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Butchers with butcher knives participate in religious rituals before slaughtering buffalos during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple in Bariyapur, south of Katmandu, Nepal, on Nov. 24.

Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India arrive for the State Arrival ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Nov. 24 in Washington, D.C.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

The Grand Mosque is seen from the top of al-Noor mountain where the Hiraa cave is located, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 24.

Hassan Ammar, AP

Rom Houben uses his touchscreen and assistance of his speech therapist Linda Wouters to communicate during an interview in Zolder, Belgium, on Nov. 24. Houben was misdiagnosed for 23 years as being in a coma until a doctor at Liege University discovered three years ago that Houben's brain was still functioning. Houben was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state following a car crash in 1983.

Yves Logghe, AP

A migrating bird walks on water lily leaves in a lake near Dhaka, Bangladesh on Nov. 24.

Munir Uz Zaman, AFP / Getty Images

A police investigator gathers evidences next to dead bodies of victims of massacre after gunmen shot at least 22 people in Ampatuan town, Philippines on Nov. 24.

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Coal miners labor at a tunnel during search and rescue operations near the Xinxing coal mine in Hegang, China, on Nov. 24.

Andy Wong, AP

Police officers look on Nov. 24 as a backhoe clears an area where bodies were dumped along a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Philippines. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called for a state of emergency, giving security forces free hand to pursue gunmen who killed at least 24 people in one of the country's worst election massacres.

Aaron Favila, AP

An unidentified person, suspected of being a member of Segi, an outlawed youth group believed to have ties to the armed Basque separatist group ETA, is escorted to a police car after her arrest Nov. 24 in San Sebastian, Spain.

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Coal miners work at a tunnel during search and rescue operations near the Xinxing coal mine in Heilongjiang province, China, on Nov. 24.

Andy Wong, AP