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Table Mountain, Obama sculpture, intense tennis

13 November

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Table Mountain is lit up to mark national diabetes day, Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town marked the United Nations World Diabetes Day by illuminating Table Mountain. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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Police officers screen vehicles at a checkpoint in Islamabad, Pakistan. A speight of recent violence and attacks from militants has transformed Pakistan's capital from once a virtually quiet city into a city under siege, with its tree-lined streets barricaded, and residents living in fear. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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Sculptor Liu Bolin aims to capture Obama's global impact with a bronze sculpture of the president that bursts into flames, on display at a local museum in Beijing, China. The Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the "fearless" way he rolls up his sleeves. Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he's being greeted with "Oba Mao" T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames.(AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

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Gael Monfils, of France, returns the ball to Marin Cilic, of Croatia, during BNP Masters indoor tennis tournament in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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Displaced Pakistani tribal people, who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, wait for relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The U.S. has urged Pakistan to persevere with its South Waziristan offensive because militants have used the area as a base to attack Western troops across the border in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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Afghan women pray by the family grave at a local cemetery for Hazara people in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghans often visit the family grave on Fridays to offer prayer. The Taliban this morning claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing killing two, and wounding at least six people near Camp Phoenix, a U.S military support base. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

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An Afghan worker warms his hands over a fire at a construction site for an apartment building as the cold weather takes hold in the capitol city in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban this morning claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing killing two, and wounding at least six people near Camp Phoenix, a U.S military support base. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

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The Piaget Building at 650 5th Avenue, which has been named as being owned by the Iranian government, is reflected in New York City. According to federal prosecutors in New York, Iranian officials have used an American foundation as a front company for ownership of the Fifth Avenue skyscraper, three Islamic educational centers, mosques and one religious school. All of these business investments by Iranian officials would be in violation of U.S. laws on business dealings with Iran. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Palestinian girls chase a group of birds while playing in the West Bank village of Qariout, near Nablus. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A Palestinian demonstrator gathers stones as tear gas drifts in the background during a protest 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/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Alison Grady sleeps next to her 21-month-old son Marlowe in Garland, Texas. The proportion of U.S. infants who usually share an adult bed at night increased to 13 percent in 2000, from 5.5 percent in 1993, according to a telephone survey of 1,000 caregivers conducted in each of those eight years. And 45 percent of babies had spent at least some time on an adult bed in the previous two weeks. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)

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A NATO French Foreign Legion soldier stands at a joined NATO Afghan National Army and police checkpoint set outside the Rocco combat outpost in the Surobi disctrict, some 50 kms North-East of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Torchbearer Sherry White carries the Olympic flame along the cliffs at Cape Spear, Canada. Cape Spear is the most easternly point in Canada and North America. The torch relay will cover nearly 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) and visit 1,000 cities and towns before finishing in Vancouver in February for the start of the Winter Games. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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A soldier stands guard during the presentation of seized US dollars and weapons to the press in Tijuana, Mexico. Army authorities say they seized just over 2 million US dollars and some weapons in a residence early Thursday in Tijuana after responding to an anonymous citizen tip. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

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