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Protesters burn an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally at suburban Quezon City northeast of Manila on Monday to protest his third State of the Nation address. Police secured the House of Representatives, where Mr. Aquino spoke. Several people were injured when riot police clashed with thousands of left-wing and trade union protesters who were seeking higher wages, land reform and a halt to alleged human rights violations. (Associated Press)

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Joyce Young hugs her 13-year-old grandson, Justin Haynes, at the Restoration Christian Fellowship in Aurora on Sunday. Shooting suspect James Holmes, whose apartment also was booby-trapped with explosives, is slated to appear in court for the first time Monday. (Associated Press)

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Led by Reps. Trent Franks and Heath Shuler, the bipartisan International Religious Freedom Caucus seeks to protect Christians and other religious minorities in the Arab world. (Image from International Religious Freedom Caucus)

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Rachel Sorrow (left), a transgender woman, attends a therapy session with Dr. Dan Karasic, a psychiatrist with the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on July 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In a Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, a worker walks out of the construction site of a mosque being built in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro and its religious leader, Imam Ossama Bahloul, sued Rutherford County on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 and asked the federal court for an emergency order to let worshippers into the building before the holy month of Ramadan starts at sundown on Thursday. In May, a Rutherford County judge overturned the county's approval of the mosque construction and this month he ordered the county not to issue an occupancy permit for the 12,000-square-foot building. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

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In this Monday, June 11, 2012 photo, a headstone marks the grave in Nweli, South Africa, where Benedict Daswa is buried. Daswa, who was born Tshimangadzo Samuel and raised in a traditionalist South African family, changed his name when he became a Catholic. The Catholic schoolteacher, revered for his good deeds, honesty and compassion, was also a fierce foe of the witchcraft widely practiced here. When a lightning bolt struck the village and Daswa resisted the elders' call for hiring an exorcist, he was chased into a pub and beaten to death. Twenty-two years later, his memory is still so revered that he has been nominated as South Africa's first saint. The Vatican is studying the application. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

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This Friday, June 15, 2012 photo shows a pamphlet in Johannesburg promoting the canonization process of Benedict Daswa. The Catholic schoolteacher, revered for his good deeds, honesty and compassion, was also a fierce foe of the witchcraft widely practiced here. When a lightning bolt struck the village and Daswa resisted the elders' call for hiring an exorcist, he was chased into a pub and beaten to death. Twenty-two years later, his memory is still so revered that he has been nominated as South Africa's first saint. The Vatican is studying the application. Daswa, who was born Tshimangadzo Samuel and raised in a traditionalist South African family, changed his name when he became a Catholic. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

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**FILE** Christian Bale stars as Batman in "The Dark Knight Rises." (Associated Press/Warner Bros. Pictures)

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The Rev. Graylan Hagler (left) talks with Deborah Harris of Washington, a supporter of D.C Mayor Vincent C. Gray, during a faith-based rally on the front steps of the John A. Wilson Building in Washington on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Supporters called upon the crowd and the public not to rush to judgment, as three D.C. Council members have openly called for Mr. Gray's resignation in light of the scandal surrounding his 2010 election campaign. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Hot Toys’ 1:6 scale version of The Joker nearly comes to life as our fiendish friend admires some of his accessories.

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Demonstrators shout slogans condemning the recent austerity measures announced by the Spanish government, during a protest in front of the Popular Party in Madrid on Friday. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest a second wave of wage cuts in as many years plus planned austerity measures. (Associated Press)