This Week Around The World
A delegate walks in front a light installation at the entrance of the Bella centre of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
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Iraqis walk between destroyed cars after a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including three car bombs that blew up near government sites.
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Pope Benedict XVI, standing at right, waves from his popemobile on his way to the Spanish Steps in central Rome, for the traditional prayer before a statue of the Virgin Mary on the occasion of the Immaculate Conception, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. On Dec. 8th, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and it is a national holiday in predominantly Roman Catholic Italy.
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Kennedy Center honorees Dave Brubeck, left, Robert De Niro, Grace Bumbry, Mel Brooks, and Bruce Springsteen stand at the Kennedy Center Honors gala in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.
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United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion gather during a patrol where a gun battle with insurgents occurred earlier, near Shabu in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009.
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Social Democracy candidate Mircea Geoana flashes victory signs after seeing exit polls in the presidential elections runoff in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. Exit polls showed ex-foreign minister Mircea Geoana defeating incumbent Traian Basescu on Sunday in the Romanian presidential race.
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In this two-minute exposure, the rising moon illuminates clouds sweeping across the evening sky over St. Martin's In The Field, an Episcopal summer chapel, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, in Biddeford Pool, Maine. With the approach winter solstice, Maine now receives only about nine hours of daylight.
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Mother of Liliya Kalashnikova, a victim of the night club fire, center, no name given, cries at her daughter's funeral at a cemetery in the Ural Mountains city of Perm, about 1,200 km (700 miles) east of Moscow, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Authorities said more than 100 people died and over a hundred injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke.
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A lone worker is seen inside the Corus steelworks plant at Redcar, England, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. Britain's Corus, Europe's second-largest steel producer and a subsidiary of India's Tata Steel, announced that it is tolay off 1,700 workers in northeast England in January because a major customer has broken a contract.
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Mark Healey of Hawaii, takes a spill down the face of a large wave in the second heat of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surf contest at Waimea Bay located on the north shore of the island of Oahu Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009. surfing contest that is only held in extreme conditions is on for the first time in five years, thanks to the massive waves pounding Oahu's famed North Shore.
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An honor guard soldier stands at the Eternal Flame at the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Heavy snow hit the Russian capital for the first time this season as the temperature dropped to -5 C (23 F) after record breaking warm weather in December.
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Majid Hassan, 37, weeps over his wife's coffin before her burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. She was killed when series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including three car bombs that blew up near government sites.
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A person walks through vented steam, shielded from the rain with an umbrella in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.
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Pearl Harbor survivors are honored during the 68th anniversary ceremony of the attack at Pearl Harbor, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Honolulu.
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Iraqi security forces gather at the site of a bomb attack near the Labor Ministry building in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. An official at Iraq's Interior Ministry says dozens have been killed in a series of coordinated blasts around Baghdad.
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Lakewood police chief Bret Farrar walks past the caskets of four slain Lakewood police officers after speaking at their memorial service Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash. The memorial was just a week after the officers were gunned down in a coffee shop before the start of their shift, Nov. 29. Killed were Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42.
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In this photo taken Friday Dec. 4, 2009, local salt makers walk through salt field near the village of Ohn-chaung in western part of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta and about 200 miles south-west of Yangon. After the rainy season, Ayeyawady Delta's salt makers have prepared to make salt from sea water. The government disbursed loans to salt makers last year to reconstruct salt fields which were totally destroyed by the storm Nargis in May, 2008. Ayeyawady Delta's salt makers could not pay last year's debt back to the government this year as the price of salt still downwards until the salt making season enters this year.
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An Afghan girl waits to receive medication from US Navy medical personnel that are part of the United States Marines' 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, at a free clinic in Khan Neshin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The clinic provides medication and medical treatment for the local population.
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Mark Healey of Hawaii, takes a spill down the face of a large wave in the second heat of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surf contest at Waimea Bay located on the north shore of the island of Oahu Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009. surfing contest that is only held in extreme conditions is on for the first time in five years, thanks to the massive waves pounding Oahu's famed North Shore.
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A man pushes his bicycle on his way to a polling station to vote in presidential elections Santiago de Huata, Bolivia, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.
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Vermont National Guard Sgt. Wesley Black, of Springfield, Vt., holds his wife of 3 months, Melinda, before a deployment ceremony in Burlington, Vt., Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. More than 300 members of the Vermont National Guard headed off for training in Indiana before their deployment to Afghanistan. More than 1500 troops from Vermont will eventually be deployed.
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A delegate looks at a giant globe which displays the warming of the world's ocean in the U.S. pavilion at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. The UN weather agency unveiled data showing that this decade is on track to become the hottest since records began in 1850, with 2009 the fifth-warmest year ever. The second warmest decade was the 1990s.
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Firefighters try to extinguish a burning truck loaded with Diesel fuel that crashed and exploded on a motorway in Lassnitzhoehe, near Graz, Austria, on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. The truck burned down completely, the driver reportedly suffered only slightly injuries.
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A riot policeman's clothing catches fire after demonstrators threw petrol bombs at them, as violence erupted during a march to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots, in Athens, on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. Clashes also broke out in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki.
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Jackass Penguins, wearing colorful ribbons, take a walk at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.
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A woman looks at an installation with pictures of 2009 Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama, right, and 1964 peace laureate Martin Luther King in the Nobel Field at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Obama will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday.
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A United States Army soldier runs with the ball as United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion try to tackle while playing a game of mud football following a rain storm at their base in Khan Neshin, in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.
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Pakistani fire brigade staff trying to extinguish fires which broke out after explosions in Lahore, Pakistan Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Two explosions ripped through a crowded market in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing a number of people and left many injured, police said.
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Pope Benedict XVI, framed by a branch of a Christmas tree, delivers his blessing during the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009.
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