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Sep 2, 2013

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A Filipino Muslim woman enters a mosque to pray during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. AP Photo

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An artist’s sketch released by the FBI shows the skyjacker known as ‘Dan Cooper’ and ‘D.B. Cooper’, was made from the recollections of passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle, Nov. 24, 1971. FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich tells The Seattle Times that a law enforcement member directed investigators to a person who might have helpful information on Cooper. AP Photo

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Freeskier Ted Davenport of the United States crashes after launching off a drop during the World Heli Challenge Extreme Day at Mount Albert on Minaret Station in Wanaka, New Zealand. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

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Hindu pilgrims are carried on palanquins by Muslim bearers over a glacier near Amarnath Cave, 93 miles from Srinagar, India. At least half a million devotees make the pilgrimage to the icy cave which lies 13,500 feet above sea level in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid tight security. Hindus worship a stalagmite inside the cave as an incarnation of the Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration. AP Photo

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Immigrants chase riot police during clashes on the outskirts of Bari, southern Italy. Scuffles broke out in Bari between immigrants held at a local center and police, leaving scores injured. The immigrants occupied the railway station and hurled objects at police vans. The immigrants had been at the center for several months and were reportedly protesting lack of progress in processing their requests for asylum. AP Photo

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Two boys run at the high-end fashion section at a shopping mall during the first day of the month of Ramadan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. AP Photo

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A Filipino vendor crosses a bamboo bridge to sell belts in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines. AP Photo

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Aleksandar Cvetkovic, center, a Bosnian Serb immigrant who moved to Israel in 2006, attends a hearing at Jerusalem District Court August 1, 2011. The Israeli court ruled on Monday that the immigrant from the former Yugoslavia could be extradited to Bosnia to face genocide charges for involvement in the 1995 Srebernica massacre, though he can appeal the move. REUTERS

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U.S. Olympic medalist Michael Phelps teaches a Chinese Special Olympics athlete how to swim during an event in the Special Olympics in Shanghai. Phelps was appointed as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador. REUTERS

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A goldsmith works on a gold bangle at a workshop in Kolkata. India gold futures fell Monday afternoon, weighed down by weak overseas markets and a stronger rupee back home, though physical buyers awaited bigger falls before gearing up for festivals slated later this month. REUTERS

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A woman works at a construction site in Yangon, Myanmar. REUTERS

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People wait to board a tram in downtown Lisbon. Public transport fares in Portugal went up an average 15 percent on Monday. AP Photo

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A World Food Program worker walks past bags of relief food at a distribution center at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. The whole of drought- and conflict-wracked southern Somalia is heading into famine as the Horn of Africa food crisis deepens. In a report for countries sending aid, the U.N.’s umbrella humanitarian agency OCHA said the “crisis in southern Somalia is expected to continue to worsen through 2011, with all areas of the south slipping into famine”. REUTERS

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A general view of debris left behind after a massive fire gutted an Owino market, one of the largest outdoor makeshift facilities serving the entire region to eastern towns of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Uganda’s capital Kampala. REUTERS

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A man adjusts a sculpture “Giant Mermaid” on the Alster lake in the northern German city of Hamburg. AFP/Getty Images

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A man runs near MT Pavit, an unmanned Panama-flagged cargo vessel that ran aground Sunday at Juhu beach on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India. There are no reports of any oil leak. Another merchant vessel had got stuck off the same beach in June and was salvaged after three weeks. AP Photo

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Eric Sorby #917 and Matt Oppen #114 fall in the Moto X Enduro X Men during day 4 of X Games 17 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images

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Young boys lean over a giant sofa on the South Bank in London, England. Getty Images

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People visit the lavender theme park in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China’s Liaoning Province. The park, covering an area of 333 hectares, opened for public on Sunday. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Boiled dates are dried in the sun in a palm orchard in Rajankot near the city of Hyderabad. Pakistan is the fourth largest date producing country in the world, exporting to international markets comprising 30 countries, and producing 6.5 million metric tons annually. AFP/Getty Images

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Villagers gather next to derailed coaches after a passenger train collided with another near Malda, northeast of Kolkata, West Bengal state, India. A senior railway official said the accident occurred late Sunday after three coaches and the engine of the Gauhati-Bangalore express derailed and were thrown into the path of the oncoming Azimganj express. AP Photo

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Green Bay Packers ride bike to NFL football training camp Sunday in Green Bay, Wis. AP Photo

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A visitor plays with her shadow inside the “Luminarium” inflatable structure by British designer Alan Parkinson in Lisbon. The Luminarium is a sculpture where people enter to experience “a sense of wonder and the beauty of light and color,” according to the organizers. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante

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People sunbathe on the packed Gandia Beach in Valencia, Spain. August is the main holiday month in Spain, with thousands of people expected to visit the Mediterranean coastline over the course of the month. EPA

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A view of the illuminated Jama Masjid mosque after Indian Muslims break the daytime fast during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, near New Delhi, India. Muslims all over the world are observing the holy month of Ramadan which prohibits food, drinks, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. EPA

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Police fight suicide attackers who took over a guesthouse in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. Three suicide bombers raided a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Tuesday, killing four Afghan security guards employed by a German company, a senior police detective said. One attacker detonated a car bomb at the gates of the guesthouse. The other two stormed the building where they fought Afghan forces for a couple of hours before detonating their explosives. REUTERS

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, participates in an arm-wrestling contest during a visit at a summer camp run by the Nashi youth group at Lake Seliger in the central Tver region. Thousands of young activists from 84 regions of Russia gathered in the camp for the annual forum in Russia. AFP/Getty Images

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A car passes by a giant statue showing the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and graffitied face of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, left, near Cairo, a day before Mubarak, his security chief Habib el-Adly and six top police officers will face trial, on charges they ordered the use of lethal force against protesters during Egypt’s 18-day uprising, in which some 850 protesters were killed. At second left is Egyptian Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail, and at right Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The arabic reads ” Mubarak”. AP Photo

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People in a boat float past the sculpture “Giant Mermaid” on the Alster lake in the northern German city of Hamburg. The sculpture is created by art and advertising agency Oliver Voss. AFP/Getty Images

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Masses of seaweed are cleared away along the French coastline at Saint Michel-en-Greve, northern Brittany. The mysterious death of 36 wild boars on France’s northwestern coast baffled authorities on Tuesday after tests suggested large amounts of rotting seaweed strewn across beaches may not be to blame. Environmentalists had said that toxic, foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas emitted by the rotting seaweed had poisoned the animals in the Cotes d’Armor region of Brittany. Ecologists say that nitrates pollution in rivers from fertilisers used in intensive farming has boosted the growth of algae along France’s coastline. REUTERS

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Children swim and play through floodwaters brought by Typhoon Muifa in San Juan City, Philippines. Typhoon Muifa was located at 1,120 km East Northeast of Basco, Batanes with maximum sustained winds of 165 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 200 kph. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Tiger Woods makes his second shot on the first fairway during his practice round for the WCG Bridgestone Invitational PGA golf tournament in Akron, Ohio. REUTERS

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A worker lays batik cloth out on the grass to dry in Solo, central Java province. Indonesia will host the World Batik Global Summit next month in Jakarta. REUTERS

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Boys jump from the harbour wall at Viking Bay in Broadstairs, England. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

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A policeman inspects a burnt vehicle after a bomb attack took place outside a church in central Kirkuk north of Baghdad. A car bomb and two attempted bombs targeted three churches in northern Iraq on Tuesday in coordinated attacks that wounded at least 16 people in the ethnically and religiously mixed city of Kirkuk. REUTERS

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Anti-narcotic agents unload sacks containing packages of heroin during a press conference in Panama City. According to police, 639 packages of heroin and 468 packages of cocaine were seized in two different operations on Saturday and Sunday. AP Photo

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A boy swims in a knee-high floodwaters brought about by continuous rainfall from Typhoon Muifa along a main street in Maceda, metro Manila. REUTERS

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A huge plume of black smoke forms from the Nicos Polymers, a plastics recycling plant in Plainfield Township, Pa. Firefighters battled the blaze at the recycling plant that sent massive clouds of black smoke into the air in eastern Pennsylvania. AP Photo

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This photo courtesy of CN Tower shows EdgeWalk in Toronto, Ontario. EdgeWalk which opened on August 1 is the first of its kind in North America. It is the world‚ highest full-circle, hands-free walk on a five-foot-wide (1.5 m) ledge encircling the top of the Tower main pod. Visitors are able to walk in groups of six, while attached to an overhead safety rail via a trolley and harness system. Trained EdgeWalk guides encourage participants to push their personal limits, allowing them to lean out over Toronto where they can view the area. AFP/Getty Images

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A boy peers through a food tent while awaiting a handout meal before ‘Iftar’, when Muslims break their fast, on the second day of the holy month of Ramadan in Islamabad, Pakistan. Getty Images

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Patrick Gudauskas flies through the air off the face of a wave in the first day of competition at the U. S. Open of Surfing at the Huntington Beach pier. ZUMAPRESS.com

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As the sun rises behind them, runners make their way under scattered clouds early Tuesday morning on Doheny State Beach in Dana Point on their running and swimming trek from the San Clemente pier to the Balboa Pier in San Clemente, Calif. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Whirling dervishes perform at the Galata Whirling Dervish Hall, founded in 1491 by the Ottomans, in Istanbul, Turkey, on the second day of Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan. AP Photo

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An Indian worker dries Seviiyan – thin vermicelli – which is used for the preparation of ‘sheerkhorma’, a traditional sweet dish prepared by the Muslim community during the holy month of Ramadan at a food factory in Hyderabad. AFP/Getty Images

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A Pakistani commuter drives past a burning NATO oil tanker on the outskirts of Quetta. According to an official, two NATO oil tankers carrying logistic for ISAF forces from Karachi combusted after the vehicles where intercepted by armed men and fired upon. AFP/Getty Images

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U.S. photographer Steve McCurry shares a joke with legendary Turkish photojournalist Ara Guler during the opening of his exhibition at Istanbul Modern in Istanbul. REUTERS

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A fisherman rides his banca next to a fish pen in the calm waters off Manila Bay after the weather partially cleared in Manila. REUTERS

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A young boy jumps from the diving platform of an open air swimming pool in Hanover, northern Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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Muslim children read verses from the Koran at al-Amin mosque, in downtown Beirut, during the holy month of Ramadan. Schools of the The Islamic House of Orphans in Lebanon organized a trip to al-Amin mosque to teach children how to pray and to teach them about Islam. REUTERS

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Mayor Arturas Zuokas drives an armored tank over a car parked in a cycle lane during a publicity stunt as a warning for illegally parked cars on the city streets. REUTERS

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Students cross over to the other side of their school compound by walking on chairs after heavy rainfall from Typhoon Muifa caused floods in Dampalit, Malabon city, north of Manila. REUTERS

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A vessel floats amidst heavy fog passing by a river port on the Yenisei River near Peschanka village on the suburbs of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. REUTERS

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A helicopter lies on its side after crashing on the campus of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. An emergency service ER24 spokesman said there were four people in the helicopter but no one was injured. AP Photo

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Unidentified protesters clash outside the court where ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was due to be tried in Cairo, Egypt . Former President Hosni Mubarak arrived by helicopter Wednesday to the Cairo court for the opening of his historic trial on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. AP Photo

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This combination image made from video taken from Egyptian State Television shows different scenes of 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak on a hospital bed inside a cage in a Cairo courtroom as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. The scene, shown live on Egypt’s state TV, was Egyptians’ first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign. AP Photo

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A man walking near the spilled crude oil on the shores and in the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in the famous Nigerian oil-producing Ogoniland. AFP/Getty Images

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View of choppy seas in front of Santo Domingo’s Malecon seafront . The Dominican authorities have issued a red alert on 26 provinces and a yellow alert for the rest of the country as Tropical Storm Emily entered the country Wednesday early afternoon. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Haiti, the neighboring Dominican Republic, the US territory of Puerto Rico, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos islands, the US National Hurricane Center. AFP/Getty Images

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A hot air balloon flys as the sun sets in the eastern German city of Magdeburg where a three-day ballon festival is taking place. AFP/Getty Images

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An Indonesian woman reads a copy of the Koran on the fourth day of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta. Like millions of Muslim around the world, Indonesians celebrated the month of Ramadan by abstaining from eating, drinking and smoking as well as sexual activities from dawn to dusk. AFP/Getty Images

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A child stands in front of her home at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all are from war-ravaged Somalia. Some have been here for more than 20 years, when the country first collapsed into anarchy. But now more than 1,000 are arriving daily, fleeing fighting or hunger. AP Photo

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Contestants with umbrellas perform during the 2011 Miss Korea Contest at the Seijongro Cultural Center in Seoul, South Korea. AP Photo

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A barge transports three turbine rotary wheels along the Yenisei river on to the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station south of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. REUTERS

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Student trainees prepare to make a jump from a tower during a summer military camp for civilians organized by South Korean Special Warfare Command at a military training field in Seoul. About 1,000 civilians including middle and high school students have been participating in a four-day-camp at five military units across the country during the summer season to strengthen themselves mentally and physically and to promote national security awareness. REUTERS

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An Afghan carries his belongings as he passes burning fuel tankers in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. AP Photo

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Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake, in San Angelo, Texas. A bacteria called Chromatiaceae has turned the 1-to-2 acres of lake water remaining the color red. A combination of the long periods of 100 plus degree days and the lack of rain in the drought -stricken region has dried up the lake that once spanned over 5400 acres. AP Photo

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A Pakistani family waits to break their fast in the compound of Pakistan’s Mughal era Shahi Mosque during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. AP Photo

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Buddhist monk Geshe Tenley laughs as his robes flap in the breeze on the bow of a boat during the release of lobsters back into the ocean on “Chokhor Duchen”, or the anniversary of Buddha’s turning of the Dharma Wheel, in the waters off Gloucester, Massachusetts. REUTERS

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Bridegroom Kong Qingyang and his bride Shen Likun sit on a forklift, which is transformed into a wedding car, during their wedding in Xingtai, Hebei province. Kong, a former forklift driver, met his bride Shen, who was a forklift seller, while buying a forklift from her. REUTERS

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A fan from the group Vkontakte social network performs a striptease during a flash mob action in a Moscow street to support people who have stopped drinking. Getty Images

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A truckload of live turkeys arrives at the Cargill turkey processing plant in Springdale, Ark. The Agriculture Department and the Minnesota-based company announced Wednesday evening that Cargill is recalling fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company’s Springdale, Ark., plant from Feb. 20 through Aug. 2 due to possible contamination from the strain of salmonella linked to 76 illnesses and the one death. AP Photo

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Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, dressed in a Russian Orlan spacesuit, conducted a spacewalk on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 23-minute spacewalk, the Expedition 28 flight engineer moved a cargo boom from one airlock to another, installed a prototype laser communications system and deployed an amateur radio micro-satellite. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A crane lifts the wreckage of a bus that plunged into the lagoon after it veered off from the Felix Houphouet-Boigny bridge, one of two bridges of Abidjan, killing at least 20 people. AFP/Getty Images

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The Sugarloaf mountain and the Guanabara Bay are seen at dawn in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP Photo

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This combo photo shows a Chinese woman who attempted to commit suicide, left, as she is pulled back by a rescuer, right, at a high-rise residential and office complex in Beijing. AP Photo

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Stock traders work at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany. Europe’s debt crisis and fears over the U.S economy battered markets once again Friday, challenging vacationing European leaders to find a way to keep the turmoil from pushing Spain and Italy to financial collapse before a strengthened bailout fund can be put in place to help them. AP Photo

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A homeless man tries to rest inside a Tijuana River canal tunnel, in Tijuana, Mexico. AP Photo

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Demonstrators are prevented by military police from reaching Tahrir Square, to hold a protest in memory of protester Mohammed Mohsen, who died on Wednesday from wounds received during clashes in the Abbasiyah area of Cairo. AP Photo

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Iranian worshippers perform their Friday prayer, at Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran. AP Photo

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A displaced Somali woman takes her makeshift house apart as she prepares to move from Mogadishu’s Badbado camp where a firefight between Somali government forces and militiamen looting food aid left at least seven people dead. AP Photo

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Thailand’s new Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, center, waves to media at the parliament in Bangkok, Thailand after Thai lawmakers chose U.S.-educated businesswoman Yingluck as the country’s first female prime minister. AP Photo

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Riot police protect a prison car carrying former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko outside the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev, Ukraine. AP Photo

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Silhouetted against a dusk sky, a man practices walking on a slackline at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP Photo

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Soldiers run as a wave hits the coast in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China. REUTERS

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A worker carries a toilet bowl inside Romania’s new National Stadium, the Lia Manoliu Arena, which is under construction in Bucharest. The new 55,000-seat stadium will be the biggest in Romania and will host the 2012 Europa League final. REUTERS

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Nevada Division of Forestry firefighter Matt House back burns fuels on the east flank of the Suzie Fire about 10 miles northwest of Elko, Nevada. AP Photo

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A group of people enjoy the sunshine on Hampstead Heath in London, UK. Much of the UK is enjoying a current spell of hot weather which is likely to last until the weekend. Getty Images

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