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Day in photos World AIDS Day, Vice President Biden shopping, water on Mercury and more.
Nov. 30, 2012
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House to mark World AIDS Day. Organizers announced that Sydney was the first of dozens of cities around the globe to observe the day by illuminating major landmarks with red lights.
Tim Wimborne
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Reuters
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Skiers enjoy a slope in Val Thorens, in the French Alps. Recent snowfalls have encouraged skiers to hit the slopes, and the Val Thorens authorities have opened certain ones early ahead of the ski resort's full opening Dec. 8.
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Nov. 30, 2012
Fresh snow falls on the Seepyramide (“Lake Pyramid”) at the Fuerst-Pueckler-Park in Branitz, Germany. Count Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pueckler-Muskau, a German nobleman who is known for his passion for landscape gardening, is buried inside the pyramid.
Patrick Pleul
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 15, 2012
NASA's Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra Satellite captured this true-color image — released Thursday — of St. Helena Island and the band of wind-blown cloud vortices trailing toward the island's leeward side over the South Atlantic Ocean.
Jeff Schmaltz
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NASA/GSFC/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team via Reuters
Nov. 28, 2012
These man-made dikes along the shoreline of the Mississippi River, south of St. Louis, help direct the water flow back into the river to maintain a navigable depth. They are normally not visible, but they now lie exposed, along with their large sandbars, by months of drought and low water levels.
Colby Buchanan
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U.S. Coast Guard via AP
Nov. 30, 2012
Female laborers carry water to sprinkle on a sand sculpture created by artist Sudarshan Pattnaik on the eve of World AIDS Day on a beach near Konark, India.
Biswaranjan Rout
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AP
Nov. 29, 2012
People hold candles as they gather to mark the upcoming World AIDS Day in Kiev, Ukraine.
Anatolii Stepanov
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Reuters
Nov. 29, 2012
A steel installation, replacing the traditional Christmas tree, is illuminated at Brussels's Grand Place. The more-than-80-foot-high sculpture was designed by French architects Pier Schneider and Francois Wunschel.
Francois Lenoir
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Reuters
Nov. 29, 2012
Vice President Biden dropped by the opening of the 448th Costco store in the United States — and the first in Washington — and filled up his shopping cart.
Susan Biddle
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For The Washington Post
Nov. 29, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe during a ceremony in recognition of World AIDS Day at the State Department in Washington, where “The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Blueprint: Creating an AIDS- free Generation” was released.
Jose Luis Magana
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AP
Nov. 29, 2012
President Obama and 2012 Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney talk in the Oval Office after their lunch.
Pete Souza
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 29, 2012
Jorge Mata Jr., who grew up living and working at the Drakes Bay Oyster Co., wipes his eyes upon learning the government will not renew the farm's lease in Inverness, Calif. The government sided with environmental groups Thursday with its decision to shut down the Northern California oyster farm, with a 40-year-old lease ending Friday, in an attempt to restore wilderness. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he would not renew the lease for the weather-beaten shacks, oyster-shell mounds and waterlogged docks that make up the company.
Noah Berger
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Reuters
Nov. 29, 2012
A volunteer doctor prepares an injection for a protester who was wounded during clashes with security forces at a field hospital in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Members of an Islamist-dominated panel tasked with writing Egypt's new constitution are gathering to vote on the document's final draft in Cairo. Dozens of opposition supporters are camped out at Tahrir Square.
Maya Alleruzzo
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AP
Nov. 29, 2012
Palestinians celebrate in the West Bank city of Ramallah after the U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a nonmember state, giving a major diplomatic triumph to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas despite fierce opposition from the United States and Israel.
Ahmad Gharabli
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 30, 2012
A dog lies on the ground as two Afghan police officers walk past during the weekly dogfights on the outskirts of Kabul. Dogfighting is held in vacant lots and, though betting is done, matches are stopped as soon as one dog shows absolute domination. Dogfighting was banned during the Taliban regime.
Massoud Hossaini
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 29, 2012
A youth, who activists said was wounded after shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is treated at a makeshift hospital in Daria, Syria.
Kenan Al-Derani
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Shaam News Network via Reuters
Nov. 29, 2012
Models present creations by French designer Chris Ambraisse Boston as part of his ready-to-wear fashion collection for disabled people. Boston, founder of the association Fashion and Handicap, It's Possible, presents his new show — “A fashion which sublimates differences,” a collection for people with physical disabilities — at the Cite de la Mode et du Design in Paris.
Benoit Tessier
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Reuters
Nov. 30, 2012
Police officers carry away a protester who blocked the entrance to a makeshift camp for asylum-seekers in Amsterdam. A court has ordered a group of asylum-seekers, whose applications for political asylum have been rejected by Dutch authorities, to leave the site.
Michael Kooren
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Reuters
Nov. 29, 2012
Actress Lindsay Lohan, second from right, is escorted from a police station in New York after being charged for allegedly striking a woman at a nightclub. Police said Lohan was arrested at 4 a.m. and charged with third-degree assault. They said she got into the argument with another woman at Club Avenue in Manhattan and struck the woman in the face with her hand.
Louis Lanzano
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AP
Nov. 28, 2012
Jared Cruse shields his face from the cameras as he is led from the Liberty County Courthouse by John Davis, bailiff for the 75th District Courtroom, in Liberty, Tex. Cruse, 20, was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Cleveland girl in the fall of 2010. He is one of 20 men charged with assaulting the girl.
Vanesa Brashier
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Conroe, Tex., Courier via AP
Nov. 28, 2012
A man works on a traditional hand-made “anguila” (eel-shaped) marzipan Christmas cake at the Santo Tome Obrador de Mazapan bakery in Toledo, Spain. The basic ingredients of the cake are almonds, sugar, honey and eggs. The company, which employs 45 staff throughout the year, has hired an extra 25 workers leading up to the Christmas festivities, hoping consumption picks up over the holiday period.
Denis Doyle
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Getty Images
Nov. 29, 2012
A woman puts the finishing touches to a traditional handmade anguila marzipan Christmas cake at the Santo Tome Obrador de Mazapan bakery in Toledo, Spain.
Denis Doyle
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A radar image of Mercury's north polar region, acquired by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, is shown superposed on a mosaic of Mercury Messenger images of the same area in this NASA image released Thursday. Shown in red are areas of Mercury’s north polar region that are in shadow in all images acquired by Messenger to date. Since their discovery in 1992, these polar deposits have been hypothesized to consist of water ice trapped in permanently shadowed areas near the planet’s north and south poles, but other explanations for the polar deposits have also been suggested.
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NASA via Reuters
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