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Day in photos: Oct. 24, 2012

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A German police officer clocks cars in Hanover in a 24-hour 'speed-control marathon' aimed at slowing down drivers in Lower Saxony and neighboring areas.

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Google's Ryan Falor strolls along the rim of the Grand Canyon to show off the company's Trekker -- a nearly 40-pound, backpack-sized camera unit meant to do for hiking trails what Street View does for roads.

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Syrians wheel a man injured by an artillery shell toward a hospital for treatment in Aleppo. Several were killed and a dozen injured after the shell landed near a bakery.

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The St. Louis Rams cheerleaders and mascot recreate the Beatles' famous Abbey Road crossing while out promoting their game Sunday in London against the New England Patriots.

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Daisy Mueller, 11, dons a Mitt Romney-branded Captain America costume at a rally for the GOP candidate in Reno, Nevada.

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Visitors get a glimpse of Edvard Munch's iconic 'The Scream' during a preview of an exhibition of Munch's work at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has something to spit about after his club's UEFA Champions League loss to Borussia Dortmund.

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A pair Canadian tourists is accosted by a baboons on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa.

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A flower lays in the water at the unveiling of a memorial in Berlin to the estimated half million Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

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Devotees watch the burning of an effigy of demon King Ravana in New Delhi, India, during Dussehra, a festival commemorating the victory of Hindu Lord Rama over Ravana.

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Residents evacuate their seaside home on the shore of eastern Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Sandy closes in on landfall.

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Acrobat Jaime Verazin performs as Ariel during a dress rehearsal of Thomas Adès's 'The Tempest' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.