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• Dec. 10: Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore, left, and Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N. climate panel's chief scientist, hold with their medals and diplomas at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Norway.
• Dec. 10: Children who helped collect pennies play with them during a ceremony to unveil the 'Penny Harvest Field' in New York. The approximately 100 million pennies, gathered by school children across the five boroughs of New York City, filled a 165-by-30-foot 'Penny Harvest Field' in Rockefeller Center. The funds were to be donated to various charities.
• Dec. 10: Wade Sumpter of Fowler, Colo., competes during the fifth go-round of steer wrestling at the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
• AIDS victim Ryan White of Kokomo, Ind., and his mother, Jeanne White, enter U.S. District Court in Indianapolis in this Aug. 16, 1985 photo. Jeanne White-Ginder on Monday said she wants to meet with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee over his statement 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated. Ryan White’s life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation.
• Dec. 10: Staff Sgt. Ricardo Silvera of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, was greeted by Santa Claus, played by 2nd Lt. Chris Winchell, also of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss, Texas. About 200 soldiers from the unit returned from their Iraq deployment.
• Dec. 10: Tracey Moore, left, Ron Padmore, center, and Willie Ladd, right, are up front as hundreds attend a march and cultural diversity picnic in Longview, Wash., to offset a much smaller rally staged by white supremacist recruiters. Despite temperatures in the mid-30s, an estimated 400 to 500 people with a broad mix of races and ages chanted slogans and sang peace songs in the mile-long march Sunday to Victoria Freeman Park, one of the local biggest demonstrations in recent memory.
• Dec. 10: Jeanne Assam, the security guard at New Life Church who gunned down a gunman as he terrorized worshipers after the Sunday service, smiles during a news conference as she talks to reporters about the shooting at the church in Colorado Springs, Colo. Two women died from the shooting at the church, which was one of two church shootings in Colorado on Sunday.
• Dec. 10: Illinois College employees (from left) Gene Meier, Kirk Hoots and Ed Rathgeb clear downed limbs in Jacksonville, Ill. Much of the state was under a winter weather watch. Freezing rain was expected to fall on what already was a thick layer of ice.
• Dec. 10: From left, President Bush, first lady Laura Bush, Ruth Pearl and Judea Pearl, parents of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, are seen during the Hanukkah Reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington.
• Dec. 11: A reporter is pushed by a riot police officer as members of French watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders demonstrate near the National Assembly where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi meets with lawmakers from France's lower house of Parliament in Paris. Opposition Socialists lawmakers and others had vowed to boycott the meeting, complaining that the visit by the Libyan leader, long considered a pariah for his support of state terrorism, tarnishes France's image as a champion of human rights. Gadhafi is in France on a five-day official visit.
• Dec. 11: Residents react near at the site of a bomb blast near the Constitutional Court building in Algiers. Two car bomb attacks, one of which targeted offices of the U.N. refugee agency, killed at least 45 people in the Algerian capital. The civil protection agency said one attack killed 30 people and that a second blast left another 15 people dead.
• Dec. 11: Israeli tanks maneuver after an operation in the Gaza Strip near the Suffa Crossing between Israel and Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing four militants in the widest operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control in June.
• Dec. 11: Local residents, police officers and soldiers try to remove dense crude oil at the Mallipo beach in Taean, west of Seoul, South Korea. Crude oil from a damaged tanker has been washing ashore onto beaches on the country's western coast, wreaking havoc on fishing and seafood farm industries in six cities and counties about 95 miles southwest of Seoul.
• Dec. 11: Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, laughs after Julie Rogers, 2nd right, and Julia Rennie, right, from south Wales bare their bras to him at Clarence House, central London. The prince was hosting a surprise reception for Nina Baraclough, founder of Walk the Walk marking 10 years since Baraclough began the charity that since has raised more than $70 million for cancer care and research. Each year thousands of people take part in its flagship fundraising event.
• Jose Luis Calva, 38, better known in tabloids as Mexico City's ‘cannibal,’ is seen behind bars during his arraignment at a jail in Mexico City in this Oct. 25 file photo. Calva committed suicide early Tuesday by hanging himself from his belt in his jail cell, according to Mexico City's prisons authorities.
• Dec. 11: Protesters wave signs and chant slogans during a protest rally at the McAllen Convention Center in McAllen, Texas, against the building of a fence that will be placed along parts of the Rio Grande River.
• Dec. 11: Unidentified family members of victims leave the B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, British Columbia. Families delivered their victim impact statements before the sentencing of Robert Pickton, a pig farmer accused of being a serial killer and who was found guilty in six counts of second-degree murder.
• Dec. 11: A mobile home is shown in the middle of a mud slide over a highway just west of Clatskanie, Ore., between Portland and the Oregon coast. The mud slide slammed into homes and blocked a highway to the coast on Tuesday in a region that was hit hard by last week's storms.
• Dec. 11: Emergency crews work on the scene of a fatal accident involving a Cabell County, W.Va., school bus in Barboursville, W.Va. The driver, 18, lost control of his vehicle, crashing into the front of the bus, killing himself, his 16-year-old brother, and a 17-year-old friend, all students at Cabell Midland high school.
• Dec. 11: Las Vegas Police Officer Christopher Peto removes a barrier tape in Las Vegas, Nev. Six young people were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus that left a high school, and one suffered critical injuries, authorities said.
• Dec. 12: Dr. Sonja Luz, third from left, a veterinarian, puts a bootie onto the left foot of an elephant named Jamilah in Singapore. The two elephants, in captivity at the Singapore Zoo, Tun, right, and Jamilah, left, received waterproof custom-made Gore-tex booties to alleviate ongoing foot problems and aid the healing of the lesions on the soles of their feet.
• Dec. 12: A Lebanese security man stands near burning cars after a bomb exploded outside a municipal building in Baabda, an eastern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The early morning bomb attack killed one of Lebanon's top military generals and at least three others as they drove through a Christian suburb of Beirut, putting even more pressure on the country's delicate political situation, the military and state media said.
• Marion Jones jumps in the final round of the long jump during the Olympic Track and Field trials in Sacramento, Calif., in this July 15, 2004, file photo. The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals on Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat.
• Dec. 12: An employee of the Gorringes auction house displays an autographed photograph of the Beatles and a lock of John Lennon's hair in a copy of his book, 'A Spaniard in the Works,' in Worthing, England. The book, with Lennon's hair still inside, fetched 24,000 pounds, or $48,000, in Wednesday's auction of the Betty Glasow collection, the Beatles' former hairdresser.
• Dec. 12: In this photo released by China's official Xinhua news agency, firefighters work at the fire spot in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang province. The fire tore through an apartment building in eastern China early Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring two others, Xinhua said.
• Dec. 12: People carry their belongings as they evacuate flooded areas caused by Tropical Storm Olga in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Tropical Storm Olga triggered floods and landslides, killing at least eight people in the Dominican Republic and in Puerto Rico.
• Dec. 12: Marine dog handler Sgt. Larry Mayberry watches military dog Lex jump a training obstacle at Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Ga. The 8-year-old German shepherd that was wounded in Iraq by an explosion that killed its Marine handler, Marine Cpl. Dustin Jerome Lee, will be released from duty so it can be adopted by the slain Marine's family, the Marine Corps said Wednesday.
• Dec. 12: Frank Sinatra's daughter Tina Sinatra poses with a 10-foot image of the Frank Sinatra commemorative postal stamp that will be issued next spring by the United States Postal Service, during a ceremony commemorating Sinatra's 92nd birthday, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
• Dec. 12: A Dubuque firefighter stands at ready as officials try to extinguish a car that caught on fire while parked along Hale Street in Dubuque, Iowa.
• Dec. 12: This picture taken through a special filter in a dark room shows a cat, left, possessing a red fluorescent protein that makes the animal glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet rays, appearing next to a normal cloned cat, right, at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, south of Seoul, South Korea. South Korean scientists have cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays, an achievement that could help develop cures for human genetic diseases, the Science and Technology Ministry said.
• Dec. 12: Children are shown swimming in floods in Malaysia. Some 26,000 people have fled their homes after heavy rains and overflowing rivers flooded towns and villages in eastern Malaysia, authorities said Wednesday.
• In this photo released by Indiana University, anthropology doctoral student Fritz Hanselmann documents one of the cannons found in the shallow waters off Catalina Island, southeast of the Dominican Republic, on Dec. 4. A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced on Wednesday it believes it has discovered the shattered remnants of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd.
• Dec. 13: People attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese troops at the memorial hall of Nanjing massacre, in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu province. China's government has tempered this year's commemoration of Japan's notorious wartime massacre of civilians in the city of Nanjing, reflecting a drive to improve relations with Tokyo and avoid inflaming nationalist passions.
• Dec. 13: Indonesians meditate for world peace and the environment on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. In a speech to the conference, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore added to pressure on the United States, saying that the U.S. is ‘principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali.’
• Dec. 13: An Indian Army soldier on a motorcycle jumps over 15 of his teammates during a display ahead of Vijay Diwas celebrations in Calcutta, India. Vijay Diwas, the anniversary of the Indian victory in the 1971 war against Pakistan, will be celebrated on Dec. 16.
• Dec. 13: Passengers of the Rajdhani Express train talk to the media after the train reached the Gauhati railway station in Gauhati, India, after a bomb tore through the New Delhi-bound high-speed train near Chungajan, 170 miles east of Gauhati. At least five passengers were killed and four others injured, officials said.
• Dec. 14: A Palestinian demonstrator argues with an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier at the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel says the barrier is necessary to keep suicide bombers out while Palestinians call it a land grab.
• Dec. 14: The remains of a bus lay next to a railway line at the site of an accident in Moga, 236 miles northwest of New Delhi, India. The bus collided with a train in northern India on Friday, killing at least 16 people, including nine children on their way to school, police said.
• Dec. 14: Mourners look into the hearse carrying the coffin of Meredith Kercher after a funeral service at the Parish Church of Croydon, South London. Meredith Kercher, 21, was found stabbed in a house in Perugia, Italy.
• Dec. 14: Alpha Phi Omega fraternity students from the University of the Philippines display placards during the annual naked run protest dubbed 'Oblation Run' at the premier university campus at Quezon city, north of Manila. About 30 masked but naked students made the rounds of the Arts and Sciences building Friday with messages calling for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a stop to political killings and fight for greater state subsidy of education.
• Oliver Bernsdorff washes sea water from his 21-month-old daughter, Oliviana, in this Sept. 13, 2004, file photo, on Honeymoon Island, Fla. Bernsdorff fatally shot his ex-wife, daughter Oliviana, son Magnus, and the woman's roommate before taking his own life, police said.
• Dec. 14: Louisiana State University graduate students Jiba Ray Achanya, left, and Deepa Pangeni listen during a memorial service at the LSU Union in Baton Rouge, La. Two LSU students were found shot to death Thursday night in an apparent home invasion at their LSU apartment.
• Dec. 14: New York Yankees baseball star Derek Jeter, left, smiles after giving Caleb Aerts, 6, a backpack filled with gifts at a gathering for participants in Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation at the Douglass Community Association's gymnasium in Kalamazoo, Mich. The children were surprised by Jeter's visit, who is in his hometown of Kalamazoo for a ceremony on Saturday inducting him and five others into the Kalamazoo Central High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
• Dec. 15: Lakshmi, 2, gestures to her father, Shambu, partly seen, before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India. Lakshmi, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs, left the hospital after a successful operation where doctors removed her extra limbs.
• Dec. 15: An Afghan police man stands guard as smoke comes out after an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. A rocket landed in a crowd of civilians near Kabul's police headquarters on Saturday, and a truck full of rockets smuggled into the city under a pile of hay exploded nearby moments later, officials said. At least five people were killed and five wounded.
• Dec. 15: Taiwanese use their bodies to play the domino game at Tianmu Stadium in Taipei, Taiwan. Organizers said about 10,000 people in T-shirts of pink, blue, green and sky blue sit in 20 rows to give the domino effect in an attempt to create a world record.