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Ecuador’s volcano watcher, Diana Nyad ends swim, wild haying, Mayan ruins and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 21, 2012
A car drives on El Malecon, Havana's seafront boulevard.
Enrique De La Osa
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Reuters
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Aug. 21, 2012
Federal police officers escort prisoners toward a plane bound for an undisclosed location at the international airport in Morelia, Mexico. About 200 inmates serving federal sentences were transferred to federal prisons during an operation by the secretary of public security, local media reported.
Leovigildo Gonzalez
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Via Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
Ash and steam billow from the Tungurahua volcano, seen from Huambalo, Ecuador.
Dolores Ochoa
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AP
Aug. 21, 2012
American tourists visit a treehouse in Banos, Ecuador, that is used to observe activity from the Tungurahua volcano. Authorities were encouraging people near the volcano to evacuate because of increased activity. The volcano has been in an active state since October 1999.
Gary Granja
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Reuters
Carlos Sanchez, 70, a volunteer who calls himself "the Volcano Watcher," assists a group of volcanologists observing activity from a treehouse that is three-quarters of a mile away from the Tungurahua volcano's crater.
Gary Granja
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Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
Carlos Sanchez analyzes samples of volcanic ash in Banos, Ecuador. Sanchez is observing the nearby Tungurahua volcano.
Gary Granja
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Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
Women light candles after a Mass for Jesse Robredo, the Philippine secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government, at St. Peter's Church in Manila. The Philippines was in mourning after divers recovered the body of one of its most influential politicians, who died when a plane carrying him and three others crashed into the sea.
Noel Celis
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 21, 2012
A firefighter walks past trees amid a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte, near Leon, Spain. About 500 soldiers have been deployed to help battle the blaze, which authorities think was started intentionally. It has burned about 30 square miles in northern Spain.
Pedro Armestre
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AP
Aug. 21, 2012
Veteran long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad is aided after she was pulled out of the water between Cuba and the Florida Keys. The 62-year-old American, who battled squalls, rough seas and jellyfish, had set out from Cuba on Saturday and spent more than 60 hours in the water before she abandoned her swim to the United States.
Christi Barli
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Via Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
Jay West rides his Sea-Doo watercraft on the Ohio River near the Ashland Riverfront Park in Ashland, Ky.
Kevin Goldy
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Ashland, Ky., Daily Independent via AP
Aug. 21, 2012
A young fairgoer rides a faux motorcycle on the midway at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville.
Timothy D. Easley
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AP
Aug. 21, 2012
Actress and animal activist Bernadette Peters holds Chachie, a dog from a Brooklyn shelter, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Broadway Barks Gray Line New York bus. The double-decker bus and motorcoach tourism company inducted Broadway Barks co-founder Peters to its "Ride of Fame" campaign by unveiling a custom decal on the front of a bus.
Amanda Schwab
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Starpix via AP
Aug. 21, 2012
A newly painted message atop the 650-foot-tall Space Needle's roof is seen in Seattle. The message was part of the Space Needle's summer-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Exposition. The saucer portion was repainted "Galaxy Gold," its original color, in April.
Anthony Bolante
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Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
A videographer stands in front of 12 fans, which create a “Wall of Wind,” at Miami’s Florida International University engineering center, the nation’s only university research facility capable of simulating a Category 5 hurricane with wind-driven rain. The fans, each of which are six feet in diameter, can generate wind speeds up to 157 mph and are used to test the hurricane resiliency of private homes, warehouses, streetlight poles and more.
Joe Raedle
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Getty Images
Aug. 21, 2012
An irrigation system is seen on a cornfield in Koritna, eastern Croatia. As crops wilt and die in the Balkans, farmers struck down by a particularly harsh drought this year are ruing the region's failure to upgrade irrigation networks and invest in a long-term agricultural strategy. The harsh weather in eastern and southern Europe has resulted in huge profit losses.
Antonio Bronic
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Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
Zeljko Fabric, a farmer, inspects damage along an irrigation canal that has dried up in Drenje, Croatia. The usually fertile plains in eastern Croatia have sustained crop damage of up to $250 million.
Antonio Bronic
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Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
An Israeli Arab man swims with a horse in the Mediterranean Sea off a beach in Tel Aviv during the Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Oded Balilty
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AP
Aug. 21, 2012
Mostly Palestinians from the West Bank enjoy a Tel Aviv beach on the Mediterranean Sea during the Eid al-Fitr festival.
Menahem Kahana
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 21, 2012
Barges and their towboats accumulate near the banks of the Mississippi River in Greenville, Miss. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says low water levels, which are restricting shipping traffic, forcing harbor closures and causing towboats and barges to run aground, are expected to continue into October.
Rogelio V. Solis
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AP
Aug. 20, 2012
Swiss farmer Kari Gisler carries a bundle of hay as he practices “wild haying” on a steep hillside on Rophaien Mountain in Flueelen, a village about 50 miles south of Zurich. In central Switzerland, the tradition of collecting wild hay dates back about 200 years and is practiced from mid-July until mid-September on higher grounds that cannot or are hardly ever reached with animals.
Michael Buholzer
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Reuters
Aug. 20, 2012
Swiss farmer Kari Gisler lifts hay as he practices wild haying on a steep hillside on Rophaien Mountain in Flueelen, a village about 50 miles south of Zurich.
Michael Buholzer
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Reuters
Aug. 20, 2012
Swiss farmer Kari Gisler sits outside his mountain shelter on a steep hillside in Flueelen, Switzerland, after a day of collecting wild hay. In the background is Lake Urnersee.
Michael Buholzer
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Reuters
Aug. 19, 2012
Syrians look for the bodies of two girls thought to be under the rubble of a building in Aleppo. The building was said to have been hit by a Syrian government airstrike.
Khalil Hamra
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AP
Aug. 21, 2012
An injured mother carries her wounded children to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan. Police say a roadside bomb targeting a security convoy killed at least one civilian and wounded several others in southwestern Pakistan.
Arshad Butt
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AP
Aug.21, 2012
Sunni Muslim gunmen fire weapons in the Sunni-dominant neighborhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh in Tripoli, Lebanon, during clashes with Alawites. At least 22 people were wounded in overnight clashes between Sunnis and Alawites in the northern Lebanese city — a spillover from the war in neighboring Syria, security and medical officials said.
Omar Ibrahim
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Reuters
Aug. 20, 2012
A sculpted mask is seen inside the Rosalila temple, built by King Kinich Yax Kuk Mo or Quetzal Guacamaya, at an archaeological park in Copan, about 250 miles west of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Archaeologists believe that the ancient Copan society collapsed so suddenly that the Mayas left unfinished buildings and abandoned tools.
Orlando Sierra
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 20, 2012
A journalist visits the Rosalila temple in Copan, about 250 miles west of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Orlando Sierra
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 21, 2012
This image released by NASA shows Mount Sharp as taken by Navcam: Left A, which is on board the Mars rover Curiosity. The $2.5 billion rover, which landed on Mars early this month, has performed a battery of tests and appears ready to embark on its two-year mission to explore the Red Planet and hunt for life-friendly materials.
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NASA/JPL-CalTech via AFP/Getty Images
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