TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of drum queen Lucilene Caetano, dancing during carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nepalese Hindu women taking holy dips at the Bagmati River during Madhav Narayan festival in Katmandu and performers take part in a night parade to celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong.
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Drum queen Lucilene Caetano, from Inocentes de Belford Roxo samba school, dances during carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Nepalese Hindu women take holy dips at the Bagmati River during Madhav Narayan festival in Katmandu
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Performers take part in a night parade to celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong. The Lunar New Year this year marks the Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar
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Hardy Street in front of the University of Southern Mississippi campus is obstructed by debris blown by an apparent tornado in Hattiesburg
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Small planes are snowed in at the closed Bridgeport, Connecticut airport in the aftermath of a storm that hit and much of the New England states
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Saoirse Ronan, Chris Tucker and Amy Adams arriving for the 2013 British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London
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An Irish fan during the RBS 6 Nations match at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin
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Hindu devotees walk across a pontoon bridge as they leave after a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati River, during the Maha Kumbh festival, in Allahabad, India
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African Painted Dog Spot Tail, plays with one of her puppies as her eight, twelve week old, litter make their debut at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford, Kent
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Yutan the Otter eats a heart shaped block of ice in celebration of Valentine's Day at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Tokyo
