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Nepal festival, Singapore Grand Prix, Mitt Romney talks to the press and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Sept. 18, 2012
A Hindu man reacts to the camera at Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. The three-day festival commemorates the union of the goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva.
Binod Joshi
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AP
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Sept. 18, 2012
Women sing and dance at Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. During the festival, Nepalese Hindu women observe a day-long fast and pray for their husbands and for a happy married life. Those who are unmarried pray for a good husband.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
A Nepalese Hindu woman lights incense sticks and offers prayers at Pashupatinath Temple during Teej celebrations in Katmandu, Nepal.
Niranjan Shrestha
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AP
Sept. 18, 2012
A worker adds finishing touches to a lantern as it is prepared for export at a factory in Bangkok.
Sukree Sukplang
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
Chinese military troops stand at attention for U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta at the Bayi Building in Beijing. Panetta was on the second stop of a three-nation tour to Japan, China and New Zealand.
Larry Downing
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
Sunlight shines through a hole cut out from the eye of a portrait of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during a protest near the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. The 81st anniversary of a Japanese invasion brought a fresh wave of anti-Japan demonstrations in China on Tuesday, with thousands of protesters venting anger over the colonial past and a current dispute involving contested islands in the East China Sea.
Ng Han Guan
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AP
Sept. 18, 2012
Demonstrators wave national flags and a paper claiming to show an image of a woman killed by Japanese soldiers during World War II while chanting anti-Japanese slogans in front of a line of Chinese paramilitary police officers during a protest in Chengdu, southwest China.
Andy Wong
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AP
Sept. 17, 2012
This photo of the Singapore Grand Prix's Marina Bay City Circuit was taken with a fisheye lens at dusk. The Singapore leg of the Formula One race is scheduled for Sunday.
Wong Maye-E
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AP
Sept. 18, 2012
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands delivers a speech from the throne in the Ridderzaal in The Hague on Prinsjesdag, or Prince’s Day, which signals the beginning of the parliamentary year.
Lex Van Lieshout
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2012
Britain's Prince William, obscured at center left, and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, travel in a traditional war canoe in the Solomon Islands during their tour of Southwest Asia.
Rick Rycroft
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2012
The shrunken head, or tsantsa, from the Shuar tribe in Equator is displayed in “The Art of Hair — Frivolities and Trophies,” an exhibition at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. The head was made with human tissue, hair, vegetal fiber and feathers.
Kenzo Tribouillard
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
The Top 10 finalists from Season 11 of the reality TV hit "American Idol" pose for photographers at the Manila Hotel. The group arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday as part of their “American Idol Live! Tour 2012.” First row from left are: Hollie Cavanagh, Skylar Lane, Colton Dixon and Erika Van Pelt. Second row from left are: Joshua Ledet, Elise Testone, Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez, DeAndre Brackensick and Heejun Han.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Sept. 16, 2012
Members of the musical group Morenada Bolivia U.S.A. perform at the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at the National Zoo in Washington.
Craig Hudson
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For The Washington Post
Sept. 18, 2012
A Muslim protester shouts slogans as a sheet painted with an American and Israeli flags burns in front of him during a strike in Srinagar, India. According to locals, a call for all shops, business establishments, schools, colleges and government offices to be closed and public transport to remain off the roads throughout Kashmir was called on by several area groups. The shutdown was to protest against the anti-Islam film that has sparked violent protests across the world.
Fayaz Kabli
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
Taliban fighters stand next to their weapons as they join the Afghanistan government during a ceremony in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. About 24 former fighters handed over their weapons as part of a peace reconciliation program.
Noorullah Shirzada
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
Afghan security personnel investigate the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. Ten people were killed near Kabul’s airport when a car bomber rammed into a minivan carrying workers, police said.
Omar Sobhani
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Reuters
Sept. 17, 2012
Larry Greene III, 5, runs to greet his father, Sgt. Larry Greene, as family and friends welcomed home about 230 paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. The unit completed nearly a year deployment in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan. About 500 of the 3,500-soldier brigade have returned home; the remaining paratroopers will return by late October.
Bill Roth
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Anchorage Daily News via AP
Sept. 17, 2012
The 14,586-foot-high Vladimir Putin Peak is reflected in the porthole of a helicopter in the Tian Shan Mountains south of the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. The peak was named in 2011 in honor of the Russian president, who was due to visit Kyrgyzstan on Thursday.
Vladimir Pirogov
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
A gardener mows the lawn in front of the world’s largest vertical garden, on a shopping mall facade in the town of Rozzano, near Milan. The Fiordaliso commercial complex was awarded the Guinness World Record for its wall garden composed of more than 44,000 plants and 200 flowers.
Olivier Morin
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
Bomb experts carried out the detonation of a 550-pound World War II bomb in German city of Viersen after they decided they could not defuse it, leaving a crater in this construction site. Some 8,000 residents were evacuated from the area closest to the bomb overnight, police reported. Other people living further away were told to stay in their homes because of the risk of being hit by shrapnel. No one was injured during the explosion.
Ina Fassbender
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Reuters
Sept. 17, 2012
Banana, a 16-foot female albino Burmese python, gets readjusted to her surroundings on the bathroom floor of Jana and Gary Saurage’s home in Beaumont, Tex., while a new enclosure is being built for her at Gator Country wildlife park. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says they got a call Sunday evening that there was a large snake by the entrance to the park. Upon arrival, the deputies and Gator Country owner Gary Saurage identified the snake as Banana, who was stolen from the park in April.
Dave Ryan
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Beaumont, Tex., Enterprise via AP
Sept. 17, 2012
Pedestrians sign a large canvas mural representing the U.S. Constitution in Westlake Park in Seattle. The Occupy Wall Street movement, which started in New York on Sept. 17, 2011, celebrated its anniversary Monday.
Erika Schultz
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Seattle Times via AP
Sept. 17, 2012
Protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street march in New York’s Financial District, where the movement began a year ago. In total, there were a few hundred protesters scattered throughout the city. More than 180 of them were arrested by early Monday evening, mostly on disorderly conduct charges.
Mario Tama
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Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2012
Before a fundraising event in Costa Mesa, Calif., Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke to the press about a video that recorded comments he made at a May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla. In the video, Romney says that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent on government” and that they think “they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.” He stood by his remarks Monday, although he conceded that they were “not elegantly stated” and that he had been “speaking off the cuff in response to a question.”
Melina Mara
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The Washington Post
Sept. 17, 2012
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York. Scalia escalated a war of words with Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, saying the judge lied in his recent criticism of Scalia's judicial philosophy, in an August review of a book co-authored by Scalia.
Brendan McDermid
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Reuters
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