Tunguarahua volcano — called ‘throat of fire’ — in Equador erupts, spewing sparks and lava into the night sky.
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The distraught mother of Ram Singh, the bus driver accused in the gang-rape case that has rocked India in recent months, cries during an interview in her home in a New Delhi slum after Singh hanged himself in his jail cell. Family said they suspected “foul play.”
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Former British energy minister Chris Huhne helps a lensman to an up-close shot as he arrives at a London court for sentencing. Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce each got eight months for lying during a 2003 traffic stop.
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A boy sits buried in a ball pit in the AnderSon Family Cafe, a Russian Chuck-E-Cheese, in Moscow.
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Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Mich., lies in front of the grave of her brother Ryan — who served the Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan until dying a year ago of complications from an injury sustained in the latter.
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Members of animal rights group Anima Naturalis protest in support of animal rights from inside a cage at Alpujarra Park in Medellin, Colombia.
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A time-lapse view captures the night sky above the Mars Desert Research Station outside Hanksville, Utah. The station’s aim is to investigate the possibility of a human exploration of the Red Planet.
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Indonesian Hindu devotees parade their “Ogoh Ogoh” effigies during a ceremony celebrating the eve of the Day of Silence at Jakarta’s National Monument.
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A sleepy lion takes an early-morning stretch at Nairobi’s National Park in Kenya.
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Debris lies around the charred remains of a home in Gray, Ky., after a fire erupted killing two adults and five children inside.
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Nobuhisa Iwai kneels in the sand in Sendai, Japan, to pray for his friend who was killed by the tsunami that slammed into the area two years ago.
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Security personnel and locals gawk at a crater left after a suicide car bombing in Debis, Iraq, that killed three civilians were killed and hurt some 70 others, including a large number of schoolchildren.
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