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Day in Photos: Sept. 17, 2012

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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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Clouds above the ancient Acropolis hill with the Parthenon temple, in Athens. Greece's government is trying to finalize an euro 11.5 billion ($15 billion) austerity package required for continued emergency rescue loans. Unions are angry at the new cuts and have called a general strike for Sept. 26.

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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.