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REWIND: Best PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

We bring you some of the best photos from around the world in the last 24 hours.

Egyptians rally at Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, from students and doctors to the jobless poor, swamped Cairo on Tuesday in the biggest demonstration so far in an uprising against an increasingly isolated President Hosni Mubarak.

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REWIND: Best PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

Immigrants and asylum seekers, with their mouths taped, protest to demand for asylum in central Athens. An estimated half a million illegal immigrants and asylum seekers live in the Mediterranean state of about 11 million inhabitants, many of them in Athens, and an increasing share of those trying to reach the EU come in through Greece.

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Ballet dancers perform during a contemporary class at the Prix de Lausanne in Lausanne February 1, 2011. Created in 1973, the Prix de Lausanne is an international dance competition for young dancers aged 15 to 18. This year, 75 candidates from 19 nationalities will compete at the Palais de Beaulieu Theater February 1 to 6.

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A man wearing a mask and covered in animal entrails lies on a tree on the ground during carnival celebrations in Zubieta, northern Spain. People from the north Navarran village and neighbouring Ituren dressed up in bizarre and terrifying costumes created mayhem and maximum noise levels to symbolically awaken the earth for the oncoming spring.

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A man holding a stuffed bear arrives at Shanghai's Railway Station. China began its 40-day Spring Festival travel rush on January 19, with some 2.85 billion passenger trips expected to be made. The Lunar New Year begins on February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac.

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Supporters of the yellow-shirted People's Alliance for Democracy rest outside Government House during a rally in Bangkok. Thai "yellow shirt" demonstrators have returned to Bangkok's streets, threatening a prolonged protest if the government fails to revoke an agreement with Cambodia aimed at solving a long-running border dispute.

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Teenagers smoke and talk in front of a vacant business in Ushuaia, Argentina.

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Croakers are hung for sale at a market in Seoul. South Korean consumer inflation in January spiked more than expected above the central bank's target range as prices rose across the board, increasing the chances of a back-to-back interest rate rise next week.

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United States President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to the media following televised remarks made by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington.

Obama on Tuesday said Egypt President Mubarak recognised a change must take place in his country. The United States stands ready to provide any aid to help the people of the country in the aftermath of the protests, Obama said after Mubarak promised not to seek reelection.

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Pedestrians walk past a gas station in Tokyo. The Asia crude market was steady on Tuesday as traders awaited the result of another Russian ESPO crude tender, traders said.

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The Grand Mufti of Bosnia Mustafa Ceric visits the former Nazi Death Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, southern Poland. Prominent Muslims joined Jews and Christians at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Tuesday in a gesture of interfaith solidarity designed to refute deniers of the Holocaust such as Iran's president.

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Fully clothed human remains, representing some of the world's best-preserved bodies, are displayed at the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, southern Italy. The catacombs, frequented by tourists, contain thousands of remains of clerics, nobility, and families of local citizens dating from about the mid-16th century, well preserved due to an ancient and highly effective embalming process. Originally intended for friars of the Capuchin monastery, the catacombs evolved, with the aid of donations, into a place where family members would visit, spend time with and even change the clothes of the deceased. The last burial was Rosalia Lombardo, two-years old, in the 1920s.