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| A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. |
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A demonstrator mooning to riot police during a protest by European workers and trade union representatives to demand better job protection in the European Union countries in Brussels on March 24. |
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| An aid worker using an iPad captures an image of a dead cow's decomposing carcass in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border on July 23. |
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| Christians protect Muslims during prayer in Cairo, Egypt. |
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| Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial. |
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| This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan. |
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| A woman jumps from a burning building during the London riots in August. |
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| 84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a peaceful march in Seattle, Washington. She would have been thrown to the ground and trampled, but luckily a fellow protester and Iraq vet was there to save her. |
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| A protester gets sprayed in the face with pepper spray at an Occupy Portland protest. |
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| Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1. |
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| A man sits in front of a destroyed apartment building following the Joplin, Missouri tornado |
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| A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14. |
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| A boy looks at a figure of Steve Jobs next to flowers laid in his tribute at an Apple store in Hong Kong, China. |
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| Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. |
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| Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk's office. |
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| Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer's riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins. |
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| A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an "Occupy UCD" demonstration in Davis, California. |
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| A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage. Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her. |
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| Firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead on May 2. |
