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A man looks at his mobile phone as he exercises at a park in Beijing on January 3, 2014. Chinese manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in three months in December 2013, HSBC confirmed on January 2, as demand for the country's goods eased, adding to concerns about recovery in the world's number two economy. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)

A man looks at his mobile phone as he exercises at a park in Beijing on January 3, 2014. Chinese manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in three months in December 2013, HSBC confirmed on January 2, as demand for the country's goods eased, adding to concerns about recovery in the world's number two economy. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)




An Egyptian riot policeman detains a female student of al-Azhar University during a protest by students who support the Muslim Brotherhood inside their campus in Cairo on December 30, 2013. Egypt urged Arab League members to enforce a counter terrorism treaty that would block funding and support for the Muslim Brotherhood after Cairo designated it as “terrorist” group. (Photo by Mahmoud Khaled/AFP Photo)

An Egyptian riot policeman detains a female student of al-Azhar University during a protest by students who support the Muslim Brotherhood inside their campus in Cairo on December 30, 2013. Egypt urged Arab League members to enforce a counter terrorism treaty that would block funding and support for the Muslim Brotherhood after Cairo designated it as “terrorist” group. (Photo by Mahmoud Khaled/AFP Photo)




Chinese people use sleds on the frozen lake in Beijing on January 2, 2014. Beijing's lakes attracts scores of tourists and locals who use its frozen surface for skating and ice swimming. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)

Chinese people use sleds on the frozen lake in Beijing on January 2, 2014. Beijing's lakes attracts scores of tourists and locals who use its frozen surface for skating and ice swimming. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)




A man from the Muslim community looks at a corpse lying on a road in the PK5 district of Bangui on January 3, 2014. France's military mission in the Central African Republic will not suck in its troops in an expanding role, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian vowed during a visit to the restive country's capital. (Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP Photo)

A man from the Muslim community looks at a corpse lying on a road in the PK5 district of Bangui on January 3, 2014. France's military mission in the Central African Republic will not suck in its troops in an expanding role, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian vowed during a visit to the restive country's capital. Around 4,000 African peacekeepers and 1,600 French troops are attempting to curb escalating religious strife in the country where weeks of violence have pitted majority Christians against Muslims, who make up about one-fifth of the population. (Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP Photo)




Indian fishermen walk through a beach littered with garbage as they carry their nets back from their boat near a fishing village in Mumbai on December 30, 2013. India's cities are becoming more polluted and unhealthy, showing growing concern about the impact of high economic growth on the environment according to a study by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) research group. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)

Indian fishermen walk through a beach littered with garbage as they carry their nets back from their boat near a fishing village in Mumbai on December 30, 2013. India's cities are becoming more polluted and unhealthy, showing growing concern about the impact of high economic growth on the environment according to a study by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) research group. Asia's third largest economy is undergoing rapid development and an urban shift as rural residents flock to the cities in search of work and a better quality of life, putting a range of pressures on the environment. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)




Pro-European integration supporters conduct a mock trial with an effigy of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich in Independence Square in Kiev, December 30, 2013. (Photo by Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters)

Pro-European integration supporters conduct a mock trial with an effigy of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich in Independence Square in Kiev, December 30, 2013. (Photo by Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters)




A woman in Buenos Aires bangs a pot during a street blockade, December 30, 2013, to protest against power outages affecting the city for two weeks. With temperatures passing 100 °F (37,8 °C), water and power outages blanket large swaths of Argentina's capital city, sparking protests and placing residents, particularly those in high-rise buildings, at risk. (Photo by Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)

A woman in Buenos Aires bangs a pot during a street blockade, December 30, 2013, to protest against power outages affecting the city for two weeks. With temperatures passing 100 °F (37,8 °C), water and power outages blanket large swaths of Argentina's capital city, sparking protests and placing residents, particularly those in high-rise buildings, at risk. (Photo by Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)




A man looks at the level of water on January 2, 2014 in the city center of the western city of Quimperle flooded by the Laita river. Britanny is placed under flood warning due to heavy rains and high tidal coefficient. (Photo by Damien Meyer/AFP Photo)

A man looks at the level of water on January 2, 2014 in the city center of the western city of Quimperle flooded by the Laita river. Britanny is placed under flood warning due to heavy rains and high tidal coefficient. (Photo by Damien Meyer/AFP Photo)




Dancers from Romania's northeastern region of Moldova perform the “bear dance”, a ritual for good luck in the New Year, during a parade in Comanesti, December 30, 2013. In pre-Christian rural traditions dancers used to tour from house to house in villages while singing and dancing to ward off evil. (Photo by Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)

Dancers from Romania's northeastern region of Moldova perform the “bear dance”, a ritual for good luck in the New Year, during a parade in Comanesti, December 30, 2013. In pre-Christian rural traditions dancers used to tour from house to house in villages while singing and dancing to ward off evil. (Photo by Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)




Kashmiris transport their belongings to a safer place after their houses were destroyed by a fire at Dhobi Ghat, on the outskirts of Srinagar December 30, 2013. At least 14 residential houses were gutted in the fire on Sunday night, according to residents. There were no reports of casualties in the fire, officials said. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

Kashmiris transport their belongings to a safer place after their houses were destroyed by a fire at Dhobi Ghat, on the outskirts of Srinagar December 30, 2013. At least 14 residential houses were gutted in the fire on Sunday night, according to residents. There were no reports of casualties in the fire, officials said. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)




Indian children collect drinking water from a tube-well in the village of Murkata in Morigoan district, some 70 kms from Guwahati on December 30, 2013. With an annual monsoon, India does not lack water, but it struggles to preserve water due to poor storage and distribution systems. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)

Indian children collect drinking water from a tube-well in the village of Murkata in Morigoan district, some 70 kms from Guwahati on December 30, 2013. With an annual monsoon, India does not lack water, but it struggles to preserve water due to poor storage and distribution systems. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)




Children stand in the snow outside their shelter in Kabul December 30, 2013. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)

Children stand in the snow outside their shelter in Kabul December 30, 2013. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)




Children pose for pictures with their paper-cut works of the Chinese character “horse”, ahead of the Year of the Horse in Chinese zodiac, at a primary school in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, December 31, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

Children pose for pictures with their paper-cut works of the Chinese character “horse”, ahead of the Year of the Horse in Chinese zodiac, at a primary school in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, December 31, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)




Police officers detain people who gathered for an unsanctioned event in downtown Volgograd, Russia, Monday, December 30, 2013. A bomb blast tore through a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people. a day after a suicide bombing that killed at least 17 at the city's main railway station. Volgograd is about 650 kilometers (400 miles) northeast of Sochi, where the Olympics are to be held. (Photo by Denis Tyrin/AP Photo)

Police officers detain people who gathered for an unsanctioned event in downtown Volgograd, Russia, Monday, December 30, 2013. A bomb blast tore through a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people. a day after a suicide bombing that killed at least 17 at the city's main railway station. Volgograd is about 650 kilometers (400 miles) northeast of Sochi, where the Olympics are to be held. (Photo by Denis Tyrin/AP Photo)




A “Free Syrian Army” fighter rests on a red couch in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31, 2013. (Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)

A “Free Syrian Army” fighter rests on a red couch in Jeb Chalabi neighborhood, West Aleppo December 31, 2013. (Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)




A man plays with a bubble while celebrating New Year's day at a park in Manila January 1, 2014. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

A man plays with a bubble while celebrating New Year's day at a park in Manila January 1, 2014. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)




A woman makes a snow angel in the middle of Times Square in New York, January 3, 2014. The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency and urged residents to stay indoors as a major storm, called Hercules by local media, hit the northeastern United States on Thursday, bringing heavy snow and delaying or cancelling thousands of flights. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

A woman makes a snow angel in the middle of Times Square in New York, January 3, 2014. The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency and urged residents to stay indoors as a major storm, called Hercules by local media, hit the northeastern United States on Thursday, bringing heavy snow and delaying or cancelling thousands of flights. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)




A person dressed as Spiderman attends the 2014 New Year's Eve Confetti Test at Hard Rock Cafe, Times Square on December 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic)

A person dressed as Spiderman attends the 2014 New Year's Eve Confetti Test at Hard Rock Cafe, Times Square on December 29, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic)




Indian Sikh devotees show their skill in martial arts during “Nagar Kirtan” procession carried out as part of “Prakash Utsav” the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh on December 29,2013 in Noida, India. Sikhs celebrated the 347th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Govind Singh, the tenth and last guru of Sikhs. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Indian Sikh devotees show their skill in martial arts during “Nagar Kirtan” procession carried out as part of “Prakash Utsav” the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh on December 29,2013 in Noida, India. Sikhs celebrated the 347th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Govind Singh, the tenth and last guru of Sikhs. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)




A worker throws a petrol bomb after clashes broke out during a protest Friday near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on January 3, 2013. At least four people were killed when police opened fire at the workers. (Photo by Reuters/Landov)

A worker throws a petrol bomb after clashes broke out during a protest Friday near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on January 3, 2013. At least four people were killed when police opened fire at the workers. (Photo by Reuters/Landov)




Webcams and monitoring stations of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) are seen at the Schiena dell'Asino looking towards the eruption at the South East Crater of Mt. Etna, near Catania, in Sicily, southern Italy, early Monday, December 30, 2013. Mt. Etna erupts quite frequently, the last eruption occurred a couple of weeks ago, causing no damages. (Photo by Salvatore Allegra/AP Photo)

Webcams and monitoring stations of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) are seen at the Schiena dell'Asino looking towards the eruption at the South East Crater of Mt. Etna, near Catania, in Sicily, southern Italy, early Monday, December 30, 2013. Mt. Etna erupts quite frequently, the last eruption occurred a couple of weeks ago, causing no damages. (Photo by Salvatore Allegra/AP Photo)




Russian firefighters and security personnel inspect the destroyed trolleybus in Volgograd on December 30, 2013. Ten people were killed in a bombing that destroyed a packed trolleybus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, the second attack in the city in two days after a suicide strike on its main train station, officials said. (Photo by AFP Photo)

Russian firefighters and security personnel inspect the destroyed trolleybus in Volgograd on December 30, 2013. Ten people were killed in a bombing that destroyed a packed trolleybus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, the second attack in the city in two days after a suicide strike on its main train station, officials said. (Photo by AFP Photo)




A worker clears wet snow off a sidewalk with a squeegee in front of a billboard sign in Times Square in New York, on January 3, 2013. The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency and urged residents to stay indoors as a major storm, called Hercules by local media, hit the northeastern United States on Thursday, bringing heavy snow and delaying or canceling thousands of flights. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

A worker clears wet snow off a sidewalk with a squeegee in front of a billboard sign in Times Square in New York, on January 3, 2013. The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency and urged residents to stay indoors as a major storm, called Hercules by local media, hit the northeastern United States on Thursday, bringing heavy snow and delaying or canceling thousands of flights. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)




A Bangladeshi boatman tidies up his bedding after waking up in the early morning in Dhaka on January 3, 2014. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is certain to cement her grip on power at elections scheduled for Janaury 5, boycotted by her rivals and shunned by the West after unprecedented bloodshed. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)

A Bangladeshi boatman tidies up his bedding after waking up in the early morning in Dhaka on January 3, 2014. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is certain to cement her grip on power at elections scheduled for Janaury 5, boycotted by her rivals and shunned by the West after unprecedented bloodshed. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)




Severin Freund of Germany soars towards the Wiltener Basilica during his first training jump on day 1 of the Four Hills Tournament event at Bergisel on January 3, 2014 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Dennis Grombkowski/Getty Images/Bongarts)

Severin Freund of Germany soars towards the Wiltener Basilica during his first training jump on day 1 of the Four Hills Tournament event at Bergisel on January 3, 2014 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Dennis Grombkowski/Getty Images/Bongarts)




This aerial photo showing a 20-metre-tall and 30-metre-wide picture, made from pine cones, of a horse is displayed to celebrate the Year of the horse at the Hitachi Beach park in Hitachinaka city, Ibaraki prefecture, some 100-kilometres north of Tokyo on January 3, 2014. Visitors could see the picture, made up from around 30,000 pine cones collected in the park, from a nearby 65-metre-tall ferris wheel. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)

This aerial photo showing a 20-metre-tall and 30-metre-wide picture, made from pine cones, of a horse is displayed to celebrate the Year of the horse at the Hitachi Beach park in Hitachinaka city, Ibaraki prefecture, some 100-kilometres north of Tokyo on January 3, 2014. Visitors could see the picture, made up from around 30,000 pine cones collected in the park, from a nearby 65-metre-tall ferris wheel. (Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP Photo)




Women cry laying flowers outside the Volgograd main railway station in Volgograd, Russia, early Monday December 30, 2013. (Photo by Denis Tyrin/AP Photo)

Women cry laying flowers outside the Volgograd main railway station in Volgograd, Russia, early Monday December 30, 2013. (Photo by Denis Tyrin/AP Photo)




Delhi policemen charge members of the youth wing of the Congress party in an attempt to stop them from marching towards the official residence of Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh, on January 1, 2013. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/Associated Press)

Delhi policemen charge members of the youth wing of the Congress party in an attempt to stop them from marching towards the official residence of Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh, on January 1, 2013. The demonstration was over BJP's decision to allow former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who was allegedly involved in a mining scam, to join their party, and against other convicted ministers in Gujarat state chief minister Narendra Modi's cabinet. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/Associated Press)




A young neighborhood resident carries makeshift weapons as he returns from a camp for the displaced at Mpoko Airport to fetch household goods from in Bangui, Central African Republic, on January 1, 2013. Clashes between armed gangs of Muslim and Christian residents. At least four people killed. In Garaba, several homes belonging to Christians were burned, and multiple Muslim homes looted. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press)

A young neighborhood resident carries makeshift weapons as he returns from a camp for the displaced at Mpoko Airport to fetch household goods from in Bangui, Central African Republic, on January 1, 2013. Clashes between armed gangs of Muslim and Christian residents. At least four people killed. In Garaba, several homes belonging to Christians were burned, and multiple Muslim homes looted. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press)




In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, the first group of passengers who were aboard the trapped Russian vessel MV Akademik Shokalski, arrive at a safe surface off the Antarctic, Thursday, January 2, 2014. (Photo by Zhang Jiansong/AP Photo/Xinhua)

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, the first group of passengers who were aboard the trapped Russian vessel MV Akademik Shokalski, arrive at a safe surface off the Antarctic, Thursday, January 2, 2014. The helicopter rescued all 52 passengers from the research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice, 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia, since Christmas Eve after weather conditions finally cleared enough for the operation Thursday. (Photo by Zhang Jiansong/AP Photo/Xinhua)




A military soldier walks through heavy smoke from clashes with supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, January 3, 2013. The confrontations spilled from main streets to side streets in heavily populated residential areas in several provinces including Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters hurled rocks at security forces, which responded with volleys of tear gas. (Photo by Heba Khamis/AP Photo)

A military soldier walks through heavy smoke from clashes with supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, January 3, 2013. The confrontations spilled from main streets to side streets in heavily populated residential areas in several provinces including Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters hurled rocks at security forces, which responded with volleys of tear gas. (Photo by Heba Khamis/AP Photo)




Chadians waiting for evacuation flights settle in for the night inside an airport hangar in Bangui, Central African Republic, Sunday, December 29, 2013. Despite multiple repatriation flights daily, hundreds of Chadians have been camped out at an airport hangar and on a section of tarmac for nearly a week. Overwhelmingly women and children, they are without regular access to food and water, and can't leave the airport for fear of being attacked by angry Christians who blame them for the country's current problems. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)

Chadians waiting for evacuation flights settle in for the night inside an airport hangar in Bangui, Central African Republic, Sunday, December 29, 2013. Despite multiple repatriation flights daily, hundreds of Chadians have been camped out at an airport hangar and on a section of tarmac for nearly a week. Overwhelmingly women and children, they are without regular access to food and water, and can't leave the airport for fear of being attacked by angry Christians who blame them for the country's current problems. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)




U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's plane casts a shadow on fields as it approaches Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, January 2, 2014. Kerry later said that finding peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not “mission impossible”. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AP Photo)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's plane casts a shadow on fields as it approaches Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, January 2, 2014. Kerry later said that finding peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not “mission impossible”. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AP Photo)




A novice Tibetan monk gestures to the camera as he listens to the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama deliver the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, 135 miles west of Bangalore, India, Sunday, December 29, 2013. The ten-day teachings began Dec. 25. (Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/AP Photo)

A novice Tibetan monk gestures to the camera as he listens to the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama deliver the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, 135 miles west of Bangalore, India, Sunday, December 29, 2013. The ten-day teachings began Dec. 25. (Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/AP Photo)




A Lebanese man carries an injured woman away from the site of a car bomb explosion in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah at the southern suburb of Beirut, Thursday Jan. 2, 2014



A Lebanese man carries an injured woman away from the site of a car bomb explosion in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah at the southern suburb of Beirut, Thursday January 2, 2014. A large explosion has rocked a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)

A Lebanese man carries an injured woman away from the site of a car bomb explosion in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah at the southern suburb of Beirut, Thursday January 2, 2014. A large explosion has rocked a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)




Fog settles low over Happy Valley as a lenticular cloud obscures the summit of Mount Hood as the sunrise lights up wispy clouds, Thursday, January 2, 2014, in a view looking north from Mount Scott, Ore. (Photo by Thomas Boyd/AP Photo/The Oregonian)

Fog settles low over Happy Valley as a lenticular cloud obscures the summit of Mount Hood as the sunrise lights up wispy clouds, Thursday, January 2, 2014, in a view looking north from Mount Scott, Ore. (Photo by Thomas Boyd/AP Photo/The Oregonian)




An oil pump operates at sunset Thursday, January 2, 2014, in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. The price of oil fell below $98 a barrel Thursday amid reduced trading volumes and the impact of a strengthening dollar. (Photo by Hasan Jamali/AP Photo)

An oil pump operates at sunset Thursday, January 2, 2014, in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. The price of oil fell below $98 a barrel Thursday amid reduced trading volumes and the impact of a strengthening dollar. (Photo by Hasan Jamali/AP Photo)




A displaced child stands in front of the makeshift tents where she and others live next to shipping containers at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, December 29, 2013. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)

A displaced child stands in front of the makeshift tents where she and others live next to shipping containers at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, December 29, 2013. Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps for the internally displaced in Juba and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country, two weeks after violence broke out in the capital and a spiralling series of ethnically-based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)




A paddle boarder looks our over the Pacific Ocean as the sun sets off of Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu, on New Years Eve, Tuesday, December 31, 2013. President Barack Obama and the first family are in Hawaii for their annual holiday vacation. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)

A paddle boarder looks our over the Pacific Ocean as the sun sets off of Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu, on New Years Eve, Tuesday, December 31, 2013. President Barack Obama and the first family are in Hawaii for their annual holiday vacation. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)




A man watches Mount Sinabung as it spews clouds of gas during an eruption in Tiga Pancur, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, January 1, 2014. The 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano has sporadically erupted since September. (Photo by Dedy Zulkifli/AP Photo)

A man watches Mount Sinabung as it spews clouds of gas during an eruption in Tiga Pancur, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, January 1, 2014. The 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano has sporadically erupted since September. (Photo by Dedy Zulkifli/AP Photo)




Japanese women dressed in Heian Period (794–1192) costumes participate in the first “Karuta” card game of new year at Yasaka Shrine on January 3, 2014 in Kyoto, Japan. The traditional game is played each year to honour the shrine's deity Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the Shinto god of the sea and storms, who is also believed to have written the first tanka poem. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

Japanese women dressed in Heian Period (794–1192) costumes participate in the first “Karuta” card game of new year at Yasaka Shrine on January 3, 2014 in Kyoto, Japan. The traditional game is played each year to honour the shrine's deity Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the Shinto god of the sea and storms, who is also believed to have written the first tanka poem. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)




A displaced boy mimics the photographer taking a picture of him, using a fake plastic jewel, at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, December 29, 2013. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)

A displaced boy mimics the photographer taking a picture of him, using a fake plastic jewel, at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, December 29, 2013. Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps for the internally displaced in Juba and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country, two weeks after violence broke out in the capital and a spiralling series of ethnically-based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)




In this Tuesday, December 31, 2013 image provided by Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography, passengers from the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy link arms and stamp out a helicopter landing site on the ice near the trapped ship 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia. (Photo by Andrew Peacock/AP Photo/Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography)

In this Tuesday, December 31, 2013 image provided by Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography, passengers from the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy link arms and stamp out a helicopter landing site on the ice near the trapped ship 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia. Passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for a week are expected to be rescued by helicopter, after three icebreakers failed to reach the paralyzed vessel, officials said Tuesday. (Photo by Andrew Peacock/AP Photo/Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography)




A demonstrator jumps over a turnstile during a protest against private security guards at Taksim metro station in central Istanbul December 31, 2013. Hundreds of left-wing demonstrators gathered at Istanbul and Ankara main metro stations to protest against private security guards working at metro stations. Aykut Kelek, a 20-year-old man, who attempted to board the metro without paying in Istanbul was beaten by a security guard and hospitalized on Monday, local media reported. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)

A demonstrator jumps over a turnstile during a protest against private security guards at Taksim metro station in central Istanbul December 31, 2013. Hundreds of left-wing demonstrators gathered at Istanbul and Ankara main metro stations to protest against private security guards working at metro stations. Aykut Kelek, a 20-year-old man, who attempted to board the metro without paying in Istanbul was beaten by a security guard and hospitalized on Monday, local media reported. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)




People in suits participate in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club dip, in the Brooklyn borough of New York January 1, 2014. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the U.S. and every New Year's Day holds the winter plunge which attracts thousands of participants. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Reuters)

People in suits participate in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club dip, in the Brooklyn borough of New York January 1, 2014. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the U.S. and every New Year's Day holds the winter plunge which attracts thousands of participants. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Reuters)




Kashmiri Muslim boat men make a snowman to attract customers after a fresh snowfall in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, January 1, 2014. Snowfall in the Indian portion of Kashmir has disrupted power supply, as well as air and road traffic between Srinagar and Jammu, the summer and winter capitals of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, according to news reports. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)

Kashmiri Muslim boat men make a snowman to attract customers after a fresh snowfall in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, January 1, 2014. Snowfall in the Indian portion of Kashmir has disrupted power supply, as well as air and road traffic between Srinagar and Jammu, the summer and winter capitals of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, according to news reports. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)




A Tibetan Buddhist monk runs in joy after serving butter tea to high priests attending the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, about 135 miles west of Bangalore, India, Wednesday, January 1, 2014. The ten-day teachings began December 25, 2013. (Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/AP Photo)

A Tibetan Buddhist monk runs in joy after serving butter tea to high priests attending the Jangchup Lamrim teachings at the Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, about 135 miles west of Bangalore, India, Wednesday, January 1, 2014. The ten-day teachings began December 25, 2013. (Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/AP Photo)




Sunlight streams through the windows of a building which caught on fire in Plattsmouth, Neb., Friday, January 3, 2014, and the water sprayed on it by fire fighters froze. Much of the American northeast and the midwest are suffering from sub-freezing temperatures. (Photo by Nati Harnik/AP Photo)

Sunlight streams through the windows of a building which caught on fire in Plattsmouth, Neb., Friday, January 3, 2014, and the water sprayed on it by fire fighters froze. Much of the American northeast and the midwest are suffering from sub-freezing temperatures. (Photo by Nati Harnik/AP Photo)




A man photographs the Korean War Veterans Memorial after a heavy snow storm in Washington January 3, 2014. A heavy snowstorm and dangerously cold conditions gripped the northeastern United States on Friday, delaying flights, paralyzing road travel and closing schools and government offices across the region. (Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)

A man photographs the Korean War Veterans Memorial after a heavy snow storm in Washington January 3, 2014. A heavy snowstorm and dangerously cold conditions gripped the northeastern United States on Friday, delaying flights, paralyzing road travel and closing schools and government offices across the region. (Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)




Scores of posters with portraits of contesting candidates urging voters to cast their ballots for their respective parties are hung overhead on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, January 2, 2014. Bangladesh's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its alliances are boycotting the parliamentary elections set for Jan. 5 demanding for an independent caretaker government to oversee the polls. (Photo by A. M. Ahad/AP Photo)

Scores of posters with portraits of contesting candidates urging voters to cast their ballots for their respective parties are hung overhead on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, January 2, 2014. Bangladesh's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its alliances are boycotting the parliamentary elections set for Jan. 5 demanding for an independent caretaker government to oversee the polls. (Photo by A. M. Ahad/AP Photo)




A young Bangladeshi child walks past a passenger bus torched by opposition party supporters ahead of the general elections in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, January 2, 2014. Bangladesh's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its alliances are boycotting the parliamentary elections set for January 5 demanding for an independent caretaker government to oversee the polls. (Photo by AP Photo)

A young Bangladeshi child walks past a passenger bus torched by opposition party supporters ahead of the general elections in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, January 2, 2014. Bangladesh's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its alliances are boycotting the parliamentary elections set for January 5 demanding for an independent caretaker government to oversee the polls. (Photo by AP Photo)




An Indian gets his shave done from a roadside barber early morning at a whole sale market in New Delhi, India Friday, January 3, 2014. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)

An Indian gets his shave done from a roadside barber early morning at a whole sale market in New Delhi, India Friday, January 3, 2014. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)




Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 in south Beirut, a health ministry source told AFP. (Photo by AFP Photo/STR)

Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 in south Beirut, a health ministry source told AFP. (Photo by AFP Photo/STR)




Members of the “Krepysh” family winter swimming club pour icy water onto each other on the banks of the Yenisei River, despite the 23 degree temperature in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 29, 2013. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Members of the “Krepysh” family winter swimming club pour icy water onto each other on the banks of the Yenisei River, despite the 23 degree temperature in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 29, 2013. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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