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Day in photos Winchester Cathedral choristers, Noah’s Ark replica, monkey in Ikea, “Beauty Without Limits” competition and more.
Dec. 11, 2012
Choristers from Winchester Cathedral don ice skates to enjoy a rink that was set up beside the cathedral in Winchester, England.
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Dec. 11, 2012
Choristers from Winchester Cathedral skate beside the cathedral in Winchester, England.
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Dec. 10, 2012
A'Lesia Blackwell, 4, smiles during the 36th annual Friends of the Poor Holiday Party at St. Mary’s Center in Scranton, Pa.
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Dec. 10, 2012
Activists hold up flowers in front of police officers during a demonstration marking International Human Rights Day in Asuncion, Paraguay. Demonstrators asked for clarification of the massacre at Curuguaty, a violent land eviction on June 15 that left 11 peasants and six police officers killed and prompted the Colorado Party and other leading parties to vote Paraguay’s president, Fernando Lugo, out of office for allegedly mismanaging the dispute.
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Dec. 10, 2012
A photo of Jenni Rivera is shown at a candlelight vigil in Long Beach, Calif. The singer died in a plane crash Dec. 9 in northern Mexico.
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Dec. 9, 2012
A small monkey wearing a winter coat and a diaper wanders around at an Ikea furniture store in Toronto. The monkey had let itself out of its crate in a parked car and went for a walk. The animal’s owner contacted police later in the day and was reunited with the pet, police said.
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Dec. 9, 2012
A small monkey wearing a winter coat and a diaper wanders around an Ikea parking lot in Toronto, as customers take pictures. The monkey had let itself out of its crate in a parked car and went for a walk.
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AP
Dec. 10, 2012
A man carries a mannequin in the Belarus capital, Minsk.
Viktor Drachev
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Dec. 11, 2012
A man plays golf in the snow at Etchinghill Golf Club near Folkestone in southern England.
Luke MacGregor
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2012
A Ukrainian policeman speaks by mobile phone at a souvenir shop decorated with suits of armor as he sheltered from heavy snow in Kiev.
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Dec. 10, 2012
Yekaterina Fomina, 20, is awarded the winner’s tiara in the “Beauty Without Limits” beauty contest for women who use wheelchairs in Vladivostok, Russia. The contest, organized by the group Kovcheg (Ark), is open to wheelchair users from Russia’s far eastern Primorsky region. Fomina injured her spine while swimming six years ago.
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Reuters
Dec. 10, 2012
Johan Huibers, bottom right, poses with a stuffed tiger in front of a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark that he built in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The Ark has opened its doors in the Netherlands after receiving permission to receive as many as 3,000 visitors per day. Huibers used the biblical story told in Genesis as his inspiration, following the instructions God gives Noah down to the last cubit.
Peter Dejong
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AP
Dec. 10, 2012
An interior view of a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark, which has opened its doors in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Stormy weather could do nothing to dampen the good mood of its creator, Dutchman Johan Huibers.
Peter Dejong
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AP
Dec. 10, 2012
Johan Huibers looks up to the sky when showing journalists the inside of his full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Huibers’s incredibly detailed replica measures 427 feet long, 95 feet across and 75 feet high.
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AP
Dec. 9, 2012
Russell Diercks smokes marijuana inside Frankie Sports Bar and Grill in Olympia, Wash. The bar’s owner, Frank Schnarr, who waged an ultimately successful battle with local and state officials over Washington’s 2006 smoking ban, appears to be the first restaurant or bar owner in the state to test the recently expanded limits on recreational marijuana use. In order to flout the ban, Schnarr renamed his establishment’s smoking-friendly second floor as “Friends of Frankie’s,” a private room limited to those who pay a $10 annual membership fee.
Nick Adams
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Reuters
Dec. 9, 2012
Workers repair an electricity line in Olinda in Pernambuco state, Brazil.
Christophe Simon
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Dec. 11, 2012
A man repairs the roof of his house damaged in the coastal town of Banganga that was devastated by Typhoon Bopha on Dec. 4 in Davao Oriental in southern Philippines. Typhoon Bopha killed 647 people and caused crop damage worth $210 million. The most intense storm to hit the Philippines this year, it wiped out about 90 percent of three coastal towns in Davao Oriental province and buried an entire town in neighboring Compostela Valley province under mud.
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Reuters
Dec. 10, 2012
White metal crosses mark graves at the cemetery of the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla. Investigators in Florida who used ground-penetrating radar and soil samples said they had found at least 50 graves — 19 more than officially reported — on the grounds of a former state reform school for boys.
Michael Spooneybarger
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2012
Malaysian customs officers show elephant tusks that were recently seized in Port Klang outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s customs authorities seized two containers with some 1,500 pieces of elephant tusks, estimated to be worth $1.96 million, according to a news release issued by the Malaysian Customs Department. The ivories, which were loaded in Togo, traveled through Algeciras, Spain, before finally arriving in Port Klang. Although shipping documents listed the containers’ final destination as Port Klang, customs intelligence said that the containers were planned to be sent to China.
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Reuters
Dec. 10, 2012
FedEx employees scan incoming packages from Dulles International Airport at the company's Alexandria facility before loading them into their trucks. FedEx expects to move 19 million packages today, making it the busiest day in company history.
Astrid Riecken
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For The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2012
Activists and supporters of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) carry torches during a protest march to mark International Human Rights Day in Srinagar. A demonstration was held in Srinagar to protest against alleged human rights violations and a court verdict sentencing two Kashmiris to life imprisonment.
Tauseef Mustafa
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Dec. 10, 2012
Spanish police officers carry a member of the Mortgage Victims’ Platform (PAH) outside Bankia headquarters after members of the platform occupy the bank during a protest against evictions in Madrid. One in four people in Spain are unemployed as the economic crisis tightens its grip. Spain is under increasing pressure to come up with a first-of-its kind insolvency law for the country that would allow mortgage debtors to turn in their keys and face limited liability.
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AP
Dec. 10, 2012
Blades of grass encased in ice are lit by the morning sun in Salina, Kan.
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AP
Dec. 10, 2012
Visitors walk across the Capilano Suspension Bridge decorated in Christmas lights in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Originally built in 1889, the bridge stretches 443 feet across and 230 feet above the Capilano River.
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2012
Fisher Yang, a Korean American, shares the holiday spirit by singing Christmas carols from his hymnal inside an Orange Line Metro train in Washington. Yang finishes each carol by saying "Glory to God and Merry Christmas."
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The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2012
Antonio Milina and Evelyn Aguilar, both of Arlington, share a moment along the Potomac River in Washington.
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The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2012
Rowers are shown at the Schuylkill River pass near the Strawberry Mansion Bridge on a foggy morning.
Matt Rourke
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AP
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