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Week in photos: Nov. 5-9, 2012

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A sleepy bear cub naps precariously in a tree at a Rapid City, South Dakota wildlife park.

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Firefighters battle a blaze engulfing an under-construction home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. None was injured and the fire was contained to the one home.

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An unorthodox pair of guys Fawkes join protests outside Britain's Houses of Parliament in London.

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Korean pop superstar Psy takes in the view of the thousands who'd come to see him perform in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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Afghan women clad in burkas and a young girl wait for their ride on a Kabul roadside.

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An Indian man showers in water from a broken pipe under an expressway in New Delhi.

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The mother of Ahmed Al- Nabahin, 23, grieves over his body during his funeral in the Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip.

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Campaigning one day ahead of the election, Vice President Biden chats with a woman at a Sterling, Va., restaurant.

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Paul Ryan's son Sam practices his victory pose backstage at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada.

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Aerosmith's Steven Tyler performs for Bostonians in front of the band's old apartment building in the Allston neighborhood.

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Rockaways resident Cora Nelsen makes a call to her insurance agency while sitting among the debris and trash outside her home.

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A flock of ducks searches just-harvested rice paddies for leftovers in Nantong, China.

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Residents and emergency responders mill about the site of a bombing in Damascus, Syria, that killed at least 11 and injured dozens more.

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A patriotic pooch waits patiently for its owner outside the polls at Stuart-Hobson Middle School in Washington, DC.

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A Syrian loyalist soldier patrols for insurgents in the Harasta area of war-torn Damascus.

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A surfer wipes out off the coast of Cardiff, Calif.

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Downed wires underscore the fatalist message spray-painted across one piece of the hard hit Rockaway beach boardwalk.

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A young Avenger, three-year-old Raena Lamont, joins her mom, Joanne Hernandes, in the booth at a voting center/donation site in Staten Island.

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A bus burns in Karachi, Pakistan, where at least 12 people were killed and 14 others injured in widespread violence.

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Artist Jeff Koons strolls by his sculpture 'Tulips,' in front of Christie's at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

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An Acme supermarket employee trashes goods damaged in Superstorm Sandy in Long Beach Township, NJ.

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An Indian girl is seen through the broken windshield of an abandoned car in a poor New Delhi neighborhood.

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Admirers of deceased Argentinian film director and singer Leonardo Favio mob the hearse carrying his body to funeral services in Buenos Aires.

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A boy walks past graffiti on the wall of subway station in Rio de Janeiro. Metro Rio asked grafitti artists to spruce up Rio's tube line.

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Mourners burn candles at a prayer service for Tim Ribberink at a church in Tilligte, Netherlands. Ribberink, 20, commited suicide last week, leaving a letter explaining his suicide was a result of incessant bullying.

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Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan celebrates scoring a century (100 runs) in the team's third One Day International cricket match against New Zealand.

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President Obama and his family catch a ride out of Chicago on Marine One. The first family is headed back to the White House after Tuesday's electoral victory.

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Members of the Afghan Local Police showcase their skills at a graduation ceremony in Laghman province.

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Visitors sit inside an art installation titled 'Chairs' by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata at the Abu Dhabi Art festival at Saadiyat Island.

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Rescue workers carry a man on a stretcher from the rubble of a collapsed building in Accra, Ghana. A five-story shopping center built earlier this year collapsed, killing at least one leaving dozens trapped.

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Firefighters work to disconnect the battery from a downed plane in Patterson, Calif., as their chief interviews a passenger.

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Alessandra Ambrosio sits for hair and makeup artists amid the backstage bustle of the Victoria's Secret runway show in New York.

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A gasoline bomb explodes next to riot police amid a massive general strike against new austerity measures outside parliament in Athens.

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Dallas Strangway builds up some accumulation while out for a walk in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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A Syrian rebel fighter watches for a sniper firing down a street in the town of Harem, Syria, an area rebels remain unable to secure.

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A woman puckers up for a sculpture by Spanish artist Samuel Salcedo at the International Contemporary Art Fair in Zurich, Switzerland.

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An elderly woman crosses a street left deserted by a farmers' protest outside government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania. The farmers are demanding more agriculrutal subsidies.

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Members of one of 20 fire crews on scene battle a major fire at the Berger Paint factory in Garebhavipaly, Bangalore, India.

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Snowy tears fall from the eyeholes of a frigid pumpkin left out while a nor'easter dumped a few inches of snow in Brooklyn.

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Models stand in silhouette against the flashy background for Indonesian designer Lenny Agustin's show during Jakarta Fashion Week.

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Two workers dig sand -- washed in by Sandy -- out of the first floor of an apartment building in Rockaway Park, NY.

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Fenerbahce's supporters erupt during their 2-0 Europa League win over AEL Limassol in Istanbul.

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A Miami-Dade elections employee mulls over absentee ballot reports in Doral, Fla., as the state continues its efforts to determine the winner of Florida's electoral votes.

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In Bolivia, faithful celebrate the Day of Skulls, where many bring close relatives' skulls, some decorated like this one, to a chapel for blessing

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Snow covers debris left at a Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, miniature golf course just over a week after the shoreline was battered by Sandy.

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Seven-year-old Long Dihao exercises at a primary school in Dazu, China. The youngster will challenge the world record for backward somersaults in 30 seconds. It's currently 35, but Long can do 40.

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Great Britain's Donna Creighton kicks off her first run at the skeleton World Cup competition in Lake Placid, NY.

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Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is reflected in the window of a nearby commercial building while a window washer gets his job done.