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The Week in Pictures: Dec. 1 - 8
Oklahoma State Cowboys fans hang on the goalpost after a 44-10 win against the archrival Oklahoma Sooners at Boone Pickens Stadium on Dec. 3 in Stillwater, Okla.
A member of the Andrew Sisters-styled group The Liberty Belles plants a kiss on the cheek of Pearl Harbor survivor Evan Brasset at a ceremony observing the 70th anniversary of the attack, Dec. 7 at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Sgt. William Thomas, from Paris, Texas, of the 2-82 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, relaxes in a desolate Camp Adder in Iraq, Dec. 2. The base is to be handed back to the Iraqi government later this month. The U.S. military is pulling out the rest of its troops by the end of this year, after eight years of war and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Dozens of demonstrators from Pennsylvania occupy the office of debt supercommittee member Republican Sen. Pat Toomey during the "Take Back the Capitol" protest in the Hart Senate Office Building on Dec. 6 in Washington. Demonstrators from 46 states set up on the National Mall and staged demonstrations all week, including occupying the offices of their senators and representatives.
A protester throws a petrol bomb at riot police guarding the parliament building in Athens' Syntagma Square during clashes on Dec. 6. Greek police fired tear gas at dozens of black-clad protesters who hurled petrol bombs and stones, while hundreds marched to mark the third anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a student in Athens.
Donald Trump smiles as Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talks to media after their meeting in New York on Dec. 5.
A woman reads a ballot during the parliamentary election on Dec. 4 in the western Russian village of Klukino, some 290 miles from Moscow. Russians voted in parliamentary polls seen as a test of Vladimir Putin's personal authority ahead of a planned return to the presidency. After the results were announced, protesters took to the streets in Moscow and elsewhere by the thousands, contending the election was rigged in favor of Putin's party.
A man looks at uprooted trees that fell after heavy Santa Ana winds in Los Angeles, Dec. 1. Gusts as high as 100 mph left much of the LA area strewn with toppled trees and power lines, slowing rush-hour traffic and knocking out electricity to more than 300,000 customers.
Anna Frost competes in the Gore-Tex 50 Mile race during The North Face Endurance Challenge on Dec. 3 in San Francisco. The race began at 5 a.m. in the Marin Headlands, north of San Francisco. The course was a mix of fire roads and single track.
A cat plays with a mouse on Dec. 8 in Arnsberg, Germany.
Too close for comfort
Actor David Warren, who has been playing Santa for the past 10 years, holds 7-month-old Olivia Ruch at Santa's Grotto in Selfridges department store in London on Dec. 7.
Too close for comfort
Actor David Warren, who has been playing Santa for the past 10 years, holds 7-month-old Olivia Ruch at Santa's Grotto in Selfridges department store in London on Dec. 7.
Former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich leaves his home to go to his sentencing hearing, Dec. 7, in Chicago. Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison on public corruption charges that included trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder.
