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A sunset provides the perfect backdrop to a rider exercising his horse along a tree-lined field. Kevin Standage, a director of software quality, was...

A Syrian refugee hangs her laundry at a camp in Deir Zannoun village, Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. A snow storm is expected to hit Le...

Nikos Konstantopoulos holds a cross as a swimmer kisses it, after a competition to retrieve it from the water during a ceremony to bless the water in...

A girl watches people lighting candles in the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox temple in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. The Serbs celebrat...

Believers sing and dance in the icy water of the river Tundzha as they celebrate Epiphany day, a Christian festival, in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria,...

A man struggles to control his horse before a traditional Epiphany celebration race in Pietrosani, Romania, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. According to the lo...

A man smokes waiting for the start of a traditional Epiphany celebration horse race in Pietrosani, Romania, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. According to the lo...

Bahraini anti-government protesters clash with riot police firing tear gas during clashes in Bilad Al Qadeem, Bahrain, a suburb of Manama, Tuesday, Ja...

Kids play on man-made sand hill to block high waves ahead of the upcoming storm in Tel Aviv's beach front, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Wind gusts u...

Palestinian surfer Taha Baker, 25, rests next to his surf board on the beach of the Mediterranean sea in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesda...

Bangladeshi students of an Islamic education school bathe in front of a polluted canal by their campus building in Kachpur, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tu...

Huge waves crash on the sea defense wall of a restaurant, at the Beirut corniche, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Lebanon is under the effects of a bl...

With St. Isaak's Cathedral in the background, a bus crosses the Troitsky bridge which spans the Neva river, St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2...

A casket containing the body of Mario Cuomo is carried into Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for his funeral in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Cuomo,...

Journalists surround the car carrying Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, after he...

Police stand guard, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the area where police and suspects exchanged gunfire the night before, in the Bronx borough of New York....

A brand ambassador tests Samsung's Gear VR headset at the Samsung Galaxy booth at the International CES Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo...

Bob Mitchell and his dog, Lulu, walk on the grounds of John Handley High School, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Winchester, Va. (AP Photo/The Winchester St...

Jermain Perry, a member of 'The Tramps,' the oldest unit of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a historic New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe, participat...

Virginia Jeffries, left, and Marrekia Jeffries, of Foley, Ala., hold hands as their niece Tia'miya Robinson watches during their wedding ceremony at t...

Snow covers wreaths and tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, after a snow storm hit the Washington area...

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, center, hugs two of his daughters Cailin Young, left, and Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky, right, after speaking outsid...

Coptic Christians attend Orthodox Christmas Eve Mass in the Cave Cathedral or St. Sama'ans Church on the Mokattam hills overlooking Cairo, Egypt, Tues...

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio casts multiple shadows as he leaves the Rayburn Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, after pr...

An officer's car is parked Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, outside a home on Ridge Road near Douglasville, Ga., where a shooting took place. Cpl. Sam Driskell...

Law enforcement officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Paulding County Sheriff's Department stand outside a home, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 201...

Charles Windham, left, 53, and Edgard Perez, 40, embrace after they were married at the marriage license bureau, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Miami. Miam...

Rebekah Monson, left, 34, and her partner of nine years, Andrea Vigil, right, 37, participate in a wedding ceremony at the marriage license bureau, Tu...

A yet to be named baby Asian elephant walks with her mother, Asha, at the Oklahoma City Zoo, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Oklahoma City. The elephant was...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) holds the gavel after he was re-elected as speaker at the Capitol Building in Washington, Jan. 6, 2015. Two dozen...

PARIS:WAGON DU RER LIGNE C-APRES EXPLOSI IN "SIPA PHOTOGRAPHE" FRANCE PARIS METRO R.E.R. WAGON "DETRUIT ATTITUDE" BOMBE ATTENTAT "MUSULMAN NATIO...

The pop singer Neneh Cherry at the Ramsgate Music Hall. in Ramsgate, England, Jan. 6, 2015. Cherry, who has intermittently lived in New York has nev...

The pop singer Neneh Cherry performs at the Ramsgate Music Hall. in Ramsgate, England, Jan. 6, 2015. Cherry, who has intermittently lived in New York...

In this photo taken on Tuesday. Jan. 6, 2015, Broward County Sheriff's officer David Currie, left, and Aaron Woodard kiss after a mass wedding at the...

Newly appointed cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar talks during an interview at his office in Yangon on January 6, 2015. Pope Francis on January 4 n...

Newly appointed cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar talks during an interview at his office in Yangon on January 6, 2015. Pope Francis on January 4 n...

TOPSHOTS A swimmer races to retrieve a wooden cross from the sea during a ceremony of the blessing of the waters marking the orthodox Epiphany Day in...

TOPSHOTS A Sri Lankan woman walks past election posters of President Mahinda Rajapakse in the Colombo suburb of Piliyandala on January 6, 2015. Rajap...

TOPSHOTS A supporter of the pro-democracy movement looks in on front of the last few tents allowed to remain outside the government building in Hong...

France's former president and right-wing UMP party leader Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and his wife singer-songwriter Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave after attending...

TOPSHOTS An elderly woman prepares a church on the day marking the Orthodox Christmas eve in the Belarus town of Smorgon, some 125 km northwest of M...

TOPSHOTS Men dance in the icy winter waters of the Tundzha river in the town of Kalofer as part of the Epiphany Day celebrations on January 6, 2015....

TOPSHOTS Bulgarians dive into the icy waters of a lake to catch a cross in Sofia as part of Epiphany Day celebrations on January 6, 2015. It is belie...

TOPSHOTS Muslim clerics perform a prayer for victims of AirAsia flight QZ8501 inside an Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter flying ove...

TOPSHOTS This still image grab taken from a video on January 6, 2015 by the Al-Youm al-Saabi newspaper, shows an Egyptian police officer being blown...

TOPSHOTS A Palestinian girl writes while resting on a fence during strong winds from a winter storm in the Al-Shatee refugee camp in Gaza City on Jan...

TOPSHOTS A man stands on top of a building destroyed in the 50-day Gaza war between Israel and Hamas-led militants during a winter storm in Gaza City...

TOPSHOTS People walk under the snow in Istanbul on January 6, 2015. Heavy snowfall descended on large parts of Turkey on Tuesday, snarling road and a...

TOPSHOTS Participants race with their sledge during the traditional horn sledge race in a valley near the Bavarian village of Garmisch-Partenkirchen,...

TOPSHOTS US President Barack Obama listens as Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in W...