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An Amazon.com employee stocks products along one of the many miles of aisles at an Amazon.com Fulfillment Center on "Cyber Monday" the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in Phoenix. Over 2,000 employees will work the over 1-million square foot facility on "Cyber Monday."
Ross Franklin Associated Press
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Marjan Bauman, right, and her daughter Alexandra Bauman join others at the site of the auto crash that took the life of actor Paul Walker and another man, in the small community of Valencia, Calif., Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. The neighborhood where "Fast & Furious" star Walker died in the one-car crash is known to attract street racers, according to law enforcement officials. Walker and his friend and fellow fast-car enthusiast Roger Rodas died Saturday when the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT they were traveling in smashed into a light pole and tree. The two had taken what was expected to be a brief drive away from a charity fundraiser at Rodas' custom car shop in the Southern California community of Valencia, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
Nick Ut Associated Press
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Survivors and their supporters sit next to photographs of the Bhopal gas disaster displayed during a protest on the anniversary of the tragedy near the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. On this day in 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal in central India.
Altaf Qadri Associated Press
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An economically underprivileged girl plays next to a makeshift shelter in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Some 800 million people in the country live in poverty, many of them migrating to big cities in search of a livelihood and often ending up on the streets.
Altaf Qadri Associated Press
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The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is lit during a ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in New York. Some 45,000 energy efficient LED lights adorn the 76-foot tree.
Kathy Willens Associated Press
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Police investigate a shooting near Wingate University on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Wingate, N.C. Authorities at the university have lifted a lockdown following reports of the shooting near the entrance to the school.
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Civilians seek shelter in a catholic church in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Dec. 5 2013. Heavy gunfire erupted in the capital of the Central African Republic on Thursday and over a score of people were killed and dozens of civilians wounded. The United Nations planned to authorize within hours an intervention force into the near anarchic and impoverished nation.
Jerome Delay Associated Press
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A Palestinian driver stands on his stranded car flooded with water due to heavy raining in Gaza City, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Heavy rains flooded most streets and blocked some of the streets of the refugee camps and the cities of Gaza Strip.
Adel Hana Associated Press
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Officials in boats monitor the scene where dozens of pilot whales are stranded in shallow water in a remote area of Florida's Everglades National Park, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.
Lynne Sladky Associated Press
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Taffic on I-30 traffic moves slowly east due to ice that accumulated overnight in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Winter storm and ice warnings are in effect through much of today for parts of six states in the Midwest, including Texas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Ron Ennis The Fort Worth Star-Telegram