Yawalapiti men play bamboo flutes during celebration of this year’s “Quarup,” a ritual held over several days to honor in death a person of great importance to them, in the Xingu National Park, Brazil. This year the Yawalapiti tribe honoured two people – a Yawalapiti Indian who they consider a great leader, and Darcy Ribeiro, a well-known author, anthropologist and politician known for focusing on the relationship between native peoples and education in Brazil.
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Revellers throw tomato pulp while participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain. An estimated 35,000 people throw 120 tons of ripe tomatoes in the world’s biggest tomato fight held annually in this Spanish Mediterranean town.
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A fire rages in Talamantes, near Zaragoza, Spain. Numerous wildfires have broken out across Spain in the sweltering heat in recent weeks, an extra headache for authorities struggling to get the country out of its financial crisis and recession.
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A car’s surrounded by water after its owner parked it on the bank to watch waves brought on by Typhoon Bolaven in Qingdao, China. Typhoon Bolaven, the strongest storm to hit South Korea for almost a decade, left a trail of death and damage in southwestern and south-central regions of the Korean peninsula, and crossed into China.
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Two boys sunbath on concrete blocks at a beach in Cadiz, Spain.
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A fire destroys homes at a slum in Sao Miguel Paulista, in eastern Sao Paulo, Brazil. At least 30 homes were hit by the flames. No victims were reported.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is carried in a “pa’ata” by students from St. Joseph’s Primary School during the opening ceremony of the Pacific Islands Forum in Avarua on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. The Pacific Islands Forum opened in the Cook Islands with a colourful Polynesian welcome for leaders of the 15-nation grouping, who were carried aloft to the summit venue on litters.
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Research students from the the University of Alabama measure wind speeds as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in New Orleans, La.
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Malaysian students wave their national flags at rehearsal for Malaysia National Day celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur.
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A Pakistani army soldier arranges ammunition reportedly recovered from hideouts of militants in tribal areas, as they are displayed in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Kashmiri school student Nisha Bashir lands on the Dal Lake after a paragliding session in Srinagar, India.
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A man walks in front of tires set on fire by rioting youths for the third consecutive day in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa. Kenya’s prime minister said on Wednesday the country’s enemies were behind the killing of a Muslim cleric that triggered riots he described as being conducted by an “underground organisation” to create divisions between Christians and Muslims.
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A convict consoles his son while being taken to prison after a court verdict in a 2002 religious violence case, in Ahmadabad, India. The court in western India found 32 people guilty Wednesday of charges ranging from murder to rioting for their part in the deadly religious violence. The religious violence began following a train fire that killed 60 Hindu pilgrims. Muslims were blamed for the fire, leading to weeks of rioting in which Hindu mobs rampaged through towns and villages burning Muslim homes and businesses.
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A model walks down the runway during the Daniel Bendzovski S/S 2013 Fashion Show from the Swedish School of Textiles in Stockholm, Sweden.
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