SpainSpanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla adjusts his montera, or bullfighter hat, before a bullfight at the southwestern Spanish town of Olivenza, March 4. Padilla, a 38-year-old matador who is also known by his professional name “the Cyclone of Jerez,” returned to the ring five months after a terrifyng goring in which he lost sight in one eye and suffered partial facial paralysis.Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP
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Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla adjusts his montera, or bullfighter hat, before a bullfight at the southwestern Spanish town of Olivenza, March 4. Padilla, a 38-year-old matador who is also known by his professional name “the Cyclone of Jerez,” returned to the ring five months after a terrifyng goring in which he lost sight in one eye and suffered partial facial paralysis.

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Afghanistan A child stands with his father as they wait to receive blankets and winter jackets from a German aid organization at a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul, Feb, 20. More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan’s coldest winter in yearsMusadeq Sadeq / AP
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A child stands with his father as they wait to receive blankets and winter jackets from a German aid organization at a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul, Feb, 20. More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan’s coldest winter in years

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IndiaRajni, a severely malnourished 2-year-old girl, is weighed by health workers at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Center of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Feb. 1. India has failed to reduce its high prevalence of child malnutrition despite its economy doubling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia’s third largest. A recent government-supported survey said 42 percent of children under age 5 are underweight - almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43 percent five years ago. The statistic - which means 3,000 children are dying daily due to illnesses related to poor diets - prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to admit that malnutrition was “a national shame” and was putting the health of the nation in jeopardy.HELPAdnan Abidi/Reuters
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Rajni, a severely malnourished 2-year-old girl, is weighed by health workers at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Center of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Feb. 1. India has failed to reduce its high prevalence of child malnutrition despite its economy doubling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia’s third largest. A recent government-supported survey said 42 percent of children under age 5 are underweight - almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43 percent five years ago. The statistic - which means 3,000 children are dying daily due to illnesses related to poor diets - prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to admit that malnutrition was “a national shame” and was putting the health of the nation in jeopardy.

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United StatesSpc. John Lundy, right, and Spc. Matthew Sturgill, obscured, leap into the arms of Pfc. Devin Horton, Dec. 23, at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind., as 109 members of the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry, Army National Guard, prepare to board a bus home for the holidays. The unit was one of the last to leave Iraq. Andrew Laker/The Republic via AP
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Spc. John Lundy, right, and Spc. Matthew Sturgill, obscured, leap into the arms of Pfc. Devin Horton, Dec. 23, at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Ind., as 109 members of the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry, Army National Guard, prepare to board a bus home for the holidays. The unit was one of the last to leave Iraq.

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United StatesTea party supporter William Temple, of Brunswick, Ga., sits in the Des Moines, Iowa, airport on Jan. 4 as he awaits a flight home after the Iowa caucuses.Evan Vucci/AP
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Tea party supporter William Temple, of Brunswick, Ga., sits in the Des Moines, Iowa, airport on Jan. 4 as he awaits a flight home after the Iowa caucuses.

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ChinaJin Juhua kisses her husband Zhong Weiqiao at a gathering of 60 couples who have been married to each other for over five decades, in Kaihua village of Zhuji city, Zhejiang province, China, on Feb. 14. Jin and Zhong have been married for more than 60 years.Gou Bin/EPA
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Jin Juhua kisses her husband Zhong Weiqiao at a gathering of 60 couples who have been married to each other for over five decades, in Kaihua village of Zhuji city, Zhejiang province, China, on Feb. 14. Jin and Zhong have been married for more than 60 years.

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United StatesA member of the Andrew Sisters-styled group The Liberty Belles plants a kiss on the cheek of Pearl Harbor survivor Evan Brasset at a ceremony observing the 70th anniversary of the attack, Dec. 7 at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Gerald Herbert/AP
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A member of the Andrew Sisters-styled group The Liberty Belles plants a kiss on the cheek of Pearl Harbor survivor Evan Brasset at a ceremony observing the 70th anniversary of the attack, Dec. 7 at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

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Liberia, AfricaEsther Ba looks through a window of the abandoned building where she lives with her daughter and more than a dozen other people in Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 9. A disputed election underscores recent political tension. Critics of incumbent and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, say progress in her first term was too slow and that much of the population lives in poverty.Finbarr O’Reilly / Reuters
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Esther Ba looks through a window of the abandoned building where she lives with her daughter and more than a dozen other people in Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 9. A disputed election underscores recent political tension. Critics of incumbent and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, say progress in her first term was too slow and that much of the population lives in poverty.

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ThailandA woman hangs onto a street sign in chest-deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok, Oct. 24. Hundreds of factories closed in the central Thai provinces of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi due to flooding Paula Bronstein / Getty Images
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A woman hangs onto a street sign in chest-deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok, Oct. 24. Hundreds of factories closed in the central Thai provinces of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi due to flooding

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United StatesLearning a new computer program was both frustrating and fun for first-grader Kylea Devoy in Robyn Wells’ New Harmony School class in New Harmony, Ind., on Oct. 27.Denny Simmons / The Evansville Courier & Press via AP
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Learning a new computer program was both frustrating and fun for first-grader Kylea Devoy in Robyn Wells’ New Harmony School class in New Harmony, Ind., on Oct. 27.

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North KoreaA North Korean child suffering from malnutrition rests in a bed in a hospital in Haeju, capital of the area damaged by summer floods and typhoons in South Hwanghae province, Sept. 30. Isolated North Korea has appealed for food aid following the disasters and years of mismanagement. In South Hwanghae province, which traditionally produces about a third of the country’s total cereal supply, officials say a savage winter wiped out 65 percent of the barley, wheat and potato crops. Then summer floods and storms destroyed 80 percent of the maize harvest and may also impact the October rice harvest. The United States and South Korea, the North’s two biggest donors before sanctions, have said they won’t resume aid until they are satisfied the military-led communist regime will not divert the food for its own uses and progress is made on nuclear disarmament talks.Damir Sagolj / Reuters
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A North Korean child suffering from malnutrition rests in a bed in a hospital in Haeju, capital of the area damaged by summer floods and typhoons in South Hwanghae province, Sept. 30. Isolated North Korea has appealed for food aid following the disasters and years of mismanagement. In South Hwanghae province, which traditionally produces about a third of the country’s total cereal supply, officials say a savage winter wiped out 65 percent of the barley, wheat and potato crops. Then summer floods and storms destroyed 80 percent of the maize harvest and may also impact the October rice harvest. The United States and South Korea, the North’s two biggest donors before sanctions, have said they won’t resume aid until they are satisfied the military-led communist regime will not divert the food for its own uses and progress is made on nuclear disarmament talks.

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ThailandDevotees to the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui shield themselves from exploding fireworks during a street procession at the annual Vegetarian Festival on Phuket Island, Thailand, Oct. 3. The traditional Chinese festival is held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The nine-day festival features face-piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism.David Longstreath / EPA
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Devotees to the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui shield themselves from exploding fireworks during a street procession at the annual Vegetarian Festival on Phuket Island, Thailand, Oct. 3. The traditional Chinese festival is held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The nine-day festival features face-piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism.

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PakistanAn Afghan refugee poses at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 20, prior to returning to Afghanistan.Pakistan hosts a refugee population of 1.9 million. The United Nations sought to debunk what it called “worrying misperceptions” about movements of displaced people, saying that developing countries host 80 percent of the world’s refugees. The United Nations’ World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year.A. Majeed / AFP - Getty Images
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An Afghan refugee poses at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 20, prior to returning to Afghanistan.

Pakistan hosts a refugee population of 1.9 million. The United Nations sought to debunk what it called “worrying misperceptions” about movements of displaced people, saying that developing countries host 80 percent of the world’s refugees. The United Nations’ World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year.

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