Students of Hinduism holding lamps participate in a prayer meeting in memory of the victim of Tuesday's blast and against terrorism at the site of the blast in Varanasi, India. Police questioned two brothers for alleged involvement in the blast which killed a toddler and triggered a stampede that injured dozens of people in the holy Indian city. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
Japan's Eri Kamimoto performs a pole dance at the International Pole Championship in Tokyo. Toru Hanai/Reuters
A woman walks past a barricade of burning tires in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The barricade was set up by supporters of eliminated presidential candidates to protest the announcement that only government protege Jude Celestin and former first lady Mirlande Manigat would advance to a presidential runoff election. Guillermo Arias/AP
Horses stand in a meadow in Gemuenden, Germany, during a heavy snowfall. Torsten Silz/AP
FA-18 air fighters from the carrier George Washington fly in formation after being refueled by an air tanker over the Pacific near Okinawa Island, southern Japan. Kyodo/Reuters
Balkar men, dressed in national clothes, sit during a heavy snowfall as they take part in a protest rally in central Moscow. Six Balkar activists from Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have held more than a five-month long rally by the Kremlin wall to protest against the policies of authorities in their native region, which, in their opinion, infringe upon their people's rights, local media reported. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
A fire burns in Parliament Square, Westminster, London, as students demonstrate against planned tuition fee increases. Police with riot shields and batons pushed angry student protesters away from London's Parliament Square on Thursday as lawmakers debated a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees in England. Gareth Fuller/AP
Workers prepare the Nobel Peace Prize laureate exhibition "I Have No Enemies" for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. China is conducting a sweeping crackdown on dissent before Friday's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, casting the net wide to prevent friends and family from attending the ceremony in Oslo. Toby Melville/Reuters
A Palestinian youth walks past a damaged wall after an Israeli air strike at a school in Gaza City. Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Thursday, hours after a mortar shell fired by militants wounded an Israeli man at an agricultural community close to the border between the two territories, the army said. Suhaib Salem/Reuters
Singers perform during a dress rehearsal of Mozart's opera "Ascanio in Alba" at Budapest's State Opera,
Ministry of Defence police officer Matt Tayler stands guard as Nick Scargill holds the Royal Mint's new unique Christmas cracker containing five 22 carat gold Sovereigns which goes on sale today for £10,000, the equivalent of US$ 15,790, at the Royal Mint in Cardiff, Wales. Matt Faber/AP
A boy follows a German Bundeswehr army soldier with the 2nd Paratroop Company 373 as he patrols during a mission in the city of Iman Sahib, north of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
British canoeist Louise Donington paddles the course at the new 2012 olympic canoe slalom venue near Waltham Cross, England. The Lee Valley White Water Centre - the first brand new 2012 venue to be completed - was officially opened today by Britain's Princess Anne. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
A donkey peers through the gate of a farm yard near the town of Antrim, 20 miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
Family and friends greet Vermont Army National Guard soldiers returning from Afghanistan at the Army Aviation Support Facility in South Burlington, Vt. Glenn Russell, The Burlington Free Press/AP
Russian extreme sports athlete Valery Rozov performs the first ever wingsuit jump from the Ulvetanna, a 9616.6 foot-high mountain in the Drygalski mountains in east Antarctica, on December 4. After a 45 second flight, Rozov landed with a parachute on the glacier. Thomas Senf/Global-Newsroom/Reuters
Flocke the polar bear eats a frozen herring birthday cake with icicles in the form of candles to celebrate her third birthday at the Marineland aquatic park in Antibes, southeastern France. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
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Reports say the suspects in yesterday's butchering of a British soldier have Nigerian ancestry. However, they appeared to be driven by UK involvement in other Muslim nations.
Anti-terrorist police are preparing to interview two hospitalized suspects arrested after a brutal attack on an off-duty soldier in southeast London who was butchered in the street with knives and a meat cleaver.
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