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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A sister of the Missionaries of Charity decorates a bust of Mother Teresa, the order's founder, during celebrations in Ahmadabad, India, marking her birth centenary on Thursday. Celebrations were planned across India and around the world.
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Fishermen arrive on shore in the fishing village of Popotla, Mexico, some 15 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, on July 14, 2010. Gambling their lives, illegal immigrants increasingly are looking to the ocean, as they consider crossing overland even more arduous and more likely to end in getting caught. U.S. agents have arrested 753 suspected illegal immigrants on Southern California shores and seas since October. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
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Michael Enright, right, confers with his attorney Jason Martin, during his arraignment in a New York City courtroom on charges that include attempted murder as a hate crime, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. Mr. Enright is accused of slashing taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif with a hand tool on Tuesday, Aug. 24, after the driver said he was Muslim. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch, Pool)
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Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray beside her tomb in Calcutta, India, on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, to mark the centennial of her birth. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rev. Richard Mahan of Charleston, W.V., and other ministers who disapproves of gay pastors in the nation's largest Lutheran body, meet this week.
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Ecuadorean soldiers patrol the town of Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, made up primarily of Colombian refugees. Officials say the town is a haven for guerrillas fighting across the border in Colombia's civil war. (Kelly Hearn)
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An unchecked boat crosses the San Miguel River to Colombia. Residents of river towns in Ecuador are complaining about the Colombian guerrilla fighters who come to seek supplies, prostitutes and a respite from the fighting across the river. (Kelly Hearn)
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A young boy stands in a rainstorm in the refugee village of Providencia on Ecuador's San Miguel River. Residents of Providencia say Ecuadorean soldiers came to their homes, asking questions, and later were targeted as Colombian guerrilla collaborators. (Kelly Hearn)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS LOOKING FOR A 'FRESH START': House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks about jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland.
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House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on jobs and the economy at the City Club of Cleveland Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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South Korean human rights activists participate in a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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In an image from video provided by the Humane Society of the United States, dogs bark at a bear during a bear-baying exercise in South Carolina, the only state where the practice is legal. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS First lady Michelle Obama harvests vegetables in the White House garden on the South Lawn in June with the help of children from Hollin Meadows Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Obama launched a campaign against childhood obesity.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Texans are worried footbridges, like this one across the Rio Grande, are aiding illegal immigrants in entering the U.S.
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GOPROUD.ORG Ann Coulter's upcoming appearance at a gay Republican event got her booted from the speaker's lineup at World Net Daily's "Taking Back America" rally in Miami.
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Abbey Chikane of the Kimberley Process certified diamonds as conflict-free at a sale in Zimbabwe last week. The gems were mined from the Marange field, where human rights groups say soldiers killed 200 people, raped women and forced children into slavery. (Associated Press)
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Foxconn workers shout slogans during a rally to raise morale at the heavily regimented factories inside the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, south China, Guangdong province, Wednesday August 18, 2010. Following a string of suicides at its Chinese factories, Foxconn Technology Group raised workers' wages and installed safety nets on buildings to catch would-be jumpers. Now the often secretive manufacturer of the iPhone and other electronics is holding rallies for its workers to raise morale at the heavily regimented factories. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, right, speaks with people who were displaced by the Jan. earthquake as he visits people who live in the Petionville Golf Club that is being used as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a suicide attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters killing and wounding dozens of them, one of the bloodiest bombings in months in the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
