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A Shiite boy pushed a toy car along his father’s back during Friday prayers at the Khadimiya shrine in Baghdad. (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters)

A worker picked strawberries at a farm in Palos de la Frontera, Spain Friday. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)

A Pakistani antiriot police officer protected himself behind a shield as he walked toward demonstrators during clashes in Islamabad Friday. People were protesting a court ruling barring former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from elected office. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)

Israeli police stood guard as a Palestinian worshiper attended Friday prayers on the street in Arab East Jerusalem. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Photographer Guenter Zint, unseen, carried a portrait of former prostitute Domenica Niehoff through Hamburg, Germany’s, red light district Friday. Ms. Niehoff became well-known for her crusades for prostitutes’ rights. She died Feb. 11. (Christian Charisius/Reuters)

Vicki Rubin read the final edition of the E.W. Scripps-owned Rocky Mountain News in a Denver coffee shop Friday. The Denver Post will be the city’s only major newspaper now. (Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News)

Vice President Joe Biden met kids at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Friday before chairing a middle-class task force on “green” jobs. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)

Marines bowed their heads in prayer before Mr. Obama spoke at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C., Friday. He announced that two-thirds of troops would be out of Iraq by August 2010. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

Pastry chef Ernie Rich applied the finishing touches to the largest chocolate and vanilla Girl Scout cookie ever made during an event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Friday. The first Girl Scout cookie sale occurred there in 1934. (Tim Shaffer/Girl Scouts via Reuters)

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