Dancers from the Australian Ballet perform a new traditional production of “Swan Lake” by choreographer Stephen Baynes in Melbourne.
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Firefrighters put out fire during a fire fighting drill in the Greater Khingan Range, north China’s Inner Mongolia Province.
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South African police arrest a miner in Marikana at Lonmin’s platinum mine, seizing traditional weapons after hundreds of workers regrouped in a shantytown near where police shot dead 34 people last month. South African police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse workers at platinum giant Lonmin’s strike-hit Marikana mine in a crackdown on rising unrest in the key industry.
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People walk past the Grand Mosque of Djenne, a UNESCO World-Heritage listed site, in Djenne. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Mali’s coup d’etat in late March, after which Islamist rebels took control of the country’s northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne, according to the local tourism board.
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Mexican Army Paratroopers march during the celebration of the 202nd anniversary of the country’s independence at Juarez Avenue in Mexico City.
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An overview shows the illuminated track for the upcoming Formula One Singapore Grand Prix night race in Singapore. Formula One’s Singapore Grand Prix will be held on September 21 to 23.
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A firefighting jet airplane flies drops retardant on the North Merna wildfire in the Bridger National Forest west of the town of Pinedale in Sublette County, Wyoming.
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The Soyuz TMA-04M capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin lands near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan.
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A fire hits several homes at Moinho slum, in Campos Eliseos neighborhood, in central Sao Paulo, Brazil. At least one person was killed, train services were paralyzed and a viaduct near the slum was blocked. The slum had already been destroyed by a fire on December 2011.
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An aerial view of Mount Gamalama as it spews volcanic ash after it erupted at the Indonesia’s Ternate Island. The 1,715 meter volcano spewed ash as high as 1,000 meters after it erupted a day earlier.
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High waves caused by Typhoon Sanba crash on beach in Yeosu, south of Seoul, South Korea.
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Farmer Zhang Baoshe carries a string of corns as he walks past a ”corn wall” in Xigou Village of Yangcheng County in Jincheng City, north China’s Shanxi Province.
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A woman sits in a cafeteria and watches rail workers march inside the Barcelona Sants railway station during a protest. Hundreds of Spanish train services have been canceled as rail and subway workers staged strikes to protest wage cuts and reforms.
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A model wear a very elaborated hair piece during the The Philip Treacy fashion show during London Fashion Week.
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Demonstrators march holding images of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong as police stand guard outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing as anti-Japanese protests continue across the country over the Diaoyu islands issue, known as the Senkaku islands in Japanese. A wave of new anti-Japan protests were expected over the disputed islands in the East China Sea on September 18 on the anniversary of the Mukden Incident that triggered Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
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Police officers gather at the scene where two female police officers were killed in Hattersley near Manchester, northern England. Two unarmed policewomen were killed in a shooting in Manchester on Tuesday in an attack likely to reignite a long-running debate in Britain over whether officers should carry guns.
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Afghanistan police and officials walk at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a minivan carrying foreigners on a major highway leading to the international airport in the Afghan capital, police said, killing at least 10 people, including nine foreigners.
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Kashmiri boatmen row their shikara, small boat during sunset at the Dal lake in Srinagar, India. Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meets with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the State Department in Washington.
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Peruvian Police officers inspect a Bolivian origin aircraft wreckage at an illegal landing strip near Peru’s central jungle city of Oxapampa. Almost 772 pounds of cocaine were seized in the Amazon region of Pasco after a gun fire confrontation between police officers and drug traffickers, who were forced to leave the drug packages inside the airplane.
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Two boys from the Mundari tribe watch over their cattle in Terekeka, a fishing community 75km north of Juba in South Sudan,. The Mandari are a nilotic tribe and are known for fishing with only spears and nets and for their cattle keeping traditions.
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US Amber Neben competes during the women’s Elite Time Trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Valkenburg.
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Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill board the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (Navy) frigate Yi Yang to meet prior to conducting a bilateral counter-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Aden.
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, (C), escorted by his bodyguards, waves to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah who does not usually appear in public for fear of assassination called for Monday’s protests in Beirut, saying the U.S. must be held accountable for the film because it was produced in America.
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A Bangladeshi child laborer carries empty bottles at a plastic bottle recycling center in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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A young child draped in a Chinese national flag sits on a man’s shoulders during an anti-Japan protest near the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China.
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General David Petraeus, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), (C), New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Ray Kelly, second from right, and Duncan Niederauer, chief executive officer of NYSE Euronext, right, clap during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York.
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Masked Palestinians stone-throwers collect bricks to use against Israeli security forces, not pictured, during clashes erupted after demonstration against an anti-Islam film called “Innocence of Muslims” that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, in Shuafat refugee camp, Jerusalem.
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An aerial photo from Kyodo News shows Chinese ocean surveillance, fishery patrol ships and a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship (R and 2nd L) sailing about 27 km (17 miles) west from a group of disputed islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.
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First lady Michelle Obama does a little dance with students in the afternoon school program at the Girls Place in Gainesville, Fla.
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Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta.
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An Egyptian policeman peeks out from the window of a guard shack in front of the French Embassy in Cairo. A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed today, inflaming global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam. In response, the French government ordered embassies and schools to close Friday in about 20 countries.
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An Indian Muslim student hits a burning effigy of President Obama as others shout anti-US slogans during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Kolkata. More than 30 people have been killed around the world during more than a week of attacks and violent protests linked to the controversial film, seen as insulting to the Prophet Mohammed.
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Bangladeshi men row during a traditional boat race in the Buriganga river in Dhaka. Rivers form an integral part of Bangladesh’s history, tradition, literature, culture and sports and boat races are an important element of folk culture.
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Waves break against Montevideo’s promenade as strong gusts of wind batter the Uruguayan coast.
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A young Israeli boy climbs on rope obstacles in a playground as the sun sets over the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel. Having just celebrated Rosh Hashanah the Jewish world awaits its highest holiday of Yom Kippur starting on the evening of September 25, 2012.
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Soldiers with painted faces march during a military exercise at the Marshal Bagramian training grounds near the Armenia-Turkey border, in Armenia. Around 2,000 troops from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are conducting five days of exercises, since September 15, under the flag of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).
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Morning fog raises from vineyards near Escherndorf, southern Germany.
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Nepalese Hindu women recite prayers led by a priest as they sit on the banks of the Bagmati River during the Rishi Panchami festival in Kathmandu. Rishi Panchami marks the end of the three-day long Teej festival, in which married women fast and pray for the good health of their husbands to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, while unmarried women wish for handsome husbands and happy conjugal lives.
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Samajwadi Party workers attempt to stop trains on the tracks in Allahabad. Opposition parties and trade unions called for shopkeepers, traders and labourers in India to block railway lines and close markets to protest against reforms, designed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to revive India’s slowing economy allowing in foreign retail giants such as Walmart and Tesco.
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Fire and smoke rises from fuel tanks at the El Palito refinery in Carabobo state, Venezuela. A fire that broke out at a Venezuelan oil refinery was apparently caused by a lightning strike, the country’s top oil official said Thursday.
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A man rows through wafts of mist on the lake Titisee in the Black Forest, southern Germany.
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Smoke billows from burning tires as Palestinian protesters prepare to throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes that erupted after a demonstration against an amateur anti-Islam film in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem.
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A man crosses a deserted road during a strike in Kolkata, India. Angry opposition supporters disrupted trains in India on Thursday but had only limited success in enforcing a national strike to protest a government decision to cut fuel subsidies and open the country’s huge retail market to foreign companies.
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Professional cyclist Kathryn Bertine of Saint Kitts and Nevis, poses with cycling fan and bicycle constructor Didi Senft of Germany on the course of the road race of the Road World Championship Cycling near Valkenburg, southern Netherlands.
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Bangladeshi firefighters and residents try to control a fire at the Begunbari slum in Dhaka, Banglades. The cause of the fire in which at least 500 shanties were gutted was not known.
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Men wearing cardboard hats, depicting Apple’s new iPhone 5, pose for photos as they wait for the release of the phone near Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo.
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Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson serves champagne to travellers abroad Virgin America Flight 11 from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to San Francisco. Branson and some of the airline’s frequent flyers were tapped to be part of Virgin America’s new ad campaign during the flight using in-flight WiFi to transmit images back to live digital boards at New York’s Times Square according to the airline.
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A sniper aims his gun to Rocinha slum during the inauguration of its Peacekeeping Unit Program (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro. The occupation of Rocinha, a notorious hillside “favela” that overlooks some of Rio’s swankiest areas, is a crucial part of the city’s preparations to host soccer’s World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later.
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Protesters use sticks to smash the windscreen and windows of a car during an anti-America protest march in Islamabad. Some 800 protesters marching towards the U.S. embassy gathered in a demonstration to condemn a film produced in the U.S. mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
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A woman poses with a locust on her tongue at a discovery lunch in Brussels. Organizers of the event, which included cookery classes, want to draw attention to insects as a source of nutrition.
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A Pakistani Muslim demonstrator brandishes a stick near burning police vehicles during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Karachi. At least nine people died in Pakistan during violent protests on Friday condemning a US-made film insulting Islam.
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Greenpeace activists dressed in Tiger costumes visiting the palm oil plantation of PT in Pulang Pisau, Indonesia.
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USA’s Grace Alexander lies in the road after falling during the women’s Junior Road race World Championships near Valkenburg. Britain’s Lucy Garner won ahead Norway’s Eline Brustad and Italy’s Anna Zita Stricker.
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An activist of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) attired to look like a piece of meat meal within a meal lies on a huge plate during a demonstration in Bangalore.
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An Indian ragpicker carries a huge sack of reusable garbage at a dumping ground on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.
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Julian Wilson of Australia surfs on the final day at the Hurley Pro Trestles at San Onofre State Beach in Lower Trestles, Calif.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard troops march, during a military parade commemorating the start of the Iraq-Iran war 32 years ago, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.
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Pakistani Muslim demonstrators topple a freight container, placed by police to block a street during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Lahore.
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Indian farmers are seen at Darangiri banana market in the Goalpara district, Assam, India. There are nearly 15,000 people involved in the banana market. Darangiri is the largest banana market in North East India where 10-12 trucks of bananas are sold every day during the peak of banana growing season.
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The Mustang Complex wildfires in Idaho are seen from the International Space Station at an altitude of approximately 260 miles above earth in this NASA photo taken by a crew member from Expedition 33. The Mustang Complex fire has devoured at least 280,000 acres of pine forests since it grew from several separate lightning-sparked blazes in late July in remote stretches of the Salmon-Challis National Forest.
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An art installation entitled “Floating Echo,” an inflatable Buddha by artist Chang-Jin Lee, is seen floating in the Harlem River at Socrates Sculpture Park in the Queens, NY.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted on NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, passes over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed.
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A woman walks in downtown Rome at sunset.
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People enjoy a ride during the Minnesota 2012 State Fair in Albuquerque.
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Bathers enjoy the sunny day at Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. The sun and the heat mark the last week of winter in Rio de Janeiro.
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The Crazy Horse girls dressed as a Busby guards arrive in London from Paris ahead of the launch of Forever Crazy a UK presentation of the cabaret that has been seducing Parisian audiences for over 60 years, to be performed in a purpose-built venue on the Southbank in London.
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