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4: Revelers in costumes perform during the carnival procession in the southeastern town of Strumica, Macedonia. (Boris Grdanoski/AP)

The top 10 "friendliest to tourists" nations

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DATA: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service California Field Office (GRAPHIC: Jake Turcotte/Staff)

Fruits and vegetables: By the numbers

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TSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington on Jan. 4, 2010. Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals, and insurance companies are part of a backlash to the Transportation Security Administration’s policy, announced in March 2013, to allow onto planes passengers carrying small knives and sports equipment such as souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

Confiscated! Going through airport security

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A woman holds a poster illustrating the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin before a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of his death in Red Square in central Moscow March 5, 2013. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Communist chic

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A visitor walks past North Korea's Russian made Scud-B ballistic missile (grey) and South Korea's US made Hawk surface-to-air missiles at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul February 15, 2013. North Korea recently conducted its third nuclear test in defiance of UN resolutions pushing it further along the path of developing a workable long-range nuclear missile. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

North and South Korea: threat of war or sabre rattling?

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A woman lights candles during an event for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a park in Tokyo, March 11, 2013. Japan marked the second anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing. (Itsuo Inouye/AP)

Overcoming the troubles of Japan's tsunami and earthquake

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Sgt. Jerry Lawrence prepares to head north from the southern Iraq with the rest of his squad of Alpha Company 1st Battalion 5th Marines aboard their armored track vehicle at the start of the Iraq war. US troops invaded Iraq from Kuwait. (Andy Nelson/The Christian Science Monitor)

The Iraq War: a timeline

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A female diver clad in 'Orihime,' or Vega, costume feeds fish to mark the Japanese traditional star festival Tanabata at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, 2010. (Itsuo Inouye/AP)

Women's work: from family to front office

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President Bill Clinton laughs as he joins friends for yet another day of golf on Martha's Vineyard at the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., in 1997. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

Of course US presidents play golf!