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Friday Photo: Snake in the House

George Horne, Deputy Executive Director of Operations & Maintenance Resources, rolls out a preserved Burmese Python which was captured in Miami-Dade County, Florida, during a hearing before the Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill November 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was focused on H.R. 2811, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal.
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Friday Photo: Happy Halloween

Squirrel monkeys at Bristol Zoo Gardens investigate a special carved pumpkin that has been left as a special Halloween treat in their enclosure on October 28, 2009 in Bristol, England. The gift of the pumpkin does have a serious side, as they are a great addition to the animals regular diet as they are high in vitamins, potassium, protein and fibre - as well as being the perfect enrichment toy, as the animals have to delve inside to reach the succulent flesh and plump seeds.
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Bonus Friday Photo: Mixed messages

Taliban fighters lay down their weapons as they surrender to the government of Herat Province on October 14, 2009 in Western Afghanistan. More than 40 insurgents handed in their weapons in the wake of an ongoing government security operation which killed the Taliban commander in the Gazara district, Ghulam Yahya Akbari days ago.(Photo by Majid/Getty Images)
Friday Photo: Triumph of the Gnomes


German artist Ottmar Hoerl poses after the opening ceremony of the art installation 'Dance with the Devil' at the main square of Straubing on October 15, 2009 in Straubing, Germany. Hoerl installed 1250 plastic garden gnomes giving a Nazi salute. The artwork has been highly controversial as Nazi salutes and symbols have been illegal in Germany since the end of the Second World War.
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Friday Photo: Cowboy Diplomacy

The provisional office of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa October 9, 2009. Negotiators with deposed Zeyala insisted Thursday that an October 15 deadline was in place to reach an agreement to resolve the months-old political impasse. The Central American country has been paralyzed since a June 28 coup by now de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, who has said he was prepared to leave office, but only if Zelaya ended his demands of being reinstated.
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Friday Photo: This should be a fun Olympics

A fan in disguise among the thousands of 'cariocas' (Rio's inhabitants) who cheer and dance in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2, 2009, hoping that their hometown will be elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to stage the 2016 Olympic Games.
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Friday Photo: What you won't see at a town hall meeting
Indian Left Party activists pose with bow and arrows during a protest against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in New Delhi on September 3, 2009. Trade ministers assembled in New Delhi for a two-day WTO meeting from September 3, aimed at bridging differences between developed and developing nations and putting global trade talks back on track. The two days of informal ministerial level talks are billed as key to laying the groundwork for further progress at a meeting of G20 leaders of wealthy and emerging nations in Pittsburgh in late September.
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Friday Photo: The world's most beautiful mud puddle?
Pigs enjoy their bath in a mud pool in Kleringen in Eastern Netherlands on August 19, 2009. Biological farmers Joop and Marianne Hendriksen in Fleringen won the 'mud-trophy' for the most beautiful mud pool from the organisation Wakker Dier (alert animal). The organisation launched the yearly mudd pool election to promote biological pork.
If you say so.
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