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  Demonstrators shout slogans as they take part in an opposition rally "Rise up Ukraine!" in Kiev. (Sergei Supinsky, AFP)
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  Visitors look at pictures taken in 1994 of children separated from their families in Rwanda during an open doors day of the new permanent exhibition at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. (Laurent Gillieron, AP)
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  A Chinese man covers himself with a paper bag as he takes a rest on a used couch placed outside an office building in Beijing. (Andy Wong, AP)
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  Workers paint the metal structure of a giant advertising board in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Bay Ismoto, AFP)
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  Sri Lankan commandos march during a Victory Day parade in Colombo. (Ishara S Kodikara, AFP)
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  Festival goers wearing "happi" coats carry a portable shrine as they march through the court yard of Sensoji Temple during the annual Sanja Festival at Tokyo's Asakusa district. (Itsuo Inouye, AP)
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  An immigrant from the Dominican Republic takes the oath of citizenship while becoming an American citizen at a naturalisation ceremony in New York City. (John Moore, AFP)
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  US President Barack Obama speaks about jobs, at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, during his second Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour. (Jacquelyn Martin, AP)
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  A skeleton is pictured in a pram at a Wave-Gothic meeting in Leipzig, eastern Germany. (Hendrik Schmidt, AFP)
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  A helmet is seen with a Serbian flag as members of the Kosovo Security Force search for mines and unexploded devices left from the 1998-99 war between Serb security forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas, in Pristina. (Armend Nimani, AFP)
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  Indian Artist Anish Kapoor is mirrored as he stands in front of his sculpture Hexagon Mirror at the exhibition 'Kapoor In Berlin' in the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin. (Markus Schreiber, AP)
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  Lisa Minott is seen clutching a large handbag with a painted portrait of her son in Larnaca, Cyprus, where a court sentenced a British teenager to eight-years in prison over his stabbing death. (Petros Karadjias, AP)
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  Actor Tahar Rahim points at photographers during a photo call for the film The Past at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. (Lionel Cironneau, AP)
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  Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai dances as his wife Elizabeth looks on during a MDC conference in Harare. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, AP)
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  Professor Cyril Karabus walks through Cape Town International Airport after being detained in the United Arab Emirates since 18 August. (Jerusha Sukhdeo, News24)
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  Friends and family wait at Cape Town International Airport ahead of Professor Cyril Karabus's return to South Africa. (Jerusha Sukhdeo, News24)
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  A South Korean worker attaches name cards with wishes to lotus lanterns during a ceremony to celebrate the birthday of Buddha. (Jung Yeon-Je, AFP)
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  SA's Charl Schwartzel acknowledges applause after sinking a birdie putt during the first round of the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament in Irving, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez, AP)
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  A view of a mask representing deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez placed in a corridor of the ministry of foreign affairs in Caracas. (Juan Barreto, AFP)
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  US President Barack Obama speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Saul Loeb, AFP)
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  A woman looks for items to recover in a bedroom of home that was destroyed by a tornado in Cleburne, Texas. (LM Otero, AP)
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  French President Francois Hollande takes a glass of water under his desk during his press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (Christophe Ena, AP)
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  A Sri Lankan worker adjusts lightbulbs on a pandal, a coloured structure that is illuminated with bulbs, in Colombo. (Ishara S Kodikara)
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  Chinese military officers use a piece of string to line up honour guards as they prepare for a welcome ceremony for Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Andy Wong, AP)
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  Afghan President Hamid Karzai smiles after laying down the foundation stone of housing project for vulnerable Afghans in Kabul. (Shah Marai, AFP)
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  Displaced mother of six, Hawa Ibrahim holds her child, as she takes shelter at an area for displaced people on the outskirts of El Sereif village, North Darfur, Sudan. (Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID, AP)
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  Demonstrators hold images of Argentine born Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto 'Che' Guevara during a protest in La Paz, Bolivia, on pension laws. (Juan Karita, AP)
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  A female US soldier stands guard in her vehicle at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul.(Massoud Hossaini, AFP)
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  A woman walks past work from artist Jonathan Jones during a media preview of Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, at the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada. (Sean Kilpatrick, AP)
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  Oleksiy Pinko, a circus artist, puts his head into a lion's mouth during presentation of the new programme in Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, Ukraine. (Efrem Lukatsky, AP)
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  A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, about 55km from Mexico City, as seen from Cholula, in the Mexican central state of Puebla. (Arturo Andrade, AFP)
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  US president Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder stand for the Advancement of the Colours during the 32nd annual the National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster, AP)
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  A protester steps on a poster of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an opposition rally against the Iranian regime and the upcoming election in central London. (Carl Court, AFP)
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  Basque police detain an alleged member of the armed group ETA on a bridge in Ondarroa, northern Spain. (Alvaro Barrientos, AP)
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  A Palestinian sets fire to a tyre during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers at the gate of the Ofer prison after a march in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Abbas Momani, AFP)
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  Rescue workers wait to search rubble by hand following the completion of rescue work by heavy machinery, at the scene of a building collapse in the eastern district of Nyagatare, Rwanda. (Mark Darrough, AP)
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  Sri Lankan army soldiers looks on during a Victory Day parade rehearsal in Colombo. Sri Lanka celebrates War Heroes month with a military parade. (Ishara S S Kodikara, AFP)
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  A Rohingya boy cleans vegetables for a meal at the Mansi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe. (Soe Than Win, AFP)
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  Britain's Prince Harry speaks with Allie Cirigliano, 7, of Middletown, New Jersey as they play together on the Seaside Heights Boardwalk. Prince Harry began a tour of New Jersey’s storm-damaged coastline. (Andrew Mills, The Star-Ledger, AP)
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  A child marches with his father, a reservist of Paraguay's Army, during an Independence Day parade in Asuncion. (Jorge Saenz, AP)
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  A photo showing the official poster of the Cannes film festival is seen through a Palm on the eve of one of the world's top film festivals. (Lolic Venance, AFP)
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  Britain's Prince Harry helps Taylor Cirigliano, 11, pick a prize at a Ball Toss game on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, during his visit to areas in New Jersey hit by Superstorm Sandy. (Mel Evans, AP)
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  Gilles Simon serves to Filippo Volandri during their Italian Open clash in Rome. (Gabriel Bouys, AFP)
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  Muslim Rohingya kids walk in front of their tent as rain falls at Mansi Internally Displaced Persons camp in Myanmar. (Picture: AFP)
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  A Palestinian protester argues with Israeli border police during a rally in Bethlehem to commemorate the 1948 creation of Israel, known in Arabic as "Day of the Catastrophe". (Nasser Shiyoukhi, AP)
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  A protester's T-shirt is blood-spattered after a demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya, against MPs who’ve demanded higher wages. (Carl de Souza, AFP)
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  Actress Angelina Jolie made waves when she announced that she had a double mastectomy as a preventive measure. (Carlo Allegri, AP).
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  Young South Korean novice monks play football during a course called "Children Becoming Buddhist monks" at the Jogye Temple in Seoul. (Jung Yeon-Je, AFP)
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  A government worker carries election posters as they clean surroundings at a school used as a voting centre in suburban Quezon city, Philippines. ( Aaron Favila, AP)
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  Visitors view a creation by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi, painted on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand, AFP)

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