February 6, 2014

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Ellie, a horticulturist at Kew, stands on a ladder as she makes final adjustments during a media preview of an Orchid festival at Kew Botanical Gardens in London. The exhibition is open to the public from Feb. 8 to March 9, and it includes a new new Phalaenopsis hybrid 'Diamond Sky' that has not been seen before.

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Protesters shout slogans against Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during a demonstration in Ankara.

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An anti-government protester checks messages from her mobile phone at a rally site in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Miners of Harmony Gold's Doornkop mine gather to mourn their colleagues who died in a mining accident in Doornkop, southwest of Johannesburg. Eight mineworkers trapped in an underground fire were found dead after overnight searches in one of South Africa's worst mine accidents since 2009.