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Jessica Sager

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Aug 12, 2014

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Two unnamed female Sri Lankan baby leopards (Panthera pardus kotiya) are seen in a zoo in Maubeuge August 12, 2014. The Sri Lankan leopards, reported as an endangered animal species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, were born on July 1, according to the zoo media office. REUTERS/Yves Herman (FRANCE - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)

Female Sri Lankan leopard cubs play in a Maubeuge, France, zoo. Reuters

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A resident walks with a dog across the drying bottom of the Paraibuna dam, part of the Cantareira water system that provides greater Sao Paulo with most of its water, in Redencao da Serra, August 11, 2014. The Paraibuna river is at its lowest level in more than a decade, putting at risk plans by the Sao Paulo state water authorities to pump water from there to offset the effects of a record drought and increasing the likelihood of water rationing in the near future in South America's largest city, according to local media. REUTERS/Roosevelt Cassio (BRAZIL - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS ANIMALS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Sao Paulo, Brazil, resident walks across the bottom of the dry Paraibuna dam. Reuters

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Chinese artist Zhou Jie takes a nap on an unfinished iron wire bed, one of her sculpture works, after lunch as a friend of hers looks on at Beijing Now Art Gallery, in Beijing August 11, 2014. Zhou started her art project titled "36 Days" on August 9, in which she would live inside an exhibition hall with an unfinished iron wire bed, some iron wire sculptures in the shape of stuffed animal dolls, a certain amount of food and her mobile phone, for 36 days. The entire process is open to visitors and she may also interact with them, according to Zhou. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Artist Zhou Jie naps on an iron wire bed in a Beijing art gallery. Reuters

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Doctor for tropical medicine Florian Steiner (R) and ward physician Thomas Klotzkowski step out of a disinfection chamber after cleaning their protective suits, at the quarantine station for patients with infectious diseases at the Charite hospital in Berlin August 11, 2014. The isolation ward at the Charite is one of several centres in Germany equipped to treat patients suffering from ebola and other highly infectious diseases, the clinic's doctor for tropical medicine Florian Steiner said. Ebola is one of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. It has no proven cure and there is no vaccine to prevent infection. The most effective treatment involves alleviating symptoms that include fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. The rigorous use of quarantine is needed to prevent its spread, as well as high standards of hygiene for anyone who might come into contact with the disease. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: HEALTH TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Doctors in quarantine gear exit a disinfection chamber at a Berlin, Germany, hospital. Reuters

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Tiffany Porter of Britain competes in the women's 100 metres hurdles heat during the European Althletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich August 12, 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble (SWITZERLAND - Tags: SPORT ATHLETICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Tiffany Porter of Britain competes in the women’s 100-meter hurdle at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, Switzerland. Reuters

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Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 11, 2014. Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. The Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, has prompted tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians to flee for their lives during their push to within a 30-minute drive of the Kurdish regional capital Arbil. Picture taken August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Displaced Yazidi citizens flee from violence in Sinjar, Iraq, towards Syria. Reuters

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attend a welcoming ceremony onboard guided missile cruiser Moskva at the Black Sea port of Sochi, August 12, 2014. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi show off their shades in Sochi, Russia. Reuters

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A Palestinian woman holds her daughter as they stand in front of their house, which witnesses said were destroyed in an Israeli offensive, during a 72-hour truce in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip August 12, 2014. Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Gaza militants are "difficult", Palestinian delegates said on Tuesday, while Israeli officials said no progress had been made so far and fighting could soon resume. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Palestinian woman holds her daughter outside the remains of her home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. Reuters

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An Israeli tank patrols just outside the border with the northern Gaza Strip August 12, 2014. Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Gaza militants are "difficult", Palestinian delegates said on Tuesday, while Israeli officials said no progress had been made so far and fighting could soon resume. REUTERS/ Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An Israeli tank patrols the northern Gaza Strip border. Reuters

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A demonstrator looks on during a rally that was held to mark the 120th day since the abduction of two hundred school girls by the Boko Haram, in Abuja August 12, 2014. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)

A man protests in a “Bring Back Our Girls” rally in Abuja, Nigeria. Reuters

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A F/A-18E Super Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA-31) comes in to land onboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), in the Gulf August 12, 2014. Planes have been taking off from the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN77) to strike key positions taken over by the Islamic State fighters in Iraq. U.S. President Barack Obama has authorised air strikes to confront the Islamist fighters in various cities of Iraq. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed (MID-SEA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY MARITIME)

A F/A-18E Super Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron lands onboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), in the Persian Gulf. Reuters

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Demonstrators raise their hands while protesting against the death of black teenager Michael Brown, outside St Louis County Circuit Clerk building in Clayton, Missouri August 12, 2014. Police said Brown, 18, was shot in a struggle with a gun in a police car but have not said why Brown was in the car. At least one shot was fired during the struggle and then the officer fired more shots before leaving the car, police said. But a witness to the shooting interviewed on local media has said that Brown had been putting his hands up to surrender when he was killed. The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the racially charged case and St. Louis County also is investigating. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Citizens protest the death of Michael Brown in St. Louis, Mo. Reuters

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Rev. Al Sharpton raises his hands during a news conference on the death of black teenager Michael Brown, in St. Louis, Missouri August 12, 2014. Police said Brown, 18, was shot in a struggle with a gun in a police car but have not said why Brown was in the car. At least one shot was fired during the struggle and then the officer fired more shots before leaving the car, police said. But a witness to the shooting interviewed on local media has said that Brown had been putting his hands up to surrender when he was killed. The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the racially charged case and St. Louis County also is investigating. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Rev. Al Sharpton demonstrates in St. Louis, Mo. Reuters

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LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 12: A woman dressed as Marilyn Monroe poses next to a Red Sequined gown during a photocall at Christie's Auction House on August 12, 2014 in London, England. The dress which was worn by Marilyn Monroe in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' makes up part of a collection of memorabilia from popular culture from the David Gainsborough Roberts collection, which will be on display at Christie's Auction House, South Kensington until September 2, 2014. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A Marilyn Monroe impersonator stands near one of the star’s gowns on auction at Christie’s in London. Getty

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PROBOLINGGO, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA - AUGUST 12: A Tenggerese worshipper stands at Mount Bromo's 'Sea of Sand' during the Yadnya Kasada Festival on August 12, 2014 in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia. The festival is the main festival of the Tenggerese people and lasts about a month. On the fourteenth day, the Tenggerese make the journey to Mount Bromo to make offerings of rice, fruits, vegetables, flowers and livestock to the mountain gods by throwing them into the volcano's caldera. The origin of the festival lies in the 15th century when a princess named Roro Anteng started the principality of Tengger with her husband Joko Seger, and the childless couple asked the mountain Gods for help in bearing children. The legend says the Gods granted them 24 children but on the provision that the 25th must be tossed into the volcano in sacrifice. The 25th child, Kesuma, was finally sacrificed in this way after initial refusal, and the tradition of throwing sacrifices into the caldera to appease the mountain Gods continues today. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

A worshiper stands at Mount Bromo during the Yadnya Kasada Festival in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia. Getty

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In this Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 photo, A girl part of the Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for Children juggles clubs during a performance at the European Union Compound in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Mini Mobile Circus for Children is a program run by a nonprofit group supported by foreign embassies and others in Afghanistan. Some 850 children across the country take part in the program, which includes children from refugee families and orphanages. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

A girl juggles in the Afghanistan Mobile Mini Circus for Children in Kabul. AP

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An aircraft comes in to land at Britains Royal Air Force Base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. British Bases spokesperson Kristian Gray says a number of Tornado surveillance aircraft will be stationed at the base from where they will carry out missions to support thousands of people fleeing advancing Islamic militant forces in northern Iraq. Gray says three C-130 transport aircraft and a Voyager refueling plane will also be using the base to assist in the relief effort. (AP Photos/Pavlos Vrionides)

An plane lands at Britains Royal Air Force Base in Akrotiri, Cyprus. AP

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A group of Myanmar rice-field workers cover themselves in plastic sheets as monsoon rain pour down in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Monday, Aug 11, 2014. Farmers grow rice with the help of the monsoon rain, which starts late May and ends in mid-October. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Rice workers cover themselves from monsoon rains in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. AP

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A photo of the late actor Robin Williams playing Mork from Ork hangs with flowers and notes left by people paying their respects, at a makeshift memorial in Boulder, Colo., Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014, outside the home where the 80s TV series Mork & Mindy, starring Williams, was set. Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday, Aug. 11, in an apparent suicide. He was 63. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Tributes to Robin Williams are outside the “Mork and Mindy” house in Boulder, Colo. AP

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Bees kept by Joe Moncecchi fill honey cells in a healthy hive in Pittsfield, Mass., Monday Aug 11, 2014. Moncecchi tends hives at local farms as a second job to ensure pollination of crops. He has managed to keep damage from Colony Collapse Disorder to a minimum by keeping his small apiaries separate. (AP Photo The Berkshire Eagle, Ben Garver) BERKSHIRE COURIER OUT, GREAT BARRINGTON RECORD OUT, RURAL INTELLIGENCER OUT, BERKSHIRES OUT

Bees fill honey cells in a Pittsfield, Mass., hive. AP

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Conservator Liisa Nasanen uses tools to remove encrustation from the hull of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. After the submarine sat in a chemical bath for more than three months to help loosen the encrustation, scientists on Tuesday began the laborious job of removing the built-up sediment by hand. The work is expected to take between eight months and a year and scientists hope that when the hull is revealed, it will provide the final clues as to why the hand-cranked sub, the first in history to sink an enemy warship, sank off South Carolina in 1864. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Conservator Liisa Nasanen cleans a Confederate submarine in North Charleston, S.C. AP

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A truck tries to maneuver between stranded, abandoned cars on a Highland Park, Mich., street Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014., a day after several inches of rain fell on the Detroit area. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Kimberly P. Mitchell)

Flooding in Highland Park, Mich., makes driving dangerous. AP

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Newborn giant panda triplets, which were born to giant panda Juxiao (not pictured), are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province August 9, 2014. According to local media, this is the fourth set of giant panda triplets born with the help of artificial insemination procedures in China, and the birth is seen as a miracle due to the low reproduction rate of giant pandas. Picture taken August 9, 2014. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Newborn giant panda triplets incubate at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. Reuters

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