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Aug. 13, 2012
A young woman looks at portraits of people killed along the Berlin Wall’s border between East and West Germany during the Cold War, which are displayed at Berlin’s Bernauer Strasse memorial on the 51st anniversary of the construction of the wall. German researchers recently launched a project to identify the victims.
Sean Gallup
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Aug. 13, 2012
A man receives assistance to look over a concrete barrier that was part of the Berlin Wall border fortification, at the memorial site on Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. Germany on Monday marked the 51st anniversary of the construction of the barrier that divided West Berlin from the eastern, socialist part of the city.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
A woman looks through a crack in a concrete barrier that was part of the Berlin Wall, at the memorial site in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
A woman stands on a concrete block of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a Holocaust memorial in Berlin. The memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in Europe under the Nazis was created by U.S. architect Peter Eisenman and consists of an undulating field of 2,711 stone slabs through which visitors can wander.
Gero Breloer
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AP
Aug. 13, 2012
Nine-month-old Cole Nelson, held by his mother, Deborah Nelson, inspects President Obama’s face during a visit to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. The president is on a three-day campaign bus tour through the state.
Carolyn Kaster
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AP
Aug. 13, 2012
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the Republican vice presidential candidate, holds up a Green Bay Packer jersey during a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair’s Des Moines Register Soap Box in Des Moines. Both Ryan and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are on a multi-day campaign tour through battleground states. President Obama began a three-day bus tour of Iowa on Monday, while Vice President Biden campaigned in North Carolina.
Steve Pope
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Aug.14, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, left, greets Broward County Sheriff deputies before boarding his campaign plane on the tarmac at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Romney is wrapping up his four-day, four-state bus tour with campaign events in Ohio.
Justin Sullivan
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Aug. 13, 2012
Janette Chapman, right, and Elizabeth Buckner make their way through a table filled with jams and jellies that are competing for blue ribbons at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville. Other tables filled with cakes, pies and breads will be judged, part of an annual ritual at the state fair, which begins later this week.
Bruce Schreiner
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AP
Aug. 13, 2012
Friends and family of Andrea Vellinga, of Pendleton, Ind., bow their heads during a moment of silence for the seven people killed and dozens injured a year ago when stage rigging collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. Vellinga was injured in the stage collapse.
Michael Conroy
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AP
Aug. 13, 2012
Drought-damaged corn stalks wilt at the McIntosh family farm in Missouri Valley, Iowa. Leading members of the Group of 20 nations are prepared to trigger an emergency meeting to address soaring grain prices caused by the worst U.S. drought in more than half a century and poor crops from the Black Sea bread basket. Benchmark Chicago corn rose to an all-time high on Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its production estimate by 17 percent.
Larry Downing
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
Cohana Bay residents retrieve well water from the shores of Lake Titicaca, some 68 miles northwest of La Paz, Bolivia. Lake Titicaca is being used as a sewage drain by cities and villages that border the lake between Bolivia and Peru. According to local media, thousands of cubic feet of sewage water is dumped into the lake each year from the Bolivian city of El Alto and its million of habitants.
David Mercado
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Reuters
Aug. 14, 2012
Vehicles are stuck in flooded roads after heavy rains in the city of Uji, western Japan. Torrential rains struck wide areas in western Japan on Tuesday.
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Kyodo News via AP
Aug. 13, 2012
A Kashmiri villager rows his boat through the waters of Wular Lake, which is covered with water chestnuts, off Bandipora, India. Water chestnuts are locally known as “singada” and are eaten raw, boiled or ground into flour.
Danish Ismail
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
Kashmiri villagers collect water chestnuts in their boats from the waters of Wular Lake, off Bandipora, India.
Danish Ismail
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Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
Schoolgirls perform during an Independence Day parade rehearsal at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Amritsar, India. On Wednesday, the country celebrates the 65th anniversary of its independence from British rule.
Narinder Nanu
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2012
A female fin whale opens its mouth as it lies stranded and alive on the beach at Carlyon Bay in St. Austell, England. The stranded whale was spotted by vacationers; initially rescuers had hoped to refloat it, but the 60-foot-long fin whale, a globally endangered species and the second largest animal on the planet, died on the beach.
Matt Cardy
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Getty Images
Aug. 12, 2012
A woman in the northwestern Iranian village of Bajebaj grieves after her loved ones were killed in Saturday’s earthquake. Twin earthquakes in Iran have killed at least 300 people and injured more than 3,000, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi told state radio on Monday. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small that they go unnoticed.
Arash Khamoushi
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ISNA via AP
Aug. 12, 2012
Rescue teams search for victims in the earthquake-stricken village of Varzaqan, in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. Iran’s government faced criticism from lawmakers and the public on Monday over its handling of relief efforts after two large earthquakes killed at least 300 people and injured thousands in the country’s northwest.
Arash Khamooshi
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ISNA via Reuters
Aug. 13, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters walk through the embattled Salaheddine neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 14, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an AK-47 rifle in Aleppo, Syria.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 14, 2012
Vegetarian Silvia Wald puts a cloth ham on the sales counter of her shop Aufschnitt (German for “cold cuts”) in Berlin. Wald, an engineer in clothing technology, started to design meat products from cotton stretch velvet, Lycra, wool or microfiber in 2009. The sausages have different functions, such as pillows, seat cushions or decoration.
Gero Breloer
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AP
Aug. 11, 2012
WildAid Ambassador and former NBA star Yao Ming observes a northern white rhinoceros at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya. Yao is in the country for the filming of a feature-length, anti-poaching documentary called “The End of the Wild.”
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2012
This color image from the Curiosity rover, released by NASA on Monday, shows an area excavated by the blast of the Mars Science Laboratory rover’s descent-stage rocket engines. This is part of a larger, high-resolution color mosaic made from images obtained by Curiosity’s Mast Camera. With the loose debris blasted away by the rockets, details of the underlying materials are clearly seen. Of particular note is a well-defined, topmost layer that contains fragments of rock embedded in a matrix of finer material. The top two arrows in the inset indicate 1.25-inch pebbles and a larger, 4-inch-long clastic rock protruding about 2 inches from the layer in which it is embedded.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech via Reuters
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