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A dying star, the presidential debate, Seoul’s Human Body Parts performance and more in the day in photos News and feature images around the world.
A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image — provided by NASA on Wednesday — from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. In death, the star's dusty outer layers are unraveling into space, glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation being pumped out by the hot stellar core. This object, called the Helix Nebula, is 650 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius.
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Kegan Inman spray paints the finishing touches on one of the rooms of his Frightmares Haunted House in Linton Ind., under a black light.
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Tourists take pictures in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue, lit up in the colors of Germany's national flag, in Rio de Janeiro. The illuminated statue celebrates the 22nd anniversary of the reunification of the Germany.
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A woman walks on a sidewalk cloaked in autumn leaves in central Minsk, Belarus.
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Workers’ legs dangle between concrete beams that are being installed at the site of a causeway and bridge at the Lake Holiday dam in Cross Junction, Va.
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Demonstrators costumed as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, left, and President Obama bring attention to campaign finance reform before the presidential debate at the University of Denver. The first of four debates for the 2012 election — three presidential and one vice presidential — was moderated by PBS’s Jim Lehrer and focused on domestic issues: the economy, health care and the role of government.
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President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney talk at the end of the first presidential debate in Denver.
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President Obama, right, listens while Mitt Romney speaks during the first presidential debate.
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Oct. 3, 2012
Bar patrons watch the first presidential debate at Bullfeathers, a historic bar near the Capitol in Washington.
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Ann Romney, the wife of Mitt Romney, smiles at the start of the first presidential debate.
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Oct. 3, 2012
The television in Miami’s Lavanderia is turned to the first presidential debate.
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Michelle Obama, center, shrugs when asked about spending her 20th wedding anniversary at the first presidential debate. Sitting with the first lady are White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo).
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Oct. 3, 2012
Graphic designer Kedgar Volta makes an adjustment to one of the 18-by-18-inch portraits that make up his art installation in Jacksonville, Fla. Volta’s project, “?? embellished,” was unveiled as part of Wednesday evening’s Art Walk celebration. The Cuban-born artist starting shooting portraits two months ago, setting up a small photo studio at a previous Art Walk and asking subjects to “sit there, open their eyes as wide as they could and mess up their hair.” Volta photographed 600 subjects and selected 300 to be printed,creating the 48-by-18-foot work.
Bob Self
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Florida Times-Union via AP
Oct. 3, 2012
Students walk over a new pedestrian walkway to the Egg Harbor City Community School, in Egg Harbor City, N.J., as part of National Walk to School Day.
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Oct. 4, 2012
Child refugees from Syria attend their fourth day of school at Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. The school is funded by a grant from the European Union to provide education to Syrian refugees residing in Jordan. The first phase will start with 2,400 elementary, middle and high school students, said Dominique Hyde, the UNICEF director in Jordan.
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Oct. 4, 2012
A child peers out from the back of an auto-rickshaw packed with schoolchildren in Ahmadabad, India.
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Oct. 3, 2012
A woman carries a dog in a handbag near Brandenburg Gate to celebrate German Unity Day in Berlin. The event marks the day in 1990 when West Germany and East Germany reunited following the end of the Cold War.
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Oct. 3, 2012
Farmers drive with cattle on a special boat during the annual “Viehscheid” event, returning the cows from their mountain pastures in a valley in the German Alps.
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Oct. 2, 2012
A crane lifts a car body at the Scholz scrap metal recycling plant in Espenhain, Germany. Low steel consumption in Europe is eating into ferrous metal recyclers’ margins, an E.U. industry body said Wednesday. “The general situation of the E.U. steel industry remains worrying; steel demand is 25 percent below its 2007 level and with a current 25-30 percent overcapacity,” the European Ferrous Recovery and Recycling Federation said in a statement.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev takes part in testing small arms at the training ground of the Central Research Institute for Precision Machine Building in Klimovsk, Russia.
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Oct. 3, 2012
A police officer reacts as flames and smoke emerge from a truck after it was set alight by striking truck drivers off a main highway leading out of Cape Town, South Africa. South African truck workers have been on strike for the past two weeks, with sporadic violence reported.
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Oct. 3, 2012
Muslims hold banners during a demonstration against the anti-Islamic YouTube video “Innocence of Muslims” in Ahmedabad, India. The low-budget video, produced in the United States, has incited a wave of bloody anti-American violence in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen and in several other countries across the Muslim world.
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Indian police personnel run after their police station was attacked by a mob during a protest against the anti-Islamic video “Innocence of Muslims” in Ahmadabad.
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Oct. 4, 2012
A girl cries as a massive hand approaches her during the Human Body Parts performance on a street in Seoul. The performance is part of the Hi Seoul Festival, which runs through Oct. 7.
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Oct. 4, 2012
A boy touches an enormous foot during the Human Body Parts performance in Seoul.
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A red deer stag roars at the enclosure of the wild life park Schorfheide in western Germany. It is breeding season for red deer in Germany.
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Revelers gather in Munich’s city center to watch the final laser and fireworks show of German Unity Day. The celebration, marking the day in 1990 when West Germany and East Germany reunited, is held every year in a different German city.
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