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Yankees parade, newborn giraffe, Breeders' Cup (12 images)

6 November

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Floats carrying the New York Yankees baseball team make their way along Broadway during a ticker-tape parade celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Fans celebrate after the New York Yankees World Series Victory Parade on Friday in New York. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)

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Members of the New York Police Department stand guard after the New York Yankees World Series Victory Parade on Friday in New York, New York. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)

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Police officers from across the U.S. and Canada pay tribute to officer Timothy Q. Brenton at his memorial service at KeyArena in Seattle on Friday. (AP Photo/Alan Berner, Pool)

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Pigeons fly away as Carol Rothman walks Vern at Spreckels Lake in San Francisco on Friday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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This handout photo provided by the Miami Metrozoo shows an unnamed female giraffe being cleaned by her mother Kita at the Miami Metrozoo in Miami on Friday. The calf was born last Tuesday, weighed in at 135 lbs. and stands almost 6 ft. tall. (AP Photo/Miami Metrozoo, Ron Magill)

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Jockey Garrett Gomez atop Always A Princess leads the pack in the Breeders' Cup Juveniles Fillies race during the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park on Friday in Arcadia, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

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Pakistani model Maha, wearing a creation by Pakistani designer Maheen Hussain prepares backstage during the 3rd day of Fashion Pakistan Week on Friday in Karachi, Pakistan. Fashion Pakistan Week commenced today amidst security threats. The organisers already postponed the event twice due to security fears and the threat of ongoing militant violence. The four day long event will feature over 30 Pakistani designers and will showcase the best of fashion in Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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Xiomara Vazquez, 8, sits on her porch in Bluefields, Nicaragua on Friday. Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A woman carries an empty barrel to collect fresh water in Filas de Mariches neighborhood in Caracas on Friday. While Venezuela's capital began water rationing this week amid a drought blamed on El Nino, large sections of the city's hillside slums have long been coping with a lack of access to drinking water. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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A man moves a boat in front of a flooded home near Huimanguillo, Mexico on Friday. According to local reports, nearly 200,000 people in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco have been affected by this week's flooding, as more rain fell on the region today. (AP Photo/America Rocio)

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Wendy Gray clutches her necklace as she prays at Lifeway Fellowship church in Killeen, Texas on Friday at the start of a prayer vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Fort Hood military post. (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, Steven Doll)

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