Editor's Choice Picture of the Day - November 30, 2011

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Children attend a school class at the Nyumbani Children's Home for children with HIV, in Karen on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. The orphanage, which is heavily reliant on foreign donations, cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care, and antiretroviral medicine to stem the progress of the disease. World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 each year and is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.

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Dina, a Jordanian-born tiger, stretches inside its enclosure at Ghamadan zoo near Amman November 24, 2011.

Editor's Choice Picture of the Day - November 29, 2011

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Chelsea's Fernando Torres jumps for the ball during their English League Cup soccer match against Liverpool at Stamford bridge in London November 29, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - November 28, 2011

Khitam Hamad, 12, whose face and body was burned after a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, poses in a hallway at a program operated by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on November 28, 2011 in Amman, Jordan. MSF has been running a reconstructive-surgery program for war-wounded Iraqis since August 2006. The program, which helps Iraqis irrespective of age or ethnic/religious background, is currently treating roughly 120 cases. MSF was forced to pull out of Iraq in 2004 due to the escalating violence in the country. Following the years of violence in the country, the state of medical care in Iraq is poor. There is a chronic shortage of doctors and nurses and much of the country's hospitals are using outdated and damaged equipment. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)

The Daily Beast - November 29, 2011

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Polar bear cub Taiga plays in a pool Friday, November 25, 2011, at Aquarium Park in Quebec City. Taiga and Ganuk were transferred from the Saint-Felicien zoo on Nov. 16, 2011 and will be officially introduced to the public in a few days.

 

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Taiga, a polar bear cub, throws herself backward in the water as she plays in a pool.

 

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 Polar bear cub Taiga shakes water off her head as she plays in a pool.

 

 

Editor's Choice - Pictures of the Day - November 27, 2011

Floods in August hit Sindh province in the south of Pakistan, killing at least 430 people and disrupting the lives of nine million. Many people are still camping out in the open with little food, water or shelter ahead of winter. Aid groups warned on November 9 that vital relief efforts for some five million people could be cut back because of a shortfall in foreign donations. A series of photos from these relief camps:

 

Kunwar, 20, displaced for over three months by flooding, holds her two-year-old son Najo outside her tent in a Pakistan Army relief camp in Kunri, in Pakistan's Sindh province November 27, 2011.   (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)

 

Fatiman, a flood victim displaced for three months, holds her new born baby boy Zahid in a roadside tent in the Sanghar district of Pakistan's Sindh province November 27, 2011. (Reuters/Akhtar Soomro)

 

Pakistani flood effected girls attend a school in an army camp of  flood effected people in Umar Kot on November 27, 2011. (AFP/Getty Images/Rizwan Tabbsum)

 

Pakistani flooded effected children look at the flooded area of Sanghar on November 27, 2011. (AFP/Getty Images/Rizwan Tabbsum)

 

An elderly Pakistani flooded effected woman looks on in a flooded area of Sanghar on November 27, 2011. (AFP/Getty Images/Rizwan Tabbsum)

The Daily Beast - November 28, 2011

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A Magellanic penguin interacts with its newborn chick at the Punta Tombo fauna reservation in the southern Argentinian province of Chubut November 24, 2011. Hundreds of Magellanic penguins arrived in Chubut in September and stayed till their babies were born in November.

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U.S. Army Spc. Sheila Schaeffer of Iowa holds Charlie, the dog she befriended while serving in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Schaeffer was reunited with Charlie at New York's Kennedy International Airport. A former Long Island resident, Arthur Benjamin, has arranged to bring more than a dozen dogs from Afghanistan to the U.S. to be reunited with soldiers.

Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - November 26, 2011

Riot police chase opposition UDPS supporters caught in a cloud of tear gas outside N'Djili airport in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa November 26, 2011.  Police in Congo blocked President Joseph Kabila's main rival at an airport in Kinshasa on Saturday to stop him staging an election rally after at least two died in violence across the central African state's capital city. Two days before presidential and parliamentary elections, rival factions hurled rocks at each other and gunfire was heard across town. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)

The Daily Beast - November 26, 2011

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A young plains zebra walks behind its mother Ela on November 23, 2011 at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany. When the female zebra was born eleven days ago, it weighed 30 kilograms.