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Day in photos Project Nunway, Santa Dash, Japan tunnel collapse, Syria fighting, Kennedy Center Honors and more.
Dec. 2, 2012
Sister Pat N Leather, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, puts on makeup before taking part in Project Nunway, a charity fashion show where designers are paired with Sisters to create fashions from recycled materials, in San Francisco. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a charity and street performance organization founded in 1979. It uses religious imagery to raise money for AIDS, LGBT-related causes and mainstream community service organizations.
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Reuters
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Dec. 3, 2012
Costumed versions of the characters from Japan's popular manga series “Doraemon,” which was created in 1969, are introduced during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The comics focus on the exploits of Doraemon, a robot cat from the future; the Taipei exhibition, which will run from Dec. 29 through April 7, is dedicated to characters from the manga strip.
Mandy Cheng
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Dec. 1, 2012
Saint Nicholas, center left, is escorted by three Zwarte Piets during a traditional parade in central Brussels. The Netherlands and Belgium are two countries that pride themselves on progressive laws and open societies, but critics say they are stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to depictions of Santa Claus and his helpers. Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas in Dutch, brings presents to children Dec. 5 in the Netherlands and Dec. 6 in Belgium, and is always accompanied by at least one assistant playing Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), who dresses in 17th-century costume and blackface.
Francois Lenoir
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Reuters
Dec. 2, 2012
Runners dressed as Father Christmas take part in the annual five-kilometer Santa Dash in Liverpool, England. But many runners are supporters of Everton FC and refuse to wear the wear red-and-green of their city rivals, Liverpool FC, dressing instead in blue suits.
Paul Ellis
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
A competitor crawls under barb wire during Hidden Warrior in Melbourne, Australia.
Quinn Rooney
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Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
Roofs are covered with snow in Freudenberg, Germany. Meteorologists forecast temperatures around freezing point for the coming days.
Hartmut Reeh
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 2, 2012
A Palestinian man works at a new housing development in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, near Jerusalem. Israel on Sunday roundly rejected the United Nations' endorsement of an independent state of Palestine and announced it would withhold more than $100 million owed to the Palestinians in retaliation for their successful bid. Israel has a plan to build 3,600 apartments and 10 hotels on the section of territory east of Jerusalem known as E1. The Palestinians have warned that such construction would kill any hope for the creation of a viable state of Palestine.
Ariel Schalit
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AP
Dec. 2, 2012
John Kutner, left, helps dismantle a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Union Beach, N.J.
Andrew Burton
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Reuters
Dec. 3, 2012
Members of the protest group Avaaz dress as cowboy caricatures of Prime Minister David Cameron and News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch during a protest outside London’s Houses of Parliament, demanding that the government implement legislation following the Leveson report on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. The activists are calling for a 20 percent limit on the percentage of the media one individual can own.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
Dec. 3, 2012
Workers attend to the Sasago Tunnel, near the Japanese city of Otsuki, which collapsed Sunday. Japan ordered inspections of aging highway tunnels Monday after the fiery collapse, which killed nine people.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 3, 2012
This still image, taken from video by Yamanashi Prefectural Police, shows the broken concrete ceiling panels that collapsed inside the Sasago Tunnel on Sunday. Police confirmed that nine bodies were found in three vehicles inside the 2.8-mile tunnel on the Chuo Expressway, Kyodo News reported.
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Kyodo News via Reuters
Dec. 3, 2012
A tow truck hauls the wreckage of a truck, which was crushed in Sunday's accident, out of the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Koshu, Japan. Concrete ceiling panels fell onto moving vehicles deep inside the tunnel, and authorities confirmed nine deaths before suspending rescue work Monday so that the roof could be reinforced to prevent more collapses.
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Kyodo News via AP
Dec. 3, 2012
People dressed as drills protest against the Treno Alto Velocita (high-speed train) in front of the French Embassy in Rome. France and Italy signed a deal Monday on the $34 billion trans-Alpine tunnel train link.
Filippo Monteforte
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 3, 2012
Syrians try to cross the border from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an airstrike.
Laszlo Balogh
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Reuters
Dec. 2, 2012
Residents walk past buildings damaged during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria.
Narciso Contreras
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AP
Dec. 2, 2012
A boy injured from shrapnel receives treatment in a makeshift clinic in Aleppo, Syria.
Narciso Contreras
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AP
Dec. 3, 2012
A Turkish man holds a placard accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of sharing guilt in the Syrian civil war near the Russian consulate in Istanbul. Putin arrived in Istanbul on Monday for a visit intended to resolve differences with Turkey over the 20-month crisis in war-ravaged Syria.
Bulent Kilic
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 3, 2012
A moon bear at the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao National Park roars during actress Ali MacGraw’s visit to the park. MacGraw is in Vietnam on a campaign to raise awareness for the protection of the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre, a home for 103 rescued moon bears, which is under pressure to close for a tourist project, according to Animals Asia's founder and chief executive, Jill Robinson. Across Asia, more than 14,000 moon bears are being held on farms and milked for their bile because it is believed to be effective in the practice of traditional Asian medicine, despite the availability of inexpensive and effective herbal and synthetic alternatives, according to the activist group.
Kham
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Reuters
Dec. 3, 2012
Kenyan Wildlife Service officials stand next to turtles killed by poachers near Jomo Kenyatta beach, in the coastal Kenyan port town of Mombasa.
Joseph Okanga
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Reuters
Dec. 2, 2012
Calgary Hitmen winger Pavlo Padakin celebrates his goal in a pile of teddy bears at the Hitmen Teddy Bear Toss in Calgary, Alberta. The hockey team collects approximately 25,000 stuffed toys at the annual Teddy Bear Toss and then delivers them to local charities and children at the Alberta Children's Hospital. The team holds the world record for collecting the most teddy bears: 26,919.
Todd Korol
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Reuters
Dec. 2, 2012
The 86-year-old Johanna Quaas, the oldest active gymnast in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, attends the annual review show “Menschen 2012” (People of 2012), aired on the public television broadcasting station ZDF in Munich.
Marc Mueller
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 1, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs with, from left, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, blues musician Buddy Guy and Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant after the State Department’s dinner for the Kennedy Center honorees in Washington.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Dec. 1, 2012
Kennedy Center honorees, from left, blues musician Buddy Guy, actor Dustin Hoffman and comedian David Letterman laugh together after the State Department dinner in Washington.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Dec. 2, 2012
From left, ballerina Natalia Makarova, actor Dustin Hoffman and author Doris Kearns Goodwin greet First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama at the Kennedy Center gala in Washington. Makarova and Hoffman were among the honorees this year.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
Dec. 2, 2012
Alexis La Luz, top, and Robert Courter hang holiday decorations on La Luz's home in Paterson, N.J.
Tyson Trish
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Bergen, N.J., Record via AP
Dec. 2, 2012
Children ride sleds during the first snowfall of the season in Brussels.
Francois Lenoir
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Reuters
Dec. 2, 2012
The moon is about to set behind the mountains overlooking Untervaz, Switzerland, while the first warming beams of the morning sun cause mist to rise from the snow-covered alp.
Arno Balzarini
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European Pressphoto Agency
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