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Sep 2, 2013

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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Endeavour carried six astronauts into orbit on its 25th and final flight , taking the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector, supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station. Reuters

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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sits inside Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City. Strauss-Kahn was arraigned on charges of sexually attacking a maid at a Manhattan hotel. Getty Images

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A rebel walks next to a cartoon depicting Moammar Khadafy as Adolf Hitler, holding a book titled ‘My Green Book’ in the rebel Media Center in Benghazi, Libya. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, announced Monday that he would seek arrest warrants against the leader of Libya, Moammar Khadafy, his son Seif al-Islam and the country’s intelligence chief on charges of crimes against humanity. AP

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A woman throws a ball against members of Portugal’s Left Bloc party dressed as pins during a pretend bowling game against the International Monetary Fund in downtown Lisbon. Later Monday finance ministers were expected to sign off on a massive bailout by the EU and the IMF. The pins reads in Portuguese “salary cuts, privatization, making dismissals easier”. AP

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Kurdish protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration in Istanbul against the recent killing of 12 Kurdish rebels by security forces. AFP/Getty Images

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Mikko Koivu, captain of Finland ice hockey team, (C), holds the Ice Hockey World Championship trophy aloft as team Finland returns home as the 2011 champions, after landing at the Helsinki International Airport. Finland secured its second ever championship win in the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship competition in Bratislava, Slovakia. AP

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France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with residents during a ceremony to pay tribute to French police officers killed in service in Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris. Reuters

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Buddhist monks cross a busy street as they walk to collect donations ahead of a Vesak Day procession in Magelang, central Java. Reuters

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A man is silhouetted against the setting sun while he waters plants at Ravi park in Lahore. Reuters

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A Yemeni boy looks on while female anti-government protestors chant prayers during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. AP

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Divers examine the wreckage of Russian destroyer Moskva, which sunk in the Black Sea on June 26, 1941 during a naval battle along the Romanian coast,. The warship, the most important World War II military shipwreck from the Black Sea, was discovered earlier this month about 12 miles from the Romanian shore, by a joint team from Romania, Ukraine and Russia. Reuters

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A supporter shouts to embattled FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi as he addresses reporters in Bangkok. Makudi is planning to take legal action against former English Football Association chairman David Triesman after being implicated in a bribery scandal. Reuters

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A fence is pushed towards police in Dublin after fighting broke out between protesters and police on Dublin’s Henry Street ahead of a visit to the city by the Queen of England. Mark Moloney/Demotix

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy addresses workers in Novacarb plant in Laneuville-devant-Nancy, eastern France, as part of an official visit devoted to the employment of elderly persons in France. Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper is reporting that France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is pregnant. AP Photo

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Devotees wishing to rejuvenate their spirits unfurl a giant canvas painting of Sakyamuni Buddha to dry in the sun in Ipoh, Malaysia. AP Photo

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A Pakistani child, with his face covered with flies, sits inside a wooden cart in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo

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A man is detained by riot police during demonstrations in north Dublin. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day state visit to Ireland today which is the first state visit by a British monarch since Ireland’s independence. REUTERS

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Surfer Kelly Slater competes in the round one of the Billabong Rio Pro surfing competition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP Photo

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A man wades through a polluted canal on the outskirts of Beijing. China is now the world’s second largest economy, but hundreds of millions of its people still rely on fouled water that will cost billions of dollars to clean. REUTERS

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Farmers clear out watermelons that had burst from their rented greenhouse in Danyang city in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. Watermelon fields in eastern China are a mess of burst fruit after farmers abused growth chemicals in an attempt to make extra money but ended up ruining their crops. AP Photo

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Irish Army Rangers take up positions at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Ireland, ahead of the arrival of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. Authorities defused a bomb hours before the Queen was to begin the first visit by a British monarch to the south of Ireland in a century, a trip designed to celebrate the healing of ancient wounds and the triumph of peacemaking in neighboring Northern Ireland. AP Photo

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A visitor walks past the installations “Little Planetary Harmony,” left, from 2006 and “A Uniform Sample,” right, from 2004 by Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret at the Aargauer Kunsthaus art museum in the town of Aarau west of Zurich. REUTERS

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Buddhists monks attend a ceremony during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death, at Wat Dharmmakaya in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok. REUTERS

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A model showcases a piece from the Triumph Lingerie Competition during the annual Singapore Fashion Festival in Singapore. AP Photo

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Back-dropped by the building of the Tel Aviv municipality, Israeli illusionist and endurance artist Hezi Dean stands atop of a tower where he intends to remain for 35 hours, at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel. Dean started his most recent stunt Wednesday in an attempt to break the record of American illusionist and endurance artist David Blaine. Dean was raised on the 27-meter-high tower Wednesday morning and aims to remain there with no food until Thursday evening, for a total of 35 hours. AP Photo

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A 22-year-old woman in a wedding gown is grabbed by Guo Zhongfan, a local community officer, as she attempts to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-story residential building in Changchun, Jilin province, China. According to local media, the woman tried to commit suicide after her boyfriend of four years broke up with her, just as they were making plans to get married. REUTERS

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Camels crossing the sand dunes look so small they almost appear invisible in the vast expanse of the desert. The stunning photograph shows a famous ‘camel caravan crossing’ through the Erg Chebbi desert, in Morocco. Splash News

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Brightly and colourfully lit pandals draw large crowds of Vesak sightseers in Colombo, Sri Lanka. EPA

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An emergency response team tries to extinguish a fire during a nuclear disaster drill in Bali, northern Taiwan. Taiwan held the preparedness drill simulating a Japanese-type disaster in a nuclear power plant in the northern part of the island. AP Photo

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Activists from the women’s rights organization Femen and housing owners protest against the delay of the completion of a housing project in Kiev. Femen activists and housing owners on Wednesday held a rally to demand the authorities to look into the more than 5 years of delay in the completion of their purchased apartments. REUTERS

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The space shuttle Atlantis STS-135 is prepared for mating to the external tank and solid rocket boosters inside the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. REUTERS

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A model showcases lingerie brand Triumph’s vintage-inspired collection during the annual Singapore Fashion Festival in Singapore. AP Photo

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South Korean marines run to take position after a landing during a military drill in Pohang, southeast of Seoul. Thousands of troops including about 2,000 marines are taking part in a major exercise to test their capability to mount beach assaults and landings. AFP/Getty Images

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Labourers work at the construction site of a commercial complex in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar. The infrastructure sector accounts for just over a quarter of India’s industrial output. REUTERS

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Firefighters prepare to extinguish a fire of an unknown origin at a residential-commercial area in Felix Huertas, Metro Manila. No one has been initially reported to be injured in the fire. REUTERS

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The space shuttle Atlantis STS-135 is hoisted to the high bay for mating to the external tank and solid rocket boosters inside the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. REUTERS

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Policemen detain an activist from the women’s rights organization “Femen” after she attempted to prevent business owners from holding a protest rally near the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. Entrepreneurs held a rally on Thursday to demand Ukrainian authorities to preserve taxation simplified system, to stop rising prices and to increase salaries and pension benefits. REUTERS

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Dancers from the English National Ballet pose in tutus made by top fashion designers at the Orangery, Kensington palace in central London. The dancers were wearing tutus created by top fashion designers including Julien Macdonald, Giles Deacon and Agent Provocateur to be auctioned at the English National Ballet Summer Fundraising Party on June 29. AFP/Getty Images

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Australian surfer Marti Paradisis rides a 12-meter wave at Shipstern Bluff near Hobart in Tasmania. According to local media reports, surfers were towed by jetski into one of the biggest swells seen at Shipstern Bluff, formerly known as Devil’s Point, in 10 years. REUTERS

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A copy of the letter of resignation in French from International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, sent to IMF headquaters in Washington, DC. Strauss-Kahn resigned Thursday, May 18, as head of the IMF, but maintained he was innocent of the sexual assault charges against him. “It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of Managing Director of the IMF,” he said in a statement. “I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me,” the statement added. Strauss-Kahn, a leading French politician, is jailed in New York awaiting a grand jury decision on whether to indict him on charges of the alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a 32-year-old Manhattan hotel chambermaid. AFP/Getty Images

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) dunks over Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer, left, and center Joakim Noah during the first quarter of Game 2 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals in Chicago. AP Photo

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Fishmonger Pat O’Connell shows his wares to Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to the English Market in Cork, Ireland, on the fourth and final day of her first-ever state visit. The ambitious trip has been hailed by many as consolidating a new era of cooperation between England and Ireland. AP Photo

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A Palestinian youth throws a stone towards Israeli security forces during clashes at Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah. President Barack Obama met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday as a new U.S. push for Middle East peace opened one of the deepest divides in years in relations between the United States and close ally Israel. REUTERS

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Smoke and flames pour from the Libyan Navy frigate Al Ghardabia after it was hit during an airstrike by Tornado bombers of Britain’s Royal Force on the port area of Tripoli. NATO confirmed that its warplanes targeted the vessels and accused Libya of using its ships in the escalating conflict, including attempts to mine the harbor in Misrata. Rebels trying to end the nearly 40-year rule of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy have been struggling to hold the Western city of Misrata against repeated attacks by forces loyal to Moammar Khadafy. AP Photo

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An old school bus sits in floodwaters from the rising Mississippi River in St. Francisville, La., where a dozen homes and businesses, and several camps were flooded. Residents were leaving in the face of a mandatory evacuation order set to kick in on Saturday as Mississippi River water flowing through the Morganza spillway is expected to reach communities in the Atchafalaya Basin. AP Photo

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A North Korean soldier holds a badminton racket on the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. Confusion surrounded a North Korean visit to China on Friday, as media in the South said the North’s leader Kim Jong-il had crossed the border, contradicting earlier reports that his son and heir apparent Kim Jong-un had travelled. REUTERS

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A Panamanian policeman guards the perimeter where several drugs are burned in Panama City. The police seized 6.5 tons during operations carried out in all the country. AFP/Getty Images

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Anti-government protesters attend a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. Saleh called on Friday for early elections in an apparent bid to stave off Gulf and Western pressure to leave office, as thousands rallied for and against his three-decade rule. REUTERS

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Students celebrate the last day of school by cooling off in a fountain in downtown Belgrade. REUTERS

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Using the International Space Station’s Canadarm2, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) is transferred from space shuttle Endeavour’s payload bay for installation on the station’s starboard truss. EPA

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Syrian soldiers deploy in the Syrian village of Arida, as seen from the northern Lebanese village of Wadi Khaled near the Lebanese-Syrian border. Syria deployed tanks in the border village on Thursday, witnesses said, ignoring growing pressure from Washington which called on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to stop trying to crush popular unrest or step aside. REUTERS

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Two-year-old Green Sea Turtle “Sea Biscuit” with her front left flipper missing, swims past senior aquarist Marina Tsamoulos (R), who is standing in a tropical reef aquarium at Oceanworld Manly, north of Sydney. Sea Biscuit who was rescued by Oceanworld staff in 2009 and was so badly injured when washed ashore that she lost her front left flipper, has been handraised by Tsamoulos and has learnt to dive and swim with her remaining three flippers. World Turtle Day will be celebrated on May 23. AFP/Getty Images

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A resident of the Niger Delta village of Ayakoromo, who fled to the desperately poor village of Gbekebor in the Niger Delta swamps when fighting re-erupted recently between militants of the John Togo group and soldiers, cries for help. The displaced Ayakoromo residents are scattered in neighboring towns and villages in the Niger Delta following a raid by soldiers in search of Togo, who has repeatedly slipped away from soldiers trying to kill him. They are eager to return to their deserted homes but will not by allowed by soldiers who have barricaded the waters leading to the community. AFP/Getty Images

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A worker sets up the stage for the 19th Life Ball in front of the city hall in Vienna. Life Ball is Europe’s largest annual AIDS charity event and will take place on May 21. REUTERS

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A supporter (R) of Bulgaria’s nationalist party “Attack” clashes with a Muslim worshipper during Friday prayers in front of the Banya Bashi Mosque in central Sofia. Supporters of the party clashed with Muslim worshippers on Friday during a rally organised by the party to protest the use of loudspeakers at the mosque. REUTERS

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Cambodian fine arts school students take part in a performance to mark the annual ‘Day of Anger’ at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial in Phnom Penh. Cambodians demanded harsh punishment on May 20, for ex-Khmer Rouge leaders as they marked an annual “Day of Anger” with a re-enactment of crimes by the regime at a notorious “killing field”. AFP/Getty Images

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