3 February 2014. RIA-Novosti Presents… The Polar Bears Bag Some Zs with Winter Dreams and Other Animal News

A Polar Bear sleeps in the snow in his enclosure in the Berlin Zoological Garden Berlin (Freistadt Berlin) GERMANY

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Penguins were in costumes on the eve of the Lunar New Year at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Yokohama (Kanagawa Prefecture. Kantō Region) JAPAN

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Pope Francisco blesses Amore the Parrot on 29 January 2014 in St Peter’s Square VATICAN CITY

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A keeper at the Giza Zoo EGYPT helps a young visitor to feed a hippo

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A trainer and a pony at a Beijing PRC equestrian club

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A man with a tame python on a beach in Colombo SRI LANKA

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A horse near the entrance to Central Park in New York (Borough of Manhattan) NY USA

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Tractor scattering feed for cranes in Hula Lake Park ISRAEL

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Cops captured a puma inside a residential house in Santiago de Chile CHILE (where it’s summer, but what the hey…), but no one was hurt. The cops took the big cat to the local zoo, whilst the authorities tried to figure out how it got into the building.

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At Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps raceway in Spa (Province de Liège. Région Wallonne) BELGIUM, fans of Michael Schumacher held a vigil in support of their idol

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2 February 2014

RIA-Novosti

http://en.ria.ru/photolents/20140202/187080004_3/Polar-bear-winter-slumber-and-other-animal-news.html

A Photo Essay. A Point of Unity… Holy Week and Easter as Seen by Russian Eyes…

Objet d’art Easter Egg from Slovenia.

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Young man jumping over a fire on Holy Wednesday. Tiblisi (Tbilisi Region) GEORGIA

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Man playing a guitar in the ruined cathedral. Port-au-Prince (Port-au-Prince Arrondissement. West Département) HAITI

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Man praying after Easter services. Abidjan (Abidjan Département. Lagunes Region) CÔTE D’IVOIRE

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Little girl in Holy Week Procession. Málaga (Málaga Province. Autonomous Community of  Andalucía) SPAIN

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Benedict XVI Ratzinger (1927- ), the Pope of Rome, at Easter services at St Peter Basilica. VATICAN CITY (totally surrounded by ROME Italy)

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Girl running from the Douche Guys on Easter Monday. Hollókő (Nógrád County. Northern Hungary Region) HUNGARY

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Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem ISRAEL (legally Jerusalem District, de facto occupied Palestine)

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Easter Egg hunt. Burlington IA USA

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Pilgrims on Holy Friday in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem ISRAEL (legally Jerusalem District, de facto occupied Palestine)

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Ceremony of Saytopolemos on Holy Saturday evening. Agrinio (Aetolia-Acarnania Subperiphery. West Greece Periphery) GREECE

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Easter services in Coptic parish church. Cairo (Cairo Governorate) EGYPT

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Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. New York City NY USA

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Benedict XVI Ratzinger (1927- ), the Pope of Rome, giving his “Urbis et Orbi” blessing at St Peter Basilica. VATICAN CITY (completely surrounded by Rome ITALY)

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Easter amongst Old Ritualists. Poteryaevka (Altai Krai. Siberian Federal District) RF

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Holy Week Procession. Pietraperzia (Enna Province. Sicilian Autonomous Region) ITALY

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Believers in prayer on the Ethiopian side of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem ISRAEL (legally Jerusalem District, de facto occupied Palestine)

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Soldiers of the Spanish Legion hoist up the Paso on Holy Thursday. Málaga (Málaga Province. Autonomous Community of  Andalucía) SPAIN

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Blessing of animals and people on St George Day. Traunstein (Traunstein Kreis. Bavaria) GERMANY

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Porcession of Catholic monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem ISRAEL (legally Jerusalem District, de facto occupied Palestine)

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Chinese believers at Easter services at the Catholic cathedral. Beijing (Direct-Controlled City of Beijing) PRC

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Patriarch Bartholomew Archontonis (1940- ) of Constantinople New Rome at Easter services at St George Church in the Phanar. Istanbul (Istanbul Province. Marmara Region) TURKEY

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Nuns at Easter services at St Dmitri Convent. Skopje (City of Greater Skopje. Skopje Region) MACEDONIA

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Easter service at Chaldean Catholic parish of the Virgin Mary. Baghdad (Baghdad Governorate) IRAQ

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Kids with candles at Easter services. Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF

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Woman praying on Palm Sunday in Our Lady of Fatima Church. Islamabad (Islamabad Capital Territory) PAKISTAN

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Little girl dressed as an angel on Holy Saturday. Ciudad de México (Federal District) MEXICO

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Easter Eggs. Bucharest (Municipality of  Bucharest. Bucureşti-Ilfov Region) ROMANIA

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Chaldean Catholics praying on Easter in Baghdad. (Baghdad Governorate) IRAQ

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Chinese Catholics praying on Easter. Beijing (Direct-Controlled City of Beijing) PRC

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Woman lighting a candle in St Mary Church. Raikia (Kandhmal District. Odisha State) INDIA

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Easter services in Catholic church. Xiaohan (Direct-Controlled City of Tianjin) PRC

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