A trident stands in the foreground as people go about their morning rituals on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India,

India's President Pratibha Patil (C) pays respect at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial on Gandhi's death anniversary at Rajghat in New Delhi January 30

A student with his face painted in Indian national flag's colours and religious symbols attends a peace march to mark the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai

A woman lights a candle as she holds a child during a vigil to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary at a war memorial in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh

Newly recruited cadets of Indo-Tibetan Border Police taking oath to serve the nation during passing out parade at ITBP Basic Training Centre at Bhanu in Panchkula.

Workers dig at an excavation site in front of the Giza pyramids on January 11, 2010. Egyptian archaeologists have recently unearthed a number of tombs of workers who had helped to construct the country's largest pyramid dating back to the period of the fourth dynasty (2694-2513 BC)

Workers wait to release balloons prior to the inauguration of the expo boulevard at the World Expo 2010 site in Shanghai, China

A worker walks out of a store at a steel market in Shenyang, Liaoning provinc

A Belarussian border guard's dog runs over the backs of soldiers some 130km northwest of Minsk in the town Smorgon on January 22, 2009 at a military dog training facility

A laborer works on a loom in a textile factory in Faisalabad, Pakistan

Employees of German bathroom ceramic and furniture firm Duravit, stand outside on a balcony atop of a giant lavatory bowl, at their company headquarters in Hornberg, Southwestern Germany

A worker illuminates south block, government building for forthcoming Republic day celebrations, in New Delhi, India,

An employee pours molten aluminum at United Company Rusal's Bogoslovsky aluminum smelter, Russia

A front-loader is used to fill trucks with de-icing salt at a storage facility in the southern German city of Heilbronn

Technicians Eric Norman, left, and Dave Norman assemble a General Electric Co. GP7200 jet engine for a Boeing 777 at the company's Aviation Assembly & Test facility in Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina

Two employees (top center) check parked Hyundai cars ready for shipment at a port in the southern Indian city of Chennai

A man rents mobile phone chargers by the hour in downtown Port-au-Prince

A man takes a photograph of a submerged car in the frozen Union canal near Winchburgh in central Scotland January 12, 2010. Two men have been charged with reckless conduct after the car which was being driven on the frozen canal plunged through the ice

People walk on the frozen Lake Reschen reservoir beside the former church tower of the Village of Graun in South Tyrol in Northern Italy

Ice and snow cover Madrid's famous landmark Cibeles fountain in downtown Madrid January 11, 2010. Snow and icy weather blanketed large parts of Spain and Europe, disrupting air, road and train travel

A orange is encrusted in ice Monday, January 11, 2010 in Winter Garden, Florida, as citrus growers continued spraying water on their citrus trees to protect the fruit from sub-freezing temperatures

An employee displays a pair of gold footwear and bag at the 'Gem and Jewellery India International Exhibition 2010' (GJIIE) in the southern Indian city of Chennai

Former U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin (L) appears as a FOX News Channel contributor on The O Reilly Factor during its taping in New York

Zohal Meral wearing a traditional Afghanistani dress watches the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup match between India and Afghanistan at Bert Sutcliffe Oval

Indian people observe the rare Annular Solar Eclipse on January 15, 2010 at the central stadium of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) in Kerala, South India. This rare astronomical event lasts for 7 minutes 15 seconds. During the annular eclipse, the moon passes directly in front of the sun, leaving a spectacular ring of fire.

The U.S. Department of State and FBI have released this "age progressed" photograph of Osama Bin Laden (Usama bin Ladin) as a part of newly enhanced photos of terrorist suspects on their most wanted lists in Washington

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A view of the badly damaged presidential palace - the center portion formerly 3 stories tall - after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A Hindu devotee bathes in river Ganges

Sri Lanka's captain Kumar Sangakkara receives the trophy after Sri Lanka won the final match of the tri-nations cricket series against India in Dhaka