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Ugly competition, botched painting, Zapotec tomb, seahorse smuggling and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 23, 2012
A participant in the Concurso de Feos (Ugly Competition) makes a face during the Great Week fiestas in Bilbao, Spain. The festivities, which last nine days and were first celebrated in 1978, is organized by the Txosna Moskotarrak (groups of friends who run bars and concerts) and Bilbao City Hall.
Vincent West
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Reuters
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Aug. 23, 2012
A participant in the Concurso de Feos (Ugly Competition) strikes a pose during the Great Week fiestas in Bilbao, Spain. Other events include live music, bullfights and fireworks.
Vincent West
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Ever a showman, 86-year-old B.B. King thrills a crowd of several hundred people at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming, a concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager, in Indianola, Miss. The site is now the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center.
Rogelio V. Solis
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AP
These undated photos show the 20th-century “Ecce Homo”-style fresco of Christ before, left, and after amateur artist Celia Gimenez, 80, restored it in a church in the northern Spanish agricultural town of Borja. The incident made news Thursday, with some Twitter users dubbing it “Ecce Mono,” meaning “Behold the Monkey,” instead of “Behold the Man.”
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Centro de estudios Borjanos via AP
Aug. 22, 2012
A Lightworks employee puts finishing touches on a large-scale astronaut model before it is installed on Blackpool Promenade in Blackpool, England. Lightworks is responsible for producing, storing and restoring the thousands of items that make up the Blackpool Illuminations. Every year, Blackpool attracts more than 3 million visitors, many of whom come to see the famous illuminations. The event started in 1879 with a display of eight arc lamps.
Dan Kitwood
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Aug. 22, 2012
A Lightworks employee prepares to install a large Egyptian-themed model on Blackpool Promenade in Blackpool, England. About 100 miles of party lights, 200 miles of wiring, 5,000 floodlights and more than 1 million lamps make up the town’s annual Blackpool Illuminations display. The event will run from Aug. 31 to Nov. 4.
Dan Kitwood
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Getty Images
Aug. 23, 2012
An anthropomorphic red urn is reflected in a mirror at a burial chamber in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Archaeologists there last week unearthed the tomb of a high-ranking member of Zapotec society at the Atzompa archaeological site. The tomb is one of three rooms that were first discovered at a 1,100-year-old funerary complex in July.
Jorge Luis Plata
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Via Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
Archaeologists last week unearthed the tomb of a high-ranking member of Zapotec society at the Atzompa archeological site in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Experts consider the site, which was founded between A.D. 650 and 900, to be a satellite city of the larger archaeological site of Monte Alban, one of the earliest and most important cities of Mesoamerica.
Jorge Luis Plata
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Via Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
Soil from a mudslide crashed through the kitchen wall of a house in Carenage, Trinidad, after heavy rain from Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm moved across the Caribbean on Thursday.
Andrea De Silva
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Reuters
aug. 23, 2012
A resident of Carenage, Trinidad, which is about six miles west of the capital, Port-of-Spain, walks past a broken fence along a road damaged by heavy rain from Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm could strengthen into a hurricane.
Andrea De Silva
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Reuters
aug. 23, 2012
Gabriel Muniz, 11, right, plays soccer with a schoolmate in Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil, which is about 170 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Despite being born with malformation of his feet, the fourth-grader practices for hours each day. He aspires to be a professional player like his idol, Argentina's Lionel Messi of Barcelona.
Ricardo Moraes
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Brazilians line up with their pets outside a veterinary hospital financed by Sao Paulo's municipal government. The hospital opened two months ago, offering free health care for the animals of low-income residents. The city is home to 3 million domestic pets, according to government statistics.
Nacho Doce
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Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
Students in Santiago, Chile, are hit by a jet of water as they clash with riot police during a demonstration to demand changes in the public education system. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering.
Ivan Alvarado
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Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
Eric Grindstaff of Columbus, Ohio, cheers on a cyclist prior to the summit of Independence Pass near Aspen, Colo., during the fourth stage of the U.S.A. Pro Cycling Challenge.
Chris Council
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Aspen, Colo., Daily News via AP
Aug. 23, 2012
Workers check the positioning of one of two steelworkers depicted in a sculpture called "The Workers" as a crane sets it on a base at Southside Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh. Tim Kaulen, the lead artist of a group of an industrial-arts cooperative, started the project 15 years ago. It depicts two figures, made of steel girders, plates and beams, as they work over the ladle used in steel mills.
Keith Srakocic
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AP
Aug. 23, 2012
A visitor to the Botanical Garden at University of Califonia at Berkeley looks at "SOL Grotto," an art installation of glass tubes from the now-defunct solar company Solyndra. Berkeley artists Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello created the work with about 1,400 of the 24 million specialized tubes that were to be used in solar panels. The installation is part of a larger exhibit called "Natural Discourse," which runs through January.
Justin Sullivan
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Getty Images
Aug. 23, 2012
Newly naturalized U.S. citizen Alexis Bicat, born in England, looks at photograph of President Obama and his dog, Bo, which was given to Bicat by actor Wendell Pierce, right, as fellow actors Chuma Gault, second from left, and Tim Michael look on. Bicat took the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Kevork Djansezian
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Getty Images
Aug. 23, 2012
U.S. citizenship candidates take the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Nearly 7,800 candidates representing more than 100 countries became citizens.
Kevork Djansezian
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Getty Images
Aug. 23, 2012
Ringers at Washington National Cathedral peal the bells at 1:53 p.m. to mark the one-year anniversary of the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the area last August.
Alex Wong
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Getty Images
Aug. 23, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters take cover from a government attack helicopter in the Sakhur neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo. Syria’s state media hailed the recapture of three Christian neighborhoods in the heart of Aleppo, but clashes between troops and rebel fighters raged in other parts of the city and in the southern belt of Damascus.
James Lawler Duggan
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 24, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters take cover as they exchange gunfire with government troops in the Seif El Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo.
Youssef Boudlal
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Reuters
Aug. 24, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter runs to take cover during an exchange of gunfire with goverment forces in the Seif El Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo.
Youssef Boudlal
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Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
A Syrian man shows marks of torture on his back. He says he was released from government forces in the Bustan Pasha neighborhood of Aleppo.
James Lawler Duggan
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 23, 2012
The mining community gathers at the "Hill of Horror" during a memorial service for those killed during clashes at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. Police last week had fatally shot 34 strikers at the mine, about 60 miles northwest of Johannesburg. The bloodshed revived memories of apartheid-era violence and laid bare workers' anger over enduring inequalities since the end of white rule.
Siphiwe Sibeko
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Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
Mine workers sing and dance during the memorial service at the Marikana platinum mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. The fatal shooting at the mine last week has raised fears of protests at other South African mines, which provide most of the world's platinum.
Themba Hadebe
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AP
Aug. 23, 2012
A police officer shows seized dried seahorses in Lima, Peru. About 16,000 dried seahorses were about to be shipped illegally to countries in Asia, authorities said.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Drought conditions take a toll on the Anderson Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area near Astoria, Ill. According to the drought report released Thursday, nearly all of Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri are in extreme or exceptional drought. Illinois showed the most dramatic climb in those categories, increasing 17 percentage points in one week, to 96.72 percent, according to the report’s map.
Seth Perlman
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AP
Aug. 23, 2012
Swimmers enjoy Lake Altaussee in Austria. The country was hit by a heat wave this week, with termperatures climbing to 97 degrees.
Herwig Prammer
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Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
A paraglider flies over cornfields at the edge of the black forest in Fuerstenberg, Germany.
Michael Probst
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AP
Aug. 23, 2012
The moon, partially obscured by clouds, is seen as a man walks on the roof of a monastery at the Swayambhunath Stupa, a collection of shrines and temples, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
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