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Day in photos Zoo stocktaking, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released from hospital, troops secure Central African Republic town and more.
Jan. 3, 2013
A zookeeper holds a bullfrog during the annual stocktaking at ZSL London Zoo in central London. ZSL London Zoo embarked Thursday on their annual head count of every animal at the zoo, which houses more than 17,000 animals.
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Jan. 3, 2013
Zookeeper Jeff Lambert smiles as two leaf insects crawl along his cheek during the annual stocktaking at ZSL London Zoo.
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Jan. 2, 2013
Serengeti Steve, from the Reptile Experience in Ballwin, Mo., has a little fun with a lizard and a squeamish Alyson Varble, 11, of Godfrey, Ill., during a show at the RiverBender Community Center in downtown Alton, Ill. Serengeti Steve was a top-50 contestant on the television show “America's Got Talent” and holds the Guinness World Record for amount of time holding a venomous live scorpion in his mouth: 17 minutes and 17 seconds.
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Telegraph via AP
Jan. 3, 2013
Jershon Witehira jumps into the water from a pier at St. Kilda Beach in Melbourne, Australia. Temperatures are expected to soar to above 100 degrees for several consecutive days in parts of Victoria and South Australia as southeastern Australia prepares for fire danger season.
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Jan. 3, 2013
High waves hit the Le Port coastline on the western part of the French island of La Reunion as Cyclone Dumile approaches. Authorities declared Thursday a red alert that forbids people to leave their homes.
Richard Bouhet
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2013
A white swan flexes its wings in shallow water in the Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County.
Jonathan Newton
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The Washington Post
Jan. 2, 2013
Kade Owen keeps a tight grip as he hangs on for an eight-second ride while his brother Hayden makes the bucking action by raising and lowering their backyard bucking barrel in El Dorado, Ark. The brothers, along with friends Sawyer Morgan and Saxon Morgan, were honing their bucking skills while enjoying the last few days of their Christmas break.
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El Dorado News-Times via AP
Jan. 2, 2013
Shoes hang on a power line at Letna Park overlooking Prague. Czech teenagers, who skateboard at the park, throw their damaged and unwanted shoes over the wire for fun at the city’s main skating hangout, once the site of a monument to former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Petr Josek
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Reuters
Jan. 2, 2013
Alex Hackel, 16, of Newry, Maine, skis the rail at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine. Hackel; Garret Carver of Peru, Maine; and Tim Dubois of Windham, Maine; spent the day traveling around Lewiston and Auburn while scouting places to shoot for their ski film “Act 1.”
Daryn Slover
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Lewiston Sun-Journal via AP
Jan. 2, 2013
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), whose district includes Long Island, expresses his anger and disappointment during a cable TV interview on Capitol Hill in Washington after the House Republican leadership decided late New Year's Day to allow the current term of Congress to end without holding a vote on aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
Jan. 2, 2013
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves New York Presbyterian Hospital with her daughter, Chelsea, right, in New York. The secretary of state, who has not been seen in public since Dec. 7, was revealed Sunday evening to be in a New York hospital under treatment for a blood clot that stemmed from a concussion she suffered in mid-December.
Joshua Lott
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Reuters
Jan. 1, 2013
Darcia Anthony, left, and Danielle Williams celebrate after participating in a wedding ceremony at City Hall in Baltimore. Same-sex couples in Maryland are now legally permitted to marry under a new law that went into effect after midnight Tuesday. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to approve same-sex marriage.
Patrick Semansky
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AP
Jan. 2, 2013
Fatme Ulanova participates in her wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in southwestern Bulgaria. The people of this Bulgarian mountain village are famous for only performing their unique wedding ceremonies in wintertime. The inhabitants of the village of Ribnovo are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims, sometimes referred to as “Pomaks,” or “people who have suffered.” Muslim Bulgarians are descendants of Christian Bulgarians who were forcibly converted to Islam by the Turks during the 14th, 16th and the 18th centuries.
Dimitar Dilkoff
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2013
Indian demonstrators hold placards during the Women Dignity March in New Delhi. Several hundred people took part in the solidarity march for women organized by the Delhi government which ended at Rajghat, the memorial for Mahatma Gandhi. The gang of rapists who savagely assaulted a 23-year-old medical student on a bus in New Delhi tried to run her over after the fatal attack, reports said Wednesday, citing a police account of the incident.
Prakash Singh
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 3, 2013
A Palestinian boy holds a toy gun during a rally in the West Bank city of Nablus, marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement.
Abed Omar Qusini
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Reuters
Jan. 2, 2013
A Syrian rebel plays football in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. The United Nations estimated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed during Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The U.N. human rights chief called the toll “truly shocking.”
Andoni Lubaki
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AP
Jan. 2, 2013
A convoy of Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic President Francois Bozize, moves along the road in Damara, about 44 miles north of the nation’s capital, Bangui. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of the Central African Republic town of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital. Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a “red line that the rebels cannot cross” or his forces will attack.
Ben Curtis
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AP
Jan. 2, 2013
People leave Damara, the last strategic town between the Seleka rebels and the country's capital, Bangui, as the commander of the regional African force FOMAC warned rebels against trying to take the town, saying it would “mount to a declaration of war.” The rebels, who began their campaign a month ago and have taken several key towns and cities, have accused Central African Republic leader Francois Bozize of failing to honor a 2007 peace deal. The sign reads in French “The seductive city of Damara welcomes you and wishes you a pleasant stay.”
Sia Kambou
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2013
Passengers ride on a car carrying sacks of food, bedding and animals for bushmeat on the front, heading away from Damara. After troops under Central African Republic leader Francois Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament. A decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power, with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month.
Ben Curtis
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AP
Jan. 2, 2013
A worker collects pieces of shark fins dried on the rooftop of a factory building in Hong Kong. For centuries, shark fin, usually served as soup, has been a coveted delicacy in Chinese cooking, extolled for its supposed ability to boost sexual potency, enhance skin quality, increase energy, prevent heart diseases and lower cholesterol.
Kin Cheung
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AP
Jan. 2, 2013
A home destroyed during Hurricane Sandy lies along the beach in the Belle Harbor neighborhood in the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens. Criticism, including by President Obama and congressional Republicans representing areas hit by the superstorm, has been directed at the Republican House’s decision to adjourn without passing a Hurricane Sandy aid bill. According to early estimates, Hurricane Sandy inflicted at least $50 billion in damage across the Northeast, making it one of the most destructive storms ever.
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Jan. 2, 2013
The remains of homes and businesses destroyed by Hurricane Sandy lie along the Rockaways in Queens.
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Getty Images
Jan. 2, 2013
Members of Civil Protection of Mexico clean a road in Sierra de Arteaga, where the cold temperatures caused snow fall, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The cold front is extending from the north into the center of the country, according to National Service of Meteorology.
Miguel Sierra
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European Pressphoto Agency
Jan. 1, 2013
This image, released by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on Wednesday, shows the sun at 1:15 p.m. Eastern time. At 11:37 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, Earth reached perihelion, the point in its orbit when it is closest to the sun for the year. At that time, the center of Earth was 91,402,559 miles from the center of the sun. Earth is about 3 million miles closer to the sun in early January than it will be in early July.
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