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  • Argentinians celebrate as ex-dictator Jorge Videla sentenced to life in prison

    Here's the full story.

    LEO LAVALLE / EPA

    Madres de Plaza de Mayo member Tati Almeida (C) celebrates with her fellows and members of the organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires' Human Rights Secretariate, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 22 December 2010, after hearing the verdict on former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was sentenced 22 December to life in prison for crimes against humanity during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship. Videla, who was commander of the Argentine Army at the time of the 1976 coup and led the country until 1981, was found guilty of torture, premeditated homicide and torture leading to death.

    Natacha Pisarenko / AP

    A man applauds in front a poster with images of victims killed during Argentina's dirty war as he listens to the sentence for former dictator Jorge Videla in Cordoba, Argentina.

    Natacha Pisarenko / AP

    Relatives of victims killed during Argentina's dirty war celebrate the verdict at the end of the trial of former dictator Jorge Videla in Cordoba, Argentina, Wednesday Dec. 22, 2010. Former dictator Jorge Videla was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the torture and murder of 31 prisoners in 1976. It was the first conviction for the military junta leader, who led the military coup that installed Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, in 25 years of democracy.

    RAMON VERDU / AFP - Getty Images

    Handout picture released by Tribunales Federales de Cordoba of Argentine of former General and dictator (1976-81) Jorge Rafael Videla (L) and former Army general Luciano Benjamin Menendez listening to the sentences of the court in Cordoba, Argentina on December 22, 2010 during the trial for the murder of 31 political prisoners.

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  • Chicago firefighters salute a fallen comrade

    Paul Beaty / AP

    Chicago firefighters salute as firefighter Edward Stringer's body passes by them at the Chicago Medical Examiner's office, Dec. 22, 2010. A blaze at an abandoned building on Chicago's South Side left two firefighters dead and 14 injured Wednesday.

    AP reports:

    CHICAGO — As fires go, the one that broke out Wednesday in a small vacant building on the city's South Side was likely to be pretty routine for the Chicago Fire Department. Instead, it caused the deaths of two firefighters, trapped under debris with two others when a wall and roof collapsed, and injured 17.

    In an eerie coincidence, it happened on the 100th anniversary of the Union Stock Yards fire, which killed 21 Chicago firefighters when a wall collapsed and stood as one of America's worst tragedies for firefighter deaths until the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    Read the full story.

    Springsteen wrote "Into the fire" for the 9/11 first responders, but it's a fitting tribute to all firefighters, police and EMT personel who run into burning buildings.

    “May your strength give us strength.
    May your faith give us faith.
    May your hope give us hope.
    May your love give us love.”

    ~ Bruce Springsteen

  • Brian Snyder / Reuters

    Seven year-old Kaylee Sullivan sits in her wheelchair during a visit from a virtual Santa at Children's Hospital Boston in Boston, Massachusetts Dec. 22, 2010. For children in hospital over Christmas, a visit from Santa Claus -- especially a cool, virtual Santa beamed in from the North Pole -- is like a breath of fresh air. Children's Hospital Boston on Wednesday played host to what has become an annual event: a video meeting between the season's most popular personality and some of the city's sickest children. Sullivan is being treated for leukaemia.

    Virtual Santa brings Christmas to sick children

    By Rich Shulman

    Now if they can get Santa a transporter beam for the gifts . . . Full story.

  • Nathan Bilow / AP

    Than Acuff of Crested Butte, Colo. shovels through a snowbank to make a path to a friend's home on Dec. 22, 2010. The National Weather Service posted a Winter Storm Warning Hazardous Weather Outlook for areas in Utah and the western mountains of Colorado.

    Western Colorado receives deep snow

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  • Holiday calendar: Wild West Africa

    NASA

    Silt washes into the Atlantic Ocean from rivers in Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa, in this false-color composite image from the Landsat 7 satellite.

    By John Roach, Contributing Writer, NBC News

    You're excused if this picture triggers a flashback to a trippy "Space" jam at a Grateful Dead show, but chill out: It's just an image of Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa, made by the Landsat 7 satellite as it peered down at Earth from its 438-mile-high orbit.

    The patterns in the country's shallow coastal waters are created by silt that's been carried by the Geba River and other streams into the Atlantic Ocean. However, this isn't what the country looks like to the naked eye in outer space. Instead, the color-coded image was produced using infrared, red, and blue filters to bring out details in the silt. This online tutorial explains more about the trippy color scheme.

    Click through this year's "Earth as Art" slideshow for more out-of-this-world Earth imagery.

    This picture of Guinea-Bissau serves as one of the final visual treats in our Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar. For additional views of Earth from space, check out these past offerings. We've also included links to other online Advent calendars that have been serving up space images daily since the beginning of the month:

    Connect with the Cosmic Log community by hitting the "like" button on the Cosmic Log Facebook page or following msnbc.com's science editor, Alan Boyle, on Twitter (@b0yle).

  • Rob Gillies / AP

    Canadian Inuit dogs pull a sled using traditional harnesses Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 in Iqaluit, Canada.

    The Year in Pictures - Sports: Outtakes

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    I thought this was an interesting angle for a dog sledding photo. It's a unusual sport anyway, but I haven't seen it shot this way before. It has nice light too. This one didn't make the final Year in Sports photos, but you can see what did here.

  • Tom Sherlin / The Daily Times via AP

    Jack Marguis, 5, leaps into the arms of his father, Tech. Sgt. Zachary Marquis, as he is surprised by his father's appearance, Dec, 22, 2010. Jack had just asked Santa to bring his father home for Christmas. Jennifer Marguis, daughter Abigail and Santa watch the reunion in Maryville, Tenn.

    Little boy gets his father for Christmas

    By Robert Hood

    Sometimes you see a picture that makes you smile and cry at the same time.

  • Alexei Yefimov / Reuters

    A man prepares to dip in the icy waters of the Ob River in Russia's Siberian city of Novosibirsk, with the air temperature at about minus 30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit), during an Orthodox Epiphany celebration, January 19. Orthodox believers mark Epiphany on January 19 by immersing themselves in icy waters regardless of the weather.

    The Year in Pictures: Outtakes

    By Jim Seida

    There are polar bear plunges, and then there's this - swimming when it's minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit outside. This was one of my favorite images of 2010, but it didn't make the final edit for our Year in Pictures - News slideshow. See the slideshow here.

    

  • Erik S. Lesser / AP

    Seattle Storm coach Brian Agler, center, celebrates with Camille Little, right, and Tanisha Wright after the Storm defeated the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA basketball finals, Thursday, Sept. 16, in Atlanta. The Seattle Storm won 87-84, and swept the series.

    The Year in Pictures - Sports: Outtakes

    By Meredith Birkett

    I wish this image had made it into the slideshow. I love the facial expressions, and the tension you feel seeing that the coach is not even a second away from feeling cold, fizzy champagne hit his head and drip down his collar. I almost hunch my shoulders in anticipation when I see it. To me, photographer Erik Lesser captured a great moment by shooting a frame that is just a split-second removed from the usual locker room celebration shot we see.

    Check out the slideshow to see if we made the right choice in excluding it.

  • 'It never rains in Southern California', FAIL!

    Paul Buck / EPA

    Katharine Story sweeps mud and water from her clothing store in Laguna Beach, Calif., Dec. 22, 2010. Cleanup efforts are underway after heavy rains flooded downtown with 3-4 feet of mud.

    By Robert Hood

    I’ve been looking at the pictures of the storm in California all morning, and now I can’t get that song out of my head.

    Albert Hammond performs "It never rains in Southern California".

  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends judo class

    Alexey Druginyn / EPA

    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center attends a judo training session at the Moskovsky sports and recreation center in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 22, 2010.

    By Robert Hood

    I wonder if it’s ever a fair fight in this class. What happens in Russia if you take Putin down?

    Watch the 2008 video below to see how the Prime Minister has carefully cultivated a macho image.

    Oct. 8, 2008: Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin unveils a new instructional judo DVD. NBC's Yonatan Pomrenze reports from Moscow.

     

  • Massive storm hits California, causing flooding and mudslides

    Alex Gallardo / AP

    Residents secure a van caught in a mudslide by tying the van to a tree in Silverado Canyon, Calif., Dec. 22, 2010.

    NBC, msnbc.com and news services report:

    LOS ANGELES — Areas just south of Los Angeles — including a tony beach town that saw "rivers coming through" and its main beach washed away — were hardest hit Wednesday by the fiercest of several storms that battered Southern California since Friday.

    A state of emergency is declared in the Golden State amid fears that the heavy rains will trigger dangerous flooding and even mudslides. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.

     

  • Jim Young / Reuters

    Lieutenant Dan Choi, a gay Army officer honorably discharged under the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, gets a hug before President Barack Obama signs the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 lifting the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the U.S. armed forces at the Department of the Interior in Washington, on December 22, 2010.

    President Barack Obama signs the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act

    By Mish Whalen

    See the full coverage here.

  • Indonesia struggles to recover months after Merapi volcano eruption

    By Mish Whalen

    Getty Images photographer Ulet Ifansasti took some amazing photos this week at the site where 353 people were killed when the active volcano, Mount Merapi erupted on October 25, 2010. Authorities ordered the evacuation of over 350,000 people in the affected area, though many were reluctant to leave and often returned to their homes as eruptions and pryroclastic flows continued. On December 3, the official alert status was reduced from level four to level three, cautionary level, as the threat of hot ash clouds and projected material remained. See more photos from this devastating eruption. 

    Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Contributor

    Warjo Utomo (50), cleans up his car that was burnt by the eruption of Mount Merapi on December 17, 2010 in Kali Tengah Lor village, Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

    Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images

    A view of destroyed house after the eruption Mount Merapi.

    Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images

    Suprihatin sits with her son in front of their home destroyed by the eruption of Mount Merapi on December 17, 2010 in Kali Tengah Lor village, Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

    Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images

    A view of Mount Merapi from a destroyed house on December 16, 2010.

    Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images

    Bowls and cups covered by ash are seen in a home destroyed by the eruption of Mount Merapi.

  • Afghan National Army officers march during graduation ceremony in Kabul

    Ahmad Masood / Reuters

    Officers from the Afghan National Army NCOs march during a graduation ceremony in Kabul Dec. 22. 376 Afghan NCOs graduated at a ceremony at the Camp Ghazi on Wednesday in Kabul.

    Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images

    Afghan National Army officers attend a graduation ceremony at Ghazi Military Training Center in Kabul on Dec. 22.

    Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images

    Afghan National Army officers march during a graduation ceremony at Ghazi Military Training Center in Kabul on Dec. 22. has acknowledged that combat troops might remain into 2015.

    From Getty: The Afghan National Army currently numbers 100,000 troops, with plans for it to grow to 240,000 by 2011, funded by NATO and the US, in the hope that rapid improvement in their performance can see foreign forces start to draw down. Limited withdrawals are expected to start next July, with responsibility for security being handed to Afghan forces in 2014, although Obama has acknowledged that combat troops might remain into 2015.

  • Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    An Indian village woman arranges cow dung cakes to be dried in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 22.

    Poop: An eco-friendly alternative to firewood?

    From AP: Cow dung cakes are a major source of domestic fuel for rural households and an environment friendly alternative to firewood.

  • Pakistan daily life

    By Mish Whalen

    See more photos from Pakistan.

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    Afghan refugee girls react as they look at a herd of goats during a daily Islamic religious class in a mosque at a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    An elderly Afghan man, right, and a child stand by a railway track during the sunset in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.

    Faisal Mahmood / Reuters

    Girls collect tree branches with their shawls to burn later, in fire, on the outskirts of Islamabad on December 22, 2010.

  • Former Russian spy Anna Chapman joins youth group

    By Mish Whalen

    AP is reporting that a pro-Kremlin youth group elected Russian spy Anna Chapman to a top role in their youth wing today. The glamorous former agent was at the center of a spy ring uncovered by U.S. authorities in June. It was also reported that 28-year-old Chapman, who was deported from the U.S. along with nine others, would be featured nude in Playboy.

    Alexander Nemenov / AFP - Getty Images

    Former Russian spy Anna Chapman (L) speaks during a congress from a pro-Kremlin youth group, called Molodaya Gvardiya (The Young Guard) in Moscow, on December 22, 2010.

    Alexander Nemenov / AFP - Getty Images

    Former Russian spy Anna Chapman stands as she attends a congress of a pro-Kremlin youth group Molodaya Gvardiya.

  • Heavy flooding in Spain

    Jon Nazca / Reuters

    Workers clean a street flooded from heavy rain in the town of Ecija, Spain on December 22, 2010.

    Jon Nazca / Reuters

    A worker tries to find a sewer cover on a flooded street after heavy rains hit the town of Ecija, in the southern Spanish province of Seville oin December 22, 2010.

     

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