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Day in photos Kilauea crater, China’s leaning tower, a piloted robot, eerie Chernobyl, Saturn’s “Pac-Man” moons and more.
Nov. 27, 2012
A plume of smoke rises from the Kilauea crater in Volcanoes National Park in Kalapana, Hawaii. A volcano on Hawaii's largest island is spilling lava into the ocean, creating a rare and spectacular fusion of steam and waves that officials said on Tuesday could attract thrill seeking visitors if it continues.
Hugh Gentry
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Reuters
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Nov. 27, 2012
Waves crash over lava as it flows into the ocean near Volcanoes National Park in Kalapana, Hawaii.
Hugh Gentry
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
This still image from a Pakistan military handout shows a medium range ballistic missile Hatf V (Ghauri) being fired during a test at an undisclosed location in Pakistan. Pakistan successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that can hit targets up to 800 miles away, the military said.
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Pakistan Military Inter Services Public Relations via Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Students play basketball beside a leaning tower at school playground in Xi'an, in China’s Shaanxi province. The Wanshousi tower, located at a middle school playground, was built during Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It has been tilting since the 1960s and is now supported by steel frames, local media reported.
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Reuters
Nov. 28, 2012
Two young people shelter under an umbrella in heavy rain in Florence. Italy has set up weather alerts in Tuscany and in other areas of northern Italy.
Maurizio Degl Innocenti
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 27, 2012
Firefighters in a boat rescue a stranded man from a house on a flooded street in St. Asaph, in northern Wales.
Phil Noble
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Passengers shout from a van travelling along a flooded street on the outskirts of Gloucester, in western England.
Andrew Winning
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Britain's Prince Philip, right, walks with Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah to inspect members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at a ceremonial arrival at Windsor Castle in southern England.
Toby Melville
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Yasser Arafat's widow, Suha Arafat, watches the television reports of the exhumation of her husband’s remains at her home in Sliema in Malta. The exhumation was held eight years after the death of the Palestinian leader so that experts could run tests to see if he was poisoned.
Matthew Mirabelli
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 28, 2012
A Hindu devotee with his face covered with holy mud waits before taking a dip in the pond during the annual farmer fair at Shama Chak Jhiri, India. Farmers in huge numbers from all over India gather to pay tribute to the Samadhi, the tomb of legendary farmer Baba Jit Mal, popularly known as Baba Jitto, who sacrificed his life for the liberation of the farming community.
Jaipal Singh
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 28, 2012
Two elephants reach out to each other at the Sonepur cattle fair in Saran district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The fair, which is held annually, was originally a cattle and animal market where traders bought and sold livestock on the holy river Ganges.
Aftab Alam Siddiqui
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AP
Nov. 28, 2012
A woman steps from a boat on the river Yamuna, surrounded by industrial effluent, during Karthik Purnima in New Delhi. Karthik Purnima is celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik and considered very auspicious by Hindus.
Manish Swarup
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AP
Nov. 27, 2012
Protesters clashed with Egyptian police as thousands gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo to pressure President Mohamed Morsi to scrap a decree giving him also unlimited power.
Mohamed Abd el Ghany
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Anti-Morsi protesters carry a wounded man away from tear gas during clashes with riot police at Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Ahmed Jadallah
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Reuters
Nov. 28, 2012
Robotics expert Watanaru Yoshizaki demonstrates how to operate the arm of a "Kuratas" robot at an exhibition in Tokyo. The 12-foot-high, limited edition, made-to-order robot is controlled through a pilot in its cockpit, or via a smartphone.
Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Reuters
Nov. 28, 2012
A man takes a picture of the "Kuratas" robot in Tokyo. The robot can be customized in 16 different colors and is armed with a futuristic weapons system, including a multi-rocket launcher that fires plastic rockets filled with compressed water.
Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
An image taken by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity while it was working at a site called “Rocknest.” The center of the scene, looking eastward from Rocknest, includes the Point Lake area. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are trying to identify candidate targets for the rover's first drilling into a rock.
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NASA via European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 27, 2012
A composite image made available by NASA shows Saturn's moons Mimas, left, and Tethys are now both known to exhibit the curious temperature patterns. NASA reports that scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon 'Pac-Man' on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was observed on the moon Tethys. The pattern appears in thermal data obtained by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, with warmer areas making up the Pac-Man shape. Thermal images of both moons were obtained by the Cassini-Huygens mission.
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NASA via European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 27, 2012
A general view of the amusement park of the deserted city of Pripyat, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The explosion of unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the early hours of April 26, 1986, is still regarded the biggest accident in the history of nuclear power generation.
Sergey Dolzhenko
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 27, 2012
Construction work continues on a new protective shelter that will be mounted over the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The new concrete and steel shell to be built over the still-radioactive remains of a reactor that melted down as a result of the accident will stand 105 meters tall, have a length of 150 meters with a width of 257 meters and a 100 years life expectancy of the confinement.
Sergey Dolzhenko
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 27, 2012
Pripyat, Ukraine, was evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown.
Sergey Dolzhenko
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 27, 2012
A playground in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine.
Efrem Lukatsky
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AP
Nov. 28, 2012
Spacesuits are seen laid out for U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko before an exam on a simulator of the international space station at the Russian cosmonaut training center at Star City outside Moscow. The three-man crew is scheduled to fly to the space station in December.
Sergei Remezov
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Workers with the Department of Environmental Protection work on the sewer system on a damaged street in a heavily damaged neighborhood in Queens. The state of New York has said that superstorm Sandy has cost upwards of $42 billion. This price, for which congressional leaders will make requests for federal disaster aid to help pay, includes $32 billion for repairs and restoration.
Spencer Platt
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Getty Images
Nov. 27, 2012
Contractors that have been hired locally work to clean sand, deposited by the storm surge of superstorm Sandy, out of a pool in Queens.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
Nov. 27, 2012
Terry Ellrick hugs, Abbey, his 2-year-old, mixed-breed guide dog, following its recovery from a Nov. 16 hit-and-run accident, at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Tampa. Veterinarians realized the dog needed surgery after the accident, but Ellrick was unable to pay for it, so members of the community donated money for the operation.
Eve Edelheit
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Tampa Bay Times via AP
Nov. 27, 2012
Kennel assistant Erin Sager gives Jefferson a bath at Two By Two Animal Hospital in Berrien Springs, Mich. Staff donated their time to provide baths and pampering for 30 dogs from the Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan.
Don Campbell
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The Herald-Palladium via AP
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