Greenpeace activists stand near a stuffed polar bear at a Shell gasoline station in the central Dutch town of Breukelen to protest against drilling in the Artic sea. The organization is blocking some 50 Shell gasoline stations in the Netherlands to protest against oil drilling off the coast of Alaska.
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Anti-Japanese demonstrators wave the Chinese flag as protests continue outside the Beijing Japanese Embassy over the Diaoyu Islands issue, known as the Senkaku Islands in Japanese. Six Chinese ships sailed into waters around a disputed archipelago, with Beijing saying they were there for “law enforcement” around islands Japan nationalized earlier this week.
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Men take shelter under a footbridge in a park during a rain shower in New Delhi. India’s monsoon rains were 31 percent above average in the week to September 5, the weather office said last week, the second straight week of heavier than normal rains, reducing the threat of a prolonged drought in the south Asian country.
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First lady Michelle Obama reacts as she visits with young children in after-school care at the Rappahannock Area YMCA in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
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Fog rises from the valley of Oberstaufen in the German Alps. Meteorologists forecast sunny late summer weather for the upcoming weekend in southern Germany.
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Pope Benedict XVI stands next to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman as he waves to the crowd at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon.
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FSA fighters fire their weapons towards Syrian Army positions from the top of a building in the Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria.
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A young Indian school boy rides a cycle in the rain in Allahabad, India. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.
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NASA astronaut Kevin Ford attends a training session at the Star City space centre outside Moscow. Ford, together with Russian cosmonauts Evgeniy Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy, is preparing for a mission to the International Space Station.
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A farmer carries his daughter Anna during the so-called Viehscheid return from the mountain pastures near the village of Oberstaufen in the German Alps, southern Germany. During the traditional “Almabtrieb” event, cow herds are brought from alpine pastures, where they stay during the summer, to their stables in the valley.
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Korean rapper-singer Psy (C) performs on NBC’s “Today” show with hosts (L-R) Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Savannah Guthrie and David Gregory in New York.
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Firefighters extinguish fire of a burning truck after a serious accident on the A2 motorway between Wollin and Brandenburg, Germany.
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Indian fishermen pull a net they had laid to catch fish in the Arabian Sea in Trivandrum, India.
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An actor dressed as a ghost walks past a “5D haunted house”, which combines locally developed three-dimension projection technology, adding scents and interaction with ghosts and ghouls, at the Hong Kong Ocean Park. The attraction, is part of the preparation for the large-scale Halloween celebrations in Asia. A total of 500 actors will be taking part in the themed attraction.
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A boy sits at his parents’ house, damaged by shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in Talbiseh, near Homs.
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Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney reacts as he is presented with cake from a member of the media who celebrated her birthday on the campaign plane.
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A man is tied up and beaten by the villagers of Tactic in Alta Verapaz region, some 117 miles from Guatemala City. The local community tied up and beat four men who were accused of theft in the aftermath of a school killing, which had occurred on Wednesday. The man, who had entered a classroom and killed two children, ages 8 and 13, with a machete, was lynched and burnt alive by a mob.
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Environmental and social activists from Israel and around the world gather at the Dead Sea for a protest float against the deterioration of the sea condition, Israel. The float was led by the photographer Spencer Tunick to protest the disappearance of the beach where he took his famous photographs last year.
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