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Monday, February 8, 2010

A young Buddhist monk makes a face during the Dalai Lama's prayer session at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Patna, India

An Indian Hindu devotee offers prayers while bathing during the annular solar eclipse in the Banganga Lake in Mumbai

A vendor counts money sitting on a heap of marigold flowers at a wholesale market in Calcutta, India, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Marigolds are widely used as strings of garland and for Hindu religious rituals

Gay Maclaire (right) sets up a wireless modem at his new internet cafe at a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 30, 2010. After the earthquake destroyed Maclaire's internet business, he recovered some of the equipment and started an internet cafe at a makeshift camp in front of the damage presidential palace, where he lives with his family

A U.S. Marine from India Company, 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, patrols at Delaram district in Nimroz province, southern Afghanistan

An Afghan man buys plastic jugs in a market in Kabul, Afghanistan

An Afghan refugee boy cries during a daily lesson on how to read verses of the Quran, taught by an Imam, not seen, at a mosque in a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Ten-year-old Nahid grabs a thread while she weaves carpet in her home in Kabul, Afghanistan

An Afghan widow clad in burqa waits to receive materials for making blankets during a cash for work project by humanitarian organization CARE International in Kabul

Shepherds herd their sheep as Dutch soldiers of Charlie Air assault patrol in Chora valley in southern Uruzgan province on January 22, 2010. The Netherlands Royal Army leads the NATO/ISAF joint task force in this southern province of Afghanistan

Afghan soldiers trained by US Marines from the First Battalion, 6th regiment, thumb through an issue of People Magazine as they wait to be transferred to another camp, in Mahafiz camp in the outskirts of Marjah in central Helmand

U.S. Airmen from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron prepare to refuel an E-3 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft Jan.15, 2010, over Afghanistan

A British soldier stands in front of an Afghan vehicle, known as a "jingle truck", as he provides security outside Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 2, 2010. The soldier is assigned to B Flight, 27 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, which is serving with NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan

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