A foam covered student from St Andrews University participates in the traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in St Andrews, Scotland.
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A rebel sniper keeps an eye on his enemy’s position as mortar explosions and gunshots are heard in the nearby battlefield in the Karm al-Jabel neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.
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Police use water cannons to disperse demonstrators in central Ankara, Turkey.
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A multiple-exposure picture shows contestant Kinga Gal during the Miss Belly-Dance Hungary competition in Budapest.
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A baseball fan jumps over a bonfire outside AT&T Park after the San Francisco Giants defeated the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series.
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A Thai man falls off of a buffalo during an annual water buffalo race in Chonburi Province south of Bangkok.
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A soap bubble made by a man who performs for money in the street floats in Madrid.
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U.S. soldiers of B Troop, 1st squadron of 4th US Cavalry Regiment, fire a 120 mm mortar shell during an exercise at COP (Combat outpost) in Afghanistan.
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A boy plants a wooden cross bearing a poppy in a memorial field at Saltwell Park in Gateshead, north-east England, ahead of Remembrance Day.
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A performer stands in a streetlight shower as part of an installation to celebrate the city’s 775th anniversary in Berlin’s Nikolai Quarter.
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Serena Williams celebrates after winning the final of the WTA Championships tennis tournament against Maria Sharapova in Istanbul.
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A Ukrainian woman casts her ballot in the village of Prybirs during national parliamentary elections.
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DJ Skrillex performs during the 2012 Voodoo Experience at City Park in New Orleans.
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Niklas Ajo of Finland crashes during the Moto3 class at the Australian MotoGP in Phillip Island, Australia.
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A woman snaps a shot of the sun shining over the Brooklyn Bridge from the South Street Seaport as morning breaks following the devastating landfall of Hurricane Sandy.
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Afghan boxer Hamid Rahimi celebrates after defeating Said Mbelwa of Tanzania in their WBO Intercontinental middleweight championship fight in Kabul. It was the first professional fight to be held in Afghanistan.
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Dutch Prince Constantijn (left) leads the ceremonial opening of the Rijksstudio, the digital archive of the museum in Amsterdam.
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A model dons a creation by Joao Pimenta on a littered catwalk at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil.
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Anti-airport protesters — one seemingly pegged with teargas grenades — clash with French riot police during an evacuation on the land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
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Sixteen-month-old Ryleigh is a sad little elephant. Mom Brandy Mickey tries to cheer her up at a mothers’ support group meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Refugees collect water at a camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar, for Muslims displaced by violence earlier this year. The UN claims 22,587 people have been in disputes between Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhines.
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Students watch as US Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps gives a lesson while visiting new Olympic facilities in Rio de Janeiro.
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Mitt Romney helps collect donations during a storm relief event in Kettering — a town in hotly contested Ohio.
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A rebel sniper takes aim at a Syrian army position from a residential building in Aleppo, Syria.
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An intact section of the Belmar boardwalk sits askew amid the destruction at the New Jersey shore after Hurricane Sandy.
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Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov speaks to supporters at a rally in Moscow to show support to jailed protestors.
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Riot officers face demonstrators outside Portugal’s parliament building in Lisbon amid huge protests against austerity measures.
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Artist Tomoteru Saito of Japan works on a circus-themed project for the Sarasota, Fla., Chalk Festival
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Workers continue the slow demolition of Haiti’s National Palace, which was destroyed in the earthquake that leveled the island nearly three years ago.
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In Cali, Colombia, a woman cries over the coffin of a relative — one of six police killed during an attack by FARC guerrillas.
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The Nets practice at their new Brooklyn home. The team was notified during the workout that Thursday’s opener against the Knicks has been postponed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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Police in St. Petersburg, Russia, detain an opposition activist. Groups opposing the ruling party have been gathering monthly in support of their right of assembly, with most of the rallies ending up banned or dispersed by cops.
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A trio of Indian schoolgirls catch a ride to class on the back of a bicycle rickshaw in New Delhi, India.
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Seen from the 16th floor of NASA’s vehicle-assebly building, Space Shuttle Atlantis awaits transport to its new home at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Visitors peer off the newly opened viewing point nearly 2000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean in Cabo Girao, on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
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Inter Milan’s Gaby Mudingayi, left, and Sampdoria’s Marcelo Estigarribia collide during a rainy match in Milan, Italy.
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Training runs for the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., went on in heavy early-morning fog.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton needs a new pair of earbuds to understand her news conference with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic in Zagreb.
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Pope Benedict leads a vesper prayer inside the Sistine Chapel, marking five centuries since Michelangelo’s ceiling of frescoes was inaugurated.
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A Cirque Berzerk performer spits fire for the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund’s awards gala at the Avalon in Hollywood.
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British servicemen watch as others are presented Afghanistan Operational Service Medals at a parade in Bulford, England.
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A Voodoo believer dressed as a spirit leads a ritual in celebration of the Day of the Dead at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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A Syrian man squeezes oxygen into the lungs of an eight-year-old relative fatally wounded by government machine-gun fire in Aleppo.
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Nepalese farmers harvest a rice crop on a paddy field just outside Kathmandu.
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Vice President Joe Biden leads his Secret Service detail on a run across a Muscatine, Iowa, street to greet schoolchildren there.
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A Hindu woman paints henna on another’s hands on the eve of the Karwa Chauth festival in Jammu, India.
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Spot-lit models show off pieces by Reinaldo Lourenco on the catwalk at Sao Paulo fashion week in Brazil.
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A port police officer in Greece waves flares in protest of austerity measures in Athens’ newly released budget plan.
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Prince Charles checks out the ride of a member of The Royal British Legion Riders at Clarence House in London.
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A giant kite takes to the sky over the dunes at Blouberstrand, near Cape Town, South Africa, at the annual Cape Town International Kite Festival.
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A girl yells her lungs out for Mitt Romney at a campaign event in Roanoke, Va.
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An Afghan boy has a hug for his donkey as they wait outside a timber market in Kabul.
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Cobbled together from 55 high-resolution images, here’s a self portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover at an area called Rocknest in Mars’ Gale Crater.
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A worker shovels sand — carried in by Sandy’s storm surge — out of homeowner Sandy Forino’s living room in Longport, NJ.
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An Indian woman takes part in a traditional ritual amid observation of the Karva Chauth festival in Jammu, India.
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An Israeli soldier chases Palestinian protesters through the streets of Kafr Qaddum during demonstrations marking the anniversary of the British government’s official support of a Jewish state.
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Citizens walk through a dense sandstorm choking Hami, China.
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Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz celebrates his win over Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia in the quarterfinals at the Paris Masters tennis tournament.
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Honor guardsmen stretch before rehearsals for a military parade in Red Square, Moscow.
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President Obama seems shocked to see the crowd of supporters greeting him at a campaign event at Springfield High School in Ohio.
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A cadet lies on the grass after passing out during graduation ceremonies for police in Bogota, Colombia. Don’t worry, she was helped up a short time later.
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A child cries as he and his mother wait for care at a clinic in a refugee camp outside Sittwe, Myanmar.
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