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Sep 2, 2013

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Dr. Alana Milich helps carry a rainbow banner during a gay pride parade in Lake Worth, Fla. ZUMAPRESS.com

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People walk a bike at the tidal basin under the cherry blossoms with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in the background in Washington, DC. The annual 16-day National Cherry Blossom Festival will run thru April 10. Getty Images

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Reiko Kikuta and her husband Takeshi Kikuta stand on the port as workers attempt to attach ropes to their submerged home to try to pull it ashore with construction equipment on Oshima Island in northeastern Japan. AP Photo

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Plane vapor trails can be seen above a fisherman as he casts his net into a hole he dug on the partially frozen Songhua River at sunset in the northern city of Harbin, China. REUTERS

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Smoke billows as Libyan rebels progress westward from the town of Bin Jawad towards Moammar Khadafy’s hometown of Sirte as NATO finally agreed to take over full command of military operations to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya. AFP/Getty Images

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Smoke rises from a sawmill during a fire at Okobaba on the edge of the Lagos Lagoon. No deaths have been reported and authorities are investigating the matter. REUTERS

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Schenectady firefighters battle a house fire on Stanley Street. Officials say one woman was burned and another woman and child had to jump from a second-story window. AP Photo

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French climber Alain Robert scales the 828 meter world’s tallest tower Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Dubbed the French “Spiderman,” Robert is world famous for illegally climbing tall buildings around the world. AFP/Getty Images

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Contestants dance during the Miss Piranda gypsy, or Roma, beauty contest in Bucharest, Romania. The 15 contestants were judged on appearance and traditional dancing skills. Romania, a European Union member state since 2007, is home to one of the largest traditional Gypsy, or Roma, communities in Europe. AP Photo

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World Bikini Model Queen 2010 Michelle from South Africa (C), Miss European Tourism Queen 2010 Olga Maria from Poland (R) and Bikini Look International Queen 2010 Jana Zajicova from Czech, are seen during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The final of the World Bikini Model 2011 will be held in Taipei in September. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Spain’s Queen Sofia laughs as she plays with twin pandas Po and De De at the Madrid Zoo & Aquarium. The twin pandas were born on September 7, conceived through artificial insemination in a joint effort by Spain’s National Research council and scientists from China. The cubs are the first of their species to be born in Spain since 1982 and only the third litter to be born in Europe, according to Chinese veterinarian Yuan Bo, who travelled from Beijing to assist the birth and the first months of the newborns. REUTERS

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An Afghan woman, who was allegedly burnt by their male relatives, receives medical treatment at a local hospital in Herat, Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s independent human rights watchdogs and civil society organizations have been saying that gender violence has reached an alarming level in the country and efforts must be redoubled to tackle it. EPA

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A model shows a creation by Chinese designer Lan Yu during China Fashion Week in Beijing. AP Photo

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US airman tech. Sgt. Raymond Decker, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, guides a C130 cargo plane on a bike due to lack of guidance lights and ariport workers at Sendai Airport, Miyagi prefecture. The number of confirmed dead and people listed as missing from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast coast topped 28,000, the National Police Agency said. AFP/Getty Images

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The surface of the planet Mercury is seen in an image taken by the Messenger spacecraft on March 29, 2011 in space. The image is the first ever from a spacecraft in orbit of Mercury. Messenger launched in August of 2004 and achieved orbit on March 17, 2011 and is expected to stay in orbit for a year. Getty Images

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A Palestinian man stands amid the ruins of the Waha Resort in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP/Getty Images

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. REUTERS

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Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with wife Marisa Leticia, are welcomed by students prior to being granted the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal. Brazil on Tuesday promised to help the beleaguered economy of Portugal, its former colonial power, which now risks needing an international financial bailout. Lula da Silva also advised Portugal to resist the pressure of applying for a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). AP Photo

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A model presents swimwear during the ”2011 Aimer Swimwear” show of the China Fashion Week in Beijing. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Artwork “Petrified Heart” by artist Agapetus, is displayed at a preview of Sotheby’s Spring Sales in Hong Kong. Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Sales 2011 will be held from 1 to 8 April. AP Photo

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An ominous cloud rushes through Palm Harbor early Thursday, March 3 as a severe storm system moved quickly through Tampa Bay from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing hail, rain, high winds and the threat of tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service. AP Photo

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A woman rides her bicycle past a boat in the rubbles of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, twenty days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS

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A female firefighter, Michelle Monte, rushed to the scene of a bush fire in Stuart, Florida, dressed in her bathing suit, to help prevent the blaze from reaching homes in its path. Robert Caston/Demotix

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A child collects bullets from the ground in Rounyn, a village located about 15 km north of Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur. Albert Gonzalez Farran / Demotix

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A statue of Hotei Buddha sits in the debris in the tsunami-destroyed town of Sendai, Japan. AP Photo

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A US soldiers from 1st Regiment 320 Field Artillary 101st Airbourne stands guard outside COP Stout before the opening ceremony for a newly completed mosque in the village of Tarok Kolache in southern Kandahar. AFP/Getty Images

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Children at Bondi public school scream as a baby T-rex performs in Sydney, Australia. The baby T-rex, one of the stars of “Walking with Dinosaurs” is traveling around the country to visit schools ahead of the new show scheduled to kick off in Melbourne. AP Photo

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The tail lights of a car traveling down a road during a spring snowstorm leave a light trail in this 30-second time exposure in Freeport, Maine. AP Photo

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Lookalikes of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, a royal footman, Prince William and Kate Middleton pose for photographs outside St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden in central London. AFP/Getty Images

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Students perform gymnastics during the opening ceremony of a sports meet at the Olympic Sports center in Jinan, Shandong province. REUTERS

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An aerial view of flooded houses and roads in Medan, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. Heavy rains in the hills and in the city flooded thousands of homes. REUTERS

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Queen Elizabeth braved gale force winds to visit Prince William at his base, RAF Valley on Anglesey. Prince William showed the Queen one of the SeaKing rescue helicopters during the visit. Splash News

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Indian passengers rush about at a railway platform in eastern Indian city of Calcutta. India is now home to 17 per cent of the world’s people as its population climbed to 1.21 billion this year, though growth actually slowed for the first time in 90 years, census officials said. EPA

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A Christie’s member of staff displays an unmounted heart-shaped D colour, internally flawless, Type IIa diamond weighing 56.15 carats during an auction preview in Geneva. The item is expected to sell between $9 million and $12 million when it goes into auction May 18. REUTERS

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