Brazilian pole dancer Eduarda Ribeiro waits backstage for the start of the Miss Pole Dance Argentina 2009 and Miss Pole Dance South America 2009 competitions, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brazilian dancer Rafaela Montenero took first place in the Miss Pole Dance South America 2009 and Argentinian pole dancer Maria Luz Escalante took the Miss Pole Dance Argentina 2009 title.
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A police officers watches Chinese tourists visiting one of the country’s most famous mountains and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Mount Lushan, in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province.
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A crane lifts a damaged coach of a passenger train at the site of a train accident on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Mathura. A speeding passenger train rammed into another waiting near Mathura city station early on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring several others.
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Valery Kashkin poses for photographers during a photocall for the Moscow State Circus’ upcoming show, in west London.
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Policemen take part in a parade to pay homage to their fallen colleagues on Police Commemoration Day in Mumbai. Eight hundred and thirty three Indian policemen were killed in the line of their duty last year, including the policemen who died during last year’s attack by gunmen in Mumbai.
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Children prepare to sing the Pakistani National Anthem prior to the start of classes in a school in Qutbal, Pakistan. Educational institutions were shut in Pakistan on Wednesday, after suspected militants bombed a university close to the capital, sowing fear across the country as the army presses on with a major anti-Taliban offensive.
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Alexander Doktorov, right, and Yulia Tsurikova perform their act “Statues” during a photocall for the Moscow State Circus’ upcoming show, in west London.
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A Filipino man pushes his cart with his son on board through almost month-long floodwaters in Pinagbuhatan, Pasig city, east of Manila, Philippines. Authorities distributed canned goods and rescue boats and kept helicopters on standby as Typhoon Lupit slowed to a crawl along a course that forecasters said might hit the northern Philippines by Friday or veer toward Taiwan.
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First lady Michelle Obama jump ropes “Double Dutch” on the South Lawn of the White House during an event promoting exercise and healthy eating for children. The Healthy Kids Fair included events on cooking healthy meals and emphasized children getting a proper amount of outdoor exercise each day.
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French special forces arrest one of the suspects of the hostage taking that followed a hold-up at the LIDL discount supermarket in an industrial zone in Sevran, north of Paris. Two suspects were seen emerging from the LIDL store with their hands in the air before being handcuffed and escorted away from the scene by police. The Paris management of the LIDL store said all six hostages had been freed unharmed.
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Reiko Aoyama the new campaign girl for Japanese lingerie maker Triumph International, poses with her tiara during a press conference in Tokyo.
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Pope Benedict XVI kisses a baby during his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican.
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Actresses play priestesses in ancient Olympia during a dress rehearsal for the Oct.. 22 torch-lighting ceremony for the Olympic flame for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to be held in Vancouver.
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Tibetan lamas interact during a Buddhist lecture at Longwu monastery, which was founded in 1301 in Tongren, Qinghai province.
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Honda Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Takanobu Ito shakes hands with an Asimo humanoid robot during a Honda presentation at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo.
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A labourer prepares Jaggery (candy) at a roadside factory at Banur village in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Sugar output in Indian, the world’s No. 2 producer after Brazil, is expected to reach 26 million tonnes in 2010/11, up sharply from the 18 million tons forecast for the current season.
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Gang ring leader Yang Tianqing (2R) and other defendants line up during sentencing for murder, assault, extortion and other charges linked to organised crime, during a trial in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality. Yang was sentenced together with five other people to death in trials that have lifted the lid on the murky underworld in Chongqing, with sordid tales of sex, gambling and corruption. Three of those sentenced were given two-year reprieves, meaning their sentences were likely to be commuted to life in prison after two years dependent on their behaviour in prison.
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The Angel of Independence Monument is lit up in pink in support of a national campaign against breast cancer in Mexico City.
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A student gestures toward riot police during a protest against Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe in Bogota. The students also demanded an increase in public university funding during the protest.
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A rickshaw mechanic repairs a tyre inside a workshop in the eastern India city of Kolkata.
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Al Ittihad fans cheer for their team during the first leg during the AFC Champions League semifinal soccer match between Al Ittihad and Nagoya Grampus in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
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People play in the spray of waves hitting the sea wall as Tropical Storm Rick hits Mazatlan, Mexico. Tropical Storm Rick weakened rapidly as it headed for Mexico’s Pacific coast after sparing Baja California’s resorts a direct blow.
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A central Illinois farmer uses a John Deere combine to harvest soybeans while racing against the setting sun in Pawnee, Ill. Farmers in central Illinois estimate they’re as much as seven weeks behind in their harvest as unusually cold and wet weather has prevented them from bringing in their crops.
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The Washington Monument can be seen through two oak tress that have turned color on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Temperatures in the Washington DC area today are expected to top the 70 degree mark.
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Kite surfers sail past a cargo ship that ran aground near Bloubergstrand, after stormy conditions in Cape Town, South Africa. The 77-meters Panamanian-registered coal bulk carrier, Seali-One, was driven ashore while lying at anchor in Cape Town’s Table Bay. It was transporting coal, and was bound for Gibralter. Twenty-five Turkish crew members were rescued from the ship.
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