In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
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In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Malala Yousufzai says goodbye as she is discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. She will continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary home in the area. The teenage Pakistani girl, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has been released from the hospital after impressing doctors with her strength. She will be readmitted for further cranial re-constructive surgery at the end of the month or in early February. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham/AP
A Palestinian protester places a flag on the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin during clashes with Israeli security officers after a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement. Ammar Awad/Reuters
A solar eruption rises up from the sun in this NASA image from Dec. 31 and released today. The length of the eruption extends about 160,000 miles out from the Sun. With Earth about 7,900 miles in diameter, this relatively minor eruption is about 20 times the diameter of planet earth. NASA/SDO/Reuters
Katie Uhlaender from the US speeds down the skeleton track at the bob and skeleton World Cup in Altenberg, Germany. She placed second. Matthias Rietschel/dapd/AP
The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits grounded 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska, Thursday. Kulluk, a Shell oil drilling rig grounded off an Alaska island since a New Years Eve storm, has suffered damage from waves and flooding but has spilled none of the 155,000 gallons of fuel and other oil products aboard. Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Painter/USCG/Reuters
Visitors walk through the Ice Sculpture festival in Bruges, Belgium. Yves Logghe/AP
Anori, a one-year-old polar bear, plays in her enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany. Ina Fassbender/Reuters
Women dressed in ceremonial kimonos clap during the New Year opening ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Japan's Nikkei share average rose to a 22-month high on its first trading day of 2013 as a deal in Washington to avert the 'fiscal cliff' buoyed investors' risk appetites. Toru Hanai/Reuters
German chancellor Angela Merkel sings with carolers during a reception for carol singers from all over the country at the Chancellery in Berlin. Michael Sohn/AP
A young boy walks past aluminum buckets displayed for sale on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The buckets are kept for use in case of fire at garment factories. A.M. Ahad/AP
A demonstrator chants slogans during a protest against President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, Syria. Muzaffar Salman/Reuters
An elephant eats a tree at the Berlin Zoo during the launch of the annual feeding of Christmas trees. The trees have not been used and were not sold, they were donated by vendors in the area. Markus Schreiber/AP
People offer prayers at the start of the new business year at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo. About 3,000 company representatives visit the shrine during the first few days of the new business year to seek good luck and prosperous businesses. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
An Israeli left-wing activist holds a placard during a protest to show solidarity with Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya. Amir Cohen/Reuters
Indian children fly kites on a rooftop ahead of a kite festival in Ahmadabad, India. Kites are flown in many parts of India during Makar Sakranti, a festival that marks the transition of winter to spring. Ajit Solanki/AP
Vice President Joe Biden laughs as he gathers with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington during a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College Ballots for the US presidential election. Jason Reed/Reuters
A Kashmiri family watches a protest by activists of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in Srinagar, Indian-Administered Kashmir. JKLF supporters were protesting against life imprisonment and death sentences awarded to Kashmiri prisoners by different Indian courts. Mukhtar Khan/AP
Mountain goats fight in their enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany. Ina Fassbender/Reuters
A youth dances in the rap band entertaining a meeting of the National Youth Council at the basketball stadium in the capital Bangui, Central African Republic. The council is meeting to discuss the current crisis and the message that youth want to send to upcoming peace talks. Ben Curtis/AP
People walk through world-renowned American light designer Richard Holdman's light show in Moscow. Thirteen days after Western Christmas, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its Christmas on January 7th in accordance with the old Julian calendar. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Actor Patrick Dempsey meets the staff at the Tully's Coffee on Western Avenue near the Pike Place Market in Seattle. Dempsey's investment group won the bid to purchase Tully's. Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times/AP
Minnesota Vikings fan Ava Dahlke, 8, does schoolwork in Carol Taylor's second-grade class at Madison Elementary School in Winona, Minn. Students and teachers at the school were encouraged to show support for their favorite football team the day before an NFL playoff game between the Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. Joe Ahlquist/Winona Daily News/AP
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Under Hugo Chávez, big businesses endured threats of state takeover. This week, Chávez's successor reached out to the boss of Venezuela's largest privately held company.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's successor seems to be turning toward big business for help in ending rampant scarcities of basic consumer goods and an almost 30 percent annual inflation rate.
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