© Lauri Lyons

Lauri Lyons with flag.

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Migrant workers who recently lost their jobs wait for compensation outside of factories in Canton, China, on Nov. 26, 2008. China is facing a difficult employment situation in 2009, as the global financial crisis impacts the country's economy.

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A woman named Husniye (age 76), who is a Crimean Tartar, in a temporary house in Simferapol, Ukraine, on Oct. 6, 2008. Turkic-speaking Tartars, who are almost all Muslim in faith, have a history that dates back to the 8th and 9th centuries in the Crimea. They were exiled by Joseph Stalin by 1944, having been accused of collaboration with German Nazis in World War II. But they have been returning to Crimea since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

© Nick Moir

With firebombing aircraft, bulldozers and farm machinery, rural firefighters assault a blaze started by lightning north of Temora in western New South Wales.

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Barack Obama addresses Inaugural crowd after being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America, Jan. 20, 2009. An estimated 2 million people attended the ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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The view from the U.S. Capitol's south camera stand, with Dirck Halstead's 600mm Canon lens in the foreground. Bitter cold was a problem for the photographers who had to man their positions as early as 4 a.m.

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Military policeman intervenes and stops press photographers from taking pictures of a group of Israeli infantry soldiers boarding a bus after coming out from the fight in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 18, 2009.