Tuesday: The day in photos
Hindu pilgrims gather for the annual Ganga Sagar Fair on the Bay of Bengal, about 85 miles south of Kolkata. Thousands of devotees from India and beyond gather at the point where the holy river Ganges meets the sea, to take a dip and wash away earthly sins. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA)
A White House staffer carries a framed photograph of President Bush outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, one week before Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)
An Israeli army soldier is among those stationed in a staging area near the country’s border with Gaza. On the 18th day of fighting in the territory, Israeli ground forces and members of Hamas battled in a neighborhood of high-rise apartments in Gaza City, about a mile from the city center.
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A protester sticks a Jewish star of David on the window of a Starbucks shop in Beirut during a demonstration to call for a boycott of the U.S.-based coffee chain. The demonstrators in Lebanon’s capital have targeted Starbucks because of the pro-Israel views of company Chairman Howard Schultz. (Joseph Barrak / AFP/Getty Images)
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A riot policeman chases one of the protesters who were blocking the Pan American Highway near San Benito, Nicaragua, during a protest against high interest rates of micro-finance companies. (Miguel Alvarez / AFP/Getty Images)
Muki, a 1-month-old Hamadryas baboon, looks at her keeper, Judit Inkeller, at Hungary’s Pecs Zoo. The baby baboon is hand-fed by keepers because her mother abandoned her. (Ferenc Kalmandy / EPA)
A policeman breaks a hole in a frozen lake ahead of an exercise in Boennigheim, Germany. The aim of the exercise is to be mentally able to remain for a while under the ice. (Sascha Schuermann / AFP/Getty Images)
People search for food and other provisions at a garbage dump on the outskirts of the northern Bosnian village of Visca. An extreme winter in the region is forcing people who live in poverty to resort to desperate measures. (Amel Emric / Associated Press)
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Romanian workers of the Dacia-Renault car factory wave flags and placards during a protest in Mioveni. Thousands of workers from companies linked to the Dacia-Renault production line gathered to support the government tax on importing second-hand cars and to ask for better protection of the national automotive industry. (Robert Ghement / EPA)
