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Sep 2, 2013

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A model showcases a creation by PJ College of Arts & Design during the Malaysia International Fashion Week in Kuala Lumpur. AP Photo

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Jose Pimentel is arraigned at Manhattan criminal court in New York. Pimentel, an “al-Qaeda sympathizer,” is accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home and was charged with criminal possession of explosive devices with the intent to use in a terrorist manner. AP Photo

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Seif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan, Libya. Libya’s new leaders have said they will try Moammar Khadafy’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s intelligence minister, who is also wanted by the court. AP Photo

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An aerial view of a boat crossing an area of the oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP Photo

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Boys carry dry wood, to be used as cooking fuel, on their backs as they walk home in Islamabad. REUTERS

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U.S. Army soldiers carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher towards a MEDEVAC helicopter after an IED (improvised explosive device) explosion in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. REUTERS

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People look at “The Conquerors of Space” carving on a wall of the Cosmonautics Memorial Museum in Moscow. The museum charts the history of the Russian space race. AFP/Getty Images

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Commuters travel as a young child runs near India Gate, the war memorial in the morning fog, in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

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Residents hang onto a garbage truck as they travel in Bang Khae district of Bangkok, Thailand. AP Photo

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An Egyptian protester covers his face from tear gas during the clashes with Egyptian riot police, unseen, in Cairo. Egyptian riot police clashed with thousands of protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government. AP Photo

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LA Galaxy player David Beckham celebrates with the Philip F. Anschutz Trophy after defeating the Houston Dynamo 1-0 in the 2011 MLS Cup at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Getty Images

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A tourist walks on a bridge after a snow storm in the Greater Hinggan Mountains in Hulunbuir City, in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Region. AP Photo

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An Indian man walks amidst morning fog in New Delhi, India. Dense fog over parts of north India Monday caused disruption of rail services with scores of trains arriving here several hours behind schedule. AP Photo

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Pakistani women fetch water to their homes in Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo

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Sri Lanka’s ruling party lawmakers, (L), scuffle with opposition lawmakers, (R), during a budget speech by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Opposition lawmakers walked out after the attack. It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured. AP Photo

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A Thai worker cleans a lion statue in flooded Bang Khae district of Bangkok, Thailand. The situation has improved dramatically in recent days and cleanup has begun in many areas. AP Photo

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A tree is silhouetted against a cloudy red sky at sunrise in Schlingen, Bavaria, Germany. EPA

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Lawmaker Kim Sun-Dong (bottom) of South Korea’s Democratic Labor Party detonates a tear gas canister towards the chairman’s seat at the National Assembly to try to stop the ruling Grand National Party’s move to ratify a bill on a free trade agreement with the United States. AFP/Getty Images

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Army soldiers display their skills as they slide down a rope from a helicopter during a military parade to celebrate the 68th anniversary of Lebanon’s independence in downtown Beirut. REUTERS

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Firefighters hose down a burning schoolbus in midtown Manhattan. Police blocked off the busy area around 7th Avenue and 35th Street for about a half-hour before reopening it. AP Photo

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The Lebanese armed forces rescue unit marches during a military parade marking Lebanon’s 68th Independence Day in downtown Beirut. AFP/Getty Images

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Lebanese army comando forces show off their skills during military celebrations marking Lebanon’s 68th Independence Day in downtown Beirut. AFP/Getty Images

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A helicopter crew gets ready at an airfield in preparation for the recovery mission of the landing Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan. AFP/Getty Images

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South Korean schoolgirls from the Little Angels Folk Ballet perform in New Delhi. AFP/Getty Images

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A protester shouts slogans to denounce the passing a bill on ratification of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement as police spray water to disperse the protesters in Seoul. AP Photo

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Thai soldiers are silhouetted as they walk with brooms during a cleaning operation in Pathum Thani on the outskirts of Bangkok. The situation has improved dramatically in recent days, and cleanup has begun in many areas, though some still face weeks more underwater. AP Photo

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Vacansoleil-DCM rider Johnny Hoogerland of the Netherlands lies down after crashing during the ninth stage of the Tour de France 2011 cycling race from Issoire to Saint-Flour. REUTERS

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A couple strolls in a park during sunny weather in Duesseldorf, Germany. REUTERS

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A Nihang or Sikh warrior performs “Gatkha,” a traditional form of martial arts, during a religious procession in the north Indian city of Chandigarh. REUTERS

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Iraqi soldiers fire a Grad missile during training at Basmaya military base in Baghdad. REUTERS

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Kashmiri men ferry bricks in their boat across Dal Lake during an autumn day in Srinagar, India. REUTERS

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South Korean Marines patrol the seashore on Yeonpyeong Island, one day before the first anniversary of North Korea’s shelling of the South Korean border island. REUTERS

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Farmer Noor Din, 53, smokes a bidi, or an Indian leaf cigarette, in front of saccharum grass on the outskirts of Jammu, India. REUTERS

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An activist, covered in flour and corn grains, holds up a corncob during National Corn Day celebrations in Mexico City. REUTERS

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An aerial view shows vehicles with their headlights on converging on the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft carrying ISS crew members, U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa after the spacecraft landed near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan. REUTERS

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Miss Earth 2011 candidates (L-R) Kara Rita and Lena Williams of US Virgin Islands, Nicole Kelly of USA and Merve Saribas of Turkey pose with colleagues during a press presentation in Pasig City, East of Manila, Philippines. EPA

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French CRS riot police clash with anti-nuclear demonstrators during a protest in Lieusaint as protesters try to enter on the tracks before the departure of the train convoy of CASTOR containers, which carry radioactive nuclear waste. REUTERS

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People gather near the derailed coaches of a passenger train at the site of an accident in Sadura, located south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Three coaches of the passenger train derailed near a station, injuring 25 passengers, police said. EPA

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A tree is seen with heavy fog in the background in Sarzens, Switzerland. AFP/Getty Images

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Riot police officers secure the railway tracks early Wednesday in Lieusaint, France, as environmental activists try to block the train line in an effort to stop a train loaded with nuclear waste heading to Gorleben, Germany. AP Photo

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South Korean Marines run during a military exercise on Yeonpyeong Island. The South’s military staged drills involving aircraft, rocket launchers and artillery guns to send a strong message to North Korean rivals stationed just miles away. AP Photo

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A Kashmiri woman rows her boat on Dal lake during a foggy day in Srinagar. A cold wave further tightened its grip in Jammu and Kashmir, with most places in the state recording sub-zero temperatures. AFP/Getty Images

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Vehicles at a Honda auto factory are submerged in floodwaters in the industrial district of Rojana, located in central Thailand. Honda’s auto factory in Thailand remains closed due to the floodwaters. AP Photo

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Residents watch a bushfire from the top of their cars in Margaret River, Australia. At least 20 homes have been destroyed by a bushfire, according to local authorities. REUTERS

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The U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team rehearse at Little Rock Air Force base in Jacksonville, Ark. AP Photo

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Boys join in lighting candles on the pavement near the Presidential Palace in Manila to mark the second anniversary of the massacre of at least 57 people, including 32 journalists and staff, in the Maguindanao province of the southern Philippines. AP Photo

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Andrew Cotton, from Great Britain, rides a wave during a tow-in surf competition in Nazare, Portugal. In tow-in surfing, athletes are pulled by jet skis to catch the biggest waves. AP Photo

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President Barack Obama pardons the 2011 Thanksgiving Turkey, Liberty, alongside his daughters Sasha (second from left) and Malia on the North Portico of the White House. REUTERS

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US soldiers have their Thanksgiving meal at the Bagram Airbase, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. REUTERS

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Three barrels painted with the symbol for nuclear radiation are laid down in a field in protest against a storage for nuclear waste in Grabow near Luechow and Dannenberg, northern Germany. The last trainload of German nuclear waste reprocessed in France neared the border after running a gauntlet of violent protests — but more trouble awaited it in its homeland. AFP/Getty Images

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Brothers Nathan, Isaiah and David Berg ride along the southern California coastline, north of Santa Monica, at sunset . The brothers from Starkweather, ND, left Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 11 and 4,970 miles later arrived in Santa Monica determined to reach La Paz, Baja California, by Christmas. The brothers who write a blog of their excursion at http://www.boundsouth.org, hope to build awareness and raise $60,000 for Habitat for Humanity. AFP/Getty Images

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President Obama makes Thanksgiving Day phone calls to military personnel from the Oval Office. Pete Souza/The White House/REUTERS

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Thai residents climb on a makeshift ladders hung from a tollway to a pedestrian overfly over a flooded street on the outskirts of Bangkok. AP Photo

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Indian Sikh schoolgirls laugh during a Sikh religious procession in New Delhi. The procession was held to mark the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh guru, who was executed in 1675 in Delhi. AP Photo

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A floodlight illuminates a fire from a small plane crash in the Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction east of Phoenix. AP Photo

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy say goodbye after their meeting in Strasbourg, France. AP Photo

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Pakistani laborers transport empty plastic cans on their donkey cart on a street of Karachi. AFP/Getty Images

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A Palestinian man from the Bedouin Abu Mansor family reacts after Israeli forces destroyed his family house in an area of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, which falls in the West Bank side of Israel’s separation barrier. According to Israeli Authorities, the house was built without a permit. AFP/Getty Images

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A girl has her face painted with the symbol for nuclear radiation as she attends a demonstration by pupils from a local school against a storage for nuclear waste in Luechow, northern Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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British designer and model Mahtab Jamali poses as she wears the latest collection of her brand Katayoon at the seaside in south Kuwait. EPA

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A combination photo shows the different expressions of former Olympus Chief Executive Michael Woodford as he speaks about an accounting scandal at the company during an event by the Economist magazine in Tokyo. Woodford said he was confident Japanese authorities would fully investigate the scandal engulfing the disgraced camera maker, as he prepared for a showdown with the directors who sacked him. REUTERS

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A student of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts presents costumes made of waste newspapers during a fashion show in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A young man stops by the closed the gate of a subway station in Lisbon, Portugal during a general strike as trade unions protest austerity measures linked to a $104 billion international bailout. AP Photo

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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, left, plays the guitar as singer Jose Montecano smiles during an event commemorating the first year of the state-run program ‘Child Jesus’ mission in Caracas, Venezuela. AP Photo

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Hoping to get a jump on Black Friday, shoppers line up Thanksgiving night in anticipation of the midnight opening at the Kohl’s store in Marion, Ind. AP

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Travis Mata and his wife, Holly Mata, load a Christmas tree into the back of their truck as their daughter, Layla, looks on, in Brownsville, Texas. AP

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A salmon leaps in front of a culvert at Otto Jarsted Park in Gorst, Wash. AP Photo

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Ronald Peters Jr and his daughter, Rylee Peters, 7, decorate the fence in front of their home on West Lake Road in Millcreek Township near Erie, Pa. AP Photo

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Models are seen backstage during the Russian Supermodel Contest 2011 in Moscow, Russia. EPA

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