Rio residents and tourists enjoying Ipanema beach in the south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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A worker carries a piece of cork after harvesting it from the trunk of a cork oak in Girona Pyrenees mountain. Sales of Spanish cork plummeted between 2008 and 2010 as plastic wine stoppers or metal screw tops made headway globally alongside declining wine consumption. But now the traditional cork business has recovered, rescued by unlikely saviours: cutting-edge laboratory researchers in white coats who are demonstrating why nature’s stopper may still be one of the best ways of preserving and serving bottled wine.
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An activist of the ruling Congress party throws a stone at an auto-rickshaw during a statewide strike to protest against the clashes between police and the party workers during a rally in Bhubaneswar, India.
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A vendor selling pork sleeps while still holding onto her knife at a market in Beijing.
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Polo player Rob Brockett and his horse Pachu take a tumble in the surf as they practice on the beach in Newquay, England.
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Children and their parents learn traffic safety at a primary school in Shenyang, China.
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Four-year-old boy Judd, left, jumps from the top of a rock amongst 3,000 flags at a memorial honoring the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, set by students and staff on the campus lawn of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.
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An Indian artist works on an idol of the Hindu god Biswakarma at the artisan village, known locally as Kumartoli. Biswakarma is the Hindu god of architecture and machinery, and will be worshipped across the country on September 17.
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Palestinian police clash with demonstrators during a protest near the municipal building in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian demonstrators — fed up with high prices and unpaid salaries — shuttered shops, halted traffic with burning tires and closed schools throughout the West Bank on Monday in the largest show of popular discontent with the governing Palestinian Authority in its 18-year history.
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An elderly man sits on a toy horse in Beijing. China.
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A Yanomami child cleans the feet nails of another at Irotatheri community, in Amazonas state, southern Venezuela, near the Brazil border. The Venezuelan government on Friday agreed to lead a delegation of national and international media to Irotatheri after a slaughter of 80 Yanomami natives was reported. Venezuelan militarymen detected evidence of illegal mining in the south of the country, where Yanomami natives would have presumably been massacred by illegal Brazilian gold prospectors.
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A Bangladeshi river gypsy woman works on her boat as a boat man attempts to make his way through water hyacinth on the Buriganga river in Dhaka.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, helps to prepare the runway while Diane Von Furstenberg watches before her Spring 2013 show during Fashion Week in New York.
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Indian Hindu devotees perform evening rituals as they take holy dips in the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.
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A couple pose for photos as a man sleeps on a pier in Vladivostok, Russia.
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Indian coast guard performs operations to put out a fire out on the merchant vessel M.V. Amsterdam, in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, India. According to reports, the ship M.V. Amsterdam was carrying hazardous material.
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A demonstrator dressed as a clown rides a bike as riot police officers clash with demonstrators during a protest marking the 1973 military coup, in Santiago.
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Team Saxo Bank rider Alberto Contador of Spain celebrates splashing a bottle of cava on a model after winning the Tour of Spain in Madrid.
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A woman cools off in a public shower at Ipanema beach in the south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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