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Balloon fiesta, Mars panorama, NASA’s Morpheus lander explosion and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 10, 2012
Hot-air balloons take to the skies at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. The early morning flight of nearly 100 balloons over the city in southwest England was the first mass ascent of the four-day event, which started Thursday.
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Aug. 10, 2012
A hot air balloon flies from Ashton Court over houses in Bristol, England. Now in its 34th year, the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is Europe's largest annual hot-air balloon event in the city that is seen by many balloonists as the home of modern ballooning.
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Aug. 10, 2012
Devotees form a human pyramid to break the "Dahi handi," an earthen pot filled with curd, an integral part of celebrations to mark Janmashtami in Mumbai. Janmashtami is the Indian festival that marks the birth of Hindu God Krishna.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Aug. 10, 2012
A man pulls plastic containers filled with clean water in a flooded street in Taytay town, east of Manila. About 2.4 million people in the Philippines have been affected by torrential rains and flooding, forcing more than 360,000 to seek shelter in government-run evacuation centers, the Office of Civil Defense reported.
Pat Roque
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AP
Aug. 10, 2012
A man clears mud and debris from a home in a suburb of Manila, after a week of rains left massive flooding that covered as much as 80 percent of the metropolis. The death toll from the flooding in the Philippines rose to 60.
Jay Directo
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Aug. 10, 2012
A woman cleans a mud-stained statue outside her house in the village of Tumana, the Philippines.
Ted Aljibe
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
A field of corn sits dry near Ashland, Neb. The latest U.S. drought map shows that excessively dry conditions continue to worsen in the Midwest states that are key producers of corn and soybeans. This is the worst U.S. drought in decades.
Nati Harnik
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Jerry Johnson, of Ashland, Neb., uses his 1957 Ford tractor to mow vegetation around his drying pond. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that the area gripped by extreme or exceptional drought rose nearly 2 percent to 24.14 percent.
Nati Harnik
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Coconut vendors try to recover their goods after they were caught unprepared when high waves dragged their beach stalls into the sea in Veracruz, Mexico. Tropical Storm Ernesto headed into Mexico's southern Gulf coast as authorities in the flood-prone region prepared shelters and positioned army troops and rescue personnel for drenching rains.
Felix Marquez
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Indian villagers cross the dry river bed of the Sabarmati River near the Dholakuva village in the Gandhinagar district. The Gujarat state government has declared 14 districts “scarcity hit” in wake of deficient rains.
Sam Panthaky
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AFP/Getty images
Aug. 9, 2012
This image is a section of the first 360-degree color panorama taken on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover. The panorama was stitched together using thumbnail images taken by the rover's mast-mounted camera. Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on Monday to begin a two-year mission.
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NASA via AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Michael Malin looks at a data set of the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
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NASA's Morpheus lander fires its liquid oxygen- and methane-fueled engine for a tethered test at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. With the vehicle suspended from a crane, the tethered tests allowed engineers to test their control of the vehicle with little risk of damage to the lander. But on Thursday, the experimental lunar lander crashed and burst into flames seconds after takeoff in a free-flight test at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crash was due to a hardware fault, NASA said.
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Aug. 9, 2012
NASA's project Morpheus lander bursts into flames during a test at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The hardware component failure prevented it from maintaining stable flight, NASA said. No one was injured and the resulting fire was extinguished by Kennedy fire personnel.
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NASA via Reuters
Aug. 10, 2012
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, right, visits islands called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan. Lee made a surprise visit Friday to islets at the center of a long-running territorial dispute with Japan, ignoring warnings from Tokyo that it would worsen the neighbors' already strained relations.
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AP
Aug. 10, 2012
An aerial view of the disputed islands. Lee’s unprecedented visit to the remote islands sparked anger in Tokyo, which recalled its ambassador from Seoul in protest. South Korea has stationed a small coast guard detachment on the islands since 1954.
Dong-a Ilbo
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
The team from Australia competes during the synchronized swimming team technical routine at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Australia’s team placed last among the eight nations competing in the technical-routine event. The teams return to the pool Friday for the free-routine competition.
Mark J. Terrill
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Jamaica's Usain Bolt, center, is embraced by his mother, Jennifer, after he won gold in the men's 200-meter final at the 2012 Summer Olympics. having earlier won the 100-meter event, Bolt became the first athlete to repeat as double Olympic sprint champion.
David J. Phillip
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Japan's Mayu Hamada lands a foot against France's Marlene Harnois during their women's taekwondo bronze medal bout at the 2012 Olympics at the ExCel centre in London.
Alberto Pizzoli
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Riders clear the jump during the men's BMX Cycling quarter finals at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. BMX cycling became an Olympic sport in 2008.
Phil Walter
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Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
A construction worker with Rocky Mountain Construction Group of Idaho walks across the highest point of the Outlaw Run wood roller coaster at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo. The new coaster, slated to open next spring, is being touted as the first wood coaster to feature a double barrel roll in addition to its record-breaking 81-degree drop and a projected top speed of 68 miles per hour.
T. Rob Brown
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The Joplin Globe via AP
Aug. 9, 2012
People watch daredevil Nik Wallenda during his 1,500-foot tightrope walk 100 feet above the beach in Atlantic City. Wallenda made the 27-minute walk to promote his new show at the Tropicana Casino and Resort. Wallenda, in an interview with “Good Morning America,” said there was a lot of sand on the cable. “It was actually pretty slippery, more slippery than when it’s wet,” he said,
Stan Honda
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Aug. 8, 2012
Women pose during the shooting of a music video in Berlin for Canadian electro-punk performance artist Peaches, a.k.a. Merrill Nisker. Nisker said she will release the video online next week in support of members of a Russian punk rock band, Pussy Riot, on trial for holding a demonstration inside a church against President Vladimir Putin. About 400 people decked out in the Russian band's trademark colourful balaclavas turned out for the filming.
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Illegal migrants from Honduras sleep on the floor at temporary shelter in Huehuetoca, Mexico. Two migrant shelters in Tultitlan de Mariano Escobedo, Mexico, were closed last month to complaints by neighbors who said the migrants had become disruptive and were contributing to insecurity in the area, which is located along the train tracks that many migrants use to travel north. Hundreds of Central American migrants on their way to the United States are now forced to seek shelter in the open due to the closures.
Edgard Garrido
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Reuters
Aug. 9, 2012
Clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad leave rubble behind in the Salah Edinne district of Aleppo. Fighting continues in Syria’s largest city and commercial center.
Zohra Bensemra
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Reuters
Aug. 9, 2012
A Syrian man mourns the death of Abu Abed in the town of Marea, near Aleppo. Abed was killed in fighting in the Salaheddin district of Aleppo. The rebel Free Syrian Army withdrew its fighters from the district as regime forces advanced, a rebel commander said.
Phil Moore
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Visitor admire the stalactites as they are illuminated with a new lighting system at the Soreq Cave near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The cave, about 12 miles west of Jerusalem, was discovered by workers blasting at the nearby quarry in 1968 and is a popular tourist attraction..
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Replicas of the remains of Ugandapithecus, a 20-million-year-old ape skull discovered in northeastern Uganda, are held by paleontologist Martin Pickford during a public presentation in Kampala. On Aug. 2, 2011, a team of Ugandan and French paleontologists found the skull, and they say it could shed light on the region's evolutionary history.
Kasamani Isaac
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
A Mexican horseman (or charro) stands inside an arena at the Asociacion Nacional de Charros in Mexico City. Charros and their female counterparts, charras or adelitas, present their skills in the arena in team or individual competitions during events.
Bernardo Montoya
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For Reuters
Aug. 10, 2012
A Muslim man prays at the Jama Masjid Mosque in New Delhi. Muslims across the world are observing Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.
Tsering Topgyal
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AP
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