Thứ Sáu, 13 tháng 9, 2013

The Most Breathtaking Photos From Around The World This Week


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Welcome to “Moving Image,” our weekly roundup of the best photos from around the world.


The following images tell the story of the past seven days’ most compelling events, capturing happenstance moments and monumental occurrences all over the globe.


Our picks for this week are:


1. This Navy soldier in a field of flowers.

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Navy Quartermaster Matthew Konchan of Johnstown, Pa., stands in a field of Black-eyed Susan as he waits to participate in a wreath laying with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell during a memorial service at the Flight 93 National Memorial on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in Shanksville. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)


2. This photo of Afghan officers at graduation.
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Afghan police officers attend their graduation ceremony at a a national police training center in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. Over a hundred National police officers graduated from a two-month training program in Jalalabad. (Rahmat Gul/AP)


3. This baseball player knocking it out of the park.
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The flash from a fans camera illuminates San Francisco Giants Buster Posey as he fouls off a pitch from Colorado Rockies’ Matt Belisle in the eighth inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in San Francisco. (Ben Margot/AP)


4. This shot of Tokyo delegates celebrating their 2020 Olympic Game victory.
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Members of the Tokyo 2020 delegation celebrate after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympic Games during the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. Tokyo defeated Istanbul in the final round of secret voting Saturday by the International Olympic Committee. Madrid was eliminated earlier after an initial tie with Istanbul. (Ian Watson/Pool/AP)


5. A Nepalese woman washing her hands.
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A Nepalese woman washes her hands before offering prayers at the Pashupatinath Hindu temple during Teej festival celebrations in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. During the festival, married Hindu women observe day-long fast and pray for their husbands and a happy married life while those unmarried pray for a good husband. (Niranjan Shrestha/AP)


6. The crew finishing the final details behind the scenes of New York Fashion Week.
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Production crew work on final details on the runway set for the showing of the J. Mendel Spring 2014 collection on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in New York. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)


7. The Fantasia festival in southern Morocco.
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In this Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 picture riders perform the traditional Fantasia at the Moussem festival in Tan Tan, southern Morocco. The UNESCO-sponsored festival is a gathering of thousands nomads from Morocco. The festival did not take place for 30 years before 2004 due to political conflict in Western Sahara. (Abdeljalil Bounhar/AP)


8. These pups chilling out backstage.
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Great Dane ‘Oscar’, whose show name was Annador ‘How Sweet It Is’, poses alongside 12-week-old French Bulldog ‘Hunter’, ahead of the Royal Melbourne Championship Dog Show, on September 5, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. The Royal Melbourne Championship Dog Show is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere with over 200 breeds and more than 4000 dogs competing. (Mark Stewart/Newspix/Getty Images)


9. These ladies rocking traditional “Ao Dai” dress in Hanoi.
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Female staff in traditional “Ao Dai” dress stand outside the entrance of a meeting room as visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung hold their official talks at Dung’s cabinet office in Hanoi on September 11, 2013. Lee began a three-day official visit focused on both bilateral and regional issues including that of tense situations on the Southern China Sea. The two countries announced at a joint press conference they raised their relationship to “strategic parteners” level. (Hoang Dinh/AFP/Getty Images)


10. These women taking a ritual bath.
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Nepalese Hindu women take a ritual bath in the Bagmati river during the Rishi Panchami festival in Kathmandu on September 10, 2013. Rishi Panchami marks the end of the three-day long Teej festival, in which married women fast and pray for the good health of their husbands to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, while unmarried women wish for handsome husbands and happy conjugal lives. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)


11. These belly boarders preparing for the championship.
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Belly boarders run into the sea to take part in the first heat of the annual World Belly Boarding Championships at Chapel Porth on September 8 2013 in Cornwall, England. Over a hundred surfers of all ages and all on traditional wooden belly boards, gathered for the annual charity event organized for the National Trust and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The event was started in 2002 as a celebration of how surfing began in Britain more than a century ago and because, since the 1920s, Cornwall has become the focus for surfing in the UK. Originally surfers used the wooden ‘belly boards’ on which they laid down and it was only later that they started standing up, with Cornwall having the first visual evidence of that, in 1929. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)


12. These cattle herders enjoying the sunshine.
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Alpine cattle herders escort cows down into the valley during the annual Viehscheid cattle drive on September 11, 2013 near Bad Hindelang, Germany. The herders lead the cattle in May or June up into the Bavarian Alps to spend the summer grazing on alpine meadows and lead them back down to farms in the valley in September. If all the animals survive the summer then the herders place a flower wreath around the lead cow for the descent. (Lennart Preiss/Getty Images)


13. These sweet rides reflecting major light.
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Audi cars reflect in the mirror unter the ceiling at the IAA international automobile show on September 10, 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. The world’s biggest motor show, the IAA, is running from September 12 to 22, 2013. More than 1.000 exhibitors from 35 countries will present their products during the show. (Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)


14. This photo of what goes down in a slaughterhouse.
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A man waits for his chickens to come out of a cleaning machine in a slaughterhouse as Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the Kaparot ceremony on September 9, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. The Jewish ritual is supposed to transfer the sins of the past year to the chicken, and is performed before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which this year will start on sunset on September 13. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)


15. This photo of a woman remembering her fiance on September 11.
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Carrie Bergonia of Pennsylvania looks over the name of her fiance, firefighter Joseph Ogren at the 9/11 Memorial during ceremonies for the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2013 in New York City. The nation is commemorating the anniversary of the 2001 attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and one crash landed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Following the attacks in New York, the former location of the Twin Towers has been turned into the National September 11 Memorial Museum. (Chris Pedota/Pool/Getty Images)


This story appears in Issue 66 of our weekly iPad magazine, Huffington, in the iTunes App store, available Friday, Sept. 13.



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    A person walks in the rain in a street of Rio de Janeiro on September 4, 2013, after temperature dropped in the last 24 hours from 32 degrees Celcius to 17. (Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)




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    Nick Vujicic, right, is accompanied by a life guard as he treads water in an acrylic enclosure keeping safe while diving among sharks, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 in Singapore. Vujicic, a Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs, is in the city-state to give a motivational talk and was visiting “The Shark Encounter at Marine Life Park” at one of Singapore’s main tourist attractions in Resorts World Sentosa. (Wong Maye-E/AP)




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    An Indian laborer sleeps on empty plastic baskets at the Okhla Vegetable Market in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. India’s economic growth slowed to 4.4 percent in the April-June quarter and the Indian rupee has lost more than 20 percent of its value since May. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP)




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    Muslim women chant slogans during a protest demanding the cancellation of the Miss World pageant that will be held in Bali and Sentul, West Java later this month, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Hundreds of Muslims staged the rally saying that such a competition violates Islamic teachings. (Dita Alangkara/AP)




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    A Palestinian masked member of the ‘Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam’ militia, the military wing of Hamas, holds his weapon during a march along the streets of Gaza City, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Arabic read on a headband “No God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet, Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam brigade”. (Adel Hana/AP)




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    Romanian riot policeman prepare to confront protesters, as a woman views the scene and demonstrators gather nearby, in Bucharest, Romania, early Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Protesters blocked traffic in central Bucharest for the fourth day running to protest against the proposed development in the Transylvanian town of Rosia Montana, by Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources of Europe’s largest cyanide based extraction open-cast gold mine. (Vadim Ghirda/AP)




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    A police drives past in a three-wheeled Segway-like scooter in front of the hotel where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting and the 125th IOC session is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. During the Sept. 4-10 meeting, members will elect the host city for the Summer Olympics Games of 2020, with candidates being Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo, as well as choose a new IOC president and add a sport to the 2020 program. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)




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    In this picture made available Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, a man, name not given, rides his bike with his dog Django, in a basket through Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (Markus Schreiber/AP)




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    In this Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 photo, participants of the band of the Royal Netherlands Navy perform during the “Spasskaya Tower” International Military Orchestra Music Festival at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The festival started on Sunday, Sept. 1 in Moscow and would last until Sunday, Sept. 8. (Denis Tyrin/AP)




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    A pupil yawns as he takes part in a ceremony marking the start of classes at School No. 85 as part of the traditional opening of the school year known as “Day of Knowledge”, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. (Dmitry Lovetsky/AP)




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    Helio Castroneves, of Brazil, drives under a canopy of leaves during the IndyCar Grand Prix of Baltimore auto race on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, in Baltimore. (Patrick Semansky/AP)




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    Milwaukee Brewers’ Jonathan Lucroy watches a foul ball during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, in Milwaukee. (Morry Gash/AP)




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    Catholic clerics wearing scarves depicting Monsignor Vladimir Ghika attend his beatification religious service in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. Thousands gathered for the beatification of a Romanian prince who died after being tortured in a Communist prison. Pope Francis approved the beatification in March of Monsignor Vladimir Ghika who was declared a martyr for his Christian faith.(Grigore Popescu/Agerpres/AP)




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    Joey Ellison, Chairman of Dingle 2000, the trustee organization for the Toxteth Reservoir, poses inside Toxteth Reservoir on September 2, 2013 in Liverpool, England. The interior of the magnificent example of Victorian architecture and engineering will be open to the public for viewing on Friday 6 September from 10am – 4pm as part of Heritage Open Month. The covered reservoir houses stunning internal brickwork and a roof supported by cast iron columns of curved bricked arches. The building which supplied fresh water to the people of Toxteth is one of the earliest examples of public health engineering in the world. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)




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    A 18 meters high rubber duck is seen at Beijing Garden Expo Park on September 6, 2013 in Beijing, China. After touring 13 cities in 10 countries, a giant rubber duck designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman will float first at Beijing Garden Expo Park and then at the Summer Palace from September to October in Beijing. (Feng Li/Getty Images)




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    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service firefighter Corey Adams sits on a tree stump as he monitors the Rim Fire on August 25, 2013 near Groveland, California. The Rim Fire continues to burn out of control and threatens 4,500 homes outside of Yosemite National Park. Over 2,000 firefighters are battling the blaze that has entered a section of Yosemite National Park and is currently 7 percent contained. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)




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    Participants take part in the Tough Mudder endurance event at Dalkieth Country Estate on August 24, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The world-famous Tough Mudder is military style endurance event over 10-12 miles with various obstacles around the course designed by British Special Forces. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)




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    A man looks on at the site of a wildfire in Cualedro, near Ourense on August 24, 2013. (Pedro Armestre / AFP / Getty Images)




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    A mixed flight group of Strizhi and Russkie Vityazi (Russian knights) perform during the MAKS-2013, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, on August 27, 2013. (Kirill Kudryavtsez / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Palestinian children sit on a donkey in a poverty-stricken district of the town of Khan Younis where they live with their families in tents in the southern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2013. (Mahmud Hams / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Indian men sit on the roof of a house which is submerged in the flood waters of the River Ganges after heavy monsoon rains in Salori, India, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. India’s monsoon season, which runs from June through September, brings rains that are vital to agriculture but also cause floods and landslides. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)




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    Yukiko Ebata of Japan spikes against Italy’s blockers during their World Grand Prix Finals woman’s volleyball match in Sapporo, northern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Japan won by 3-0. (Koji Sasahara / AP)




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    A tribal dancer performs at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on August 28, 2013 during a ceremony to commemorate of the 50th anniversary on the March on Washington, the civil rights watershed where Martin Luther King Jr famously declared: “I have a dream.” The March on Washington is best remembered for King’s stirring vision of a United States free of inequality and prejudice, telecast live to a nation undergoing a phenomenal decade of soul-searching, crisis and change. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Laxmipriya Patel (L), aged 20, dressed as the Hindu god Lord Krishna, and her sister Mohini Patel, aged 13, dressed as Lord Krishna’s devotee Radharani, walk through the George Harrison Memorial Garden during the Janmashtami Hindu Festival at Bhaktivedanta Manor on August 28, 2013 in Watford, England. Up to 72,000 were expected to take part in the Hindu festival of ‘Janmashtami’, which falls on August 28 this year, and marks the birth of the Hindu god Lord Krishna. The festival is believed to be the largest Hindu festival gathering outside of India. Bhaktivedanta Manor is also celebrating it’s 40th year since the manor house was donated to the Society of Krishna Consciousness by George Harrison in 1973. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)




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    People sit in the rain during a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom , August 28, 2013 in Washington. It was 50 years ago today that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream Speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)




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    An Indian farmer leaves his paddy field for the day on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. The lower house of Indian Parliament Monday approved a landmark bill that proposes to provide cheaper grain to more than 800 million across the country. (Biswaranjan Rout / AP)




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    Palestinian Khaled Zir sits with his children inside a cave in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Zir said the family moved into a cave after their home was demolished by Israeli authorities. (Sebastian Scheiner / AP)




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    Employees stand near mining machinery inside a potash mine operated by OAO Uralkali in Berezniki, Russia, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Russia pressured Belarus to free Vladislav Baumgertner, the head of OAO Uralkali, the world’s biggest potash producer, saying a refusal may harm relations as the smaller nation faces a funding crunch. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg / Getty Images)




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    Anna Schmiedlova, of Slovakia, returns a shot against Kaia Kanepi, of Estonia, during the second round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, in New York. (Darron Cummings / AP)




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    The sun is filtered through the fog in the Stelling Vineyard at Far Niente winery Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 in Oakville, Calif. Harvest is underway in the Napa Valley with the picking of grapes for white and sparkling wine. (Eric Risberg / AP)




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    Participants attend the third Prague Pride March on August 17, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. Several thousand people marched through city centre in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenders (LGBT) rights. (Matej Divizna / Getty Images)




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    Indonesian men climb a greased bamboo pole to get prizes such as bicycles and kitchen appliances in a game called panjat pinang played traditionally on Indonesia’s Independence day on August 17, 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia became an independent nation on 17th August 1945 having previously been under Dutch rule. (Ed Wray / Getty Images)




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    An Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) make its way to the sea after been released at San Diego beach in La Libertad, 34 kms south of San Salvador on August 17, 2013. The Zoologic Foundation has a turtle nursery to breed sea turtles to be realesed to the sea for conservation purposes. (Jose Cabezas / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Afghan students from a religious school play volleyball in Mazar-i Sharif on August 17, 2013. Economic development is considered a vital weapon to stop the country from sinking back into civil war and to stem Islamist extremism after 100,000 international combat troops pull out next year. (Farshad Usyan / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Mee-ha, a Pit bull mix, jumps into a pool of water catching a ball in midair, as part of The Marvelous Mutts traveling show at the Prince William County Fair in Manassas, VA, on August 17, 2013. The show features rescued dogs and travels to fairs all over the United States. (Maddie Meyer / The Washington Post / Getty Images)




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    An Afghan laborer works at a traditional cotton factory in Jalalabad on August 18, 2013. Economic development is considered a vital weapon to stop the country from sinking back into civil war and to stem Islamist extremism after 100,000 international combat troops pull out next year. (Noorullah Shirzada / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Members of the mounted brass band of Portugal’s National Guard gather to take part in the ceremony of Changing the Guard, at the National Guard Cavalry Regiment headquarters in Lisbon, on August 18, 2013. The cavalry of Portugal’s National Guard has a unique mounted brass band which was created in 1942. It features various instruments including cavalry trumpets, flugelhorn and kettledrum. The cavalry, which consists of 130 white or piebald horses and 27 riders, take part in various official ceremonies and touristic events, including the Change of Guards at Belem’s National Palace. (Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP / Getty Images)




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    Picture taken on August 18, 2013 from a train shows a rainbow drawing over fields and wind engines near Wilster, northern Germany. (Christian Charisius / AFP / DPA / Getty Images)




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    Lydia Stoker of Lyon Turnbull stands next to a sculpture by Glasgow born artist George Wyllie titled ‘For Youooo’ ahead of an auction to sell the second rendition of the piece on August 22, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland The Lyon Turnbull sale will take place at The Lighthouse in Glasgow on the 27th of August, and will include a rendition of the straw locomotive which hung from a crane during the Glasgow Garden Festival. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)




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    France’s Gaetan Saku Bafuanga Baya makes an attempt in the men’s triple jump final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. (Matt Dunham / AP)




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    Ottawa, Canada’s Jason Zhang watches as spectators reach for a home run hit by Aguadulce, Panama’s Edgardo Rosales during the second inning of an elimination baseball game at the Little League World Series tournament, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, in South Williamsport, Pa. Aguadulce, Panama won 12-0 in four innings. (Matt Slocum / AP)




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    A truckload of stranded commuters cross a flooded street in Manila, Philippines Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep flood waters and making streets impassable to vehicles while thousands of people across coastal and mountainous northern regions fled to emergency shelters. (Aaron Favila / AP)




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    A airlines jet plane approaching Los Angeles International Airport crosses the moon as seen from Palm Park in Whittier, Ca., on Monday Aug. 19, 2013. (Nick Ut / AP)




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    A zoo keeper weighs a waxy monkey frog during the annual weigh-in at London Zoo, London, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, where creatures are weighed and measured for their measurements to be recorded into the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS). The frog weighted in at 40g. (Sang Tan / AP)




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    A Kashmiri government employee is sprayed colored water as police use it to disperses people during a protest in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Aug 22, 2013. Police detained dozens of government employees during the protest demanding regularization of contractual jobs and a hike in salary. (Mukhtar Khan / AP)




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    An Indian villager smokes tobacco as he joins other protesters during a rally demanding pension for elderly poor citizens in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. (Altaf Qadri / AP)




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    Mexican authorities leave Rancho la Negra where a mass grave was found in Tlalmanalco, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Mexican authorities said Thursday that they have found a mass grave east of Mexico City and are testing to determine if it holds some of the 12 people who vanished from a bar in an upscale area of the capital nearly three months ago. (Ivan Pierre Aguirre / AP)




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    An elderly villager listens to a speaker, unseen, during a rally demanding pension for elderly poor citizens in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. (Altaf Qadri / AP)




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    Nino Deler, of Boston, holds his parrot “Birdbrain” out for onlookers as his son Nino Jr. rides his bike along the boardwalk in South Boston, Mass., Aug. 20, 2013. (Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe / Getty Images)




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    A young juggler performs during the 8th Afghanistan Juggling Championships in Kabul on August 14, 2013. His eyes red from concentration, Ahmad Zekria, 13, stumbled from the stage in triumph after keeping four balls spinning through the air for 33 minutes at Afghanistan’s national juggling championships. Cheered on by his team-mates from Bamiyan province, Ahmad outlasted eight other young jugglers to win a trophy at the annual competition that encourages children to learn circus skills to improve their lives. (Sha Marai/AFP/Getty Images)




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    Heavy metal fans mosh, head bang and dance as they watch bands at the Bloodstock Outdoor Heavy Metal Festival on August 10, 2013 in Walton Upon Trent, Derbyshire, England. Thousands of heavy metal fans from across Britain attended the country’s biggest metal festival which features both established and unsigned bands over four days. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)





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