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With snow and wind in the air, student Emmit McFarland of Crested Butte, Colo. pushes his bike through the new snow after leaving Crested Butte Community School for the day in Crested Butte. -- PHOTO: AP




A US Marine from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines uses a headlight set up in red color to read a book at a joint combat outpost with Afghan National Army soldiers, in a stronghold Taleban area in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AFP




The bodies of some of the twelve victims of a landslide at the Prazeres shantytown, lie in the street in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Flooding from torrential rains and deadly mudslides claimed at least 79 lives in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, authorities said on Tuesday. Civil defence officials said about half of the fatalities occurred in Rio de Janeiro city, where authorities urged residents to remain indoors and not venture downtown, where streets were impassable. -- PHOTO: AFP