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Day in photos Diwali festival, homemade submarine, solar eclipse, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jill Kelley, Antarctica and more.
Nov. 13, 2012
Dancer Vimi Solanki waits to perform on stage as Lord Krishna during the Hindu festival of Diwali in Leicester, England. Up to 35,000 people attended the Diwali festival of light in Leicester's Golden Mile in the heart of the city's Indian community. The festival is an opportunity for Hindus to honor Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and other Hindu gods. Leicester's Diwali celebrations are one of the biggest in the world outside India. Sikhs and Jains also celebrate Diwali.
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Nov. 13, 2012
Indian Sikh devotees offer prayers as they stand in the holy sarover, or water tank, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the occasion of Bandi Chhor Divas or Diwali. Sikhs celebrate Bandi Chhor Divas or Diwali to mark the return of the Sixth Guru, Hargobind Ji, who was freed from imprisonment and also managed to release 52 political prisoners at the same time from Gwalior fort by Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1619.
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Nov. 13, 2012
A factory is partially submerged by flood water near the village of Albinia, in central Italy, as heavy rains inundated north and central Italy. Three people died after their car fell off a bridge that collapsed due to severe rainfalls near the town of Grosseto, in Tuscany.
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Nov. 14, 2012
Zhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seat submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province. Zhang, a 37-year-old local farmer who is interested in scientific inventions, has independently made seven miniature submarines with several engineers, one of which was sold last October to a businessman in Dalian at a price of 100,000 yuan, $15,855. The submarines, mainly designed for harvesting aquatic products, such as sea cucumber, have a diving depth of 20 to 30 meters, 66 to 98 feet, and can travel for 10 hours, local media reported.
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Reuters
Nov. 14, 2012
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, performs a traditional “hongi” greeting with Hiria Hape at Government House in Wellington, New Zealand. Camilla and Prince Charles are in New Zealand on the last leg of a tour commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II’s rule.
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Nov. 14, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta walk to a reception at the Indiana Teahouse at Cottesloe Beach, near Perth, Australia. In what could be her final visit to Australia in her current job, Clinton joined Panetta for talks with Australian counterparts Bob Carr and Stephen Smith.
Matt Rourke
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Nov. 13, 2012
Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa. Kelley reported receiving harassing e-mails to the FBI, which resulted in an investigation that revealed the sender of the e-mails to be Paula Broadwell, who was found to be having an affair with former Gen. David H. Petraeus, who stepped down as the head of the CIA after admitting to the affair.
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Nov. 14, 2012
Leigh Turner uses a telescope to watch the total solar eclipse in Palm Cove, Australia. Thousands gathered in part of North Queensland to enjoy the solar eclipse, the first visible in Australia in a decade.
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Nov. 14, 2012
The rare full solar eclipse plunged North Queensland into darkness for two minutes early Wednesday, delighting the thousands of people who had gathered on the Australian state's beaches. In Cairns, the main city in North Queensland and a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, cloudy skies and occasional rain partly obscured the view, but elsewhere viewing conditions were more favorable.
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Tourism Queensland via Reuters
Nov. 14, 2012
People watch the solar eclipse from Ellis Beach, north of Cairns, Australia.
Brian Cassey
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 13, 2012
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signs his book in a book shop in Moscow. Gorbachev looks back at his life in his new book, “Alone with Myself.” He talks about his young years with a remarkable candor in the book, which is filled with statement of love for his late wife.
Misha Japaridze
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AP
Nov. 14, 2012
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi scatters rose petals at the memorial of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is on a six-day visit to India.
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
Cody Herron hangs lights from a tree as other members of the staff at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis put the finishing touches on the lighted exhibits for the 24th annual Starry Nights event, which helps fund the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. The park lighting, which opens on Nov. 23, will feature more than two million LED lights.
Mike Brown
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The Commercial Appeal via AP
Nov. 13, 2012
In Seaside Heights, N.J., a large pile of utility poles await use by utility crews that are restoring phone and electrical service knocked out by Hurricane Sandy. Sections of the New York metropolitan area and New Jersey remain without power, more than two weeks after the storm made landfall near Atlantic City.
Tom Mihalek
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
Utility workers from Arizona work on power lines in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens. The Rockaways peninsula of the borough was especially hard hit when Hurricane Sandy barreled into the East Coast on Oct. 29, unleashing a record storm surge that flooded low-lying areas and fierce winds that toppled trees and power lines.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
An official from the Nassau County department of sanitation directs a truck full of debris prior to dumping it at city parking lot in Lido Beach, N.Y. Lido Beach is a part of a barrier Island in New York's Nassau County, on the western end of Long Island, which was already facing a projected $25 million budget deficit before superstorm Sandy ripped through the area.
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
Donna Zurlo cries on the porch of her beachfront home that is without power, water and has incurred heavy damage in Brooklyn’s Seagate community, which was hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. The swimming pool is now in the living room and a cement deck that was facing the water is about all that's left standing in the yard. Zurlo lived in the house, owned by a friend who also lives there, for more than 20 years. A claim with the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been filed. Zurlo hoped to recover some of her belongings from the house. "I've lost everything, I'm only 53, and I don't even have a claim number."
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
Nov. 13, 2012
A message written on a window to relief workers is seen on a house condemned after flooding from Hurricane Sandy in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island. Police raised the storm-related fatality toll in New York City to 43. At least 121 people have perished in the storm, which caused an estimated $50 billion in property damage and economic losses and ranks as one of the most destructive natural disasters to hit the Northeast.
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
Police officers look over cars buried in mud after a broken water main sent water down a hillside in Daly City, Calif. Residents in the Hillside Park neighborhood woke up to flooded streets and vehicles stuck in mud after a broken water main sent 45,000 gallons of water spewing down a grassy hillside.
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AP
Nov. 13, 2012
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 22, right, is escorted from the federal courthouse in Amarillo, Tex., by U.S. Marshals after being sentenced to life in prison on a federal charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a Lubbock-based bomb-making plot.
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Amarillo Globe-News via AP
Nov. 14, 2012
A Syrian man runs away as he is followed by a Turkish soldier in the border town of Ceylanpinar, Turkey. NATO is ready to help member state Turkey as the 20-month conflict in Syria increasingly spills across the border, the alliance's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this week.
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Nov. 13, 2012
A picture, taken from the Turkish border town Ceylanpinar, shows people walking in front of smoke after a Syrian aircraft bombed the strategic border town of Ras al-Ain.
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Nov. 12, 2012
A man holds up a one month old baby Pudu deer at a university in Concepcion, Chile, south of Santiago. The Pudu, the world's smallest deer, was found orphaned in a forest close Concepcion, and it inhabits exclusively in southern Chile and part of Argentina. The species is currently in danger of extinction.
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Reuters
Nov. 14, 2012
German Shepherd dogs play in a park in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
An employee demonstrates the use of an exercise cycle that powers a blender making a fruit smoothie, inside the employee gym at the new Google office in Toronto.
Mark Blinch
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Reuters
Nov. 13, 2012
Paul Stolz, 21, of Erie, Pa., bikes north on Pittsburgh Avenue through the first measurable snow of the season to hit the Erie area.
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AP
The Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background, is seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island in Antarctica. A new NASA/British Antarctic Survey study examines why the Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change over the past two decades.
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British Antarctic Survey and NASA via Reuters
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