President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, who rescued two members of his squad in October 2007 while fighting in the war in Afghanistan during ceremony at the White House in Washington.
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Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) walks to his office in the Rayburn House Office Building on November 16 in Washington, D.C. A congressional ethics subcommittee found the veteran representative guilty of 11 counts, including failing to report rental income, improperly using a rent-stabilized apartment and soliciting charitable donations from people with business before Congress.
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Hundreds of surfers at the Huntington Beach Pier in California surf to pay tribute to three-time world champion Andy Irons, who died on Nov. 2 at age of 32.
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A U.S. Marine waits in the moonlight for a helicopter to transport him home from Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
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A World Scotch Pie Championship judge smells a freshly baked batch of pies during the competition in Dunfermline, Scotland. Judges spent the day tasting more than 400 different types of pies, bridies and sausage rolls.
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Muslim pilgrims head to perform the “Jamarat” ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near the holy city of Mecca on the third day of the hajj, as Muslims worldwide marked the Eid al-Adha festival with animal sacrifices.
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A first wisp of snow covers the landscape near the lake of Seelisberg in central Switzerland. Temperatures in Switzerland dropped to 0 and 3 degrees in the midlands and 4 to 7 degrees in the south.
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Firefighters take part in an exercise simulating rescue efforts after a chemical emergency inside the Valparaiso Port northwest of Santiago, Chile.
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China’s Tang Kerong, top, crashes as Japan’s Mayuko Hagiwara, No 9, hits Hong Kong’s Wong Wan Yiu, on the ground, in the final of the women’s Points Race at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
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South Korean housewives make the traditional side dish “kimchi,” or fermented cabbage, during a charity event at the Seoul Plaza. About 2,000 volunteers made 270 tons of kimchi on Tuesday to give away to needy neighbors during the winter season.
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A man swims in a pool at a luxury hotel in Colombo. The Sri Lankan government is targeting $2 billion in tourism revenue a year by 2016. Sri Lanka earned $350 million in 2009 and $391.8 million by October 2010.
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Malaysia’s Muhd Futra Abd Ghani (right) jumps to block China’s Wang Jian during their men’s sepak takraw match at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
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NASA’s Terra satellite shows evidence of a large pyroclastic flow along the Gendol River south of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. Light gray volcanic deposits fill the course of the Gendol river south of the volcano. The dark ray area closer to the volcano is where a pyroclastic flow spread across the landscape, causing almost total devastation. Within this dark gray area, most of the trees were knocked down and the ground was coated by ash and rock. Green vegetation appears red on the image.
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Security personnel escort suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout to a plane on the tarmac of Don Muang airport in Bangkok. Bout was flown out of Thailand on a charter flight to the United States, following the government’s decision to extradite him.
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Thousands of Bangladeshis cram onto trains at the Airport Railway Terminal on the outskirts of Dhaka ahead of Eid-al Adha. Bangladeshis will celebrate tomorrow’s Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of the Sacrifice,” which marks the end of the annual hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca and celebrated in remembrance of Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice his son to God.
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People walk on a street beneath black and white dresses, part of an urban art exhibition called “Columpios” in San Jose, commemorating the death of 42 women between November 2009 and September 2010.
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This composite image released by the NASA shows a supernova within the galaxy M100 that may contain the youngest known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood.
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Palestinian children mock a confrontation between civilians and soldiers on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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Miss Magdalena, Lizeth Gonzalez, candidate for the Colombian National Beauty Pageant Contest, takes to the catwalk in Cartagena.
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