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Day in photos Clowns visit pediatric hospital, making glass ornaments, Dead Sea Scrolls go online and more.
Dec. 18, 2012
Ernesto Aguirre, center, as a clown named Dr. Ke Lokura, speaks to a patient in the pediatric cancer section of La Mascota Children’s Hospital in Managua, Nicaragua. Aguirre has been visiting the hospital for seven years to bring joy and gifts to children there.
Oswaldo Rivas
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Reuters
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Dec. 18, 2012
A clown paints the face of a hospitalized child during a visit to La Mascota Children’s Hospital in Managua, Nicaragua. Each year, the Club of Clowns visits hospitalized children before Christmas.
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Dec. 19, 2012
A woman paints a Christmas tree bauble in a small workshop in the town of Dobrich, Bulgaria.
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Dec. 19, 2012
A woman holds a glass tube over a bunsen burner as she makes a Christmas tree bauble in a workshop in Dobrich, Bulgaria.
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Dec. 18, 2012
Snow covers branches in a neighborhood on the west side of Portland, Ore.
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Dec. 18, 2012
A colorful Ferris wheel spins at the Christmas market in Schwerin, Germany.
Jens Buettner
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Dec. 19, 2012
A bareheaded woman braves the cold in central Moscow. Freezing weather hit Russia this week, as the temperature in the capital dropped to zero. Due to high humidity and strong, chilly wind, weather experts said it would feel more like 13 degrees below zero.
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Dec. 19, 2012
A dog stands under trees covered with heavy hoarfrost and snow on the bank of the frozen Yenisei River, south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
Dec. 17, 2012
A pedestrian uses a mobile device as he stands near a lingerie store advertisement on Oxford Street in London.
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Dec. 19, 2012
Two Playboy bunnies pose for photos at the Playboy club in Mumbai. Playboy unveiled a new bunny costume for its upcoming Indian club launch, opting for a more demure take on the waitress outfits but keeping the ears, bow ties and fluffy tails. In a bid to appease conservative Indian values, the traditional skimpy corset has been replaced with a sari-inspired two-piece, comprising a one-shoulder top, a bare midriff and a sheer, full-length skirt with a split.
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Dec. 19, 2012
Relatives and friends of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, an international space station crew member, gather for his farewell before a final preflight preparation near his hotel at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Shamil Zhumatov
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Reuters
Dec. 19, 2012
U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, an international space station crew member, looks on while specialists check his spacesuit at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Reuters
Dec. 18, 2012
Hooded workers protest against Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica's job cuts in Barcelona. The hood reads, "Yes, I'm profitable. 6,000 layoffs."
Albert Gea
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Reuters
Dec. 18, 2012
A Mexican man in costume performs at Playa del Carmen in Quintana Roo state, Mexico, during preparations for the celebration of the end of the Maya Long Count calendar.
Pedro Pardo
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Dec. 18, 2012
Maasai women wait in a queue to register to vote in general elections scheduled for March in the village of Olgumi, Kenya. Tuesday marked the last day for Kenyans to register to vote, and registration centers across the country saw a marked increase in attendance of those seeking to register at the last minute.
Carl De Souza
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Dec. 19, 2012
New recruits of the Jammu and Kashmir police participate in a parade in Sheeri, about 40 miles north of Srinagar, India. About 900 officers have completed a nine-month training session in handling nonlethal weapons for controlling street protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Dec. 18, 2012
A worker from the Israeli Antiquities Department sits in a laboratory as a fragment of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls is photographed in Jerusalem. More than 60 years after their discovery, Israel has put images of 5,000 fragments of the ancient scrolls online in a partnership with Google.
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Dec. 18, 2012
A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities Department examines fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them in Jerusalem.
Uriel Sinai
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Dec. 18, 2012
Women look at a Christmas tree and a deer statue after a snowfall in Yerevan, Armenia.
Karen Minasyan
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Dec. 18, 2012
A 32-foot fir Christmas tree and the Eiffel Tower are illuminated in Paris.
Charles Platiau
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Reuters
Dec. 18, 2012
A Newtown, Conn., resident who identified himself only as Andrew holds roses as he visits a memorial for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. Authorities continue to investigate last week’s massacre, in which a heavily armed gunman entered the school and shot and killed 20 children and six adults.
David Goldman
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AP
Dec. 18, 2012
Patrick Carroll holds stuffed animals as he looks at a memorial for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Joshua Lott
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Dec. 18, 2012
As the hearse carrying the body of James Mattioli leaves St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn., mourners file into the church for the funeral services of Jessica Rekos. James and Jessica, both 6, were victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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Dec. 18, 2012
Jeff Beaurline, a lifelong resident of Newtown, Conn., waves an American flag through his car's sun roof as he squeezes between school buses and news trucks in the village of Sandy Hook, which is part of Newtown.
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Dec. 18, 2012
Catherine and Craig Debellis swing their son Ramsey, 3, as they walk down a street that runs near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The Debellis family, of Austin, has been in town visiting relatives and was nearby at the time of the school shooting.
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