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Pakistan fashion, Santa school, Jewish settlers (13 images)

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Pakistani model Mehreen Syed wearing clothes from designer Kash Hussain prepares backstage during the 1st day of Fashion Pakistan Week on Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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Pakistani models wearing clothes from designer Samar Mehdi's collection prepare backstage during the 1st day of Fashion Pakistan Week on Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan. Fashion Pakistan Week commenced today amidst security threats. The organizers already postponed the event twice due to security fears and the threat of ongoing militant violence. The four day long event will feature over 30 Pakistani designers and will showcase the best of fashion in Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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Thousands of Starlings rise into the air near Gretna Green, Scotland, at dusk on Tuesday. The spectacle only occurs during the winter, when, after spending the day feeding in reed beds, the birds search for somewhere to roost for the night to shelter from the wind. (AP Photo/Owen Humphreys)

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An elderly Hungarian man pays respect to the victims of the 1956 anti-communist revolution in the National Pantheon in Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday. Hungary commemorates Nov. 4 as the day when in 1956 Soviet troops smashed the 1956 revolution and freedom fight in Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

BRITAIN_Santa_School

Men from the London Santa school, dressed in Christmas outfits, pose by telephone boxes, in central London on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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Jewish settlers are detained by police officers as others demolish structures in the West Bank illegal Jewish settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, north of Jerusalem on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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A Bewick swan greets its mate at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust on Tuesday in Slimbridge, England. Bewick's Swans have begun their annual migration from Arctic Russia to the bird sanctuary, but experts have expressed concern at their declining numbers across North Europe. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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Waving flags, Iranian school girls attend an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

INDIA_CHILD_LABOR

A government official, right, interrogates child laborers at a police station after they were rescued from an embroidery factory during a joint raid by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save Childhood Movement, and government officials in New Delhi, India on Wednesday. Twenty-six child laborers, mostly from the eastern Indian state of Bihar, were rescued from three home-run embroidery factories during the raid. Rights activists place the number of child workers as high as 60 million, with one estimate saying that 20 percent of India's economy is dependent on children under 14. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Policemen try to control employees of fair price shops during a protest in Patna, India on Wednesday. Ten people were injured as police baton charged and burst teargas shells to disperse the agitating employees who were demanding to be treated as government employees with monthly salaries. Fair price shops, or ration shops, are licensed by the state to sell essential commodities at a subsidized rate to the economically underprivileged. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

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South Korea's army reserve soldiers, wearing masks as a precaution against swine flu, salute during military training at a military base in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday. South Korea raised alert status for swine flu to the highest level on Tuesday as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Ju-sung)

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United Russia party supporters react during a massive rally marking Russian National Unity Day in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday. The new holiday, marking the end of the foreign intervention in Russia in 1612, was created in 2005 to replace the traditional Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik rise to power. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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The aftermath of a burned train is seen in Philadelphia on Wednesday. A Philadelphia commuter train caught fire Wednesday, complicating the morning rush already hampered by the city's transit strike. Officials said no injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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