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An electronic board showing stock information is reflected on a man's glasses at a brokerage house in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China. China's main stock index opened down 0.7 percent on Wednesday after the central bank announced a rise in benchmark interest rates on Tuesday, the eve of the market's reopening after the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. Reuters
Antigovernment protestors hold candles as they walk around an Egyptian Army tank at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff. Emilio Morenatti/AP
Dogs receive grooming at Irion, a luxury pet care center in Seoul, South Korea. The center, which has a hospital, luxury hotel, kindergarten, grooming room, training room, and store – all for pets – opened today to cater to the rapidly increasing numbers of pet lovers in South Korea. The price of a room at the pet hotel ranges from $36 to $180 each day. Truth Leem/Reuters
The seating plan is prepared for the British Academy Film Awards, which takes place Sunday, Feb. 13, in central London. Joel Ryan/AP
Indian Air Force planes perform at the opening ceremony of Aero India 2011 at Yelahanka air base on the outskirts of Bangalore, India. More than 300 weaponsmakers are participating in the five-day event hoping to capture a share of $10 billion worth of fighter jets and other arms India is planning to buy from overseas. Aijaz Rahi/AP
Qasim, a laborer, smiles as a camel nuzzles him near sacks of grain in a wholesale market in Karachi, Pakistan. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
Country music singer Taylor Swift performs during the Singapore leg of her Speak Now concert tour. Tim Chong/Reuters
Afghan children share a joke in the center of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Census workers take down the details for a Kashmiri family on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Millions of census workers fanned out across India on Wednesday as they began a mammoth effort to document every person in the world's second-most-populous country over the next three weeks. Mukhtar Khan/AP
Cambodian displaced people receive government-supported aid at their temporary shelter at a Buddhist pagoda after fleeing their villages near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries faced growing diplomatic pressure on Wednesday to end an armed standoff on a stretch of border surrounding a 900-year-old clifftop temple as guns held silent for a second day. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
An office worker walks through the London Place business district near Tower Bridge in central London. Britain finalized a tortuous deal with banks on Wednesday to curb bonuses and boost lending to business, but critics said the agreement would be hard to enforce. Toby Melville/Reuters
A pack of riders cycles together during the third stage of the 10th Tour of Qatar cycling race from Al Wakra to Mesaieed. Pascal Guyot/Reuters
A male cheetah cub is weighed in a bucket at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. After two cubs were born in December to different mothers, the male cub was placed with the female cub and her mother, Zazi, as female cheetahs don't produce enough milk when only a single cub is present. The male cub weighed in at 10 lbs. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Commuters make their way through rush hour traffic in downtown Cairo. Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as reinvigorated protesters flocked again to Tahrir Square to demand President Hosni Mubarak quit immediately. Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Katie Ward (front) and her brother Daniel Rogers slide down a hill on an inner tube near their home in Hot Springs, Ark. Mara Kuhn/The Sentinel-Record/AP
Ballet dancers with the Paris Opera Ballet perform one-act ballets during a dress rehearsal at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa greets victims of recent floods in Anuradhapura district, 128 miles north of Colombo. Heavy rain has triggered flooding in Sri Lanka that killed at least 14 people and is threatening up to 90 percent of the island nation's staple rice crop. Reuters
Liu Jian rides a horse during his traditional Chinese wedding in Dongan in the central province of Henan, China. In the ceremony, the groom arrives on a horse while his bride is carried around the town by four men, announcing the marriage. Liu is marrying an American. He is the first person from Dongan to marry a foreigner. Carlos Barria/Reuters
Freedom for Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni was a cause célèbre among dissidents and human rights groups critical of the Chávez regime. Venezuela conditionally released her after three years in detention.
Jailed Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, often referred to as “Hugo Chávez’s political prisoner,” was freed on Friday after spending more than three years in detention. Following petitions from international bodies and human rights groups, the court decision immediately ignited social media networks, with many celebrating the release as a victory for human rights and Venezuela's political opposition.
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