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The World in a SNAP (part 19)

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The World in a SNAP (part 19)

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  1. A worker stands by as a young Myanmar girl enjoys a swing ride at a carnival near the Shwedagon Pagoda during 2600th anniversary celebrations in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo / Altaf Qadri)

  2. A protestor with Yemen's flag painted on his body shouts slogans during a rally demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012.. (AP Photo/Hanoi Mohammed)

  3. A Pakistani vendor carries handmade baskets he hopes to sell in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

  4. New Delhi — Exiled Tibetan students let slogans painted on their bodies speak for them as they take part in a daylong hunger strike at a Buddhist temple on the first day of the Tibetan New Year. The protesters' exiled government in India called on Tibetans this year to shun celebrations for their traditional new year, which started Wednesday. They were urged to instead pray for those living under Chinese rule. PHOTO Kevin Frayer

  5. A Caribbean flamingo puts its beak under its wing in the spring-like weather at the Philadelphia Zoo Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Zoo is one of America's oldest, opening to the public in 1874. Flamingo's pink color comes from the carotenoids in their food. Without these, the flamingo's feathers would be white. At the zoo, they eat scientifically formulated commercial flamingo feed that keeps their feathers pink. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) - Alex Brandon - AP

  6. Myanmar’s women in ancient dresses take part in the 2,600th anniversary celebrations of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Gongs chimed as thousands of people in ceremonial costumes walked barefoot Wednesday through the marble walkways of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist shrine in an annual festival that was banned for more than 20 years under the former military government. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

  7. Myanmar girls in ceremonial dresses wait to take part in the 2600th anniversary celebrations of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

  8. indian Christians offer prayers during a mass in observance of Ash Wednesday at a Catholic church in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a time when Christians prepare for Easter through acts of penitence and prayer. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

  9. Farooq Khan / EPA - A vehicle is burried under snow in Gagangeri, northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir in India on Feb. 23.

  10. members of a Historical re-enactment group dressed as the Finnish Regiment 'Nylands Infanteri Regemente' of the Swedish army, fire a cannon to salute the birth of a new Swedish Princess in Helsinki's Market Square. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria gave birth today to a baby girl second in line to the throne, giving a much-needed boost to the royal family's popularity after a series of scandals. (Photo credit: HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA/AFP/Getty Images)

  11. Master Ming Sheng (C), Vice-President of the Buddhist Association of China, speaks during a news conference in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 22, 2012. A ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding on establishing friendly relationship between the Beijing Lingguang Temple of China and the Shwedagon Pagoda of Myanmar was held here Wednesday. (Xinhua/U Aung)

  12. FEBRUARY 23: A child standing on a cannon watches fireworks during a celebration of Defenders of the Fatherland Day in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia. Defenders of the Fatherland Day honors the nation's military and is a nationwide holiday. (Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)

  13. Dancers of the "Tobas Sud" group perform during the Carnival parade in Oruro, some 200 km (124 miles) south of La Paz, February 18, 2012. Partying and religion mingled in Bolivia's Carnival celebration in Oruro, a mining and commercial city of more than 200,000 people.. DAVID MERCADO/REUTERS

  14. A Hindu holy man, or sadhu, recites the holy book of Ramayana on the eve of Shivaratri festival at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu February 19, 2012. Hindu holy men from Nepal and India come to this temple to take part in the Shivaratri festival which falls on February 20. This is one of the biggest Hindu festivals dedicated to Lord Shiva and is celebrated by devotees all over the world, NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

  15. Revellers participate in a masked ball during celebrations for the "Carnival of All Colors" in Maragojipe city, northeastern Brazil February 20, 2012. UESLEI MARCELINO/REUTERS

  16. A Nenets boy enters a traditional tent called a chum, at a reindeer breeders' settlement in the Tundra region, 50 km (31 miles) from the north Russian town of Naryan-Mar February 21, 2012. Early voting in Russia's presidential election has started in some of the vast country's remote regions, some weeks before before Russians officially go to the polls in a presidential election on March 4. STAFF/REUTERS

  17. Pakistani boys compete in a wheelbarrow race at a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Jan. 3, 2012. (Anjum Naveed/Associated Press)

  18. An Afghan refugee girl walks with her sister in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 13, 2012. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

  19. Kevin Frayer / AP - An ethnic Naga woman wearing traditional clothing participates in a rally, urging the Indian government to expedite the India-Naga political dialogue for a positive solution in New Delhi, India, on Feb. 25, 2012. India is offering wide autonomy to the Nagas though it has already rejected the demand of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland rebels' for an independent homeland in northeastern India bordering Myanmar, where most of the 2 million Nagas live. The Naga rebels began fighting more than 50 years ago, although a cease-fire has held since it was signed in 1997.

  20. Kevin Frayer / AP - Ethnic Naga men wear traditional clothing and participate in a rally, urging the Indian government to expedite the India-Naga political dialogue for a positive solution in New Delhi, India, on Feb. 25.

  21. Heavy Snow in Afghanistan – february 2012 - ohoto SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images

  22. FEBRUARY 25: A medical volunteer administers polio immunization drops to a child in a slum area of Allahabad, India. India marked a major success in its battle against polio Saturday by being removed from the World Health Organization's list of countries plagued by the crippling disease. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)

  23. A man dances as he sings karaoke on a street in central Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

  24. Shy, a six-month-old pet pig, follows his owners, not seen, in downtown Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Shy's owners, Nuria Martinez, 18, and Edgard Martinez, 19, take him on daily walks by the city. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini

  25. USA's Katie Uhlaender reacts after winning the women's Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

  26. A young Myanmar girl, her face coated with herbal paste, reacts to the camera as she plays outside her house on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

  27. Russian lab grows plants from 30,000-year-old seeds found in permafrost - Denis Sinyakov / Reuters Senior research associate Svetlana Yashina inspects a container with an outgrowth of the Silene stenophylla, considered as the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, at a laboratory of the Institute of Cell Biophysics under the Russian Academy Of Sciences in the town of Pushchino, 62 miles south of the capital Moscow on Friday.The seeds of a flowering plant also known as the narrow-leafed campion, were found by Russian scientists on the banks of the Kolyma River in Siberia in an Ice Age ground-squirrel's burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the permafrost for about 30,000 years.

  28. Female winter swimmers dance on a frozen lake in Changchun, in northeastern China's Jilin province. (AP Photo)

  29. Pakistani youngsters prepare traditional costumes at an embroidery shop in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

  30. FEBRUARY 26: A Dongaria Kondh tribal woman carries a chicken offered for sacrifice as she dances during the annual festival of Niyam Raja in Lanjigarh at the sacred Niyamgiri Hill. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press)

  31. The stage at the Hollywood & Highland Center is set for the 84th Academy Awards, after a long conversion of the theater from its usual setup for Cirque du Soleil's "Iris." PHOTOGRAPH BY: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times

  32. An Iranian couple walks down a stairway decorated with a tile mural in northern Tehran February 26, 2012. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

  33. Member of Unidos da Tijuca dance during the samba school's champions parade at Marques de Sapucai on February 25, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Carnival is the biggest and most popular celebration in Brazil, running all over the country. (Photo by Buda Mendes/LatinContent/Getty Images)

  34. Member of Unidos da Tijuca dance during the samba school's champions parade at Marques de Sapucai on February 25, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Carnival is the biggest and most popular celebration in Brazil, running all over the country. (Photo by Buda Mendes/LatinContent/Getty Images)

  35. Women with masks participate in a carnival procession in Strumica, Macedonia, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. More than 2,500 costumed revelers performed Saturday, the main night of the carnival, through downtown Strumica. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

  36. Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters - Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, who claims to be the world's shortest man standing at a height of 22 inches, walks along a passage at a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 26. Dangi is scheduled to be verified as the world's shortest man by the Guinness World Records committee today in Kathmandu. If certified, Dangi will beat Junrey Balawing of Philippines, the current Guinness World Record holder who stands at a height of 23.5 inches.

  37. Nepal's Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, who says he's only 22 inches (56 centimeters) tall, looks at a copy of the Guinness World Record book at a guesthouse just hours before he was to be measured by officials, in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Guinness World Records officials were set to measure Dangi who hopes to be named the world's shortest man Sunday. Dangi is hoping to snatch the title of the world's shortest man from Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who is 23.5 inches (60 centimeters) tall. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  38. Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi poses with his certificates after being declared the world’s shortest living man and shortest man ever by the Guinness Book of Records at a ceremony in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. The 72-year-old man was measured at just 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters) tall has been declared the shortest person to be recorded by the Guinness World Records snatching the title from Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who is 23.5 inches (60 centimeters) tall. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  39. Oscar winner for best actor Jean Dujardin (R) poses with Alexandra Lamy (L) during the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Sunset Tower on February 26, 2012 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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