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People rush to plant the first incense stick of the Chinese New Year at the stroke of midnight at a temple in Singapore, early January 31, 2014. The Lunar New Year, which welcomes the year of the horse, falls on Friday.
REUTERS/Edgar Su

 

 

Members of the German speed skating team practice at the Adler Arena on the Olympic Park as preparations continue for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, January 31, 2014. The opening ceremony for the winter games will be held February 7.
REUTERS/Phil Noble

 

 

The moon moves between NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and the sun, giving the observatory a view of a partial solar eclipse from space beginning at 0831 EST (1331 GMT), January 30, 2014. Such a lunar transit happens two to three times each year. This one lasted two and one half hours, which is the longest ever recorded. When the next one will occur is as of yet unknown due to planned adjustments in SDO's orbit.
REUTERS/NASA/SDO

A rebel fighter with a weapon walks to a river to wash as he returns from a front line in a rebel-controlled territory in Jonglei State, January 30, 2014.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic