Today in photos
Local CFA firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Australian Koala at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the region. Volunteers and fisherfolk in one of the many boats that are attempting a massive rescue, using their boats and hands, to drive away back to the sea at least 200 melon headed dolphins which swam in shallow waters off Manila Bay in Orion, Bataan province. And a Grant's zebra named Honoria, left, stands with her newborn at the Park of Legends zoo in Lima. View a slideshow of these images and more.
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Local CFA firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Australian Koala at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the region on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Suspicions that the worst wildfires ever to strike Australia were deliberately set led police to declare crime scenes Monday in towns incinerated by blazes, while investigators moving into the charred landscape discovered more bodies. The death toll stood at 181.
Mark Pardew Ap
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A Grant's zebra named Honoria eats as she stands with her newborn at the Park of Legends zoo in Lima, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. The baby Grant's zebra was born on Jan. 26 and is Peru's fourth ever born in captivity as part of a preservation program. Grant's zebras are numerous throughout a very wide area in Africa south of the Sahara. The newborn will be named through a naming competition.
Martin Mejia Ap
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A Grant's zebra named Honoria, behind, stands with her newborn at the Park of Legends zoo in Lima, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. The baby Grant's zebra was born on Jan. 26 and is Peru's fourth ever born in captivity as part of a preservation program. Grant's zebras are numerous throughout a very wide area in Africa south of the Sahara. The newborn will be named through a naming competition.
Martin Mejia Ap
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A Grant's zebra named Honoria, left, stands with her newborn at the Park of Legends zoo in Lima, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. The baby Grant's zebra was born on Jan. 26 and is Peru's fourth ever born in captivity as part of a preservation program. Grant's zebras are numerous throughout a very wide area in Africa south of the Sahara. The newborn will be named through a naming competition.
Martin Mejia Ap
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Taka Boom, a Italian greyhound from Rhode Island, looks out his cage while backstage at the 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Mary Altaffer Ap
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Volunteers and fisherfolk in one of the many boats that are attempting a massive rescue, using their boats and hands, to drive away back to the sea at least 200 melon headed dolphins which swam in shallow waters off Manila Bay in Orion, Bataan province about 96 kilometers (60 miles) west of Manila, Philippines Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009.
Bullit Marquez Ap
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A woman holds an umbrella being swept by the wind as she walks by the Atlantic ocean in Ciboure, near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, southwestern France, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. A violent storm with winds reaching nearly 90 miles per hour (140 kilometers per hour) knocked out power to 600,000 French households, the country's electricity distribution authority said Tuesday.
Bob Edme Ap
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An Israeli man tries to take off a sticker from an election poster showing Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the southern Israeli town of Netivot, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. The two front-runners in the race to rule Israel, Netanyahu and Foreign Minister and Kadima party candidate Tzipi Livni, made last-minute appeals to voters as polls opened Tuesday in a close general election whose outcome could determine the course of Mideast peace negotiations.
Tara Todras-Whitehill Ap
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Ultra Orthodox Jewish children look out from a window at a protest of the anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta group against Israel's General Elections in Jerusalem, Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009. The two front-runners in the race to rule Israel made last-minute appeals to voters as polls opened Tuesday in a close general election whose outcome could determine the course of Mideast peace negotiations.
Sebastian Scheiner Ap
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Sales staff Sam McDermott and Sonja Drummond assemble several Bijoux Boxes containing two truffles and one fortune cookie at the Vosges Haut Chocolat store in Chicago, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. Given the disappearance of more than 2 million jobs and many trillions in investments in recent months, many of the commercial trappings of romance may be in for a downsizing.
Charles Arbogast Ap
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President Barack Obama high fives a young boy as he greets military personnel and their families before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. Obama will hold a town hall style meeting about the economy in Fort Myers, Fla., before returning to Washington.
Charles Dharapak Ap