From royalty to refugee, protester to political prop, this global baby gallery proves babies are cute no matter what they're doing, no matter what corner of the globe they're doing it in.
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria holds her baby daughter Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary, born in March 2012. Although she doesn't know it yet, as Victoria's first-born child, Estelle is second in line to the Swedish throne. Swedish Royal Court/AP
Zeng Lingjun plays with his 14-month-old baby at their home in an unused public toilet of a hostel in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning province in March. The father, who works as a cobbler on the streets, has lived there with his family since 2006 and pays $80 a month rent. AP Photo
The baby may not be a registered voter but she definitely registered concern as Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gave her a kiss as he made a March campaign stop at Thompson Tractor, near Birmingham, Ala. The Birmingham News, Hal Yeager/AP
This baby didn't mask her concern when posed next to a parade mask display during a March fair in Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica. Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
A Syrian refugee carries a baby at Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border in early April. The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that in Turkey, 17,000 Syrians are currently registered with the government, which has now set up nine locations including eight tented camps and a "container city" in Kilis to deal with the influx from unrest in Syria. Osman Orsal/Reuters
Baby as shuttlecock? A baby is passed to Lin Dan – China's badminton superstar – to sign its clothing after a match at the All England Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England in March. Darren Staples/Reuters
An anti-government protester took her baby to a demonstration in the village of Jidhafds, west of Manama,on March 23, 2012. Bahraini protesters battled with riot police there after the funeral of a woman, who – her family said – died from inhaling teargas which entered her home. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Salaam, a five-year old Syrian refugee, holds Saam, a six-month-old girl, at the Boynuyogun refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province in February. Murad Sezer/Reuters
A baby hung out in a kanga (traditional sling cloth) while Mom made a pay phone call in a Johannesburg township in 2010.
A baby is held out to a crowd of protesters during a Coptic Christian prayer in Cairo's Tahrir Square on in February 2011. Ann Hermes /Staff
Reunited a year after an earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's east coast: Koji Chiba, a member of Japan's Self-Defense Force holds Iroha Ishikawa, a 16-month old, in Ishinomaki, northern Japan in March. Mr. Chiba rescued the then-four-month-old Iroha from an isolated house, three days after the tsunami. Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroto Sekiguchi/AP
Rosemary Charisme (l.) and her daugher Nicole Theluma (r) have been tent-camp residents across from the collapsed presidential palace since the 2009 Haiti earthquake. Here Ms. Charisme held her one-year-old grandson, Stevenson, a year after the earthquake. Ms. Theluma said she hoped to put him up for adoption because they could not afford to care for him. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Baby meets donkey as his father steadies him in Ennistymon, Ireland, in County Clare, in May of 2011. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
The littlest protester is held by her mother during an anti-government demonstration in Cairo in February 2012. Suhaib Salem/Reuters
Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, holds a baby to be blessed by Pope Benedict XVI, left, at Parque del Bicentenario in Silao, Mexico during his visit in March 2012. Osservatore Romano/AP
Jessica Simpson dresses her infant in a yellow bikini, Levi Johnston follows through on naming his baby, Breeze Beretta, after a gun. And one "regular" mom, pregnant with her second child, sighs in relief that she's not dealing with a babe célèbre.
Thank goodness for the Levi Johnston baby and Jessica Simpson’s baby bikini picture. Even Nick Lachey is helping me out today.
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