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Sept. 9, 2012
Serena Williams of the United States reacts while playing Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during the championship match at the 2012 U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens.
Mike Groll
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AP
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Sept. 9, 2012
Ben Rey of Spain attends New York Fashion Week. The event runs through Thursday.
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Reuters
Sept, 9, 2012
A model displays a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers during a fashion festival called “Creators of Beauty” in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Vyacheslav Oseledko
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 9, 2012
People attend an open-air meditation day headed by Hindu spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and organized by the Art of Living foundation in Buenos Aires.
Enrique Marcarian
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Reuters
Sept. 9, 2012
Spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar looks toward a crowd through a heart formed with his hands before leading meditation with thousands of participants in Buenos Aires.
Natacha Pisarenko
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
Daniel Soares, second from left, husband of Claudia Lago, cries next to his son Gabriel, 10, during a protest against violence in Rio de Janeiro. Lago was killed when police reacted to a robbery Tuesday. Three families joined forces to protest against the death of relatives who have been fatally shot in the past weeks by stray bullets during police operations. The glasses are filled with red paint, symbolizing blood.
Victor R. Caivano
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
Members of the Against Animal Cruelty Anti-bull Party holds spears during a protest in the central Spanish town of Tordesillas against the Toro de la Vega festival. Activists consider the annual event, to be held Saturday, as one of Spain’s most barbaric traditional festivals. The festival is one of the oldest in the country, with roots dating to the 15th century. A bull is enticed across a river and killed.
Pedro Armestre
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 9, 2012
Supporters of election runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attend a rally at the Zocalo main square in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador called his supporters together for a pacific civil disobedience and announced that he will hold a referendum among his supporters to determine whether his movement remains a civil association or becomes a new party, local media reported.
Tomas Bravo
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Reuters
Sept. 9, 2012
Chuck Aoke of the United States lies on the floor after being upended by Shin Nakazato, center, during the bronze-medal wheelchair rugby match at the Paralympics Games in London.
Kirsty Wigglesworth
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
Britain's Prince Edward arrives in Olympic Stadium during the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in London.
Toby Melville
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Reuters
Sept. 9, 2012
A wildfire burns near a house on Casper Mountain in Casper, Wyo. Residences and campgrounds were evacuated as the uncontained blaze spread across the southeast portion of the mountain.
Alan Rogers
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Casper, Wyo., Star-Tribune via AP
Sept. 10, 2012
Alcoa workers protest in downtown Rome. U.S.-listed aluminium maker Alcoa has decided to close its smelter on the island of Sardinia, putting 1,500 jobs at risk in an area that has one of the highest unemployment rates in Italy. The Italian government has received only generic expressions of interest in the plant, Industry Minister Corrado Passera told the Reuters news service.
Alessandro Bianchi
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Reuters
Sept. 8, 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney bids farewell to a crowd after campaigning at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach.
Rich-Joseph Facun
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
President Obama is lifted off the ground by Scott Van Duzer, left, owner of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant, during an unannounced campaign stop in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
Faith Rodenberger greets her father, Sgt. Jason Rodenberger of Marion, Ohio, as he arrives at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus, Ohio. Rodenberger arrived with 240 other National Guardsmen who were deployed to Afghanistan for the past year.
Bill Lackey
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Springfield, Ohio, News-Sun via AP
Sept. 9, 2012
An Afghan police officer stands guard next to a picture of slain national hero Ahmad Shah Masood on the monument built in memory of him on the 11th anniversary of his death, in Panjshir province, Afghanistan. Masood, or the Lion of Panjshir, fought the Taliban as the head of the Northern Alliance representing the country’s ethnic minorities until his assassination two days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
Sept. 9, 2012
People gather for a rally against a planned deployment of Osprey aircraft in Ginowan, on the southern island of Okinawa, Japan. Thousands gathered to demand that a plan to deploy 12 MV-22 Osprey aircraft on the island be scrapped, saying they are unsafe. The United States plans to deploy them to replace older CH-46 helicopters already there.
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Kyodo News via AP
Sept. 9, 2012
Syrian refugees celebrate during the wedding of fellow refugees Hudhayfah Al Hariri, 23, and Hanan Al Hariri, 20, at a refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria.
Muhammad Hamed
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Reuters
Sept. 9, 2012
People participate in an early-morning yoga session at Le Bois de la Cambre park in Brussels. About 3,000 people took part in the event aiming to stimulate health and well-being, organizers said.
Yves Herman
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Reuters
Sept. 9, 2012
Kites fly during the annual Festival of the Winds on Bondi Beach in Sydney. The annual event is Australia's largest kite-flying festival.
Mark Metcalfe
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Getty Images
Sept. 8, 2012
A memorial service in honor of K-9 officers Kilo and Magnum is held in front of the police department in Anderson, Ind. The dogs died in the line of duty three weeks apart — Kilo during a standoff in Pendleton, Ind., and Magnum while chasing down a suspected bank robber.
Don Knight
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Anderson, Ind., Herald Bulletin viaAP
Sept. 9, 2012
A white donkey foal named Alexis plays with his mother, Anuschka, in their enclosure at West Coast Park in St. Peter-Ording, Germany. The young donkey was born Sept. 2. White donkeys are a rare species.
Wolfgang Runge
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 10, 2012
A resident fishes on the banks of a pond near the village of Kamarchaga, in the Siberian taiga about 50 miles southeast of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
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