A young boy frowns from the window of a Newtown, Conn., school bus as it passes the location of a funeral service for one of the victims of last week’s massacre. Most children in Newtown returned to classes for the first time today.
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A Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccine to a child in Peshwar amid a nationwide vaccination campaign marred by the deaths of four female health workers. Local clerics and pro-Taliban lobby are reportedly spreading rumors the US-made drops are meant to sterilize Pakistanis.
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Park Geun-hye, presidential candidate for South Korea’s ruling right-wing Saenuri Party, is mobbed by supporters at a rally in Busan ahead of Wednesday’s election.
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Qatari children don Amiri Guard uniforms as they march in a military parade in Doha marking their country’s National Day celebrations.
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Victorious Syrian rebel fighters remove a poster of President Bashar Al-Assad from the front of a military hospital in Halfaya after capturing the facility from government troops.
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Displaced Afghan children warm themselves around a stove at a refugee camp in Kabul where German-run charity organization Johanniter distributed winter relief assistance to some 279 displaced families.
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These protestors have some coal for the stockings of those on Capitol Hill in Washington amid a demonstration against the “fiscal cliff” showdown and possible cuts to Medicare.
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Green grass peeks through the snow (thanks to some help from a massive oak) on a hillside near Glide, Ore.
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A Bahraini policeman nonchalantly sprays a Shiite Muslim woman with pepper spray during an anti-government demonstration in Manama.
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A ring-tailed lemur can’t believe what Santa has left for him at his enclosure in the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
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Members of the German armed forces rush to a presentation of the Patriot surface-to-air missile system for the media in Warbelow. Germany will provide the system to help protect NATO ally Turkey from Syrian attacks.
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An Afghan commando stands guard at sunset over the Goshti district of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan.
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