We present a series of defining photographs from across the globe of the day that was.
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A woman walks past ruins at a demolition site of old residential buildings with graffiti on the wall, in Shanghai. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters
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Members of the 18th Street gang are presented to the media after being arrested, for threatening residents of San Valentin apartments, after a raid in the town of Mejicanos, on the outskirts of San Salvador. Photograph: Jose Cabezas/Reuters
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A model presents a creation by William Fan at the Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2015 in Berlin. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
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A bird's eye view shows people assembling a giant "carpet" with candies on a pedestrian street next to a panda sculpture hanging on the exterior wall of a department store, in Chengdu, Sichuan province. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
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US President Barack Obama blows a kiss to his wife, first lady Michelle Obama who was sitting in the gallery, at the end of his State of the Union address to a joint session of the US Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
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Auschwitz death camp survivor Jadwiga Bogucka (maiden name Regulska), 89, registered with camp number 86356, holds a picture of herself from 1944 in Warsaw. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photograph: Michael Brown/Reuters
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A worker takes a nap during lunch break, at a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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Kosovar miners go on strike in the Trepca mine in north Kosovo. Photograph: Hazir Reka/Reuters
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A member of the Libyan pro-government forces, backed by the locals, holds his weapon as he looks through a hole in a wall, during clashes with the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries, in Benghazi. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters