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Dad has drawn doodles on sons' sandwich bags every day for 5 years

Dad has drawn doodles on sons' sandwich bags every day for 5 years

Massachusetts-based graphic artist David LaFerriere has kept up quite a family tradition: he's drawn a unique doodle on his sons' lunch sandwich bags every day since May 2008. He's photographed over 1,100 of them, which are available on his Flickr account. http://j.mp/Zb9uLp

Images from the weekend

Images from the weekend

Browse some of the most interesting photos shot from around the world over the weekend.

Photos: Frantic 911 call leads to 3 missing women in Ohio

Photos: Frantic 911 call leads to 3 missing women in Ohio

The woman's voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."

 
  • BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 22: A Chinese young performer dressed in dragon costumes prepares to perform at a temple fair to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Dragon on January 22, 2012 in Beijing, China. Falling on January 23 this year, the Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the Fifteenth day. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)
  • MKOMAZI, TANZANIA - JUNE 19: A five month old orphaned elephant called 'Tembo' plays with his keeper Thomas Chalice who has nutured the elephant at Tony Fitzjohn's Mkomazi rhino sanctuary on June 19, 2012 in Mkomazi, Tanzania. The Aspinall Foundation along with the Tusk Trust and the George Adamson Trust combined forces to stage a rare translocation of three captive born black rhino to Mkomazi National Park in Tanzania in order to rejuvenate numbers of the black rhino in the area. The three animals, Grumeti, Monduli and Zawadi were airlifted in a dedicated DHL Boeing 757 from Manston Airport in Kent direct to Kilimanjaro Int Airport in Tanzania. The rhino have been donated by Damian Aspinall, Chairman of The Aspinall Foundation, from their breeding group at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent. The reintroduction of endangered species to the wild to assist breeding programmes is a major focus of The Aspinall Foundation. Prince William as Patron of Tusk Trust and a dedicated campaigner against poaching visited the rhinos at Port Lympne ahead of their translocation and today released a speech via the BBC highlighting his dedication to the fight against the illegal trade of ivory. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
  • Rescuers help residents from a boat after being evacuated from their flooded homes in the village of Tumana, Marikina town, in suburban Manila on August 7, 2012, after torrential rains inundated most of the capital. Torrential rains brought the Philippines capital to a standstill on August 7 forcing at least 20,000 people to flee their homes as floodwaters covered half the sprawling city, authorities said. AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE (Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE/AFP/GettyImages)
  • FORT CARSON, CO - NOVEMBER 4: Gavin Shaw, 5, flashes a smile as he hugs his father, Master Sergeant Adam Shaw, during a Welcome Home Ceremony for approximately 230 4th Brigade Combat Team soldiers, November 4, 2012 in Fort Carson, Colorado. The soldiers had been deployed for nine months in various regions of Afghanistan. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
  • NEW YORK, NY- NOVEMBER 06: Raena Lamont, 3, wears a Captain America at a polling center doubling as a donation site November 6, 2012 in the Staten Island borough of New York City. As Staten Island continues to recover from Superstorm Sandy, a few polling stations have been relocated due to power outages or ongoing use as an evacuation center. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 11: An Afghan boy sells baloons on the side of a road on November 11, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
  • WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: U.S. President Barack Obama embraces U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) as members of Congress applaud before his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill January 24, 2012 in Washington, DC. The president made a populist pitch to voters for economic fairness, saying the federal government should more do to balance the benefits of a capitalist society. (Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)
  • Kalahari Bushmen, workers and a member of US NGO Vox United install a pump for a water well on February 19, 2012 in Molapo, in the centre of the Kalahari Game Reserve. After winning a long court battle with Botswana's government, new water wells mean the Bushmen of the Kalahari can now return to their ancestral lands -- but with many already adopting the ways of modernity, their legendary desert civilisation may be a thing of the past. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images)
  • JERSEY CITY, NJ - APRIL 30: People sit in Exchange Place as construction continues on One World Trade Center (TOP) after workers moved a steel column into place to make it New York City's tallest building on April 30, 2012 as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. One World Trade Center's height is now just beyond the 1,250 feet of the observation deck at the Empire State Building. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
  • CAIRO, EGYPT - JUNE 24: Egyptians celebrate the election of their new president Mohamad Morsi in Tahrir Square on June 24, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Official election results today confirmed that Mohamed Morsi is to be the next president of Egypt. Morsi received over 13 million or 51.7% of the votes, while his main rival, former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, received 48.27 percent. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
  • A Libyan woman is comforted by friends as she cries of joy outside a polling station after voting for the Libyan General National Assembly on July 7, 2012. Eager voters cast ballots in Libya's first free national elections for decades after the ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but protesters disrupted some polling in the troubled east. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/GettyImages)
  • MTHATHA, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 18: (SOUTH AFRICA OUT) Children at the Bethany Home - Place of Safety sing
  • WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: (L-R) Kelly Vielmo and partner Jack Montgomery see their portrait turn into total chaos after getting married and adopting Ravyn, 2, Cardel, 6 and Raine, 3 on the same day in Washington, DC on Thursday, July 26, 2012. The children, who are from the same birth mother, have been living with the couple as foster children for a year. Montgomery and Vielmo decided to do both events on the same day out of convenience for family members who came to town. After the adoption, Montgomery piped up saying,
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 09: Oscar Pistorius of South Africa reacts after they failed to finish during the Men's 4 x 400m Relay Round 1 heats on Day 13 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 9, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
  • JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 10 (SOUTH AFRICA OUT): Three-year-old burn victim Isabella Pippie Kruger blows bubbles with her mother, Anice Kruger during her first visit home, following a revolutionary skin transplant, August 10, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Isabella was severely burnt on 80 percent of her body when a gel firelighter exploded in her father's hands on New Year's Eve. She underwent a ground-breaking operation which grafted skin, grown from her own cells in a laboratory in the United States, onto her body. (Photo by Loanna Hoffmann/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 21: (ISRAEL OUT) Palestinians enjoy a day at a beach during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan on August 21, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel. According to the Israel's coordinator for government activities in the territories, Israel has allowed the entry of over 1 million Palestinians from the occupied West Bank since the beginning of Ramadan due to improved security. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
  • NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 17: Protesters with 'Occupy Wall Street' rest on the ground during demonstrations on September 17, 2012 in New York City. The 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, which sparked international protests and sympathy for its critique of the global financial crisis, is commemorating the first anniversary of its earliest protest. The main protest began in front of the New York Stock Exchange and was preceded by a series of days where free courses were offered on such topics as Marxism, anarchism, education and finance. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
  • JAKARTA, INDONESIA - OCTOBER 15: A mother help her baby to wash her hands on Global Handwashing Day on October 15, 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Celebrated in over 100 countries, Global Handwashing Day is an annual awareness day which aims to put the global spotlight on handwashing with soap as a lifesaving habit. (Photo by Oscar Siagan/Getty Images for Unilever)
  • NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 23: South Korean singer Psy (R), whose real name is Park Jae-sang, visits UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations on October 23, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
  • US President Barack Obama embraces First Lady Michelle Obama during his last campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on November 5, 2012. After a grueling 18-month battle, the final US campaign day arrived Monday for Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, two men on a collision course for the world's top job. The candidates have attended hundreds of rallies, fundraisers and town halls, spent literally billions on attack ads, ground games, and get out the vote efforts, and squared off in three intense debates. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
  • SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 08: South Korean high school girls cheer for their senior classmates taking the College Scholastic Ability Test on November 8, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. More than 660,000 high school seniors and graduates sit for the examinations at 1,100 test centers across the country, where academic records are all important. Success in the exam, one of the most rigourous standardized tests in the world, enables students to study at Korea's top universities. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
  • An Afghan health worker administers a polio vaccination to a boy on the second day of a vaccination campaign in the city of Jalalabad on November 20, 2012. A new three-day nationwide immunisation campaign against polio began on November 19 in a joint operation with the Ministry of Public Health, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Afghanistan is one of only of a handful of countries in the world that still has the crippling polio virus with new cases reported every year. AFP PHOTO/ Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
 

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