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Sep 2, 2013

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A motorway overpass collapses in Shangyu of east China’s Zhejiang province on Monday. The accident occurred early in the morning, flipping over four coal trucks and injuring just three people. ZUMAPRESS.com

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European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) shows an aerial refueling tanker aircraft, that EADS North America has offered to the U.S. Air Force as the KC-45, as it refuels an F-16 fighter aircraft via a refueling boom system. EADS is competing with Boeing Co. to win a $35 billion contract to build nearly 200 giant airborne refueling tankers, to replace the Air Force’s Eisenhower-era KC-135 planes. If EADS wins, the tanker would be assembled in Mobile, Ala., at the former Brookley military base, shuttered in the 1960s. Either way, about 50,000 jobs would be created in the U.S. AP Photo

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Afghan youths attend daily Quranic lessons inside a local mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. AP Photo

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Algerian students clash with anti riot police officers near the Ministry of Higher Education in Algiers. The students want the government to scrap a new law that dilutes the value of their diplomas by giving equal status to less-qualified degree holders in the job market. Monday’s protest follows scattered strikes and protests in recent weeks in defiance of a ban on public gatherings in Algiers dating to a bloody Islamic insurgency in the 1990’s. AP Photo

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A model displays a autumn/winter design by Andres Sarda during the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show in Madrid. AP Photo

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Members of a wedding procession rest in front of the chandeliers they are employed to carry at a roadside in Noida, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. REUTERS

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Saif al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Moamar Khadafy, gestures as he speaks during an address on state television in Tripoli, in this still image taken from video. Saif al-Islam said Sunday the army stood behind his father as a “leader of the battle in Tripoli” and would enforce security at any price. His comments were the first official reaction from the Libyan authorities since the unrest began. REUTERS

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A view of the scene after a car bomb detonated along a street in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. A suicide car bomber killed at least 12 people near a police training camp in Mogadishu on Monday in what police said was an attack by rebels who profess loyalty to al Qaeda. REUTERS

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Chile’s Pro bike downhill rider John Plaza realizes a big drop during the the 9th version of the Valparaiso urban downhill race in Chile. AFP/Getty Images

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Pilot whales are seen as they are stranded on a remote beach on Stewart Island in the southern part of the country. More than 100 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said, after hikers reported finding them off the South Island’s southwest coast. NZ Department of Conservation/AFP/Getty Images

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Smoke rises from the scene of a suicide car bomb attack on a street in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. A suicide car bomber killed at least 12 people near a police training camp in Mogadishu on Monday in what police said was an attack by rebels who profess loyalty to al Qaeda. REUTERS

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Men dressed as Continental Army soldiers demonstrate a “fight during revolutionary war” as they celebrate George Washington’s birthday at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Washington’s birthday is a US federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first US President. It is also commonly known as Presidents Day. Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander in chief of the Continental Army in 1775 1783, and he presided over the writing of the Constitution in 1787. AFP/Getty Images

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A ”Red Shirts” anti-government protester with a painted face demonstrates outside the Criminal Court in Bangkok as detained leaders of the anti-government ”Red Shirts” protests in 2010 arrive for a hearing on bail. Red Shirt anti-government protests, aimed at forcing immediate elections, triggered a series of confrontations between demonstrators and armed troops that left 90 people dead — mostly civilians — and nearly 1,900 injured last year. AFP/Getty Images

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Protesters ride pickup trucks during protests in Tobruk. Libyan soldiers in the eastern city of Tobruk told a Reuters correspondent on Tuesday they no longer backed Muammar Gaddafi and said the eastern region was out of the Libyan leader’s control. REUTERS

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Animals rights campaigners protest against the use of fur on the runway with the slogan “fur is murder” during the Ion Fiz – Maria Escote Fashion Show as part of Cibeles Fashion Week A/W 2011 in Madrid, Spain. WireImage

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Two traffic polices stand on a wooden platform on a precipice to direct the traffic in Jishou, Hunan Province of China. The mountain road is narrow and dangerous. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A couple kisses on a bridge in Moscow’s GUM largest historical department store on the eve of Russian Fatherland Defenders Day holiday. The GUM was built between 1890 and 1893. After reopening as a department store in 1953, the GUM became one of the few stores in the Soviet Union that was not plagued by shortages of consumer goods, and the queues to purchase anything were long, often extending all across Red Square. AFP/Getty Images

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A runner isn’t deterred by winter conditions as she runs through North Park in Allison Park, Pa. More than eight inches of snow fell in the southwestern Pennsylvania area from Monday through Tuesday morning, setting a new snowfall record for the day. AP Photo

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Space shuttle Discovery stands ready for launch at Pad 39A as the rotating service structure is moved back to expose the orbiter at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. AP Photo

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A South African fan waits for the start of the cricket match between South Africa and West Indies at The Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. AFP/Getty Images

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WikiLeaks supporters Ciaron O’Reilly, (L), and Roland Gianstefani, (5), are removed by police and security officers after sitting in the road after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange departed after his extradition hearing at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in London. Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex crimes inquiry, a British judge ruled Thursday. AP Photo

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Artists from Zhejiang Acrobatics Group perform acrobatics show in Kathmandu, Nepal. Xinhua/Landov

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Commuters shift from one train to another as they travel to work in Mumbai, Indian. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced incentives for states with low accident rates in her railway budget for 2011-12 presented Friday. AP Photo

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A southeast Alaska adventurer walks through a large ice tunnel formed by the shifting of icebergs along the terminus of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau. Walking on the frozen waters leading up to the glacier, along the glacier face and into ice caves surrounding the area, is not recommended and is highly dangerous; yet on any given day in the winter scores of visitors crosscountry ski, hike, skate, walk their dogs, sled and shoot photos there. AP Photo

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Spanish King Juan Carlos and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meet with businessmen in St.Petersburg, Russia. King Juan Carlos arrived in St. Petersburg to open an exhibition of Spanish art in St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum. AP Photo

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A banana seller display flags with the portrait of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s at a rally to celebrate the presidential victory at Kololo Airstrip, Uganda. Museveni won the elections to rule Uganda for another term of five years. Museveni has been in power in Uganda for 25 years, despite pledges earlier in his career to not follow in the footsteps of long-serving African dictators. AP Photo

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Ding Shilu, an automobile mechanic, carries out a test flight for his self-made aircraft at a frozen reservoir in Shenyang, Liaoning province in China. The aircraft, which weights about 287 pounds and is made of recycled materials including three motorbike engines and plastic cloth, cost about $395. REUTERS

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A girl shows a victory sign during prayers at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egypt’s new military rulers, promising to guard against “counter-revolution,” faced political pressure on Friday to purge the cabinet of ministers appointed by Hosni Mubarak as thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo. REUTERS

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British designer John Galliano appears at the end of his fall/winter 2010-2011 Haute Couture fashion show for French fashion house Dior in Paris in this July 5, 2010 file picture. Christian Dior has suspended Galliano pending an inquiry into allegedly anti-Semitic remarks, it said on Friday. Galliano was escorted home by French police late on Thursday after a drinking session that ended with him hurling insults at a couple, according to a police source. REUTERS

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A child of a commuter sleeps in a hammock at a railway station in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. REUTERS

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Members of Mexico’s National Ballet perform during a rehearsal of “El lago de los cisnes” (“Swan Lake”) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the Chapultepec Lake in Mexico city. REUTERS

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Bride Emma Howard (C-L) and groom Christopher Greenslade leave Christ the King Catholic Church Burnside after getting married in Christchurch, New Zealand. Emma was trapped for 6.5 hours in the city’s earthquake and her husband helped in the rescue effort. Christchurch was rocked by a 6.3 magnitude on Feb. 22, laying waste to much of the city. EPA

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A resident walks past burning oil tankers that were attacked and set ablaze by unidentified gunmen on the outskirts of Peshawar. Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan attacked and killed four guards and set fire to over a dozen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan. REUTERS

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Latvia’s Martins Dukurs competes in the skeleton men FIBT World Championships in Schoenau near Koenigssee, southern Germany. Latvia’s Martins Dukurs won the event ahead of Russia’s Alexander Tretiakov (2nd) and Germany’s Frank Rommel (3rd). AFP/Getty Images

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Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari is escorted to his initial court appearance at the Mahon Federal Building in Lubbock, Texas. Aldawsari, a college student from Saudi Arabia, is accused of buying chemicals online as part of a plan to blow up key U.S. targets, including the home of former President George W. Bush. Aldawsari was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. AP Photo

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A Buddhist monk walks through a decorated alley in an impoverished neighborhood in Bangkok as he collects alms. REUTERS

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A farmer drives his tractor on a field in front of the rising sun near Feldkirchen, southern Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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A woman calls for help on a cell phone after climbing out of a vehicle that ended up on a guard rail in the median of Interstate 295 during a snow storm in Cumberland, Maine. AP Photo

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Supporters of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally held to show support to him in Sana. Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of Saleh held rival demonstrations in the capital on Friday in a test of support for the veteran leader’s 32-year rule. REUTERS

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Models present creations by Blumarine at the Milano Moda Donna Fashion Week in Milan. Fall-winter 2011 collections are presented at the fashion week that runs until March 1. EPAABACAUSA.COM

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