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World
Feb 14, 2010

News in pictures on Sunday



Armin Zoeggeler of Italy competes during the second run of the men's singles luge competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. -- PHOTO: AP



Baby tigers share the nipples of a pig mother with baby pigs at the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, southeastern Thailand. -- PHOTO: AP



Chinese revellers wear fancy dress during a Lunar New Year temple fair in Beijing on February 13, 2010. The Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, celebrated on Feb 14 this year, is China's most important holiday, reuniting families around the vast nation of 1.3 billion and triggering an exodus believed to be the world's largest annual human migration. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A man performs during carnival celebrations in Oruro, western Bolivia. -- PHOTO: AP



A window damaged by anti-Olympic protestors at the Hudson's Bay department store in downtown Vancouver on February 13, 2010 on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. The violence followed small-scale protests on the final leg of the Olympic torch relay Feb 12 when around 100 demonstrators, upset over the financial and environmental impact of the Olympics, briefly blocked its route. -- PHOTO: AFP



A man prays on top of a car next to the earthquake damaged national palace in Port-au-Prince. One month after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck, Haitians have observed a weekend of mourning and prayer. -- PHOTO: AP

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Dancers perform ahead of the medal ceremony at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. -- PHOTO: AP



An ethnic Chinese man holds joss sticks while offering a prayer at a temple on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian ethnic Chinese swarmed the temple to pray for good fortune. -- PHOTO: AP



Floral tributes lay in front of Alexander McQueen's boutique in New York City. British fashion designer McQueen, whose provocative collections made him a global star, was found dead at his London home on Feb 11, in what media said appeared to be suicide. He was 40. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



A water rescue officer picks up a surfer and tries to outrun a big wave at the Mavericks Surf Contest, in Half Moon Bay, California. -- PHOTO: AP