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A piece of china used by third-class passengers of the Titanic is part of a collection that will be up for auction. (Associated Press)
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A sign advises drivers on Route 107 in Bethel, Vt., on Dec. 29, 2011, in preparation for its reopening that day. The state highway is the last to reopen after being washed out by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene. (Associated Press)
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Craftmark Homes is building 14 single-family homes at Stone Fox Estates in Leesburg. The Kenwood II model, with 5,571 square feet, is priced from $889,900 to $904,900.
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Dec. 29, 2011 by the Korea News Service, mourners surround the hearse carrying the coffin of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his funeral procession through the streets of Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Dec. 29, 2011 by the Korea News Service, the hearse carrying late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is driven past during his funeral procession in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Pyongyang residents sweep snow from the streets before the funeral procession for late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Hurricane Katrina victim David Bellinger, 63, is blind and needed a friend to read him the letter from FEMA that says the agency wants him to pay back more than $3,200 in federal aid he improperly received after the disaster. "If I have to pay this money back, it would pretty much wipe out all the savings I have," he said. )(Associated Press)
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A derailed train car is removed from a bridge as workers clear up the wreckage after a train accident in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang province in July. A long-awaited government report said on Wednesday design flaws and sloppy management caused the bullet-train crash. (Associated Press)
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Emergency rescue personnel inspect an overturned Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-134 passenger jet after it crash-landed in dense fog in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Authorities said 31 people were injured. (AP Photo/AKI Press, Pool)
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In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Koreans gather in front of a huge portrait of their late leader Kim Jong-il to mourn his death in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Firefighter Nick Tamburro pays respects outside the Stamford, Conn., home where a Christmas morning fire killed three girls and their grandparents. Officials said fireplace ashes in a bag started the fire that devoured the large Victorian house. (Associated Press)
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Goalie Tomas Vokoun's appearance in relief of Michal Neuvirth on Monday night was his first action for the Washington Capitals in almost two weeks. (AP Photo)
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Authorities inspect a private plane that crashed into a field in South Knoxville, Tenn., on Dec. 26, 2011. (Associated Press/The Knoxville News Sentinel)
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Volunteer firefighter William Sierra carries fire hoses to be tested outside El Agustino 176 fire station in Lima, Peru. The country's underequipped first responders are unable to answer 40,000 emergency calls a year, or nearly a third of the annual pleas for help, because they are short of equipment, pumps and ambulances. (Associated Press)
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Volunteer firefighters from the Lima Four fire station push a car that was involved in a traffic accident. Peru's firefighters are so cash-strapped and ill-equipped that vital lifesaving equipment too often fails at a burning building or at a crash scene where people are pretzeled in mangled vehicles. (Associated Press)
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Fire destroyed a Victorian-style house on Long Island Sound in Stamford, Conn., on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. Officials said two adults and three children died in the blaze, and two others escaped. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
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Firefighters investigate a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder must decide whether to appoint an emergency manager to keep financially crippled Detroit from going under. (Associated Press)
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British singer George Michael leaves his house in north London, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Michael, short of breath and appearing weak, said Friday he has recovered from a life-threatening bout with pneumonia that kept him in a Vienna hospital for a month. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Stamford, Conn., Mayor Michael Pavia (right) and Acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte give a brief statement about a house fire that killed five people on Christmas morning, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Stamford Advocate, Lindsay Niegelberg )
