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Unemployed father Edin Hajdarevic holds Ajsa, a 20-month-old baby born with multiple brain and intestine disorders, at their home near Visoko, Bosnia. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in testifying to a House defense panel Thursday, voice their concerns about mandatory military cuts that may result from deficit-reduction problems. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is escorted in the rain to his car at the Pentagon on Oct. 12, 2011, after his meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. (Associated Press)

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A U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile sits on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan in June 2010. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has praised the Predator for its precision-targeting ability, which minimizes collateral damage. (Associated Press)

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A subscriber holds a BlackBerry in Ottawa. (Associated Press)

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Dr. Conrad Murray listens Oct. 12, 2011, as Dr. Alon Steinberg speaks from the witness stand during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (Associated Press)

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Dr. Conrad Murray listens in court Oct. 11, 2011, during his involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks Tuesday night as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens during a GOP debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. (Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has been accused of a "lack of trustworthiness" in telling what he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Fast and Furious" probe involving straw purchases of guns that were then "walked" into Mexico and given to drug smugglers. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian Coptic demonstrators carry Christian crosses and an Egyptian flag during a Copts demonstration that developed into clashes with army soldiers in Cairo on Oct. 9, 2011. (Associated Press)

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At the St. Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation, about 600 vervets live in fenced pens at a former sugar estate. "The monkeys get better care than I do," said the lab's veterinarian, Dr. Ricaldo Pike, during a tour of the facility, which has conducted groundbreaking research on Parkinson's disease. (Associated Press)

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Joe Cabey, a monkey trapper, holds a vervet monkey he captured in the mountains in Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis. Thousands of vervets have lived uneasily with islanders for more than three centuries. At the St. Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation, about 600 vervets live in pens at a former sugar estate. "The monkeys get better care than I do," said Dr. Ricaldo Pike, a veterinarian at the lab, which has conducted groundbreaking research on Parkinson's disease. (Associated Press)