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Torrential rains, Greenland glacier break, Wisconsin vigil, Mars, the Olympics and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 6, 2012
A man cools himself in a pool at the Palatinus outdoor spa in Budapest.
Bernadett Szabo
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Reuters
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Aug. 7, 2012
A Filipino man uses a rope to cross a flooded area in Quezon City, the Philippines. Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling city, the Philippines’ most populous, triggering a landslide that killed several people and sent emergency crews scrambling Tuesday to rescue and evacuate tens of thousands of residents.
Aaron Favila
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AP
Aug. 7, 2012
Two men push their bikes along a flooded area in the Philippines’ Rizal province, north of Manila.
John Javellana
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AP
Aug. 7, 2012
Residents wait on the roof for rescuers during a flood in Marikina City, in the Manila metropolitan area. Rescuers rushed to reach trapped residents across the Philippine capital on Tuesday, as torrential rains triggered severe flooding. Flood waters reached up to 6.5 feet in the Tumana district of Marikina City, an eastern suburb of Metro Manila, where some residents were stranded in their homes.
Cheryl Ravelo
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Reuters
Aug. 7, 2012
Ash from New Zealand's Mount Tongariro blankets houses and fields in this still image taken from a video. The volcano, dormant for more than a century, has spewed boulders and spread an ash cloud over the center of the country, disrupting air traffic but causing no other damage or injuries. Mount Tongariro, one of three volcanic peaks in the central North Island, roared into life late on Monday night, as craters on the volcano exploded with bright flashes and thunderous booms.
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TV3 via Reuters
Aug. 6, 2012
Witch doctors bless votive and miniature objects, traditionally purchased by pilgrims for good fortune, on the mountain peak of The Calvary during the annual pilgrimage in tribute to the Virgin of Copacabana, near the shores of Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca. Many pilgrims from Bolivia and Peru believe that by carrying miniature objects to be blessed at the peak they will receive them in real life in the coming year. The city of Copacabana can be seen in the distance.
David Mercado
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Reuters
Aug. 6, 2012
Cuba's Yarisley Silva reacts on her descent in the women's pole vault final at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where she won a silver medal.
Stefan Wermuth
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Reuters
Aug. 6, 2012
Belarus’s Alim Selimau, in red, wrestles with Kazakhstan's Danyal Gajiyev in the second repechage round of the men's 84-kilogram Greco-Roman competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Gajiyev defeated Selimau, 3-1, later taking the bronze medal.
Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Reuters
Aug. 6, 2012
U.S. runner Lashinda Demus clears a hurdle on her way in the women's 400-meter hurdle semifinals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Demus finished first in 54.08 seconds, qualifying for Wednesday's final.
Toni L. Sandys
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The Washington Post
Aug. 6, 2012
China's Kexin He competes on the uneven bars during the individual artistic gymnastics competitions at the London 2012 Olympic Games. She took the silver medal.
Toni L. Sandys
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The Washington Post
Aug.6, 2012
Firefighters douse a flame at the Chevron oil refinery in in Richmond, Calif. A fire struck the core of the refinery on Monday evening, sending flames and a column of smoke into the air and prompting authorities to order nearby residents indoors. The fire, which authorities said was still blazing more than two and a half hours after it erupted, hit the sole crude unit at the plant, which, in producing 245,000 barrels per day, accounts for one-eighth of the state's refining capacity.
Josh Edelson
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
The iceberg at the center of this image — which was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite — tore off from the Petermann Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in Greenland. Scientists had been watching a long crack near the tip of the northerly Petermann Glacier for years, and NASA satellites showed on Monday that it had broken completely from the glacier. Measuring 46 square miles, the iceberg is twice the length of Manhattan. The massive ice sheet covers about four-fifths of Greenland. Petermann Glacier is mostly on land, but a segment sticks out over water.
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NASA via AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2012
Imam Lahmuddin holds his hands over his face after a fire destroyed the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque in Joplin, Mo. The fire was the second to hit the Islamic center in little more than a month.
T. Rob Brown
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Joplin, Mo., Globe via AP
Aug. 6, 2012
Firefighters clear debris after a fire at the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque in Joplin, Mo.
T. Rob Brown
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Joplin, Mo., Globe via AP
Aug., 6, 2012
Guests attend an interdenominational candlelight vigil at the Illinois Sikh Community Center in Wheaton, Ill. The vigil was held to honor the victims who were killed Sunday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
Scott Olson
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Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2012
Members of the Sikh community in Brookfield, Wis., gather for a candlelight vigil after prayer services at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin, a day after a man killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., before being fatally shot by a police officer.
M. Spencer Green
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AP
Aug. 6, 2012
Girls pray for victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, releasing paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Tens of thousands of people marked the 67th anniversary of the attack, as a rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment swells in post-Fukushima Japan.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2012
Mahmoud, a 21-year-old Palestinian resident of Syria, rests in a field hospital after he was found Monday with three gunshot wounds in the town of Anadan, Syria, on the outskirts of Aleppo. Mahmoud, who would give only one name, described being the only survivor of a massacre in which he and 10 other men were blindfolded, beaten and sprayed with bullets.
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AP
Aug. 7, 2012
A worker stands on a giant statue of Buddha during renovation at Bangchak temple in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok.
Chaiwat Subprasom
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Reuters
Aug.7, 2012
A 7-day-old siamang gibbon, weighing six ounces, is nursed by his mother, Jamby, at the zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel. Siamang gibbon are found mainly on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Aug. 7, 2012
A male barasingha deer calf, right, lies next to his mother in its enclosure at the Berlin Zoo.
Gero Breloer
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AP
Aug. 7, 2012
Members of Coexistence for Animal Rights confine themselves in a cage in Seoul as a protest against eating dog meat. Dog meat is a traditional dish in South Korea, dating to the Samkuk period, 57 B.C. to A.D. 668. Each year on July 15, some South Koreans eat dog meat in the belief it will help them endure the heat of the summer months.
Chung Sung-Jun
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Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2012
A man walks past a mural of trees in Mexico City.
Tomas Bravo
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Reuters
Aug. 7, 2012
Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, cheers on her horse, Rafalca, during the team dressage final at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
John MacDougall
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pushes a shopping cart after buying groceries at Hunter's Shop and Save in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Charles Dharapak
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AP
Aug. 6, 2012
Jennifer Trosper, mission manager of the Mars Science Laboratory, points out the communications antenna on a model of NASA's Curiosity rover as she speaks during a news conference at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. Curiosity performed a daredevil descent through pink Martian skies late on Sunday, landing inside an ancient crater and commencing its search for signs the Red Planet may once have harbored key ingredients for life.
Fred Prouser
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
This image, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and released by NASA on Monday, captures the parachute-bound Curiosity rover on its descent toward its landing site, Mars’s Gale Crater. "If HiRISE took the image one second before or one second after, we probably would be looking at an empty Martian landscape," said Sarah Milkovich, HiRISE investigation scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you consider that we have been working on this sequence since March and had to upload commands to the spacecraft about 72 hours prior to the image being taken, you begin to realize how challenging this picture was to obtain."
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NASA via Reuters
Aug. 6, 2012
This image taken by Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the Mars rover — its main target, Mount Sharp. Rising up in the distance is the mountain’s highest peak, at a height of about 3.4 miles. The Curiosity team hopes to drive the rover to the mountain to investigate its lower layers, which scientists think hold clues to past environmental change. This image was captured by the rover's front left Hazard-Avoidance camera at full resolution shortly after it landed. It has been linearized to remove the distorted appearance that results from its fisheye lens. The rover's shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes.
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NASA via Reuters
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