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Day in photos Hopman Cup tennis, Viking procession, India rape protests, Nepal’s Yomari Puni festival and more.
Dec. 31, 2012
Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts to a replay of a disputed line call after hitting a return against Andreas Seppi of Italy during their fifth session men's singles match on Day 3 of the Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia.
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Up Helly Aa vikings from the Shetland Islands hold lit torches during the annual procession to mark the start of new year celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland. The procession finishes with a fireworks display at Calton Hill.
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The moon is seen in its waning gibbous stage over the glowing neon outline of a cross on top of the Maria Magdalena de Tepexpan Catholic Church in Tepexpan, Mexico. The church, which is in a small town northeast of Mexico City, was built in 1542.
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Dec. 30, 2012
A woman looks at images of Colombian nun Mother Laura, also known as Laura de Jesus Montoya, who was believed by followers to have performed miracles from her bed in a slum, in Medellin, Colombia. Pope Benedict XVI in December approved the canonization of Mother Laura, who died in 1949, making her the country’s first native-born saint, according to news reports.
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Dec. 31, 2012
Trains arrive during a cold and foggy morning at a railway station in Lahore, Pakistan. Foggy weather in Punjab province and other parts of the country has affected flight and rail schedules.
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A seller carries bread in a market in Bangui, Central African Republic.
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Dec. 30, 2012
Members of the indigenous Gurung community are seen in traditional attire as they take part in a new year celebration known as Tamu Lhosar in Kathmandu, Nepal. Gurungs number some 700,000 people, about 3 percent of the Himalayan nation's population, and are mainly concentrated in the country's central region.
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Dec. 29, 2012
A demonstrator shouts at police officers as she takes part in a demonstration in Mumbai to mourn the death of a rape victim who was assaulted on a bus this month in New Delhi.
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Dec. 30, 2012
Demonstrators pull away a police barricade during a protest against a woman’s gang rape in New Delhi. The unidentified 23-year-old medical student died from her injuries Saturday, prompting promises of action from the Indian government, which has struggled to respond to public outrage.
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Dec. 29, 2012
Indians lie down, mimicking dead bodies, as they mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi.
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AP
Dec. 29, 2012
A bus is seen in flames at the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi, Pakistan. The bomb went off on a bus, killing six people and wounding 48, police and a hospital official said.
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Dec. 29, 2012
Rescuers work at the site where a plane swerved off a runway at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. The Tu-204 aircraft, which belongs to Russian airline Red Wings, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing several people.
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Dec. 28, 2012
A Palestinian protester throws stones toward an Israeli-maned bulldozer after a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
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Dec. 29, 2012
A father and his children collect coconuts among debris swept ashore at the height of Typhoon Bopha in Cateel, Philippines. The government is still feeding thousands of homeless survivors and building shelters for them after entire towns were wiped out by Bopha, the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year. It made landfall Dec. 3.
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Dec. 28, 2012
Researchers use heavy machinery to perform a necropsy on a dead finback whale that had washed up on shore in Queens.
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Dec. 28, 2012
Brad Krueger of Alma Center, Wis., holds his neighbors’ chicken, Cluck Cluck. The chicken, which the neighbors kept as a pet, is being credited for saving that family from an early-morning fire Thursday by waking the couple with its loud clucking.
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Dec. 28, 2012
A dog pokes its head out the window to look at the accumulating snow in West Bend, Wis.
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Water vapor pours out of a flask as liquid nitrogen boils off during a demonstration by Mitch Luman, director of science at the Evansville Museum in Owensboro, Ky.
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Dec. 29, 2012
TV personality Allison Hagendorf throws confetti from an office building onto New York's Times Square as part of a test in preparation for New Year's Eve celebrations.
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Dec. 30, 2012
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Dec. 28, 2012
A worker places scaffolding around a Tournament of Roses Parade float at Phoenix Decorating in Pasadena, Calif. The 124th parade will take place in the city New Year’s Day.
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Dec. 28, 2012
A girl dressed as a deity watches as she participates in a parade marking the Yomari Puni festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Yomari Puni is observed annually by the Newari community on a full-moon day when yomari, a confection of rice flour, is prepared and eaten.
Niranjan Shrestha
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