Day in pics

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

A boy drinks a soda among garbage at the landfill Bordo Poniente on the outskirts of Mexico City. Mexico City will close one of the world's largest dumps by Dec. 31 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Kansas Jayhawk fans try to distract De'Mon Brooks #24 of the Davidson Wildcats while he shoots a free throw during the game at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

A lion cub which was abandoned by its mother, rests at a wild animal zoo in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province. Workers in the zoo are trying to find a substitute way to feed the one-month-old lion.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Philippine Navy soldiers load coffins, to be transported to Cagayan De Oro city, onto a navy ship which docked in Manila. Disaster agencies on Monday delivered body bags, food, water, and medicine to crowded evacuation centres in the southern Philippines as officials ordered the digging of graves to prevent disease after hundreds died from flash floods.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Leaflets denouncing Kim Jong Il lay in the gutter during a protest a day after Kim's death was announced in front of the Government Complex in Seoul, South Korea.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

A tourist looks at North side through binoculars at Imjingak peace park in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

A woman walks past a billboard displaying a handset of Taiwan smartphone maker HTC in Taipei. Apple scored a hit in an ongoing patent brawl with HTC with a US trade authority ruling the iPhone maker has rights to features using one-tap screen commands.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Real Madrid's Jose Callejon, bellow, celebrates after scoring against Sevilla with team mate Marcelo Junior from Brazil, top, during their La Liga soccer match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Trent Arsenault prepares a fruit drink at his home in Fremont, California. Arsenault, who has produced 14 children with more than 300 sperm donations to 46 women, is violating laws that require donation of human tissue to be tested, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Hewlett Packard engineer has hired an attorney, saying the FDA has no business interfering in his private transactions.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Cast member Cast member Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes arrive for the premiere of the film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in New York. arrive for the premiere of the film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in New York.

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Ayyappa devotees climb Neelimala forest to pray at Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

A man diving into the Jingpo lake from a frozen waterfall on Mudanjiang, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

India celebrate the wicket of Usman Khawaja on the second day of the cricket match between Australian Chairmans XI and India at Manuka Oval in Canberra. AFP Photo

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Updated on Dec 21, 2011 11:48 am IST

Day in pics

A boy drinks a soda among garbage at the landfill Bordo Poniente on the outskirts of Mexico City. Mexico City will close one of the world's largest dumps by Dec. 31 and will instead turn the garbage from millions of people into reusable materials and energy, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced.

Kansas Jayhawk fans try to distract De'Mon Brooks #24 of the Davidson Wildcats while he shoots a free throw during the game at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

A lion cub which was abandoned by its mother, rests at a wild animal zoo in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province. Workers in the zoo are trying to find a substitute way to feed the one-month-old lion.

Leaflets denouncing Kim Jong Il lay in the gutter during a protest a day after Kim's death was announced in front of the Government Complex in Seoul, South Korea.

A tourist looks at North side through binoculars at Imjingak peace park in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas.

A woman walks past a billboard displaying a handset of Taiwan smartphone maker HTC in Taipei. Apple scored a hit in an ongoing patent brawl with HTC with a US trade authority ruling the iPhone maker has rights to features using one-tap screen commands.

Real Madrid's Jose Callejon, bellow, celebrates after scoring against Sevilla with team mate Marcelo Junior from Brazil, top, during their La Liga soccer match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain.

Cast member Cast member Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes arrive for the premiere of the film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in New York. arrive for the premiere of the film Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in New York.

Ayyappa devotees climb Neelimala forest to pray at Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala.

A man diving into the Jingpo lake from a frozen waterfall on Mudanjiang, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

India celebrate the wicket of Usman Khawaja on the second day of the cricket match between Australian Chairmans XI and India at Manuka Oval in Canberra. AFP Photo

A passenger plane waits to take off as fog begins to clear at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.

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