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Space shuttle move, Egyptian tomb renovation, asteroid terrain examination and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Sept. 20, 2012
Space shuttle Endeavour, sitting atop a modified Boeing 747, passes above Texas. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed.
Ralph Barrera
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Austin American-Statesman via AP
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Sept. 20, 2012
The Austin skyline frames the space shuttle Endeavour
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Austin American-Statesman via AP
Sept. 21, 2012
Tian Shengying, right, a 55-year-old blacksmith, adjusts the rotor of a helicopter in Shenyang, China. Tian built the bottom, body, tail and rotor of the helicopter without a detailed blueprint in just half a month after receiving a request by an unmanned-aircraft research center.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
Sept. 21, 2012
A researcher sits inside Tian’s helicopter.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
Actors perform a theatrical reenactment of the Red Army battles and the beginning of the Long March in Jinggangshan, China. Former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's career as a revolutionary began to take off in 1927, when he and several communist leaders fled with a few thousands followers to the hills of Jinggangshan, hounded and outnumbered by Nationalist forces. Their strategic retreat and subsequent battles became known as the Long March.
Carlos Barria
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
A visitor looks at a sarcophagus inside the "Serapuem" tomb, near the Saqqara or "Step" Pyramid, south of Cairo. Egypt's antiquities authority reopened the "Serapeum" and "Akhethotep & Ptahhotep" tombs after the ancient tombs had undergone ten years of renovations, with an estimated cost of $2 million.
Mohamed Abd el Ghany
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
A worker checks Egyptian hieroglyphs carved onto the walls the "Akhethotep & Ptahhotep" tomb, near the Saqqara, or "Step" Pyramid, south of Cairo.
Mohamed Abd el Ghany
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
An Egyptian archeologist walks next to a tomb at the Serapeum of Saqqara, a vast underground necropolis south of Cairo that is dedicated to the bulls of Apis The Serapeum, whose origin dates back to around 1400 BC, was discovered in 1851 by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, founder of the first department of Egyptian antiquities. The site contains huge subterranean galleries in which are contained the large tombs of some 30 sacred bulls.
Khaled Desouki
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 20, 2012
Protesters use sticks to smash the windshield and windows of a car during an anti-America protest in Islamabad, Pakistan. About 800 protesters marched toward the U.S. Embassy to condemn a video produced in the United States mocking the prophet Muhammad.
Faisal Mahmood
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif speaks at a memorial service in Tripoli, Libya for U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other diplomatic staff members who were killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Arabic on the poster reads, "thank you, Chris."
Abdel Magid al-Fergany
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AP
Sept. 20, 2012
Cindy Lee Garcia, left, one of the actors in "Innocence of Muslims," arrives for a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court. A judge turned down Garcia’s request for an injunction ordering the 14-minute trailer for "Innocence of Muslims" be pulled from YouTube. The video, which mocks the prophet Muhammad, has sparked protests by Muslims around the globe.
Jason Redmond
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AP
Sept. 19, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon against Syrian army positions in the Amariya district in Aleppo. Violent conflict continues in Syria between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Sept. 20, 2012
Assad forces are seen at Suleiman al-Halabi neighborhood in Aleppo.
George Ourfalian
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For Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
A health worker fumigates a home in Havana. Cuba conducts regular fumigation inside homes to check the spread of dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes a fever which can be deadly.
Desmond Boylan
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reacts as House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) hammers in a nail during a ceremony marking the beginning of construction for the presidential inauguration on the Capitol’s west side. Because Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, will fall on a Sunday, either President Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be sworn in as president that day in a private ceremony. The public ceremony and parade will take place the next day at the Capitol.
Jason Reed
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
Lynn Armstrong Coffin and Eric Papalini, not shown, of PunchingPoliticians.com hold puppets of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama boxing before a campaign rally at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.
Chris O'Meara
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AP
Sept. 19, 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney greets supporters at a rally in Miami.
Melina Mara
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The Washington Post
Sept. 19, 2012
First lady Michelle Obama, speaks about the importance of voting at Williams Arena at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
Janet S. Carter
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Daily Free Press via AP
Sept. 20, 2012
President Obama shakes hands with people outside OMG! Burgers in Miami.
Carolyn Kaster
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AP
This still frame from a campaign video released by the Angus King for Senate campaign shows King with an image of Godzilla. King, an independent and former Maine governor, says his opponents are trying to portray him as a monster in the Senate race.
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AP
Sept. 21, 2012
Customers wait outside an Apple store in Tokyo's Ginza district. Apple’s latest smartphone, the iPhone 5, arrived to awaiting crowds at stores around the globe.
Yuriko Nakao
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Reuters
Sept. 20, 2012
Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, answers questions from students during an Amnesty International event at the Newseum. Suu Kyi was in Washington to receive a medal from Congress that was awarded to her in 2008, amidst her 15-year house arrest by the military government of Myanmar.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Sept. 19, 2012
Alexis Lorenz kisses the head of her 7-year-old beagle named Brand in Burlington County, N.J. Brandi got loose from her harness during a walk last week along the Burlington Riverfront Promenade and leaped off of the Burlington Bristol Bridge, surviving a 70-foot fall.
Douglas Bovitt
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AP
Sept. 20, 2012
This undated photo made available by Science magazine shows tabby cats with the mackerel pattern, top row, and blotched pattern, bottom row. Scientists say they have found the gene that sets the common tabby patterns. Cats with narrow stripes, the mackerel pattern, have a working copy of the gene. But if a mutation turns the gene off, the cat ends up with the blotchy classic pattern, researchers reported.
Helmi Flick
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Science via AP
Sept. 20, 2012
A giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo was calm during a veterinary exam. The male panda, born July 29, weighed 4.9 pounds, nearly a pound more than he weighed during a previous exam. Veterinarians recorded that the cub's eyes are almost open, but the believe its sight is likely limited to viewing light and shadows. The San Diego Zoo is following the Chinese tradition of holding off naming the panda until after it is 100 days old and is taking suggestions.
Tammy Spratt
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 20, 2012
An unusual "pitted terrain" is seen on the floors of the craters named Marcia, left, and Cornelia on the giant asteroid Vesta, in these enhanced-color views from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has revealed that the giant asteroid has its own version of a ring around the collar. Two new papers based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission show that volatile, or easily evaporated materials, have colored Vesta's surface in a broad swath around its equator.
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NASA via Reuters
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