Snapshots of the fortnight (February 1 - February 15)

Published: Feb 20, 2015

A giant puppet cricketer during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 opening event at the Sidney Myer Musi

Image by : Hamish Blair / Reuters

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A giant puppet cricketer during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 opening event at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Victoria

Riot police shield Ghana's John Boye (21) and team mates from objects thrown by Equatorial Guine

Image by : Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

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Riot police shield Ghana's John Boye (21) and team mates from objects thrown by Equatorial Guinea fans at the end of the first half of the 2015 African Cup of Nations semi-final soccer match in Malabo

Supporters of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hold portraits of AAP chief and its chief ministerial candidate

Image by : Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters

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Supporters of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hold portraits of AAP chief and its chief ministerial candidate for Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, during the celebrations outside their party office in New Delhi. The upstart anti-establishment party crushed India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in an election for the Delhi assembly on Tuesday, smashing an aura of invincibility built around Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he swept to power last year

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (L) talks with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director

Image by : Osman Orsal / Reuters

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (L) talks with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde after a family photo during the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Istanbul

Ukraininan President Petro Poroshenko (L) looks back, followed by Belarussian President Alexander Lu

Image by : Grigory Dukor / Reuters

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Ukraininan President Petro Poroshenko (L) looks back, followed by Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) after a meeting in Minsk

Jordan's Queen Rania holds a picture of recently executed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, wit

Image by : Petra News Agency / Reuters

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Jordan's Queen Rania holds a picture of recently executed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, with the words in Arabic reading "Muath is a martyr of right", during a march after Friday prayers in Amman

A French police officer speaks to a child as he secures an access to a school at the Castellane hous

Image by : Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters

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A French police officer speaks to a child as he secures an access to a school at the Castellane housing area in Marseille

Australian journalist Peter Greste receives a kiss from his mother Lois and father Juris upon his re

Image by : Nathan Richter / Reuters

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Australian journalist Peter Greste receives a kiss from his mother Lois and father Juris upon his return home at Brisbane International Airport. Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist freed after more than a year in an Egyptian prison, arrived back in his Australian homeland on Thursday and called for the release of two colleagues still in custody.

A man takes a selfie by a crashing wave on Beirut's Corniche, a seaside promenade, as high winds

Image by : Mohamed Azakir / Reuters

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A man takes a selfie by a crashing wave on Beirut's Corniche, a seaside promenade, as high winds sweep through Lebanon during a storm

A Buddhist monk plays with a tiger at the Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua, otherwise known as Tiger Temple, in K

Image by : Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters

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A Buddhist monk plays with a tiger at the Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua, otherwise known as Tiger Temple, in Kanchanaburi province. Thai officials last week raided the Buddhist temple that is home to more than 100 tigers and are currently conducting an investigation into suspected links to wildlife trafficking

A groom and a bride lay inside a pink coffin during their wedding ceremony at Wat Takien temple in N

Image by : Damir Sagolj / Reuters

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A groom and a bride lay inside a pink coffin during their wedding ceremony at Wat Takien temple in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok

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