People fish from Inversnaid Pier in Loch Lomond, Scotland.
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A man dressed as Santa leaves a meeting with university students in Berlin, Germany.
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Samoan players perform a traditional dance in celebration after beating New Zealand during Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens.
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Skiers ride a cable car above Titlis mountain in Engelberg, Switzerland.
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A red squirrel reaches for a birdfeeder hung from a wire in Hudson, Wisconsin.
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Activists of the animal-rights group AnimaNaturalis protest in Madrid against the use of fur in the textile industry.
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A female supporter of Lebanese Salafist figure, Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, takes a picture with her tablet during a protest against the Syrian regime in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.
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Kids take part in a wooden car race, in Quito, Ecuador.
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The Webb Ellis Cup is displayed close to Tower Bridge ahead of the Rugby World Cup draw in London.
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Smoke rises from buildings due to heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria.
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A woman walks during heavy snowfall in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Heidi Klum shows off her jewel-encrusted face and Cleopatra costume during her Haunted Holiday Party benefiting Superstorm Sandy relief efforts in New York.
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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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Someone’s got a lot of digging ahead of them as a blizzard drops a frosty layer atop a car in Stockolm, Sweeden.
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Thai Buddhist monks release lanterns over Bangkok in celebration of the 85th birthday of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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Santa-clad Jimmy Rider delivers an eight-foot Christmas tree on a trailer attached to his bike, the primary function of his Ever-Green Delivery service in Somerville, Mass.
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A Philippine worker stares out over the what remains of the banana trees at a plantation in Monte Vista after Typhoon Bopha.
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A museum worker removes a bone from a whale skeleton as part of a restoration project at the natural history museum of Santiago, Chile.
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An understandable amount of clowning around is going on during a parade to mark a week-long international clown festival in Rio de Janeiro.
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A visitor to the Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival in Bruges, Belgium, walks under a hulking knight and his rearing steed.
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Indian rescue workers make a plan to control a major fire that erupted along the Indian Oil Corporation’s pipeline from Salaya to Mathura.
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Tim Hannah leans into a turn as he and Angus Galloway sail through the waves in the 470 Men’s class at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Melbourne.
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A Hindu holy man offers a prayer at the Saryu River to mark the anniversary of the Babri mosque demolition in Ayodhya, India. In 1992, Hindu extremists tore down the 16th century mosque. Hindus say its location is the birthplace of their god and contend a temple once stood there.
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Irish police try to hold back angry protestors who gathered outside government buildings after the unveiling of the country’s 2013 budget.
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A newborn female giraffe stands tall in her enclosure at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, where she was born Nov. 27. She weighs in at 165 pounds and stands 6-feet-5-inches tall.
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A member of the Hamburg, Germany, fire brigade practices rappeling from the city’s Radisson Blu Hotel amid an emergency-services convention.
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Ruth Nicolaci hugs her son, firefighter Lt. G. Bourne Knowles, after learning the family’s Fairhaven, Mass., landscaping business had been destroyed in a fire.
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Soldiers bow their heads during a prayer over the caskets of Army Spc. Tyler J. Orgaard of North Dakota and Army Sgt. 1st Class Darren M. Linde of Montana. The two were killed in a Dec. 3 attack.
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Egyptian army units guard the perimeter set up around the presidential palace to keep protesters angered by President Mohammed Morsi at bay.
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A Yemeni protester raises her hand — painted with the colors of her country’s flag and the word ‘anger’ in Arabic — during a march in Sana’a.
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This new NASA image, a nighttime shot of Europe, Africa and most of Asia, is a composite from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. The data was acquired over 312 orbits.
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Syrian rebel fighters sweep a stairwell in an abandoned building during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo.
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Residents who have spent the past few days wading through mud left by Typhoon Bopha line up for supplies at an evacuation center in New Bataan, Philippines.
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Sunbathers lie beneath their coats on the coast of Nice in an attempt to keep their tans despite the cold winter temperatures hitting France.
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Hassan Mekki, a 32-year-old illegal Sudanese migrant, shows scars on his back from an attack in August by a group of anti-immigrant men holding Greek flags. He was left with deep wounds on his back, throat and neck.
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Union steel workers rally outside the capitol building in Lansing, Mich., where state Senate Republicans introduced right-to-work legislation in the waning days of the legislative session.
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Allister Adams joins a gathering of marijuana smokers in the shadow Seattle’s Space Needle to celebrate the drug’s new legal status in Washington state — though the new legislation prohibits public use.
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Alexey Romashov of Russia soars during the normal hill qualification round at the FIS World Cup Ski Jumping event in Sochi, Russia.
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British sappers work into the early evening to strip out a building at Patrol Base Nahidullah in Afghanistan.
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Andorra’s Luis Marin Tarroch flies through his snowboard cross qualification run at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Schruns Montafon, Austria.
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Pearl Harbor survivor Daniel Fruchter, of Eastchester, NY, salutes members of a color guard at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York before ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor.
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A family of Japanese macaques take a bath in a hot spring at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Japan.
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Recovery contractors prepare to transport a WWII-era FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane after it was recovered from Lake Michigan. The plane, which was recovered from 200 feet of water, crashed into the lake on December 28, 1944; its pilot survived.
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This composite of multiple exposures shows part of a routine by Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia as they perform their short program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Sochi, Russia.
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A mass of protestors toe the line at a perimeter set up by the Egyptian army around the presidential palace.
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A lobster boat heads out to sea at dawn from the shore of South Portland, Maine.
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Young Indian students play on a swing after morning assembly at the Central Baptist Church School in New Delhi.
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Members of the armed forces take part in a dress rehearsal ahead of the British Military Tournament at Earls Court exhibition center. The annual event showcases military skills to raise funds for the armed forces.
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Rabbis Segal Shmoel, left, and Yehuda Teichtal install a giant menorah in front of the Brandeburg Gate in Berlin in celebration of Hanukkah, which begins Dec. 8.
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