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Hospice llama, Ali in Ireland, Springtime in Australia
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An elderly Palestinian woman waits for the arrival of the body of Mohammed Nayef, 14, at the family house during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun, near Ramallah on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
The shaved heads of monks and nuns are seen during a Buddhist ceremony led by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, for the survivors and victims of last month's massive mudslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot, Tuesday, in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
Riot policemen shoot as they take position during a protest at the Heliopolis slum in Sao Paulo on Tuesday. Protests started after the death of a 17-year-old girl, killed by a stray bullet during a shootout between the police and alleged car thieves. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Muhammad Ali , center, unveils a monument on Tuesday, in Ennis, Ireland where his great grandfather used to live. Muhammad Ali is visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland to promote his various charities. (AP Photo/PictureGroup, M J Kim)
Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya protest during a march at the central square in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday. Five political parties began campaining Monday ahead of the Honduras general elections that will be held in November. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Terminally ill hospice resident Magdalene Ginsburg (R) reaches out to Pisco, a 13-year-old therapy llama, at the Hospice of Saint John on Monday in Lakewood, Colorado. The llama visits the hospice each month as part of an animal therapy program designed to increase happiness, decrease lonliness, and calm terminally ill patients during the last stage of life. The non-profit hospice, which serves on average 200 people at a time, is the second oldest hospice in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Pakistani children who fled their homeland due to fierce fighting between security forces and Taliban militants are on their way to Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday in Karachi, Pakistan. Over two million residents fled their homes during a fighting and took refuge in different parts of Pakistan. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Ceremonial horsemen stand on their horses as a display of skill, at a lavish private dance spectacle thrown for African heads of state by Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1969 military coup that brought him to power, at a military airfield outside Tripoli, Libya, in the early hours of Tuesday. The African heads of state were in Libya attending the special session of the African Union Assembly, and attended the exclusive night-time event featuring thousands of dancers, singers, horses, tanks, acrobats and the Libyan military. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Tourist take pictures at the beach in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Peninsula, northwestern Mexico on Tuesday. Many of the tourists fled resorts at the tip of Baja California as Hurricane Jimena approaches. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Palms bend due to heavy winds of hurricane Jimena in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Tuesday. The center of the hurricane, which weakened to a Category 3, was on course to pass west of Los Cabos late Tuesday or early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Women view the memorial in the gym of Beslan School No. 1, scene of the hostage crisis, in Beslan, Russia on Tuesday. Wailing mothers and anguished relatives came to the school to mark the fifth anniversary of Russia's worst terrorist attack, mourning the hundreds killed. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
A Crimson Rosella eats flower blossoms on a tree on the first day of spring, Monday, in Canberra, Australia. In the Southern Hemisphere, Spring runs from September to November. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
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Cuban students stand at attention as they listen to their national anthem on their first day back to school at Angela Landa elementary school in Old Havana on Tuesday. Some 3 million Cuban students started classes for the new school year. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
A firefighter applies fire retardant foam around a single engine aircraft on Interstate 495, in Mansfield, Mass. on Tuesday. The traffic-reporting plane with engine trouble made an emergency landing on the highway southwest of Boston late Tuesday morning, and the two men aboard were uninjured. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
An artist gives final touches to an idol of Hindu goddess Durga for the forthcoming Durga Puja festival in Allahabad, India on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
