A image made by the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the first lunar transit when the new Moon passed directly between the observatory spacecraft and the sun.
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A model displays a creation by Russian fashion house Ponomarev during the Moscow Fashion Week in the Russian capital.
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A Palestinian takes his donkey into the water to cool off, at the Mediterranean Sea, in Gaza City. Temperatures climbed up to 95 F in Gaza.
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Shaolin martial arts students attend a rehearsal for the Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival at Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan province, China.
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Motorists pass a replica of the Eiffel Tower, on a dusty afternoon in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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First Lady Michelle Obama lifts a large sweet potato that she helped dig from the ground during the fall harvest of the White House Kitchen Garden.
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A clown plays with a lizard as others laugh while trying to break the “laugh world record” in Mexico City. Hundreds of clowns are attending the XV International Clown Convention in the Mexican capital.
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A woman wearing a chef’s hat collects fish with a co-worker along the muddy shores of a polluted canal in central Beijing. The canal has been drained for cleaning, enabling fishermen and local residents to collect the small fish from the thick, black mud lining the bottom of the canal. Earlier this year, data from China’s environment watchdog, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, showed almost a quarter of China’s surface water remains so polluted that it is unfit even for industrial use, while less than half of total supplies are drinkable.
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A US Army soldier trains an attack dog at Camp FOB Wilson in Zari district in southern Kandahar province. More than 150,000 US and international troops are now in Afghanistan, with their number boosted by the 30,000 strong-surge strategy which President Obama announced in 2009 and which is now reaching its peak.
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Policemen try to disperse protesters during a rally in Athens. About 2,000 students marched in central Athens on Thursday to protest against planned education reform and EU/IMF austerity measures aimed at helping Greece exit a huge debt crisis.
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An aerial view of the reservoir containing toxic red mud near Kolontar, about 100 miles (164 kms) southwest of Budapest, Hungary. Nine people were killed and over 120 needed hospital treatment after up to a million cubic metres of caustic red sludge spilled from the waste reservoir of an aluminum plant in Ajka, western Hungary.
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School children play near the ‘Rainbow’, a huge ship set built by Indian art director Padmashri Thota Tharrani on the outskirts of Chennai, India. Nearly 700 people worked for almost three months on making of the ship set for a Tamil film which revolves around a ship building factory and was written by Tamilnadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi.
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New students wearing police uniforms parade during a ceremony for their first semester in Chinese People’s Public Security University in Beijing. The development of China’s military is not designed to threaten anyone, the country’s defence minister said in October amid regional concern over Beijing’s growing might.
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Models walk past a sign for the women’s toilet during the 14th “Venus” erotic fair in Berlin. The event, which represents the erotic business in the German capital, is open until October 24.
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Vehicles drift through floodwaters as a heavy rain pours in Amami, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan. The torrential rain left two residents dead and one missing.
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Thousands of bicycles used by students sit in a parking lot as students attend a class at a cram school in Kota, India. Every year, more than 450,000 students take the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) exam, hoping for entry to the hallowed public engineering institutes located across India. Slightly more than 13,000 passed in 2010, a 3 percent success rate.
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An Indian army soldier takes his position during a gunbattle with suspected militants in Maloora on the outskirts of Srinagar. A gunbattle broke out on Thursday between Indian troops and separatist militants in a residential area on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir.
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Soldiers incinerated marijuana at the military base Morelos in Tijuana, Baja California. Mexican soldiers seized 134 tons of marijuana on Monday in Mexico s biggest-ever pot haul, the army said. Heavily-armed soldiers raided a series of homes in a poor suburb of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, and came under fire at least once as they took the drugs, also arresting 11 suspected traffickers.
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A dancing goat who doubles as a guard dog has become a local celebrity in a Chinese city. Owner Zhao Huaiyun said: “It’s really smart. It not only loves dancing, but can shake hands with people. If it hears my cell phone ring, it would run to me, forelegs on my arms, baa-ing nonstop.” Zhao says the goat also protects his house in Mianzhu. He said, “Sometimes the dogs of neighbors run to my home for food, and then my goat comes to drive them away. If he can’t win the fight, he runs back into the house, calling me for help.”
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A flood caused by Typhoon Megi is seen in Ilan county, northern Taiwan. “Super typhoon” Megi regained strength and headed for southern China after wreaking havoc across the northern Philippines, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 11 people.
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Members of China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe perform at Dasma Theater in Kuwait City, Kuwait to promote Chinese culture, harmony and friendship. The CDPPAT includes 55 performers with hearing impairments, 28 performers with visual impairments and 5 performers with physical disabilities. The average age of performers is 18.
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A man casts a fishing net into flood waters at Thailand’s Lopburi province north of Bangkok. The worst floods in decades in Thailand and severe flooding in neighbouring Cambodia have killed 20 people, authorities said on Wednesday, as rescue workers braced for more rain and possible flooding in Bangkok.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands upon his arrival in Portland, Oregon, before attending a rally for gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber. Obama is on a four-day campaign swing out west.
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A farmer casts urea fertilizer in a rice plantation on the expropriated and now redistributed farm of El Charcote in the central state of Cojedes. El Charcote became a symbol of Chavez’s socialist revolution when he sent soldiers to seize it in a 2005 push to break up major ranches and repopulate rural areas largely abandoned since Venezuela’s oil industry took off in the 1920’s. The government recently bought the last 200,000 hectares of land on the farm, a vast cattle ranch that until 2005 belonged to one of Britain’s wealthiest families, the Vesteys, and 130,000 cattle.
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Visitors photograph a stripper performing on the industry professionals’ day at the 2010 Venus Erotic Fair at Messe Berlin, Germany. The trade fair will be open from October 21 through 24.
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