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Aug. 3, 2012
Monty, the Wadworth brewery shire horse, is given a pint of beer outside the Raven Inn in Poulton as he starts his two-week annual holiday. Hundreds of people gathered to watch as Monty and fellow dray horses Prince and Max — who are employed by the brewery in Devizes, England to deliver beer 50 weeks a year to pubs — were each given a pint before being released into a field. The brewery has been employing shire horses for more than 100 years to deliver beers to local inns and hostelries. Prince, Monty and Max are three of the last remaining working shires left in the British brewing industry.
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A Muslim man performs ablution at a fountain before saying prayers inside Kashmir's centuries-old Jamia Masjid mosque in Srinagar during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Egyptian women outside the Burmese Embassy in Cairo protest to denounce violence against the minority Muslim population in Burma.
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A driver argues with public health workers as they block traffic during a protest against government austerity measures in Madrid.
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Aug. 2, 2012
French President Francois Hollande, aboard a train to Hyeres, is seen through a window as photographers, reflected in the glass, take pictures at Gare de Lyon station in Paris. He left the Elysee Palace to spend time in Fort de Bregancon, on an island off the Mediterranean coast.
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Aug. 2, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets and takes pictures with supporters at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden, Colo., during his first campaign rally since returning from his European trip.
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Aug. 2, 2012
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, embrace after Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy of Great Britain win the gold and set a new world record in the men's team sprint track cycling final during Day 6 of the Summer Olympics in London.
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Aug. 2, 2012
Chinese border guards help a tourist who got trapped near the beach as winds whip up waves in Taizhou, in Zhejiang province. Gales and rainstorms lashed coastal regions in east China when two typhoons made landfall in less than 10 hours from Thursday to Friday morning, forcing more than 300,000 people to evacuate, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Aug. 3, 2012
A man lies on a waterfall along the Pliva River near Jajce, Bosnia.
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Reuters
Aug. 2, 2012
Rows of colored umbrella and sun lounges are available for hire at Tor San Lorenzo beach, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, on the Italian coast near Ardea. Italy's economy shrank for a third straight quarter in the first three months of 2012 as the debt crisis worsened and Prime Minister Mario Monti's austerity measures pushed the country deeper into the recession, its fourth since 2001.
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Aug. 3, 2012
A sparrow braves an Indian Air Force honor guard standing at attention for a review by visiting Burmese army commander at the Defense Ministry in New Delhi.
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AP
Aug. 3, 2012
Palestinian women pass through an Israeli checkpoint on their way to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on the Third Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim year, is devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and good deeds.
Nasser Shiyoukhi
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AP
Aug. 3, 2012
Israeli border police guard as Palestinian women cross at the Qalandiya checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, on the third Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.
Baz Ratner
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Reuters
Aug. 3, 2012
A Russian police officer arrives to detain three men on a balcony of a building who were shouting in support of a feminist punk group during their trial in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized Pussy Riot for performing a "punk prayer" against him at Moscow's main cathedral but said that a punishment shouldn't be too severe.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. exits the Clark County Detention Center after serving two months of a three-month jail sentence in a misdemeanor domestic battery case.
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Aug. 2, 2012
President Obama is seen inside a Marine One helicopter before his departure from Leesburg. Obama campaigned in Florida and Northern Virginia before returning to the White House.
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AP
Aug. 2, 2012
A Los Angeles County rescue helicopter begins a night-hoist rescue of a hiker trapped on a narrow ledge in the Mojave Narrows rock formations between Apple Valley and Victorville, Calif. The hiker was trapped about 200 feet up.
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AP
aug. 3, 2012
Dark clouds cover the sky in downtown Shanghai. China's meteorological agency issued warnings for southern and eastern provinces as Typhoon Saola and Typhoon Damrey approached.
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Reuters
Aug. 3, 2012
Athletes compete in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase heats at the London Olympic Games.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Muslims offer prayers at the Jama mosque in New Delhi. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, during which observants fast from dawn until dusk.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Women walk through the central textile market to buy new clothes in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesian Muslims will be visiting their relatives dressed in new clothes to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival, which will fall on Aug.19 and 20.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Children dressed in traditional cow costumes take part in a procession for the Gai Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Families who have lost a relative during the year parade a cow, a sacred animal supposed to help the departed soul to enter the afterlife, through the city.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Employees arrange the display outside a Crest of London tourist store on Oxford Street in London. London hotels, shops, restaurants and major attractions are losing sales as people heed warnings of overcrowding in the British capital during the Olympic Games.
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Bloomberg News
Aug. 3, 2012
Former gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medalist Olga Korbut poses for photographs at the Olympic Journey Exhibition at the Royal Opera House in London. The exhibition takes visitors on a historical journey from ancient Greece to the modern Games and also tells the stories of 16 Olympians of modern times.
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Aug. 2, 2012
People attend the launch of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying two telecommunication satellites. The rocket blasted off from a space center in Kourou, French Guiana. It will eventually place into orbit two geostationary telecommunication satellites.
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