Fans of Lady Gaga line up eagerly for the pop diva’s tour stop in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion.
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Amazon employees in a Phoenix, Ariz., order-fulfillment warehouse shuttle Cyber Monday orders toward their holiday destinations on what was expected to be the biggest online shopping day in history.
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Mrs. Claus looks on while Santa addresses the media outside the US Capitol in Washington at the arrival of the Capitol’s Christmas tree — an Engelmann Spruce from Meeker, Colorado.
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A Palestinian schoolgirl can be seen through a hole in a blackboard days after an Israeli strike hit her Gaza City schoolhouse.
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Taxidermist Werner Beckmann prepares a a pot whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum in Muenster, Germany. The 650 kg skull — and the rest of the 15-meter-long animal — washed up last year.
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Chinese workers line up to enter a test center for the National Civil Service Exam at Huazhong University in Wuhan. About 1.12 million people are competing for over 21,000 jobs.
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A pair of parrots stare each other down in their cage at the Suzhou Zoo in Suzhou, China.
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Albanian artist Saimir Strati, already holder of six Guinness World records, works on his seventh: A giant mosaic made with bean grains forming an interpretation of the Albanian national flag in Pristina, Kosovo. It contains approximately 1.35 million grains.
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Rescue workers paddle through a flood zone in Chorrera, Panama. Five people are reported dead and at least 800 homes have been damaged by heavy rains.
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European milk farmers make sure every riot officer they can find outside the European Parliament in Brussels has got milk during a demonstration over what the farmers believe is unfair pricing.
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Egyptian activists carry the coffin of Gaber Salah, a compatriot killed in clashes with cops last week, during his funeral at Tahrir Square.
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Claire and Zachary Boazman smile from high ground above a flooded pub in Tewkesbury, England, as the nation continues to refuse bankrolling a fund to subsidize insurance for households in flood-prone areas.
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