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A Nepalese festival, early voting in Iowa, free health-care clinic, an ancient Martian streambed and more in the day in photos News and feature images around the world.
Sept. 27, 2012
A dancer gets ready to perform a traditional mask dance during the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. The annual event, named after Indra, the god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, rejoicing, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu Valley to mark the end of monsoon season. The festival, during which Indra, the living goddess Kumari and other deities are worshipped, started after the erecting of a “lingo,” a long wooden pole, on Thursday, and it ends after the lingo is pulled down Oct. 3.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
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Newly admitted students wearing traditional ethnic Han Chinese costumes attend a celebration ceremony for the 2,563rd anniversary of Confucius’s birthday at a school playground in Jinjiang, in China’s Fujian province.
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Sept. 27, 2012
Betty Carlson helps her husband, Keith Carlson, who is visually impaired, fill out his ballot during early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse in Waterloo, Iowa. Early voting starts Friday in Iowa, where in the 2008 election 36 percent of voters cast an early ballot.
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Sept. 27, 2012
Residents wait in line to pick up a ballot during early voting in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Sept. 27, 2012
Kindergartner Colin Kurt leads the class in the inaugural national JAM World Record at Table Mound Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. About 2 million people participated in the JAM, or Just-A-Minute, which was held to help raise awareness of obesity.
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Sept. 27, 2012
Isaac Mendoza, 6, has a tooth filled at Care Harbor’s fourth annual free health clinic in Los Angeles. The clinic will give an estimated 4,800 patients free dental work, medical exams, screenings and immunizations over four days.
Lucy Nicholson
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Sept. 27, 2012
Optometry student Brenda Alcantar, left, helps patient Lacheryl Mitchell take an eye test on the first day of Care Harbor’s fourth annual free health clinic in Los Angeles.
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Sept. 27, 2012
People without health insurance receive dental care on the first day of Care Harbor’s fourth annual free health clinic in Los Angeles.
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Sept. 27, 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel holds a placard showing a cartoonlike bomb with a lighted fuse as he describes his concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions during his address to the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the United Nations. “At this late hour there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs,” Netanyahu told the annual gathering. “And that is by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.” With a flourish, Netanyahu pulled a red marker from his pocket and drew a thick line across the cartoon, just below the start of what he described as the third and final stage.
Richard Drew
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AP
Sept. 28, 2012
A man faints during a protest rally after Friday prayers near the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Police stopped an attempt by Muslims to besiege the embassy as thousands of protesters gathered nearby to demonstrate against an anti-Islamic video, which was posted on YouTube and made in the United States, and cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, local media reported.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
Sept. 27, 2012
A member of the Free Syrian Army opens fire during clashes with Syrian army forces in Aleppo, Syria.
Zain Karam
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Reuters
Sept. 27, 2012
A fisherwoman wades past a previously immersed idol of the Hindu god Ganesh in a tributary of the Mutha River near the Indian village of Khed. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and are later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey toward his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of mankind.
Vivek Prakash
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Reuters
Sept. 28, 2012
Tibetans in exile wait to offer traditional offerings to their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a prayer ceremony at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India. More than 400 delegates are in Dharmsala to attend the four-day Special General Meeting, which ends Friday, to discuss their response to the self-immolations in Tibet in protest against Chinese rule.
Ashwini Bhatia
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AP
Sept. 28, 2012
Nepalese onlookers gather around the burning wreckage at the crash site of a Sita Air airplane near the capital of Kathmandu. The plane, carrying trekkers to the Everest region, crashed just after takeoff Friday morning, killing the 19 Nepali, British and Chinese people on board, authorities said.
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AP
Sept. 28, 2012
A woman cries at the Sita Air crash site in Kathmandu.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
Sept. 27, 2012
An unidentified woman is consoled at the scene of a shooting that left five people dead, include the shooter, at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune via AP
Sept. 27, 2012
A soldier carries marijuana plants to be destroyed after a large marijuana plantation was seized in Hostotipaquillo, Mexico. During the operation, more than 98 acres of marijuana were seized, according to the army.
Bruno Gonzalez
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AP
Sept. 27, 2012
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds a hadas, a myrtle branch that is one of the four items used as a symbol on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, examining it for blemishes to determine if it is ritually acceptable, in Jerusalem. According to the Bible, during the Sukkot holiday, known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, Jews are commanded to bind together hadas with a palm frond, or “lulav,” willow branches, or “aravot,” and a citrus fruit, or “etrog”; together, they make up the “four species” used in holiday rituals. The week-long holiday begins at sundown Sunday.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Sept. 27, 2012
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk past a man as he builds a sukkah in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood. A sukkah is a ritual hut used during the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Baz Ratner
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Reuters
Sept. 27, 2012
Dana Schletter, an Eckerd College junior from New York, hugs her Maine Coon, Totoro, after he got a clean bill of health at the college’s pet-health check in St. Petersburg, Fla. Eckerd College allows students to have pets on campus if they are registered and pass a health screening.
James Borchuck
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Tampa Bay Times via AP
Sept. 28, 2012
A pair of La Perla swimming trunks, worn by Daniel Craig in the James Bond film “Casino Royale,” are on display at Christie’s in London. Fifty lots of Bond memorabilia are due to go up for auction to celebrate Global James Bond Day on Oct. 5.
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Sept. 27, 2012
Pole dancer Pantera Blacksmith performs in the Miss Pole Dance Colombia 2012 competition in Medellin, Colombia.
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Sept. 27, 2012
This 7,000-year-old figurine of a woman was found at the Neolithic settlement in Plocnik, Serbia. The archaeologists say that their findings indicate that tribes that lived in the Balkans around 5,300 B.C. processed copper and other metals, earlier then previously anticipated.
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Reuters
Sept. 27, 2012
This 7,000-year-old bronze ax was found at the renewed Neolithic settlement in Plocnik, Serbia.
Marko Djurica
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Reuters
This image, provided by NASA, shows a Martian rock outcrop, thought to be the site of an ancient streambed, near the Curiosity rover’s landing site. The photo, released Sept. 27, was taken Sept. 2 using the rover’s 100-millimeter Mast Cam.
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NASA via AP
Sept. 27, 2012
Men work in a mountain of soybeans stocked in the city of Sorriso, in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state. Farmers in Brazil’s grain belt started planting after early showers set the scene for what is expected to be a bumper corn and record soy crop, officials at producer associations and cooperatives said Sept. 21.
Nacho Doce
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Sept. 27, 2012
Young Pacific moon jellyfish swim in the aquarium of the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna.
Alexander Klein
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 27, 2012
Visitors tour the illuminated decorations and lighting of small bulbs set up at Victoria Park to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. It is believed that on Sunday, the moon will be at its biggest, roundest and brightest of the year, and the term “round” implies family reunion in Chinese.
Kin Cheung
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AP
Sept. 27, 2012
An amusement ride rotates in front of the Mariendom, left, and the St. Severi's Church during Oktoberfest, in Erfurt, Germany. The Oktoberfest event in Erfurt started Sept. 22 and will last until Oct. 7.
Jens Meyer
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AP
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