The Underground Horns playing near mirrored columns at Grand Central Station.
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Havana, Cuba: A transvestite who is awaiting his turn for a sex-change operation. The surgery, like all other healthcare in Cuba, will be free of charge
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El Calafate, Argentina: A shepherd watches his sheep cross a road
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Supporters of Mamata Banerjee, chief of the regional Trinamool Congress, an ally of Congress, celebrated after she won her parliamentary seat from Kolkata. Congress’s appeals to the rural poor, including a massive public job program in the countryside, higher government prices for staple grains and a costly loan-waiver program for indebted farmers, paid off.
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Chongqing, China: More than 800 scrapped taxis are abandoned in a yard
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Union employees at the Jumeirah Essex House hotel on Central Park South stopped working for three and a half hours on Tuesday to draw attention to a complaint involving banquet workers.
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A woman waits in Chengdu Infectious Disease Hospital where a man has been quarantined, the first confirmed case of the new H1N1 strain of flu in mainland China
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In an exercise called Tubular Assault, Explorers from Visalia infiltrated a bus that had been hijacked by a suicide bomber.
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Vitula, an election worker, added one of the last voting slips to her pile. Tamil Nadu is expected to play a crucial role in the formation of the government.
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