Children play outside their home on the banks of the River Yamuna in New Delhi, India.
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A performer in the new theater production “1433: The Grand Voyage,” directed and designed by American theater master Robert Wilson, rehearses in Taipei, Taiwan. The elaborate musical show is inspired by the story of mariner adventurer Admiral Zheng He and infuses theater with martial arts and meditation.
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A man pedals his children to school in New Delhi, India.
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An Indian police officer shields himself from tear gas being launched at him by Kashmiri Muslim protesters during a protest in Srinagar, India. Thousands of soldiers warned residents to stay home amid ongoing protests stemming from the death of a teenage boy.
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Chinese trade enforcement officers destroy illegal gaming machines seized in recent raids in Beijing. Chinese authorities are embarking on the annual clean-up of the city to remove any undesirable elements before the new year festivities.
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Dancers and drummers perform during the first day of the “Llamadas” parade during Carnival in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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A 2-year-old Chinese boy stands chained to a lamp post as his father visits the Huaguan Shopping Mall in Beijing. The father, a pedicab driver who has since stopped chaining his son, says he is unable to afford childcare and chains the child to prevent him from being abducted.
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Afghan police keep watch at the site of the suicide car bombing that killed three Afghans and wounding 17 in Kandahar.
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A vendor selling household products pushes his bicycle on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
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These unearthed black-and-white photos of Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Len Steckler, were taken when the icon unexpectedly visited the photog at his apartment in December 1961. Steckler is selling them as a limited-edition series called “Marilyn Monroe: The Visit.”
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Recruits of paramilitary police pin badges onto each other during a military rank conferral ceremony at a military base in Suining in the Sichuan province, China.
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President Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango, of Kenya, departs with an unidentified companion after requesting asylum at a closed immigration hearing Thursday in Boston. Onyango, the half-sister to Obama’s late father, moved to the US in 2000. Her first asylum request was rejected, and she was deported in 2004, but did not leave and continued to live in public housing in Boston.
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A vessel passes a large set of Olympic Rings illuminated by the morning sun in Vancouver harbor as preparations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics continue in British Columbia. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games begin Feb. 12.
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Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda apologizes for the automaker’s global recalls and promises to beef up quality control by heading a new, special committee. Toyoda said the automaker was still deciding how to fix braking problems with the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid.
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A man carries washed plastic sheets from factories in Ahmedabad, India. India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to the aid of a beleaguered UN-affiliated climate change body on Friday saying India has full confidence in the panel, despite the numerous errors in its report on global warming.
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