The pictures that Vatican didn't want you to see

Kim Kardashian is on the cover of three magazine covers this December. Marie Claire in the US must be resenting their long lead time with a story written before Kim announced her divorce. In the article she describes her marriage as the “best time in my life” and says the key to a happy marriage is “taking care of each other’s needs and being there for someone unconditionally.” Okay…

Ads from Italian fashion retailer Benetton could be the clue to solving world peace. Apparently not, according to the Vatican who said the images – which show a photoshopped Pope Benedict XVI kissing an imam in the name of UNHATE – were “absolutely unacceptable use of the image of the Holy Father.” The Vatican is planning legal action.

Here are all those pics, plus some more. Happy clicking! Tell us what you think.

These are the images the Vatican labelled as an unacceptable use of the image of the Holy Father. To the right is a photoshopped image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing an imam.

Oh the powers of Photoshop. This is US president Barack Obama kissing China's Hu Jintao

President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel

US President Barack Obama and President of Venezuela Chavez

North Korea's Kim Jong-il and South Korea President Lee Myung-bak

Bradley Cooper crowned the sexiest man alive. Do you agree?

Men in heels. This Giampaolo Sgura spread aims to address the rise of gender-bending creations over the past couple of years.

It features a series of male models – such as Malthe Lund Madsen, Alexandre Cunha, Sebastian Sauvé and Gil Soares - fitting their feet into high heels.

This image was also part of the series.

20-year-old Mariah Yeater drops her paternity lawsuit against Justin Bieber. She earlier claimed that Bieber was the father of her 4-month-old son.

A series of Andrej Pejic shots in a Seventh Man editorial, putting behind the scenes in front of the camera.

13-year-old Chloe Glassi win’s Girlfriend magazine’s model search, giving her a so-called headstart in the modeling world. Hmmm….

Sick of being the victim of taunting and name-calling, a 7-year-old in the US has published a book, Not Fat Because I Wanna Be, to help other kids cope with being overweight.

US President Barack Obama arrives in Australia

Obama is greeted by PM Julia Gillard and GG Quentin Bryce

Welcome to Australia.

President Obama addresses a special sitting at Parliament House in Canberra

On the cover of W Magazine, Dakota and Elle Fanning give the Olsen sisters a run for their money.

Dakota and Elle Fanning give the Olsen sisters a run for their money.

This photograph was sold for $4.3 million, making it the most expensive photograph in the world. It of the Rhine river in Germany, taken by German artist Andreas Gursky in 1999. Why was it so expensive? Not sure.

This from New York. Zuccotti Park before Occupy Wall Street protestors were evicted from the site this week.

And this is after.

The wives and girlfriends of golfers competing in the Predisent's Cup attend a ceremony in Melbourne – in uniform. At the ceremony, Greg Norman told the women to contribute to player success by keeping players appropriately relaxed

Ryan Gosling. Good enough to eat? Chicago-based pancake artist Katherine Kalnes made this using frosting, peanut butter and raisins.

How about Justin Beiber?

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Kim Kardashian sells magazines. She’s on the cover of three magazines this month.

US Marie Claire was even quick enough to change their cover. But the story was written before Kim announced the divorce. It reveals her secrets to marital bliss.

They look kind of cute, but this is probably why the hippopotamus is the most dangerous animal in the world. South African Marius Els was mauled to death by his pet hippo Humphrey, who he raised from the age of 5 months.

50 men and women took to the streets of Kabul in an anti-street harassment march.

Clarifications ahoy! These Yes - But No memes dispel common misconceptions. Have you got any to add?

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Proof of extraterrestrial life? A women in Russia kept this alien corpse in her fridge for two years after its UFO crashed in her garden. Apparently.

Vanishing artist Liu Bolin at a supermarket in Beijing, China.

Kathy Griffin had Jesse Tyler Ferguson pay homage to Janet Jackson’s 1983 issue of Rolling Stone in the latest issue of Out magazine.

This is the original cover

The first covers of famous magazines. They look a little different now, huh?

The first issue of People magazine

The first issue of Vanity Fair

Freelance journalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander took these pictures of polar bears stranded in Alaska as part of a project documenting climate change.

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