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A member of the group called 'Los Pintados' (Painted Ones) covered in oil and ash gestures while parading with his friends through the village of San Nicolas de los Ranchos. The 'Pintados' cover themselves in oil and ash and wear masks to ward of evil spirits during this Lent time festival which dates back to the 17th century. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Brasilia, in favour of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki - two Japanese activists who have denounced a large-scale corruption scheme between the government and the whaling industry, and have been in jail for theft and trespass for almost two years now, in Japan. -- PHOTO: AFP




Wind turbines cover the landscape on a government sponsored wind farm in La Rumorosa, Mexico. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the wind farm in northern Mexico early on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP




View of the iced boardwalk in Grandson at the lake of Neuchatel, Switzerland. -- PHOTO: AP