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APTOPIX India Varanasi
Hindu holy woman, Shivani Aum Datri from northern California, USA, plays with a stray dog by the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Varanasi is among the world's oldest cities, and millions of Hindu pilgrims gather annually here for ritual bathing and prayers in the Ganges River, considered holiest by Hindus. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)