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Sep 2, 2013

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Indian soldiers march down Rajpath during the final full dress rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade in New Delhi. India celebrated its 63rd Republic Day on January 26 with Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra being the chief guest of the event. AFP/Getty Images

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Italian Navy scuba divers return after working on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. Italian officials were clearing hurdles to begin pumping some half a million gallons of fuel from the capsized Costa Concordia that threatens an environmental catastrophe, as divers continued the search for 16 missing people. AP Photo

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Minoru Ohye, right, toasts with his younger brother Hiroshi Kamimura during their reunion in Kyoto, Japan. Japanese-American Ohye traveled all the way to Japan to celebrate his 86th birthday Monday with his only brother Hiroshi, 84, whom he had not seen in nearly 60 years. AP Photo

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Youths play volleyball on the beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka. REUTERS

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Residents walk through the debris of their neighborhood after a severe storm ripped through the Trussville, Ala., area. Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesman Randy Christian said the storm produced a possible tornado that moved across northern Jefferson County around 3:30 a.m., causing damage in Oak Grove, Graysville, Fultondale, Center Point, Clay and Trussville. AP Photo

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Demonstrators take part in a protest against the newly-elected lawmakers in front of Egypt’s parliament in Cairo. Egypt’s parliament began its first session since an election put Islamists in charge of the assembly following the overthrow of Mubarak in February. REUTERS

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Indonesian ethnic Chinese pray during Lunar New year celebration at Dharma Bakti temple in Chinatown in Jakarta. AP Photo

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Nepalese Hindu women take holy dips in the Bagmati River during Madhav Narayan Festival, in Pashupati Temple, Katmandu, Nepal. AP Photo

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Vendors sell tea at a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. AP Photo

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An aerial view shows the snow-covered church of the village of Jenisberg near the Swiss mountain resort of Davos. REUTERS

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A burned-out armored vehicle belonging to the Syrian army sits in a street in Homs. REUTERS

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Thousands of birds fly during sunset in Ahmedabad, India. AP Photo

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An SUV is found in a strange and unexplained position on top of an opening on the Achilles bridge. Weapons were found in the vehicle, but no suspects. ZUMAPRESS.com

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A model presents a creation by French designer Alexis Mabille during the Spring/Summer 2012 Haute Couture collection show in Paris. AFP/Getty Images

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A man walks through the snowy landscape in the Olympic Park in Munich, southern Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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People play instruments as they attend the first day of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The World Social Forum, taking place this year from Jan. 24-29, is an annual meeting of people and organizations opposed to capitalism, as a counterweight to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. AP Photo

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Canadians Dana Archibald and Karen Dexger race in the 470 series of the Miami Olympic Classes Regatta on Biscayne Bay. More than 500 sailors from 44 countries are competing in the steppingstone to the Olympic Games. AP Photo

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A woman prepares grains at her shop in the Kibera slum in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Kibera is a vast shanty town that lacks even basic services such as sanitation. REUTERS

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Bahraini anti-government protesters carry a box of prepared Molotov cocktails during clashes with riot police, in the eastern village of Ma’ameer, Bahrain. AP Photo

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School students rehearse for the Republic Day parade in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. REUTERS

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Oil recovery experts climb onto the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia. A large platform carrying a crane and other equipment hitched itself to the toppled ship, signaling the start of preliminary operations to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise ship before it leaks into the pristine Tuscan sea. AP Photo

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Seagulls fly over fishermen hauling the morning catch of herring in Sausalito, Calif. AP Photo

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A protester holds placards representing unidentified people during a demonstration in support of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon in front of the Spanish Supreme court in Madrid. AFP/Getty Images

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she strokes the golden goose given to her by Carnival Prince Frank I. and Princess Petra I of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as she greeted carnival performers from around Germany at the Chancellery in Berlin. AFP/Getty Images

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Prisoners look out from atop a roof of a building as others set fire to another building during a protest inside Welikada prison in Colombo. At least 20 inmates and four prison guards were admitted to the Colombo National Hospital following a clash at the prison. REUTERS

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A model wears a creation by Neon during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. AP Photo

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Freighter Nord Bright passes One World Trade Center, now up to 90 floors, amid the lower Manhattan skyline in New York. The tower is scheduled to be completed in 2013. AP Photo

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People walk with their dogs on the banks of the river Rhine, in Orsoy, Germany. AP Photo

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A cleaner sweeps rubbish up before crowds arrive for the temple fair at Ditan Park, also known as the Temple of Earth, on the third day of the Chinese New Year in Beijing. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, began on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. REUTERS

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The Toyota LMP1 hybrid race car speeds during a test session at the Paul Ricard circuit in Le Castellet. The new Toyota hybrid powered sports car will compete the World Endurance Championship and the 24 hours of Le Mans endurance race in 2012. REUTERS

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Members of the Sing Yong troupe perform a dragon dance on the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at the River Hongbao festival in Singapore. REUTERS/Kevin Lam

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A man and a child walk along the La Concha beach, in San Sebastian, northern Spain. EPA

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Fort Worth Swift Water Rescue Team members check on five flooded out vehicles on Trinity Blvd. in Fort Worth, Texas. Rainstorms and strong winds across parts of Texas have left thousands of people without electricity and facing the threat of worse conditions. AP Photo

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A cyclist rides along a tunnel in Gstaad, Switzerland. The town of Gstaad is ranked among the most important tourist destinations in the Alps. AFP/Getty Images

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Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters at Dolphin Aviation in Sarasota, Fla. AFP/Getty Images

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An injured Palestinian construction worker screams in pain after an Israeli army driver drove a trailer hooked to a tractor over his legs as he tried to block him when Israeli forces stopped workers from building a house in al-Dirat village, in the Hebron region. The Israeli forces were seizing the equipment and trailer from the construction workers as the site falls in the occupied Zone C, which Israel prevents Palestinians from building on their land. AFP/Getty Images

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Tokyo Sky Tree, Tokyo’s new landmark under construction, looms over other buildings that are covered with overnight snow in Tokyo. Snow fell in metropolitan Tokyo and its vicinity from Monday night through early Tuesday. The tower, Japan’s tallest at 2,080 feet, is set to open in May. AP Photo

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Witnesses re-enact for police the impact to the pedestrian in an accident in Manchester, Conn. The victim sustained non-life threatening injuries. AP Photo

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The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, are seen near the city of Tromsoe, northern Norway. Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years. AP Photo

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A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier during the Spring/Summer 2012 Haute Couture collection show in Paris. AFP/Getty Images

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Egyptian protesters hold up a giant national flag banner (bottom) and Syrian flags during a rally in Tahrir Square on the first anniversary of the country’s revolt against the former regime ousting President Hosni Mubarak. AFP/Getty Images

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Rescue workers carry the body of a victim after a building collapsed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP Photo

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An anti-government protester runs to get a canister of tear gas shot by the police to throw it back in Sitra, southeast of Manama, Bahrain. Reuters

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Mohammad Shafia, right, Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed Mohammed Shafia, left, are escorted into the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The prosecution accuses Afghan-born Shafia, his wife, and their 20-year-old son of killing their daughters because they dishonored the family by defying its strict rules on dress, dating, socializing and going online. AP Photo

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A man walks during heavy snowfall in downtown Sofia. For two days, a blizzard has hit the Balkans and parts of eastern and central Europe with as much as 10 feet of snow at a time. AP Photo

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Indian Special Forces commando G. D. Singh shouts as he leads his battalion during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. REUTERS

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State prosecutor Francesco Verusio, fourth right, views the Costa Concordia cruise ship from a Carabinieri boat off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island. REUTERS

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A member of the Cryophil amateur winter bathing club enters the Yenisei River with an air temperature of minus 26 degrees Celcius in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. REUTERS

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Heavy rain on Australia’s Gold Coast causes flooding in the area. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Lawmakers of Palikot Movement party hold up masks to protest the ratifying of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), at the Parliament (Sejm), in Warsaw, Poland. Poland today signed an international treaty aimed at protecting copyright and curbing online piracy despite countrywide street protests. EPA

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A man stands near debris at the scene of a fire that razed an entire market in Hamaerweyne district south of capital Mogadishu. REUTERS

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A man walks on a snow-covered field in Warngau. Snow and temperatures close to -7 degrees Fahrenheit hit parts of southern Germany last night. REUTERS

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The Spaso-Preobrazhensky cathedral is seen burning after catching fire in the town of Bolgrad, near the Ukrainian Blask Sea port of Odessa. The dome of the 164-foot-high cathedral which was built in 1838 collapsed as a result of fire. REUTERS

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Maria Sharapova gestures as she celebrates a point in her semi-final women’s singles match against Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic on the eleventh day of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. AFP/Getty Images

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The Delta Mariner is idle at the US68/KY80 Eggner’s Ferry Bridge, with two destroyed spans of the bridge draped over her bow, on Kentucky Lake near Golden Pond, Ky. The vessel struck the bridge, causing a portion of the bridge to collapse onto the bow. The road that connects Land Between the Lakes and Aurora has been closed. AP Photo

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Commuters ride on the roof of a Jakarta state rail train at Cawang train station in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta is plagued by transport problems due to the lack of alternative public transport options – with private vehicles having priority on the road networks. The number of train passengers greatly exceeds the capacity of the rail network and roof travellers are common, despite the city’s best efforts to eradicate this dangerous, and illegal, method of travel. Getty Images

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Fireworks are seen over Neva river and Peter & Paul Cathedral, marking the 68th anniversary of the battle that broke the Siege of Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nazi German siege and blockade of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was broken on Jan. 27, 1944. More than one million people perished during the 900-day siege. EPA

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Police officers count ammunition seized during a raid in La Horqueta, in Colombia’s southern Guaviare state. Police Gen. Carlos Ramiro Mena said his forces seized more than 100 rifles, grenades and ammunition that belonged to the drug trafficking criminal ring known as Popular Anticommunist Revolutionary Army. AP Photo

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Egyptian protesters attend Friday prayers during a rally to mark the first anniversary of “Friday of Rage,” in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. Some 10,000 Egyptian protesters converged on Cairo’s downtown Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of “Friday of Rage,” a key day in the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. AP Photo

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Forensic personnel and investigators check a car where the corpses of two local policemen were found in Ciudad Juarez. Two days ago, a lot of banners signed by “New Cartel of Juarez” appeared in the streets of Ciudad Juarez, warning that if the secretary of local Public Safety Julian Leyzaola did not resign, a police officer was to be murdered daily. AFP/Getty Images

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Department of State in Washington, DC. RAMEY PHOTO

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Course superintendent Jerry Dearie inspects the traps on the second hole of the north course before the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament in San Diego. AP Photo

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An Indian farmer Sukhwinder Singh holds a shovel as he walks through his mustard field in a village near Muktsar, on the eve of the Indian Festival “Basant Panchami.” The Basant Panchmi Festival celebrates the onset of spring, marking the beginning of a new life as yellow mustard flowers start to bloom. AFP/Getty Images

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Officers of the special response forces demonstrate their skills in dealing with a mock-kidnapping, during a drill in Frankfurt Main, Germany. EPA

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Syrian army defectors secure a street near an anti-Syrian regime protest in Homs, Syria. Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings. AP Photo

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A Russian Jew attends a service marking Holocaust Memorial Day in a synagogue in Moscow. AP Photo

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Supporters of Pakistani pro-Taliban religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam wave their party flags during a rally in Karachi, Pakistan. A pro-Taliban Islamist party has shown its strength by holding a large rally in southern Pakistan ahead of parliamentary elections, which are expected later this year. AP Photo

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A performer dressed as the Chinese God of Wealth smiles outside a shopping mall in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, lion dances are often seen during the Chinese Lunar New Year period. AFP/Getty Images

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Skaters, out of some 1,100 athletes, compete in the 124-mile race in Techendorf, Austria. Techendorf hosts the Alternative Eleven City Races, a traditional Dutch series of speed skating events for both professionals and amateurs with some 6,000 participants. REUTERS

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A woman throws a coconut, used for a traditional Hindu ritual, into the Arabian sea in Mumbai, India. AP Photo

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A tug boat passes along a fog shrouded East River and the Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge in New York. EPA

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