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Sep 2, 2013

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Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev (L) shakes hands with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron during their meeting in Moscow’s Kremlin. REUTERS

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Children play in a flooded street in Sena district, Ayutthaya province, about 50 miles north of Bangkok. REUTERS

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The Tribute in Light rises over the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan. AP Photo

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A young girl walks amongst horse statues built as a tribute to Genghis Khan whose unmarked tomb is claimed to be nearby, in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia. AFP/Getty Images

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People play on a 3-D street painting at a shopping mall in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A bungy jumper leaps from the platform on Ben Lomond mountain against the backdrop of Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown, New Zealand. AP Photo

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A visitor looks at fetus specimens at the Mysterious Life museum of Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Co. Ltd. in Dalian, Liaoning province, China. REUTERS

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Chris “The Duchess” Walton shows off her Guinness world record holding fingernails outside the New York Public Library. Her nails measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand that she has been growing for 18 years. REUTERS

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An American and a Russian fan enjoy the atmosphere during the IRB 2011 Rugby World Cup Pool C in New Zealand. Getty Images

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A metal fan in a wheelchair is lifted into the crowd during a concert at Yankee Stadium in New York. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post

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A woman waves a flag as thousands of Macedonians celebrate in the central square in Skopje after the Macedonian basketball team’s victory against Lithuania in the EuroBasket 2011 championships. AFP/Getty Images

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A Thai laborer performs maintenance work on a high-rise building using a rope in downtown Bangkok. AFP/Getty Images

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An elderly Chinese Muslim Uighur man prays at his hat shop in Kashgar, China’s Xinjiang region. AFP/Getty Images

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Afghan children play on a truck tire in Kabul. REUTERS

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Workers walk around the 1-ton 24K gold bull sculpture unveiled in the newly completed New Village Building in Huaxi village in Jiangyin city in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. AP Photo

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, (C), and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, hidden behind Sarkozy, visit injured people in the Tripoli Medical center. AP

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The damaged freighter ship “Janine” from the Netherlands is wedged between the banks of the Hunte River in Neunhuntorf, Germany. EPA

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Demonstrators block the street with wood and scraps of metal while hurling rocks at the U.N. military soldiers during an anti-U.N. protest in Port-au-Prince. REUTERS

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Indian artists work with metal pots at a pandal or makeshift for an idol of Goddess Durga before Durga Puja festival in the Eastern Indian ciy of Calcutta. EPA

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Smoke billows from the MS Nordlys cruise liner off the port of Aalesund. Two people died after a cruise liner caught fire off Norway’s coast and 200 were evacuated. REUTERS

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Characters from a galaxy far far away invade Manhattan for the release of “Star Wars: The Complete Saga” on Blu-ray, which goes on sale tomorrow. Stuart Ramson / Insider Images

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President Barack Obama awards former Marine Dakota Meyer with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House. EPA

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An Indian folk dancer from the Zanzar Performing Arts poses with her troupe during a full dress rehearsal for the forthcoming Navratri festivities or Dance Festival of Nine Nights in Ahmedabad. AFP/Getty Images

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Tenor Andrea Bocelli and Tony Bennett perform during a free concert on Central Park’s Great Lawn with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert. AFP/Getty Images

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plays the piano while visiting the Theater of Nations in Moscow. AFP/Getty Images

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Taiwanese artist A-nuo stands in front of a wall decorated with drums made of buoys in the Shuinandong community art gallery in Xinbei city, Taiwan. REUTERS

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A man sets himself on fire outside a branch of Piraeus bank in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece. It was a third attempted self-immolation by the former small business owner, who says he was ruined after taking a series of bank loans. The 56-year-old was hospitalized with non life-threatening chest burns. AP Photo

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A worker puts the finishing touches on an advertising billboard in Hong Kong. AFP/Getty Images

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Cheerleaders dance during the EuroBasket 2011 second-round match between Greece and Russia at Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania. Bongarts/Getty Images

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The Wiesn Playmate 2011 Katharina Wyrwich poses in a beer barrel in Munich, ahead of the Oktoberfest beer festival starting on September 17. AFP/Getty Images

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