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Dog surfing, Great Wall deterioration, world’s oldest marathon runner and more in the day in photos News and feature images around the world.
Sept. 30, 2012
A dog falls off a board during the annual Surf City Surf Dog competition at California’s Huntington Beach. Forty-eight dogs took part in the event, which was watched by 1,500 spectators.
Joe Klamar
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AFP/Getty Images
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Sept. 30, 2012
A man carries a competitor into the ocean during the Surf City Surf Dog contest.
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
Sir Hollywood surfs during the annual Surf City Surf Dog competition.
Joe Klamar
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 30, 2012
An English Bulldog fights the waters of the Pacific Ocean during the annual Surf City Surf Dog competition.
Joe Klamar
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 29, 2012
Delinda Neville of Alliance, Neb., planks on Tom Otterness’s sculpture “Fallen Dreamer,” in front of the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Neb. Neville was in Lincoln before an NCAA football game between the University of Nebraska and the University of Wisconsin.
Kent Sievers
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Omaha World-Herald via AP
Sept. 30, 2012
Ko In-soo, 57, holds a portrait of his late father Ko Yong-yeon, who was originally from North Korea’s Taedong county, in the direction of North Korea as he observes a worship service for family ancestors at Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, on the occasion of Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving Day. Chuseok is a time for Korean families to remember and honor their dead ancestors, and Imjingak Pavilion is the closest residents of the capitalist south can get to the border with the communist north. The late Ko Yong-yeon had not been able to visit his home town since the Korean War.
Lee Jae-Won
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
A Filipino dressed as a terra-cotta warrior gestures to a saleswoman at a mall in Manila's Chinatown. The mall held several events as part of its celebrations for China’s Mid-Autumn Festival.
Aaron Favila
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AP
Sept. 30, 2012
A Chinese tourist stands in a watchtower on the Great Wall of China, part of a section of the wall that is decaying and overgrown with vegetation, near Xiang Shui Hu village, 50 miles northwest of Beijing. The 4,000-mile-long wall snakes its way across 11 Chinese provinces and draws millions of tourists every year, mostly to the restored sections near Beijing. But away from the tourist trail, some parts of the wall are being allowed to crumble away.
David Gray
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
Chinese hikers make their way up a section of the Great Wall of China that is decaying and overgrown with vegetation near Xiang Shui Hu village.
David Gray
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
A visitor looks at a building with warning signs at the Schifflersgrund Border Museum at the former internal border in the village of Asbach-Sickenberg, Germany. Built in 1966, the border separated the Soviet-controlled communist German Democratic Republic in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany in the west. It was more than 2,200 feet long and 11 feet high and was heavily guarded round the clock by East German border police. It divided the village until the Wall came down in 1989. Germany was officially reunited on Oct. 3, 1990.
Ina Fassbender
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
A Bulgarian pehlivan, or oil wrestler, prepares for the start of a traditional oil-wrestling competition near the village of Cherna, Bulgaria. The tournament aims to revive an old tradition of oil wrestling, which is also popular in the Balkans.
Nikolay Doychinov
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 30, 2012
Bulgarian oil wrestlers fight during a traditional oil-wrestling competition near Cherna.
Nikolay Doychinov
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 30, 2012
A street vendor sells toys during the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. The annual festival, named after Indra, the Hindu 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, ends Oct. 3.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
The world's oldest marathon runner Fauja Singh, center, celebrates with supporters after crossing the finish line during the inaugural Surrey International World Music Marathon in Surrey, B.C. The 101-year-old Singh, who lives in Britain, raced in the event’s 5K.
Andy Clark
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
Team Europe golfer Martin Kaymer, center, of Germany and Sergio Garcia, left, of Spain celebrate Kaymer’s win against U.S. golfer Steve Stricker to retain the Ryder Cup for Europe at the 39th Ryder Cup at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill.
Jeff Haynes
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
A Palestinian man helps a smuggler ascend a tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Since last month, the Egyptian military has destroyed about 30 tunnels that were used for smuggling to and from the Gaza Strip, and blocked more. The tunnels are a vital lifeline for supplies of food, clothes, building materials and fuel into the impoverished territory.
Said Khatib
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 24, 2012
A man cries as he carries the body of his son, whom activists said was killed during the Syrian military’s shelling of the city of Al Qasseer, Syria.
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Shaam News Network via Reuters
Sept. 29, 2012
In this image taken from video obtained from the opposition Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a fire rages at a medieval souk in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian rebels and residents of Aleppo struggled Saturday to contain the fire, which destroyed parts of the city's medieval souks, or markets, following battles between government troops and opposition fighters, activists said. Some described the overnight blaze as the worst blow yet to a historic district that helped make the heart of Aleppo a UNESCO world heritage site.
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Shaam News Network via AP
Sept. 29, 2012
Villagers carry two dead leopard cubs at the Sivasagar district of the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The leopards were beaten to death by villagers after forest officials said they appeared near a human habitation and created panic among locals, local media reported.
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
Kenyan police search journalists of Somali origin near the scene of an explosion at the Anglican Church of Kenya in the capital of Nairobi. A 9-year-old boy was killed and three other children wounded when a hand grenade was thrown into the church during a Sunday school session, police and medical staff said.
Thomas Mukoya
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Reuters
Sept. 29, 2012
Drivers in Los Angeles saw limited congestion on Interstate 405, running underneath Interstate 10, after the key freeway corridor shut down this weekend in what was dubbed “Carmageddon 2” due to fears of gridlock from a 53-hour construction project.
Gina Ferazzi
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
Yellow cosmos flowers are in full bloom before the skyscrapers of Tokyo’s Hamarikyu Gardens. Visitors can enjoy about 300,000 yellow cosmos through October.
Toru Yamanaka
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 30, 2012
The moon rises over the skyline of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai. Residents celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, which fell on Sunday.
Aly Song
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Reuters
Sept. 30, 2012
A full moon over downtown Joplin, Mo., displays an aura. According to the National Weather Service in Springfield, Mo., the “moon ring” or “moon dog” is a rare event that happens when high clouds made of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere refract the moonlight into a ring.
T. Rob Brown
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Joplin, Mo., Globe via AP
Sept. 30, 2012
A near-full moon glows above a grain elevator at the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Walla Walla, Wash.
Jeff Horner
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Walla Walla, Wash., Union-Bulletin via AP
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