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Parisian skateboarder, hip hop picture, cricket (15 images)
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November
A skateboarder performs during an exhibition show at the Grand Palais in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Palestinian children cheer during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school, but an estimated 1 billion children still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Fans photograph singer Trey Songz and Hip Hop Mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs onstage during the Sean "Diddy" Combs' Birthday Celebration Presented by Ciroc Vodka at The Grand Ballroom at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Bad Boy Entertainment)
A Nepalese girl participates in the Ehee festival in Katmandu, Nepal. Ehee is a ceremony in which pre-adolescent girls are married to the bel fruit tree, symbolizing a Hindu God, considered as the first marriage of girls of the Newar ethnic community. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Palestinian protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin near Ramallah. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Village women, carrying firewood on their heads, are reflected in a puddle of water during sunset on the outskirts of Amritsar, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Thick fog covers the Hungarian Parliament building while a tourist takes a picture and a morning commuter walks by in Budapest, Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
The Milky Way spreads across the night sky over Mormon Row, an historic settlement, in Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyo. The light in the distance is the city of Driggs, Idaho, on the west side of the Teton Mountain Range. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner
Indian cricketer V.V.S Laxman, right, plays a shot as Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene looks on during the last day of the first test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Ahmadabad, India. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Russia's Maria Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov perform their short program in the pairs competition at the Skate Canada figure skating competition in Kitchener, Ontario. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
A cameraman filming the bullet riddled wall outside Nariman House after a multi-faith candle light vigil to commemorate last year's terror attacks at the house in Mumbai, India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Herman Lynch of Oak Springs, Ariz. stands on a fence to sign his name on the side of a truck carrying the Capitol at the Window Rock, Ariz., rodeo grounds. The 85-foot blue spruce is about a third of the way through a 26-stop tour of Arizona before heading to Washington, D.C., to serve as the nation's Capitol Christmas Tree. (AP Photo/Gallup Independent, Cable Hoover)
A butterfly perches on a flower during a butterfly exhibit at the botanical garden in Bogota, Columbia. (AP Photo /William Fernando Martinez)
U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, is comforted by her lawyer Maria Del Grosso during a break in the trial for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, in Perugia's court, in Italy. Italian prosecutors have begun their closing arguments in the trial of American student Knox, accused of killing her British roommate. Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her former Italian boyfriend, are charged with murder in the 2007 slaying of British student Kercher, with whom Knox shared a rented flat in the Italian city of Perugia. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Children push a cart through a darkened street in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
