‘Oil’-soaked Polish Greenpeace activists protest Arctic search drilling in Warsaw.
AP
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A plane spreads water over one of six new wildfires that have sprung up in Portugal just in the past day. More than 600 Portuguese firefighters are battling the blazes.
AP
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Wolodja, a young male polar bear, rolls around in his enclosure at the animal park in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, Germany. Maybe the Russian-born furball doesn’t like that he’s been sent to Berlin to mate with new neighbor Tonja.
AP
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Street performer Manny Ford entertains kids with bubbles in New York’s Central Park
Reuters
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Visitors watch the rushing water cascade from the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro electric power station’s spillway.
Reuters
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Palestinian children clown around with kites on the Gaza Strip’s Bait Lahiya beach during an event organized by the World Vision Foundation.
EPA
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A former Maoist rebel celebrates with his son after being integrated as a lieutenant into Nepal’s national army, as part of the peace deal, at Nepal Military Academy in Bhaktapur.
Reuters
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Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy is a blur on the track during his first free practice at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno.
Reuters
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Feathered performers marche in a parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.
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Palestinian mourners grieve in each others’ arms as they await the funeral procession in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians in clashes during an arrest raid.
AP
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A colorfully-dressed (and coiffed) Venus Williams serves to Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens on the opening day of the US Open in Queens.
AP
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A true hero! Tadahiro Kanemasu, who calls himself the Carry-Your-Pram-Ranger, carries a woman’s shopping cart down the stairs at the Tokyo subway station where he regularly offers his services.
Reuters
13 of 29
An Indian villager smokes a pipe while sitting in protest during a rally in New Delhi. Protesters are demanding pensions for elderly poor citizens.
AP
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A government employee is doused in dyed water by Indian cops tasked with dispersing protestors. The dissidents were seeking to reach the home of Kashmir’s chief minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar, demanding an increase in retirement age.
Reuters
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He’s cleaning up his image… A worker pastes up an election poster in Berlin showing Rainer Bruederle, top candidate for the liberal Free Democratic Party in the upcoming German general elections.
Reuters
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Decked out in fantastic gear, a girl attends the gamescom video gaming fair in Cologne, Germany.
AP
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Chinese paramilitary police help a group of fishermen in Ningde, Fujian province shove their overturned boat to shore after it was upended in Typhoon Trami.
Reuters
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Firefighters work to quell a blaze at the Hibdon Tires plant in Norman, Okla. No one was hurt, but fire officials said it’s likely the largest commercial fire crews have responded to this year.
AP
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Children watch the Deopokhari festival celebrations in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. The festival is held to appease, what locals believe, a demon in the pond. Every year on…
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Children press their faces into a fence in hopes of catching a glimpse of Deopokhari festival celebrations in Katmandu, Nepal, that are meant to appease what locals believe is a demon in the nearby pond.
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Things are so bad in Syria, they’re going to Iraq for help! Here’s the Kawergost refugee camp in Irbil, where around 34,000 mostly Kurdish Syrians have fled to over a five-day stretch. Irbil lies in the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
AP
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A trio of men await rescue on the roof of a Salori, India, home that’s is submerged in the floodwaters of the River Ganges after heavy monsoon rains.
AP
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A sleepy cheetah yawns at his home on the grounds of the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s center in Otjiwarongo, Namibia.
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Australia’s Steve Smith watches the ball roll away after botching a catch during day three of the fifth Ashes cricket test match at the Oval in London.
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The daily ‘Haining tide’ — as it’s called when the Qiantang river tides hit the shores of the city — surges over the riverbank thanks to Typhoon Trami, washing onlookers down a nearby hill and injuring at least 30 people in Haining, Zhejiang province, China.
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Palestinian protestors put the boots to an Israel army vehicle as it passes through protests supporting Egypt’s ousted president in Hebron, West Bank.
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Teammates toss Al-Sadd forward Raul into the air during a tribute match against Real Madrid (where Raul holds records for games and goals scored). Madrid won 5-0, and Raul scored the opening goal while playing the first half for his former squad.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe stoically watches the festivities during his inauguration and swearing-in ceremony at the 60,000-seat sports stadium in Harare. He begins another five-year term now that courts have tossed a challenge to the electoral results.
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Fishermen try to snag a catch outside their partially submerged homes in the Chota Baghra District of Allahabad, India.
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