News Photos of the Day
Date: 1/23/2012 Album ID: 1400760
Photos by Associated Press
News photos from around the world, Jan. 23, 2012.
This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a  solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' health and satellite disruptions. It can cause communication problems for airplanes that go over the poles. (AP Photo/NASA)
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This colorized NASA image, taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a flare shooting out of the top of the sun. It was taken in a special teal wavelength to best see the flare.  Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' health and satellite disruptions. It can cause communication problems for airplanes that go over the poles. (AP Photo/NASA)
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Water from a leaky fire hose rains down on neighborhood residents as they attempt to put out a fire that had already burned dozens of homes, in the New Building slum neighborhood in central Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. As firefighters struggled to get enough water pressure to make their firehoses work, residents fought the fire with buckets of waste water and used mallets to tear down homes in the fire's path. Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are currently co-hosting the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Seagulls rise into the air along the St. Louis riverfront Sunday afternoon Jan. 22, 2012, on a day of fog, drizzle and limited visibility. The Eads Bridge and the Martin Luther King Bridge can be seen in the background.

Photo by J.B. Forbes  jforbes@post-dispatch.com
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Residents walk around through the debris as a severe storm ripped through the Trussville area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in Trussville, Ala.  (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Rescue workers clear fallen trees for emergency personnel as a severe storm caused damage in the Trussville area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in Trussville, Ala.  (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Residents walk around through the debris of their neighborhood after a possible tornado ripped through the Trussville, Ala. area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Randy Christian said the storm produced a possible tornado that moved across northern Jefferson County around 3:30 a.m., causing damage in Oak Grove, Graysville, Fultondale, Center Point, Clay and Trussville. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Transfer cases containing the remains of Marines Capt. Daniel B. Bartle, front left case, Capt. Nathan R. McHone, back left case, Master Sgt. Travis W. Riddick, front center case, Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, back center case, Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, front right case, and Cpl. Jesse W. Stites, back right case, sit on a loader near seats for their families Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Bartle, 27, of Ferndale, Wash., McHone, 29, of Crystal Lake, Ill., Riddick, 40, of Centerville, Iowa, Logan, 22, of Willis, Texas, Reinhard, 25, of Colonia, N.J., and Stites, 23, of North Beach, Md., died Jan. 19, 2012 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
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Italian Navy scuba divers return after working on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Italian officials were clearing hurdles Monday to begin pumping some half a million gallons of fuel from the capsized Costa Concordia that threaten an environmental catastrophe, as divers continued the search for 19 people known missing. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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In this undated photo released by Vigili del Fuoco (Italian firefighters) Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 a firefighter is lowered on the Costa Concordia cruise ship from an helicopter, off the tiny Giglio island, Italy. Italian officials say Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 two more bodies have been pulled from the wreckage of a cruise liner capsized off the Tuscan coast, bringing the number of confirmed dead to 15. The national civil protection agency official in charge of the search said Monday that divers recovered the bodies of two women from the ship's internet cafe. (AP Photo/Vigili del Fuoco)
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Hindu pilrims arrive at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the annual month long Hindu religious fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims take dips in the confluence, some hoping to wash away sins and others to secure a fine spouse, during the month long festival. (AP Photo) INDIA OUT
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Unidentified women sit next to Maori heads covered up by a black fabric during a hand over ceremony at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. France has handed over to New Zealand authorities 20 tattooed heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a cultural curiosity. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
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A general view of  the first Egyptian parliament session after the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The parliament elected in Egypt's first legislative vote after Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly a year ago held its inaugural session on Monday, with Islamists dominating the 498-seat chamber that will oversee the drafting of a new constitution. (AP Photo/Asmaa Waguih,Pool)
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Saad el-Katatni, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood, waves after being nominated by the Freedom and Justice Party for the post of the Parliament Speaker at the first Egyptian parliament session after the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The parliament elected in Egypt's first legislative vote after Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly a year ago held its inaugural session on Monday, with Islamists dominating the 498-seat chamber that will oversee the drafting of a new constitution. (AP Photo/Khaled Elfiqi,Pool)
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Egyptian police stand guard at a checkpoint on the road leading to the to the People's Assembly building during the opening session in Cairo, Egypt Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The parliament elected in Egypt's first legislative vote after Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly a year ago held its inaugural session on Monday, with Islamists dominating the 498-seat chamber that will oversee the drafting of a new constitution. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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A devotee prays for good luck under a large lantern on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Dragon in Taipei, Taiwan, late Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. The first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year falls on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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A performer breaths fire during a dragon dance performance in celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district Monday Jan. 23, 2012 in the Philippines. This year is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A Filipino-Chinese lights candles while praying inside a Chinese temple in celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district Monday Jan. 23, 2012 in the Philippines. This year is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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In this undated photo taken in Hawaii and provided by Minoru Ohye, Minoru Ohye, left, his younger brother Hiroshi, center, and their mother Kane are shown. Japanese-American Ohye traveled all the way to Japan to celebrate his 86th birthday Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 with his only brother Hiroshi, now 84, whom he had not seen in nearly 60 years. (AP Photo)
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Minoru Ohye, right, toasts with his younger brother Hiroshi Kamimura during their reunion in Kyoto, Japan, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Japanese-American Ohye traveled all the way to Japan to celebrate his 86th birthday Monday with his only brother Hiroshi, 84, whom he had not seen in nearly 60 years. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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