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Week in photos - Dec. 21, 2012

 

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  • A police officer dressed in a Santa Claus costume, with the blue color representing the police, walks in Macacos slum after arriving in a police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. The Pacifying Police Unit, or UPP, organized for Santa to visit the pacified slum to hand out Christmas gifts to young residents. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
  • Firefighters salute as a hearse passes for the funeral procession to the burial of 7-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Gerard Barden, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. Barden was killed when Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  • Mourners carry ornaments to decorate the Christmas trees at one of the makeshift memorials for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, Monday,Dec. 17, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. Authorities say gunman Adam Lanza killed his mother at their home on Friday and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before taking his own life. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
  • In this Dec. 13, 2012 photo former Providence Police Department office Tony Lepore directs traffic at an intersection on Dorrance Street in Providence, RI. Lepore is know as the dancing cop because of his energetic and rhythmic style of moving vehicles and pedestrians through an intersection. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
  • A chicken's head lays on an altar of offerings during a private ceremony at the Iximche archeological site in preparation for the Oxlajuj B'aktun in Tecpan, Guatemala Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. The Oxlajuj B'aktun is on Dec. 21, marking a new period in the Mayan calendar, an event only comparable in recent times with the new millennium in 2000. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
  • Children attend a Christmas gift distribution event at the national palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
  • Husband Benedict Barboza, center, holds his son Junal, right, and daughter Lisha during the burial of nurse Jacintha Saldanha at her hometown Shirva, near Mangalore in southwest India, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Nurse Saldanha was found hanging in her room days after she had been duped by a hoax call from an Australian radio station about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
  • A herd of adult and baby elephants walks in the dawn light as the highest mountain in Africa Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, is seen in the background, in Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, . (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
  • A pedestrian walks a dog along the banks of the Neris river as the temperature drops to -14 degrees Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
  • A model wears a creation of Israeli designer Hagit Witman by her brand
  • This Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 photo, shows a damaged portrait of former Syrian President Hafez Assad at the entrance of a military academy besieged by rebels during heavy clashes with government forces north of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)
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  • Hotel staff members wait to welcome scientists and technicians from the recent successful launch of a rocket that sent an artificial satellite into orbit at hotel lobby in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
  • Vice President Joe Biden, flanked by the President of the National Association of Police Organizations and Boston police officer, Thomas Nee, left, and President of the Police Executive Research Forum and Major Cities Chiefs Association and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, right, speaks during a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, in Washington. Biden is leading a task force that will look at ways of reducing gun violence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
  • Ariel Alexis Cajar, 12, from Saboga Island, looks at fishing boats anchored at the Panama bay in Panama City, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. A poll released Wednesday of nearly 150,000 people around the world says seven of the world's 10 countries with the most upbeat attitudes are in Latin America. In Panama and Paraguay, 85 percent of those polled said yes to all five, putting those countries at the top of the list. They were followed closely by El Salvador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Guatemala, the Philippines, Ecuador and Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
  • In this image provided by NASA Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn's shadow. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are backlit. In addition to the visual splendor, this special, very-high-phase viewing geometry lets scientists study ring and atmosphere phenomena not easily seen at a lower phase. (AP Photo/NASA)
  • South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye of ruling Saenuri Party waves to her supporters near the party's head office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. South Korea's presidential Blue House on Wednesday congratulated conservative Park Geun-hye (Bahk guhn-hae) for becoming president, although votes were still being counted in a close race. Park Geun-hye will return to her childhood home, from where her dictator father President Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea for 18-years, as the Liberal South Korean candidate concedes victory to her. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
  • A local resident clears snow from his driveway after an overnight snowfall left many schools and businesses closed for the day, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
 

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