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Day in photos Water jetpack flying, Clinton Global Initiative, lion rescue, Saturn’s rings and more in the day in photos.
Sept. 25, 2012
Dean O'Malley flies using a JetLev, a water-powered jetpack, in the Newport Beach harbor in California. O'Malley will attempt to establish a world record for flight of the JetLev by making a 26-mile open-ocean crossing from Newport Beach to Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif., on Sept. 29.
Kevork Djansezian
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Sept. 25, 2012
Low clouds over Silverton, Colo., seem to separate fall weather in the valley from winter-like weather above in the San Juan Mountains.
Ray Dileo
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Silverton Standard via AP
Sept. 26, 2012
A 26-foot-long minke whale washed up on the beach at Druridge, northern England. The whale was euthanized by a vet after rescuers were unable to save it. The photograph was taken with a fisheye lens.
Nigel Roddis
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
A child touches a model of a triceratops in the exhibition “World of Dinosaurs” in Hohenfelden, Germany. From Sept. 15 to Nov. 4, the exhibition shows 65 models of 56 species of dinosaurs. Among them are stegosaurs, diplodocus, triceratops, archaeopteryx, tyrannosaur and other representatives of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Jens Meyer
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AP
Sept. 26, 2012
Demonstrators clash with riot police in Athens at a 24-hour general strike. Hooded youths threw firebombs on the sidelines of a large protest against a new round of austerity cuts.
Aris Messinis
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 26, 2012
A firebomb explodes behind riot police in Athens during clashes with demonstrators at a 24-hour general strike.
Aris Messinis
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 26, 2012
A man walks past a closed shop at a deserted shopping district during a 24-hour strike in Athens. Flights and trains were suspended, shops pulled down their shutters and hospitals worked with emergency staff during Greece's first big anti-austerity strike since a coalition government took power in June.
Yannis Behrakis
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Reuters
Sept. 26, 2012
A woman walks past graffiti along Muhammad Mahmoud Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo. The graffiti had existed since November 2011, where some of the fiercest fighting between protesters and security forces took place. The Arabic words read, “Bread, Freedom, Social justice and Glory to the Martyrs.”
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
A Bahraini anti-government protester bangs out slogans on a dumpster as others set up roadblocks to slow riot police arriving to disperse their planned march calling for the release of political prisoners in Bilad al-Qadeem, Bahrain. Police chased protesters with tear gas and stun grenades as they arrived for the march, preventing it from starting.
Hasan Jamali
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AP
Sept. 26, 2012
Shoe-factory workers do minor repairs on shoes belonging to former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. The shoes, which were part of a display at the Marikina Shoe Museum, were repaired by the city government of Marikina, shoe capital of the Philippines, after they were damaged by floods brought by southwest monsoon rains last month.
Romeo Ranoco
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
In this video image taken from KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun holds up his credential at the Supreme People’s Assembly’s second meeting of the year, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea's parliament convened Tuesday for the second time in six months, passing a law that adds one year of compulsory education for children in the socialist nation, the first publicly announced policy change under Kim.
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KRT via AP
Sept. 25, 2012
Sun Jifa uses a spoon with his homemade prosthesis at home in Yong Ji county, in China’s Jilin province. Sun, a farmer, lost his forearms in a dynamite fishing accident 32 years ago and could not afford to buy prosthesis. He spent two years guiding his two nephews to build him prosthesis from scrap metal, plastic and rubber. Over the years, Sun and his nephews have built about 300 prosthetic limbs for people in need, charging $476 each.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
Former president Bill Clinton kisses Chen Li, center, a disabled woman who has opened a school for the disabled in China, during the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York. The CGI was created by Clinton in 2005 to gather global leaders to discuss solutions to the world's problems.
Andrew Burton
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Reuters
Sept. 23, 2012
Ivan, a 4-year-old lion, sits at a private roadside zoo in Novi Pazar, Serbia. Three lions — named Ivan, Cornel and Lepa — were acquired from the Belgrade Zoo by a private person in 2009, before Serbian legislation that prohibits possession of dangerous wild animals came into force in 2010. The Serbian CITES management and enforcement authority confiscated the animals and asked Four Paws Animal Welfare Foundation to transfer them to Africa. Four Paws later released the three lions from Serbia, as well as two tigers from Germany, to Lionsrock Big Cats Sanctuary in South Africa.
Mihai Vasile
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
A boy sits on a raft made from banana trees outside his flooded house on the outskirts of Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than a million over the past week, officials said on Monday.
Utpal Baruah
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
Penguins walk to the ocean, with Table Mountain as backdrop, during their release by workers from the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. More than 200 penguins found covered in oil following a spillage by a stricken bulk carrier, the Seli 1, were washed, fed and restored to health. Thirty birds were released Tuesday.
Schalk van Zuydam
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AP
Sept. 25, 2012
A woman walks through foam, caused by heavy winds and stormy seas, on a coastal path in the town of Portstewart in Northern Ireland.
Cathal McNaughton
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
Trucks and police vehicles block 42nd Street at Second Avenue as security tightens for the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the nearby U.N. headquarters.
Bebeto Matthews
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AP
Sept. 25, 2012
A passer-by walks past a protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad outside the Warwick Hotel in New York. Ahmadinejad is staying at the hotel during his visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Andrew Kelly
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
President Obama speaks to world leaders and diplomats gathered for the U.N. General Assembly, telling his audience that “it is the obligation of all leaders, in all countries, to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism.”
David Karp
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AP
Sept. 25, 2012
Ann Romney appears on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in Burbank, Calif.
NBC Universal Media
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Reuters
Sept. 25, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, shakes hands with former president Bill Clinton after he addressed the audience during the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York. In his address, Romney called for an overhaul of the country’s foreign assistance programs that he said would stimulate economic growth across the developing world.
Stephen Chernin
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 25, 2012
Vice President Biden gestures holds a rally at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds exhibition hall in Virginia.
Steve Helber
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AP
Sept. 25, 2012
Donna Dutton, left, from Union Pier, Mich., and Marilyn Klawiter, from Buchanan, Mich., work to register voters during National Voter Registration Day at Lake Michigan College in Benton Township, Mich. Volunteers with the League of Women Voters of Berrien and Cass Counties gathered at both Lake Michigan College campuses in Benton Township and Bertrand Crossing as well as at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Mich., to promote voter registration.
Don Campbell
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AP
Saturn is seen in this NASA photo, taken June 15 and released Tuesday, from the Cassini spacecraft, showing the southern reaches of the planet, with the rings on a diagonal. The rings cast wide shadows on the planet's southern hemisphere. The view was obtained at a distance of 1.8 million miles from Saturn.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via Reuters
A new, improved portrait of Hubble's deepest-ever view of the universe, called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF — which shows a small area of space in the constellation Fornax and created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004 — is seen in this composite image released to Reuters on Tuesday. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time, according to the news release.
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NASA/ESA/G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team via Reuters
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