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Day in Photos: Sept. 7, 2012

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A deputy from the Ontario County Sheriffís office investigates scene of a bus crash in Gorham, NY. Authorities say five children are being treated for minor injuries after the school bus was hit by a pick-up truck and overturned along a rural Finger Lakes road. The Ontario County Sheriff's Office tells local media outlets 26 students in grades three through 12 in the Marcus Whitman Central School District were aboard the bus during the collision. The bus landed on its side in a corn field. Investigators say there was dense fog at the time. School district officials say none of the students was seriously injured, but five and both drivers were taken to a local hospital for treatment. Deputies are investigating the cause of the crash.

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Police officers detain a protester in support of women's rights group Femen, during a civic-military parade commemorating the Independence Day of Brazil in Brasilia. Sign reads, "From woman to woman, emancipate ourselves."

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"NowhereIsland," an island from the Arctic on a journey around the coast of South West England, arrived in Bristol harbour travelling. The art piece by artist Alex Hartley contains material from the Arctic and weighs 200 tons.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a news conference after landing at Jetsun Aviation Center in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa.

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Myanmar labourers sit during a protest in front of the Mayangone township labour office on the outskirts of Yangon. Hundreds of textile factory workers held a protest march before staging a sit-in outside a labour office outside Yangon demanding better wages.

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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff takes part in a parade in commemoration of Brazilian Independence Day in Brasilia.

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People run as fallen rocks land near their vehicle after the area was hit by earthquake in Zhaotong town, Yiliang County, southwest China. A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides Friday in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China.Damage from the earthquakes was preventing rescues and communications were disrupted.

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President Obama speaks during a campaign event at Strawbery Banke Field in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Britain's Prince Harry is shown the Apache flight-line by a member of his squadron at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, where he will be operating from during his tour of duty as a co-pilot gunner. The Prince has returned to Afghanistan to fly attack helicopters in the fight against the Taliban.

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Four advertising blimps, DirecTV, Hood, Horizon, and MetLife, fly together over the construction of One World Trade Center, now up to 104 floors, and the lower Manhattan skyline in New York.

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Chinese actress Sun Li is surrounded by microphones as she arrives at Vogue's 4th Fashion's Night Out: Shopping Night with Celebrities event at a hotel in downtown Shanghai.

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People enjoy a sunset swim at a public beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Belarussian soldiers from an Interior Ministry special unit show their skills during an open day on the 70th anniversary of the 3214 Interior Ministry special unit on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.

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Laborers work on building a highway to connect Kashgar and Aksu in Aksu, China. China gave the green light for 60 infrastructure projects this week as it looks to energise an economy mired in its worst slowdown in three years, fuelling hopes that the world's growth engine may get a lift from the fourth quarter.

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Ukrainian women, dressed in white wedding gowns, take turns sleeping on display in the museum for a couple of hours every day during a new art project called 'Sleeping Beauties' created by a Canadian-Ukrainian artist Taras Polataiko in The National Art Museum in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Indian people stand on a submerged bridge on the river Mahisagar at Galteswar village. Thousands of people have been evacuated from many parts of Gujarat owing to heavy delayed monsoon rains.

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Children run through a field of assorted wild daisies in the West Coast National Park near Velddrif, South Africa. For a few weeks in the Southern Hemisphere spring, at the end of winter, the usually dry and barren Cape West coast turns into a rich tapestry of bright colours as an explosion of wild flowers of the region burst to life in an extraordinary floral showcase attracting visitors from around the globe to view the phenomenon.

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Smoke from a wildfire near White Salmon, Wash., is visible from the Columbia River near Cascade Locks, Ore. A total of about 450 houses are threatened by the fire, and most of those residents have been told to be ready to flee if the fire heads their way.