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A girl cheers after Serbia's Davis Cup victory over France, in Belgrade. In a sport fueled by individual feats of brilliance, Serbia illustrated on Sunday that the Davis Cup still holds a cherished place in tennis's folklore. Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters
A Palestinian youth participates in a rally to mark 23 years from the foundation of the Hamas group, in the Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Hatem Moussa/AP Photo
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez watches through the door of a helicopter during a visit to Barlovento, about 30 miles east of Caracas. Chavez blamed "criminal" capitalism on Sunday for global climate phenomena including heavy rains that have killed scores and left tens of thousands homeless in Venezuela and Colombia. Miraflores Palace/Reuters
TckTckTck partners, Greenpeace and 350.org stage an underwater installation called "Silent Evolution" in Cancun, Mexico. They are calling for urgent action on the environment during the UN Cancun climate talks. Jason Taylor/Reuters
Inmates wearing Santa Claus hats dance to the tune of "Fire" by South Korean hip hop group 2NE1, as part of their Christmas presentation in a city jail in Makati city, metro Manila. The Philippines, the largest Roman Catholic state in Asia, observes one of the longest Christmas holidays in the world, beginning from dawn masses on December 16 to the Feast of The Three Kings in the first week of January next year. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
A demonstrator flexes his muscles during a protest at the Tate Britain gallery in central London. Demonstrators staged a protest against the proposed rise in university tuition fees at Tate Britain, before the announcement of the winner of the annual Turner Prize. Andrew Winning/Reuters
A German Bundeswehr army soldier with the Delta platoon of the 2nd paratroop company 373 strokes a dog on its head during a mission in the city of Iman Sahib, north of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Female Colombian cadets attend a promotion ceremony at an army school in Bogota. Fifty-six female soldiers took part in the first ever course allowing them to pursue careers as combat officers in the army. John Vizcaino/Reuters
A Sri Lankan flight stewardess in training examines the inside of an Airbus, undergoing maintenance, during a training session at the Sri Lankan airlines hangar at the international airport in Katunayake. Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) aims to boost the island nation's Colombo Stock Exchange' capitalization by 1 trillion rupees ($9 billion) with listing of up to 75 firms by 2011 with at least 10 large companies, with Sri Lankan airlines being one of five will be from the government, a top regulator official said on Tuesday. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters
A pedestrian walks past devil pinatas as a vendor peddles on the streets of Guatemala City. On Tuesday Guatemalans will celebrate the annual 'Burning of the Devil', setting fire to effigies and trash as a symbolic cleansing of evil spirits. Daniel LeClair/Reuters
Nikica, the hippopotamus walks partially submerged in a flooded yard at a village in Berislavci, about 15 miles south of the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica. Nikola Pejovic, owner of a private zoo, says that the 12-year-old, 2-ton hippopotamus was released from her cage after the flood. The only hippopotamus from Montenegro regularly escapes from the mountainous Adriatic nation's zoo during seasonal floods. Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters
A riot policeman reacts during clashes with protesters in Athens. Youths hurled rocks and oranges at a government building in central Athens during a student protest to mark two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy that sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. Police closed roads and deployed several thousand officers around the city, but maintained a minimal presence at the site where some 1,500 students gathered outside Athens University's main buildings. Alkis Konstantinidis/AP Photo
A visitor walks down the stairs at a digital art exhibition, part of Yota Space digital art and music festival, in St. Petersburg. Five floors of a former supermarket, called "Frunzensky", hosted an exhibition displaying holographic 3D paintings, illuminated objects, a laser sculpture and interactive corridors, according to the exhibition representatives. Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters
Skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa head down the slope as part of the 11th annual Santa Sunday at Sunday River in Newry, Maine. Joel Page/AP Photo
South Sudanese traditional Dinka wrestlers from Yirol East of the Lake State and the Mundari wrestlers from Terekeka County, Central Equatoria compete in a match in Juba Stadium. Benedicte Desrus/Reuters
Tourists who were due to participate in an aquatic exercise class, perform their exercises on the sand instead, at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Egyptian authorities have indefinitely closed the resort's beaches for swimming after oceanic white tip sharks mauled three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist last week. Hussein Talal/AP Photo
Afghan children warm themselves around a fire on the embankment of the Kabul River, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo
Newly elected Uhuru Kenyatta, with Microsoft's help, wants universal e-literacy for students in this East African nation. Critics call it ill-conceived, costly.
New president Uhuru Kenyatta plans to decrease Kenya's digital divide with the rest of the world by starting in January to hand out more than 400,000 free laptops to Kenyan first graders.
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