Army Sgt. Aaron Brewster gets a welcome-home embrace from parents Sharon and Steve Brewster at Fort Stewart, Ga., after a nine-month tour in Afghanistan.
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An anti-Mursi protester leads his bretheren in a chant. Battles between police and protesters outside the Egypt’s presidential palace forced power-grubbing prez Mohammed Mursi to flee the building.
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Spectators watch the planned demolition of the Blanchette Bridge, which shuttled I-70 across the Missouri river between St. Louis and St. Charles, Mo.
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The International Space Station sends back this photo to give the earth-bound a bird’s-eye view of Typhoon Bopha, which slammed into the Philippines killing at least 44 people.
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Fishermen from India wait in a Karachi jail after being detained in Pakistani territorial waters. Nineteen are in custody, officials say.
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Spanish policemen drag away men protesting the eviction of Sagrario Urena in Madrid. Urena, a former phone operator, and her family lived as tenants the house from 1992 until 2010, when they were kicked out. They’ve avoided eviction ever since — until now.
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A young girl peeks up from under a table as indigenous Brazillians attend a Human Rights Commission hearing in Brasilia. The groups are in the midst of territorial and environmental disputes with the government.
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A visitor swings alone at a preview of artist Ann Hamilton’s multimedia installation “the event of a thread.” The piece will run for the next month at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
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A would-be immigrant is helped to the safety of a Spanish emergency services boat off the country’s coast. He and others were attempting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar on an inflatable craft.
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An Indian man crosses a canal just outside Jammu on a rickety rope bridge.
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A Syrian man carries a child across the border from Ras al-Ain to the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar as violence in his home country continues to rage.
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With its 90th anniversary upcoming in 2013, the ‘H’ in the famed Hollywood sign is a little brighter today. It took nearly 400 gallons of white paint to give the entire landmark a needed face-lift.
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