A woman cries during a vigil on Wednesday, February 11, as she sees photos of the three people who were killed at an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of the college community is grieving after three Muslim students -- Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19 -- were found shot to death Tuesday, February 10. The 46-year-old suspect, Craig Stephen Hicks, has been charged with murder.
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A massive galaxy cluster known as SDSS J1038+4849 looks like a smiley face in this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on Monday, February 9. The two glowing eyes are actually two distant galaxies. The smile and the round face? That's a result of what astronomers call "strong gravitational lensing." That happens because the gravitational pull between the two galaxy clusters is so strong it distorts time and space around them. See more wonders of the universe
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Terri Crippes, left, and Lori Lyon -- aunts of ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller -- speak at a news conference Tuesday, February 10, after it was confirmed that Mueller had been killed by the militant group. Mueller, a 26-year-old American aid worker, was captured in northern Syria in 2013. "She had a quiet, calming presence," her aunts said during the news conference, which was held in Mueller's hometown of Prescott, Arizona. "She was a free spirit, always standing up for those who were suffering and wanting to be their voice."
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Shante Wolfe, left, and Tori Sisson are cheered Monday, February 9, as they become the first same-sex couple to file their marriage license in Montgomery, Alabama. Federal courts recently cleared the way for same-sex marriages in the state.
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Smoke billows from the scene of a suicide bomb blast that targeted a police headquarters in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, February 10. Five Taliban fighters were killed, officials said: the suicide bomber and four others who were shot by police. No police officers were killed, but one officer and a civilian woman were injured.
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A blind woman feels a copy of El Greco's painting "The gentleman with his hand on his chest" at the Prado Museum in Madrid on Tuesday, February 10. The museum's "Touch the Prado" exhibit allows vision-impaired visitors to explore the copies of six masterpieces. The copies were created using a technique called "Didu," which gives texture and volume to the paintings.
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A man stands next to the body of his wife, who died of an apparent heart attack after an ambulance was unable to make its way through fighting in the Ukrainian town of Vuhlehirsk on Tuesday, February 10. Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels have been fighting in the eastern part of the country since mid-April.
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Fisherman Alexander Romantsov looks out the window of his plywood lodge, which sits over an ice hole near the Russian village of Anash on Saturday, February 7.
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A man waits to buy Powerball tickets at a newsstand in Philadelphia on Wednesday, February 11. The lottery jackpot had grown to more than half a billion dollars.
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Rosie Dummer puts the finishing touches on a life-size cake of Christian Grey on Friday, February 6, during the Cake International show in Manchester, England. Grey is one of the main characters of the best-selling book "Fifty Shades of Grey."
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As his dog Ace looks on, Lee Anderson adds to a massive pile of snow at his home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, February 10. It was the third week in a row that the Northeast had to deal with a snowstorm.
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Tara Kyle, wife of Chris Kyle, gives a wink to Judy Littlefield, mother of Chad Littlefield, after testifying in the murder trial of Eddie Ray Routh on Wednesday, February 11, in Stephenville, Texas. Routh is charged with fatally shooting Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was the subject of the film "American Sniper," and Kyle's friend Littlefield at a Texas firing range in 2013.
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A man walks past an unexploded rocket in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, February 11.
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People watch as the Mount Sinabung volcano shoots ash into the air during an eruption Monday, February 9, in Karo, Indonesia. See other recently active volcanoes
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An employee from the Tama Zoo in Tokyo pretends to check the effectiveness of a tranquilizer on an employee wearing a snow leopard suit on Tuesday, February 10. The annual drill practiced what to do in the event of an animal escape.
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Relatives of passengers from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 console each other outside the Malaysia Airlines office in Subang, Malaysia, on Thursday, February 12. Protesters demanded that the airline withdraw the statement that all the passengers aboard the plane are dead. The plane, which disappeared in March, has still not been found.
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Beck, right, watches Kanye West leave the stage after Beck won Album of the Year at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 8. West didn't interrupt Beck like he did to Taylor Swift in 2009, but he later went on a rant about how Beyonce should have won the award instead.
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A woman sunbathes at a park near Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, February 8.
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Child soldiers attend a disarmament ceremony in Pibor, South Sudan, on Tuesday, February 10. UNICEF and its partners oversaw the release of hundreds of child soldiers from the Cobra Faction rebel group, and they are now working to reintegrate the children into society.
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People in New York dance and party before taking part in the Cupid's Undie Run on Saturday, February 7. In the annual event, people run in their underwear to raise money for the Children's Tumor Foundation.
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NASA astronaut Terry W. Virts tweeted this image Wednesday, February 11, from the International Space Station. "#Ireland, UK and #Scandinavia on a moonlit night under an amazing and everchanging aurora," he wrote.
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Several world leaders gather in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday, February 11, to negotiate a ceasefire to the fighting in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin is second from left, next to Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on the far left. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is on the far right. At center, German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures in front of French President Francois Hollande.
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A man is seen inside an "isolation box" in London's Paddington Station on Wednesday, February 11. The box -- in which the person inside cannot see anything on the outside -- is part of an awareness campaign by Macmillan Cancer Support, which estimates that 550,000 cancer patients in Britain are suffering from loneliness. The box aims to evoke the same feelings of loneliness and isolation that many cancer patients experience after their diagnosis.
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People in Damascus, Syria, try to put out a fire after what activists said were airstrikes carried out by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, February 9.
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Pope Francis is welcomed by residents of a refugee camp on the outskirts of Rome on Sunday, February 8. The Pope made an unscheduled stop there on his way to celebrate a Mass at a Rome church, and he prayed briefly before giving his blessing to the camp residents.
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A woman sells crocodiles and pangolins at a food market in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, on Friday, February 6. The pangolin -- a rare, scale-covered animal about the size of a house cat -- may be the most trafficked mammal you've never heard of.
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Castellers in Barcelona, Spain, build an illuminated human tower as the Barcelona Light Festival and the St. Eulalia Festival begin on Friday, February 6.
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Police secure a housing area in Marseille, France, on Monday, February 9, after hooded gunmen opened fire on a police car. The incident occurred in Castellane, a suburb in northern Marseille that's known for its drug-related activity.
Actor Chris Pratt is kissed by two costumed cast members at Harvard University as he is named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year on Friday, February 6. The school's Hasty Pudding group is the oldest undergraduate drama troupe in the United States. Every year, it salutes -- and mocks -- performers who have made a lasting and impressive contribution to the entertainment industry. Amy Poehler was 2015 Woman of the Year.
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A Kosovo man carries his baby as he illegally crosses the Hungarian-Serbian border near the village of Asotthalom on Friday, February 6. The European Union is experiencing a steep rise in the number of Kosovo citizens smuggling themselves into the affluent bloc.
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U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to speak about the ISIS terror group on Wednesday, February 11. Obama has requested that Congress formally authorize the use of military force against ISIS.
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Locals in Donja Stubica, Croatia, re-enact the medieval battle of Seljacka Buna on Saturday, February 7.
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A man studies a diamond Tuesday, February 10, during International Diamond Week in Ramat Gan, Israel. More than $1 billion worth of diamonds are expected to be traded during the event.
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People throw a woman into an inflatable pool during Carnival celebrations in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, February 8. Carnival is a circus-like celebration that traditionally occurs before Lent around the world.
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A wildfire burns at Wheeler Crest, near Bishop, California, on Friday, February 6. The Round Fire has already destroyed 40 homes and forced at least 150 people to leave two small towns at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
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Displaced people from the Pakistani tribal area of Khyber wait to receive relief goods in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, February 10. The people fled Khyber because of an ongoing crackdown against militants.
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An activist from the Ukrainian feminist group Femen is arrested by police in Lille, France, after protesting in front of the convoy of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, February 10. Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, is on trial for aggravated pimping charges. See last week in 35 photos
