soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, relax during a break while on a patrol mission in Zerok District, East Paktika province in Afghanistan.
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Gary Hunt (R) of England and Orlando Duque (L) of Colombia dive from a helicopter at Poseidon’s Temple in the lead up to the eighth and final round of the Red Bull Cliff Diving world series in Cape Sounion. The last round of the eight round competition will take place in Athens on September 20.
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Muslim worshippers pray at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca. Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Fitr next week, the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which this year will fall on September 21 or 22.
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An Israeli school boy plays in a large Jerusalem flag as it is unfurled at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. The flag was stamped by the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest flag on April 11, 2009, and measures 44,404 square meters.
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A mother kisses her baby on a train heading for East Java at Senen train station in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of people started pouring out of the country’s major cities in a mass exodus to return to their home villages to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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An Afghan street vendor selling bangles waits for customers in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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An artificial flower vendor waits for customers in Hyderabad, India. Muslims across the world are preparing for the arrival of Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim fasting month Ramadan.
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Actors dressed as zombies walk around Times Square to promote New York’s premier Halloween experience, “Purgatorio Halloween “. The show will run from October 15-31.
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A army officer checks the honour guards before a review by new Japanese Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa at the ministry’s headquarters in Tokyo one day after he was appointed as head by the country’s new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama. Kitazawa is a senior party official who once opposed sending troops to Iraq for reconstruction work and accused George W. Bush’s US administration of “enforcing democracy by military might”.
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A philatelist holds an 1897 one dollar overprint on a 3 cents red revenue stamp in Hong Kong . The stamp is expected to be sold at auction for over 250,000 USD during Zurich Asia Autumn sale to be held in the territory from 18-19 September 2009.
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Participants rehearse on one of the National Day floats in Beijing. China will stage a huge military parade and pageant in Beijing on October 1 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of communist China.
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Members of the Gulabi Gang (Pink Gang) take part in a joint protest for better implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, in New Delhi. The Gulabi Gang (Pink Gang), a group of women in rural India who strive for social justice, don pink saris and fight for women’s rights, against corruption, and for the poor. Leader Sampat Devi began the vigilante group in 2006, and chose the color pink for her gang’s uniform because most other colors are used to represent political parties.
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People watch a dragon dance performance at the Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The 80 meter long dragon was made by some 10 craftsmen over 20 days.
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A NATO soldier with blood on his uniform holds his gun as he secures the site of a blast in Kabul . A suicide car bomb hit an Italian military convoy on a road between the U.S. embassy and the main airport in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, Afghan and Italian officials said.
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Members of the Cirque Du Soleil show “Dralion” perform during a show preview in Monterrey, northern Mexico.
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President Barack Obama uses a light saber as he watches a demonstration of fencing with Tim Morehouse who won a silver medal in Men’s Saber Fencing at the Beijing Olympics, during an event supporting Chicago’s 2016 host city Olympic bid, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
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A man walks past one of the National Day floats in Beijing. China will stage a huge military parade and pageant in Beijing on Oct. 1 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of communist China.
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A charred landscape is left in the wake of the 250 square mile Station fire as firefighters work to complete the final nine percent of defensible fireline to contain the massive blaze in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, northeast of Los Angeles, California. The arson-sparked wildfire is the largest in Los Angeles County history and the tenth largest ever fought in California. Two firefighters were killed and 89 homes destroyed in the inferno that began three weeks ago. Firefighters expect to have full containment by the week’s end. It could be many more days before control is declared. Firefighting costs could exceed USD 100 million, according to official sources.
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Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunrise reaching ‘the ice bridge’ in the Robeson channel, near the border between Greenland and Canada. The Greenland icesheet responded to global warming over the past 10,000 years more quickly than thought, according to a study released on September 16. As a result, a medium-sized temperature increase this century could cause the continent-sized ice block to start melting at an alarming rate.
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A surfer performs an aerial off a wave in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town is starting to experience the first signs of spring after weeks of rain and winter cold fronts.
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Megan Fox strikes a pose during the opening of “Jennifer’s Body” fan event held at Hollywood & Highland, California.
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Mexican Army soldiers secure the site were the two Federal Police officers were murdered, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has acknowledged the country’s drug war is bloodier and tougher than he thought when he first took office in 2006, but vowed to eradicate the ‘cancer’ that is consuming Mexico and has ordered the deployment of an additional 5,000 military troops and 1,000 policemen to the drug-ravaged northern border with the United States.
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A bagger asks a passenger for money in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Cast members of the Cirque Du Soleil show “Dralion” perform during a show preview in Monterrey, northern Mexico.
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A Holiday Inn employee waits behind a front desk made of key cards as the first-ever key card hotel is unveiled in New York to celebrate the relaunching of 1,200 Holiday Inn hotels globally. The 400 square foot hotel is made of more than 200,000 key cards and weighs 4,000 pounds.
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