Today in Photos, January 23
23 Jan 2013
Down and out - Serena Williams of the US reacts after winning a point against Sloane Stephens of the US during their women's singles match on day ten of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Wednesday. The teenager Stephens eventually won and ended Williams’ bid for a historic calendar-year grand slam. Photo: AFP
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![]( "Newly initiated 'naga sadhus' prepare to perform rituals on the banks of the Ganges River during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad. Photo: AFP")
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![]( "Passengers board a train at the Zhengzhou Railway Station in Zhengzhou, China’s Henan Province. China's transport system sees an annual travel rush around the Lunar New Year Spring Festival, which starts on Feb. 10 this year. Photo: Xinhua")
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![]( "Alain Robert of France, known the world over as \"Spiderman\", climbs up the Habana Libre hotel in Havana, Cuba on Monday. Photo: Reuters")
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![]( "Royal respects - Cambodians queue to enter the crematorium where a coffin bearing the remains of Cambodia's late king Norodom Sihanouk rests near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh on Monday. Cambodia was due to hold an elaborate cremation ceremony for its revered former king Norodom Sihanouk, part of a week-long funeral for the colourful late royal. Photo: AFP")
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![]( "Close call - A truck sits on the expressway bridge which partially collapsed due to an explosion in Mianchi County, Sanmenxia, central China's Henan province on Fiday. Fireworks for Lunar New Year celebrations exploded on a truck in central China, destroying part of an elevated highway on Friday and sending vehicles plummeting 30 meters to the ground. Photo: AP")
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![]( "The Guotai Chambers building seen the Jingshan Park in Beijing as smog continues to shroud the Chinese capital on Thursday. Doctors in Beijing said that hospital admissions for respiratory complaints rose in recent days during the latest bout of air pollution to cover northern China. Photo: AFP")
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![]( "An Iranian Zoroastrian plays a flute as he leads the priests walking to set the firewoods ablaze during the annual Zoroastrian Sadeh festival in a suburb of Tehran, on Wednesday. Sadeh, is an ancient Persian festival that is celebrated by setting a huge bonfire to honour fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold. Sadeh means \"hundred\" and refers to one hundred days and nights past the end of summer. Photo: AFP")
Photos30 Jan 2013 -
![]( "Cultural relief - A wall relief that is part of \"The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia\" exhibition at the Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui. The relief \"attack on an enemy town\" shows an Assyrian assault on a town probably in Turkey in 738 to 737BC. The exhibition which opens on Wednesday will be in Hong Kong until May 13. Photo: Sam Wong")
Photos29 Jan 2013
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