Picture of the Day

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Pedestrians walk toward home along a dusty road in downtown Kabul, Oct. 23, 2012, ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.

 

[Leader]

I highly doubt Iqbal said this.

 

[mughaljee]

Gabriel Guallo of Ecuador's Quichua tribe stands with a tarantula on his face to demonstrate how he is planning to break a world record, in El Tena October 2, 2012. Guallo hopes to carry 250 tarantulas on his body for 60 seconds.

 

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An Indian man sleeps with stray dogs in Kolkata on October 17, 2012. (Saurabh Das/Associated Press)

 

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A dog named "Negrito" stands with a mouse on his back in Old Havana, Cuba on August 12, 2012. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)

 

[mughaljee]

Kids gather around the pen of competitor Boy Serrere, during the national final of the televised sheep reality competition, Khar Bii, in Dakar, Senegal on October 20, 2012. In a nation where sheep are given names and kept inside homes as pets, the most popular television show is "Khar Bii," - "This Sheep" - in the local Wolof language. It's an American Idol-style nationwide search for Senegal's most perfect specimen.

 

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Flooded homes in Tuckerton, N.J., on Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the southern New Jersey coastline on Oct. 29.

 

[mughaljee]

A resident looks over the remains of burned homes in the Breezy Point neighborhood of New York City on Oct. 30. Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region, swamped New York City's subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan's financial district.

 

[mughaljee]

Hurricane Sandy is seen churning over the Bahamas in this NASA handout satellite image taken on Oct. 25. (NASA)

 

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A full moon rises behind a statue of a bull overlooking the former stockyard district, Oct. 29, 2012, Kansas City, Mo.

 

[mughaljee]

Indian Muslim children wear new clothes as they sit together during prayers at the Jama Masjid during Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India,

 

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An Egyptian farmer and his daughter ride a donkey at Gazeerat al-Dahab, "The island of Gold,'" Cairo, Egypt

 

[mughaljee]

Ed Waido feeds handfuls of potato chip leftovers to gulls at McCook Beach in East Lyme, Conn

 

[VCheng]

Qatar and Bahrain at night.

 

[A1Kaid]

Aussie helo personnel in Pakistan relief mission, Jan. 2006.