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Canada's Joannie Rochette from Ile Dupas, Que., and her coach Manon Perron react as the marks are posted for her short program to place first in the ladies competition at the Home Sense Skate Canada International figure skating competition in Kitchener, Ont.
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Andrew Pike, a veteran of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne who was shot and paralyzed during the Iraq war, looks on as his new service dog Yazmin pulls a door open while training at the Canine Companions for Independence training center in Santa Rosa, California.
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A member of the Planned Parenthood women's rights group protests against the Stupak Ammendment which they say will ban private abortion coverage for millions of American women, outside the Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles.
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People try out one of two surf simulators on board, part of a cornucopia of amusements aimed at quashing the notion that cruising is a sedentary vacation, said Royal Caribbean chief executive Richard Fain.
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A vendor carries a bread tray on his head as he walks past hundreds of Egyptians protesting near the Algerian embassy in Cairo, as anger mounted over attacks on Egyptians after the countries' World Cup qualifier. The demonstrators were enraged by reports of attacks against Egyptian fans in Khartoum on November 18 after a World Cup qualification decider with Algeria.
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Tennis players, from left, Fernando Verdasco, Juan Martin del Potro, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko and Robin Soderling, pose for a photograph alongside a London bus in Westminster, London. The ATP World Tour Finals start at the O2 Arena in London, Sunday Nov. 22, 2009.
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Ngozi, a western lowland gorilla at the Toronto Zoo, holds her 2-month-old baby gorilla Nassir. After soliciting votes on names from the general public, the zoo attached those with the most votes to plates containing fruits and the father of the gorilla, Charles, picked the final name of his son.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, welcomes Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari at the presidential palace in Kabul for the presidential inauguration.
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U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Great Wall of China in Badaling, outside of Beijing.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks with a swami at the BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple in New Delhi, India.
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Members of the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team rescue women from rising flood waters in the Lake District in Keswick, England. Severe weather conditions have caused floods, cutting off villages and towns in the north of England.
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Child labourers work at a balloon workshop on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
