News Photos of the Day
Date: 12/7/2011 Album ID: 1375423
Photos by Associated Press
News photos from around the world, Dec. 1, 2011.
A member of the Andrew Sisters styled group 'The Liberty Belles' plants a kiss on the cheek of Pearl Harbor survivor Evan Brasset, at a ceremony observing the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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World War II Army veteran Quentin DeNio, 92, of South Minneapolis, the American flag bearer for the Fort Snelling National Cemetery Memorial Rifle Squad, participates in a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the Veterans Service Building in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. DeNio served in the Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles)  MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
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Navy Region Hawaii Honor Guard seaman Nick Marrero, of Greenville, Texas, holds an urn with the ashes of Pearl Harbor survivor Lee Soucy during Soucy's internment ceremony, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 in Honolulu. Soucy, who died last year at the age of 90, wanted to have his ashes interred inside the USS Utah, his ship that sank during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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U.S. Army Soldiers returning home from Iraq get off a plane, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich departs his home in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2001, for the second day of his sentencing hearing on 18 corruption counts, including trying to to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives by car with his wife Patti at the federal building in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, for his sentencing hearing on 18 corruption counts, including trying to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, speaks to reporters as his wife Patti, right, listens at the federal building in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, after being sentenced for 14 years on 18 corruption counts, including trying to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich returns his book that he signed for a supporter as he returns home in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, after he was sentenced by Judge James Zagel to 14 years in prison for his convictions on 18 corruption counts, including trying to to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich looks back at the crowd and waves as he returns home with his wife Patti in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, after he was sentenced by Judge James Zagel to 14 years in prison for his convictions on 18 corruption counts, including trying to to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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In this photo taken Tuesday night, Dec. 6, 2011, a Rod Blagojevich impersonator, suited up in an orange prison jumpsuit and peddling state jobs for a $25,000 donation, attends a mock farewell party at a restaurant in Springfield, Ill. to celebrate the former governor's sentencing on corruption charges. The party was organized by two Illinois Department of Transportation employees. (AP Photo/The State Journal-Register, Ted Schurter)
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A pair of horses at Shelby Farms in Memphis, Tenn. forage for shoots of grass in a sheltered low-lying part of the pasture Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, as wet snow blankets the park.  (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)
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A shopper walks through the Christmas decorations on display at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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Former Penn State associate head football coach Jerry Sandusky is escorted to a police car, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, in Bellefonte, Pa., after being arrested on new child sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom, according to authorities. The claims bring the number of Sandusky's alleged victims to 10, and he now faces more than 50 charges stemming from accusations he molested boys for years on Penn State property, in his home and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times (Knight Ridder), Nabil K. Mark)  ALTOONA MIRROR OUT; MAGS OUT
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The sun shimmers as a pair walks on the beach north of Newport, Ore., Monday afternoon Dec. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Randy L. Rasmussen - The Oregonian)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves to a colleague during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. NATO's foreign ministers, in a two-day meeting, will review progress in Afghanistan, plans for a missile defense system, and troubles in Kosovo. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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Palestinian mourners react during the funeral of  Islamic Jihad militant Ismail Arrear, 22, killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. A Palestinian militant was killed and two others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday on the Gaza Strip. The burst of violence shattered a recent lull and threatened to set off more fighting. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Pakistani girls work in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A protester flashes the peace sign as he is arrested by police when he and his comrades attempted to occupy a historic bridge in Manila, Philippines Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011 to dramatize discontent over poverty and inequality. Several protesters were hurt as police charged with water cannon and batons to push them away from Mendiola Bridge in downtown Manila. It was the second attempt to hold a rally in two days and dispersed everytime. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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In this photo taken on Dec. 1, 2011, Israel's Antiquities Authority archeologist Eli Shukron sweeps marks carved in the bedrock in an archeological excavation in the city of David near Jerusalem's Old City. The mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan is released from jail, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, in Centennial, Colo. Sullivan, accused of offering meth to a man in exchange for sex, was released from the jail that had been named in his honor a day after a judge lowered his bond from $500,000 to $50,000, said Grayson Robinson, the county's current sheriff. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti)  MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT
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