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Shark watch, Iran earthquake, Paul Ryan, Perseid meteor shower and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 12, 2012
Josh Brownell with Gypsy Air Tours flies his 1930 Waco Taperwing biplane over the Brainerd Lakes area as part of the American Barnstormers Tour stop at in Brainerd, Minn. The five-city tour is bringing the vintage aircraft across the Midwest.
Steve Kohls
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Brainerd, Minn., Dispatch via AP
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Aug. 12, 2012
Onlookers watch from the beach as a colony of several hundred seals sit on a sandbar at High Head Beach during low tide in Truro, Mass. A man was confirmed to have been bitten by a great white shark less than two weeks ago in the ocean near the shoreline of Truro on Cape Cod. An increase in the Cape Cod seal population has led to increased shark sightings, including great whites.
Mario Tama
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Getty Images
Aug. 11, 2012
A woman walks past a small sculpture at “JawsFest: The Tribute,” a festival celebrating the film “Jaws,” in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. The film was primarily shot on Martha’s Vineyard and tells the story of a massive great white shark who attacks humans along the coast of the fictional Amity Island. A man was confirmed to have been bitten by a great white shark less than two weeks ago along the shoreline of nearby Cape Cod.
Mario Tama
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Aug. 12, 2012
Spain’s Marc Gasol and the United States’ LeBron James battle for a loose ball during the men’s gold medal basketball game on the final day of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The United States defeated Spain 107-100.
Matt Slocum
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AP
Aug. 12, 2012
Young wrestlers celebrate as Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar won his semifinals match against Kazakhstan’s Akzhurek Tanatarov in the men's 66-kilogram freestyle competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. Kumar left with a silver medal, losing to Japan’s Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu in the gold medal round.
Ajay Verma
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
Indian paramilitary soldiers take part in a full-dress rehearsal for the country's Independence Day celebrations in Agartala, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Tripura. India commemorates its Independence Day on Aug. 15.
Jayanta Dey
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Reuters
Aug. 12, 2012
A boy in the town of San Mateo, the Philippines, helps his dad and neighbors clear out the mud from the area where their shack was washed away by floods. Emergency relief officials and doctors were deployed to flood-devastated communities in the Philippines to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85.
Nicolas Asfouri
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2012
Flood-affected people wait in line for food relief distributed by the Red Cross at a church in Valenzuela, on the outskirts of Manila. Philippine authorities warned that an intensifying storm could bring more misery to the flood-battered capital and surrounding areas, where nearly half a million were in evacuation centers.
Nicolas Asfouri
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 11, 2012
Rescue teams search for victims in the earthquake-stricken village of Varzaghan in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran. Two powerful earthquakes killed more than 300 people and injured around 3,000 in the county’s northwest, where rescue workers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages throughout the night and into Sunday as medical staff desperately tried to save lives.
Farshid Tighehsaz
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ISNA via Reuters
Aug. 12, 2012
An Iranian woman and a man grieve after their loved ones were killed during Saturday’s earthquake in northwestern Iran, in the village of Bajebaj. Twin earthquakes in Iran have killed at least 300 people and injured more than 3,000, state media reported Monday.
Arash Khamoushi
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ISNA via AP
Aug. 12, 2012
Balinese men compete during the Mekepung water buffalo race in Jembrana, Indonesia. More than 300 buffalo participated in the race, a thanksgiving ritual after a successful harvest.
Firdia Lisnawati
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AP
Aug. 12, 2012
Sorbian women and men in traditional costumes dance on the street during a traditional harvest festival in Werben, eastern Germany.
Gero Breloer
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AP
Aug. 12, 2012
Participants in traditional costume take part in the 59th Bavarian Fingerhakeln championships, in Lenggries, southern Germany. Fingerhakeln is a kind of finger-wrestling.
Uwe Lein
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DAPD via AP
Aug. 12, 2012
An Israeli man in a Batman costume holds a placard during a protest against war with Iran, outside the home of Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that most threats to Israel’s security were “dwarfed” by the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weaponry, which local media charge Tehran has stepped up its efforts to achieve. The placard reads in Hebrew, “Bibi, Ehud — Leave the blasts and the effects to real superheroes! Go home!”
Nir Elias
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Reuters
Aug. 11, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, walks back to the podium to correct himself after mistakenly introducing his vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), right, as “the next president of the United States,” at the Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, Va. “Every now and then I’m known to make a mistake,” Romney said smiling. “I did not make a mistake with this guy.” The former governor announced his running mate before the start of a four-day bus tour that starts in Virginia and travels to Florida, North Carolina and Ohio.
Ricky Carioti
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The Washington Post
Aug. 12, 2012
Participants attempting to set a Guinness World Record in mattress dominoes wait for the start of the event on a parking site in front of a furniture shop in Gruendau-Lieblos, western Germany. For the attempt, 1,150 volunteers fell on mattresses set up around the shop across a distance of nearly 1.5 miles, breaking the previously held Chinese record, according to media reports.
Frank Rumpenhorst
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 11, 2012
French army reenactors fire muskets in Slavkov, Czech Republic, to mark the 243rd anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte and the 200th anniversary of his invasion of Russia. The festivities ran from Aug. 10 to 12, with participants reenacting battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
Radek Mica
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 12, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters take cover behind sandbags during clashes in Aleppo, Syria.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 12, 2012
A man and a woman cry over the body of their son in Aleppo, Syria. The son was shot by a sniper in the Salaheddine district of the city, where fighting has raged for almost two weeks.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 12, 2012
Relatives of Zeydan Graner, a 17-year-old who was shot and killed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hold placards with his image during a peace march through the city’s Old San Juan neighborhood.
Ana Martinez
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Reuters
Aug. 12, 2012
A boy swings on a rope to jump into the Schlachtensee lake in Berlin. Meteorologists forecast unsettled weather for the following days in the German capital.
Kay Nietfeld
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 12, 2012
Employees of the Meyer-Werft shipyard work on the undocking of the new cruise liner "Celebrity Reflection" in Papenburg, northern Germany. The ship, built for the Celebrity Cruises cruise company, is more than 1,000 feet long and offers space for 3,046 passengers.
Carmen Jaspersen
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2012
In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, French athletes watch pyrotechnics illuminating the sky above the Olympic Stadium during the Closing Ceremonies at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
Matt Dunham
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AP
Aug. 13, 2012
The Perseid meteor shower streaks across the night sky over the village of Kuklici, Macedonia, in this long-exposure photograph. Kuklici is known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones that resembles human beings. The meteor shower is observed every August, when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle.
Ognen Teofilovski
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
A long exposure shows stars the movement of the annual Perseid meteor shower, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
Amir Cohen
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Reuters
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