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Day in Photos: Aug. 20, 2012

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Dancers of the Feeling Fantasy dance studio perform during the 43rd Debrecen Flower Festival in Debrecen, east of Budapest, Hungary. Hungarians celebrate King St Stephen's Day on August 20, one of the most important national holidays commemorating the foundation of their state.

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People cool off in the Trocadero's fountains in Paris as the city sweltered under a summer heatwave.

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More than 70 hot air balloons soar during Rhineland-Palatinate's biggest hot air balloon meeting, the Mosel-Balloon-Fiesta, at the airfield in Foehren, western Germany.

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Japanese nationalists waves Japan's national flag in from of a lighthouse on a disputed island, part of a group known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. Around a dozen members of the right-wing group Gambare Nippon (Hang In There Japan) swam ashore, an AFP journalist witnessed, from a 20-boat flotilla carrying activists and lawmakers. Nationalists raised Japanese flags on the island at the heart of a corrosive territorial row, sparking street protests in China and an angry reaction from Beijing.

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A boy takes a bath in a fountain in central Berlin, Germany.

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Equestrian vaulting British Team (on their horse Go for Gold) fall as they compete in the Squad's event of the FEI World Vaulting Championship at the European Horse Pole in Yvré-l'Évêque, northern France.

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Anti-Japan protesters march in Chengdu, in southwestern China's Sichuan province. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers.

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An Indian woman wades through the banks of the River Tawi flooded due to monsoon rains in Jammu, India. Monsoon rains usually hit India from June to September.

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A man jumps into lake Ammersee in Utting, southern Germany.

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A balloon seller takes a nap in front of the closed shops in the old quarters of Delhi.

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Adrian Martin (26), of Spain, and Niklas Ajo, of Finland, crash on the opening lap of the Moto3 motorcycle race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.

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Gu Kailai (C), wife of ousted Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai, stands at the defendant's dock during a trial in the court room at Hefei Intermediate People's Court in this still image taken from video. A Chinese court sentenced Gu to death on Monday but suspended her execution, ending one chapter in a scandal that has shaken the ruling Communist Party ahead of a leadership transition later this year. The sentence means Gu is likely to face life in jail for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood last year, provided she does not commit offences in the next two years.

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A man cools off at a weir of the Berounka river in the village of Dobrichovice, near Prague.

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Citizens of the village of Lithi find refuge at the beach as a wildfire burns on a mountain next to it, in the island of Chios, Greece.

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Rescuers and relatives stop a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a building in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province. The woman was rescued as she tried to commit suicide after killing her nephew following a family dispute.

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Swedish made JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets of the Hungarian Air Force fly in formation after they took off at the Kecskemet air base, southeast of Budapest, Hungary.

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An aerial view of sunbathers at the beach in Katwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands.

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People cool down in a swimming pool in Daying county, in southwestern China's Sichuan province.