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Andy Murray wins U.S. Open, prison Olympics, 9/11 remembrance and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Sept. 10, 2012
Andy Murray of Great Britain celebrates after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia on Day 15 of the 2012 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens.
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Sept. 10, 2012
Fans of tennis player Andy Murray react as he wins the U.S. Open men’s singles tournament, at the bar of the Dunblane Hotel in his home town of Dunblane, Scotland.
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Sept. 10, 2012
Olympic bronze-medal gymnast Beth Tweddle of Great Britain takes a picture of the crowd as she takes part in the 2012 Victory Parade for Team Great Britain and Paralympics Great Britain athletes through central London.
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Sept. 10, 2012
Four-time gold-medal-winning Paralympian David Weir takes part in the 2012 Victory Parade for Team Great Britain and Paralympics Great Britain in London.
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Sept. 10, 2012
Polo player Rob Brockett and his horse Pachu take a tumble in the surf as they practice on the beach ahead of Tuesday’s beach polo event in Newquay, England. Several thousand people are expected to watch the Veuve Clicquot-sponsored event on one of the Cornwall’s most popular surfing beaches. Now in its sixth year, it is one of only a handful of regular polo matches played on a beach.
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Sept. 11, 2012
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, visit Singapore Botanical Gardens on the first day of their Diamond Jubilee Tour of the Far East, which will also take them to Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu.
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Sept. 10, 2012
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, holds a honeycomb rack next to Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter during a tour of a Swiss apiary, which was offered as gift by Switzerland to celebrate 10 years of U.N. membership. Switzerland became the 190th member state of the United Nations in 2002.
Fabrice Coffrini
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Sept. 10, 2012
An explosion on Sunday ripped through the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, leaving these buildings in ruin. The explosion killed 17 people and wounded 40, the official Syrian state news agency said.
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Sept. 10, 2012
An Free Syrian Army soldier walks through a street in the Amariya district of Aleppo, Syria. Manaf Tlass, a Syrian general who was the first member of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle to join the opposition, said in an interview that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he is confident the opposition can topple Assad. But Tlass said the rebels need weapons.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Sept. 10, 2012
Palestinian protesters throw shoes at a banner of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad during a demonstration against the government and high living costs in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian youths attacked a local police station and other government buildings in Hebron as protests in the West Bank turned increasingly violent.
Darren Whiteside
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
Indonesian protesters from a group called Sharia for Indonesia hold up placards showing President Obama during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Hundreds of people took part in the rally to condemn the U.S. government's perceived policy on how it handles Muslim countries around the world.
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Sept. 10, 2012
A burned house is seen after an attack in Kilelengwani village in Kenya’s Tana River Delta. Hundreds of armed raiders killed at least 38 villagers and torched more than 150 houses on Monday in the latest fighting between rival tribes over land and water in Kenya’s coastal region.
Charles Makunda
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Sept. 10, 2012
Miners march to Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, in an attempt to stop operations. Union rivalry is at the root of violent strikes that have been troubling the mining industry, which is the engine driving Africa’s largest economy.
Themba Hadebe
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Revelers run around a bull during the Toro de la Vega festival in Tordesillas, Spain, in which a bull is lanced to death by hundreds of men riding horses or on foot. The annual festival, one of the oldest in Spain, has been celebrated since 1453. Animal rights activists have demanded that the festival to be banned because of the prolonged suffering of the bull.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
Men hold spears while riding horses behind a bull during the Toro de la Vega festival in Tordesillas, Spain. The bull has to be enticed across the river from the village to the “vega” — a plain near the town — before it can be killed to honor the Virgen de la Pena.
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Sept. 11, 2012
Sergio Sacristan pierces a bull with a lance during the Toro de la Vega festival in Tordesillas, Spain.
Joseba Etxaburu
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Reuters
Sept. 10, 2012
A prisoner holds a rabbit named Miguel during the inauguration ceremony of a version of the Olympic Games at Lurigancho’s men’s prison in Lima, Peru. About 1,400 inmates at Lurigancho will participate in the games, which will last 10 days. The country's jail authority runs the tournament to help the integration of prisoners back into society, according to the organizer.
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Reuters
Sept. 10, 2012
Peruvian prisoners representing Argentina participate in the inauguration ceremony of their version of the Olympic Games at Lurigancho’s men’s prison in Lima, Peru.
Mariana Bazo
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Sept. 10, 2012
Prisoners representing the Netherlands join a parade during the inauguration ceremony of their Olympic Games at Lurigancho’s men’s prison in Lima, Peru.
Mariana Bazo
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Reuters
Sept. 10, 2012
A body is covered by a sheet as police stand guard at a crime scene after an alleged attempted robbery of an armored car outside a mall in Mexico City. Two suspects and one security guard died, according to police.
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AP
Sept. 10, 2012
A resident watches the water as dikes on the Salmon River give way in Truro, Nova Scotia. The area is under a rainfall warning as Tropical Storm Leslie churns toward Atlantic Canada. Leslie is expected to make landfall in nearby Newfoundland, bringing heavy rain and high winds.
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Canadian Press via AP
Sept. 10, 2012
A vehicle sits outside a flooded car dealership after dikes on the Salmon River gave way in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Andrew Vaughan
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Sept. 10, 2012
A car drives along the Baikal M53 highway during sunset in the suburbs of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
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Reuters
Sept. 10, 2012
Boyan Dimitrou stretches at the top of stairs near the Arlington Memorial Bridge during a lunchtime workout in the District. Temperatures were in the 70s, making the day seem more like fall than summer.
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Sept. 10, 2012
Thousands of teachers rally outside Chicago public schools headquarters on the first day of a strike over teachers’ contracts. For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third-largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for the fall semester.
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
A family member of a victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks visits the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial before a remembrance ceremony in Arlington County. President Obama joined staff and family members at the Pentagon to mark the 11th anniversary.
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Sept. 10, 2012
The “Tribute in Light “ illuminates the lower Manhattan skyline a day before the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama observe a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House as they mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
A personal note to a young mother is displayed with other notes to loved ones killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; they were made by family members and displayed at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. The event, which was held by Voices of September 11th, featured 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels and 9/11 Memorial Museum Director Alice Greenwald and displayed some of the artwork that will be displayed at the museum when it opens.
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