, 2013.
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A surfer leaps from his board during the Arnette Punta Galea Big Wave World Tour in Punta Galea in Getxo January 28, 2013. Sixteen surfers rode giant waves in the five hour competition.
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Buildings are seen in the financial district in Toronto, January 28, 2013. Moody’s Investors Service has cut the ratings of six Canadian financial institutions, including the previously “Aaa” rated Toronto-Dominion Bank, due to concerns about rising consumer debt and high housing prices. TD, the only publicly traded bank that still carried Moody’s top rating, was downgraded, along with Bank of Nova Scotia , Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada and Caisse Central Desjardins, Canada’s largest association of credit unions, Moody’s said on Monday.
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A young “Joaldunak” carnival reveller parades at Zubieta during a traditional carnival celebration in the northern Spanish region of Navarra January 28, 2013. According to mythical Basque stories, the noise made by the big bells carried by the “Joaldunak” ward off evil spirits and give prosperity for a year to the people living in nearby towns. Every year, villagers from Zubieta parade to the neighboring town of Ituren to join this traditional carnival, which is considered a festival to welcome the spring after a tough winter in the deep valleys of the northern Navarra region.
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A woman walks past the well where the bodies of suspected Islamist rebels, according to UN director of Human Rights Watch, Philippe Bolopion, had been dumped, in Sevare January 28, 2013. Rights groups are worried ethnic reprisals will spread as parts of the north are retaken by Malian and French troops.
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A U.S. Army soldier and a member of the Afghan Uniform Police arm wrestle prior to a joint patrol near Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz, a near-by village) in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, January 28, 2013.
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