Aug. 13: Over 2,000 viewers watch "The Wizard of Oz" in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, shown in celebration of the film's 70th anniversary. Oconomowoc was the site of the film's world premiere in 1939.
John Hart-AP
Aug. 13: A vintage car drives by a billboard in Havana showing Cuba's former leader, Fidel Castro. Castro marked his 83rd birthday on Thursday with a gloomy warning about the global economic crisis, which is hitting his country hard, and a vow to "carry on." The billboard reads in Spanish: "Victory of the Ideas."
Desmond Boylan-Reuters
Aug. 13: Lionel Easler and his five-ton Ford monster truck called "Instigator" crushes six clunkers taken in under the federal Cash for Clunkers program at the Sawgrass Ford dealership in Sunrise, Fla.
Chuck Fadely-AP
Aug. 13: WBO featherweight champion Steven Luevano of the U.S. hits a speed bag at a gym in Las Vegas. Luevano will defend his title against Bernabe Concepcion of the Philippines on August 15.
Steve Marcus-Reuters
Aug. 14: A boy stands on a three dimensional painting by Edgar Mueller at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China.
Eugene Hoshiko-AP
Aug. 13: Firefighters work to save a structure in Santa Cruz County, Calif. The Lockheed Fire has burned about 2,800 acres.
Noah Berger-AP
Aug. 13: Winds blow smoke from the Lockheed wildfire out towards the Pacific Ocean near Bonny Doon, Calif.
Paul Chinn-AP
Aug. 13: A humpback whale swims in the St. Lawrence river in Les Escoumins, Quebec. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, large whale species such as the humpback and minke are recovering from the threat of extinction, helped by curbs on hunting since the 1980s.
Mathieu Belanger-Reuters
Aug. 13: Fruit grows near the adobe ranch house at Whittier, California's Pio Pico State Historic Park, one of many state parks under consideration for closure to save money for the state. Up to 100 state parks are expected to be closed after Labor Day.
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Aug. 13: 14-month-old Caitlyn Brewer, of Oley, Pa., pops up from a flowerpot during the baby parade in Ocean City, N.J.
Dale Gerhard-AP
Aug. 13: A farmer carries baskets of harvested salt in Sumenep, Indonesia. The salt is produced by evaporation of salt water.
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Aug. 14: Iraqi journalists in Baghdad protest "threats" made by a top Shiite political leader against a journalist who wrote about a deadly bank heist. Jalal Eddin Saghir, a leader of the formerly Iran-based Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), is accused of making violent threats against journalist Ahmad Abdel Hussein over an article in the state-run Al-Sabah newspaper alleging SIIC links to the July 28 raid in central Baghdad, in which eight guards were killed and 3.8 million dollars was stolen.
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Aug. 13: U.S. Army soldiers attend an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) class in Fort Riley, Ks. Soldiers are encouraged to come to the ASIST seminar out of uniform, so that officer status and rank do not prevent participants from having frank and open discussions about the issues around suicide. The Army requires all soldiers take suicide awareness classes as longer and more frequent deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years have taken a toll, with 96 reported Army suicides so far through July 31 of this year.
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Aug. 13: An Afghan restaurant owner screws in a light bulb to start the evening service in the Faizabad province bazaar.
Caren Firouz-Reuters
Aug. 13: Afghans get searched by Afghan National Police officers at a checkpoint outside Kandahar City. Afghanistan's second presidential elections are to be held on August 20.
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Aug. 13: Dustin Campbell plays Maximum Force during the launch party for the International Video Game Hall of Fame and Museum in Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Aug. 13: Dental patient Oshha Adams is given an x-ray at a free health clinic in Inglewood, Calif. Hundreds of volunteers included doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses and other support staff to serve uninsured and under-insured people. The organizers expect to see as many as 10,000 people during the eight-day clinic.
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Aug. 13: Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) discusses health care reform at a town hall meeting in Kittanning, Pa.
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Aug. 13: Protesters against and supporters for health care reform demonstrate in the parking lot outside a town hall meeting hosted by Senator Arlen Specter in Kittanning, Pa.
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Aug. 13: Protesters against and supporters for health care reform demonstrate in the parking lot outside a town hall meeting hosted by Senator Arlen Specter in Kittanning, Pa.
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Aug. 13: Michael Leibowitz, M.D., a 2008 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, and Sam Cross, M.D., a retired surgeon and a 1958 graduate of the same medical school, shake hands after arguing over the state of health care in America outside a town hall meeting hosted by Senator Arlen Specter in Kittanning, Pa.
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Aug. 13: Maria Shriver, daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, kisses Beau Doherty, president of Special Olympics Connecticut, during the wake for her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in Centerville, Mass.
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Aug. 13: Employees of Cape Abilities, a Hyannis, Mass., based non-profit organization providing services to intellectually challenged adults, hold flowers while waiting in line to attend a wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in Centerville, Mass.
Steven Senne-AP
Aug. 13: An indigenous Mapuche woman is arrested in Santiago, Chile, as ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya arrives at the Presidential Palace to meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
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Aug. 13: Masks of Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti (L), military chief Romeo Vasquez (C) and Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga stand over a rally held in support of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, outside the Public Ministry in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Edgard Garrido-Reuters
Aug. 14: Skateboarders watch one of their own perform in Moscow.
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Aug. 14: A Josef Stalin lookalike eats McDonald's French fries as his colleague, "Vladimir Lenin" rests during a lunch break in Moscow. The street artists earn their living being photographed with tourists as Soviet leaders.
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Aug. 14 (release date): A mechanical horse recreated from a design by Leonardo da Vinci is opened to show its inner workings in Amboise, France. Eye witnesses from the time the original was built, in 1515, said the walking horse was presented to entertain King Francois I in celebration of a new alliance between Florence and France.
Renato Boaretto-Reuters
Aug. 13: Canada's Benjamin Russell, Thomas Hall, Ian Mortimer and Richard Dalton compete in the Men's C4 1000 meters at the ICF Senior Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Paul Darrow-Reuters
Aug. 12: Rebecca Bross competes in the floor exercise during day two of the Visa Gymnastics Championships in Dallas, Tx.
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Aug. 13: The family of Navy pilot Captain Scott Speicher attends the transfer of his remains to a hearse in Jacksonville, Fla. Speicher's FA-18 Hornet was shot down on the first night of the 1991 Gulf War.
Bob Self-AP
Aug. 13: Service men and women stand for the National Anthem before the game between the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston.
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Aug. 14: Senator Lindsey Graham speaks during a joint press conference with Senators John McCain, Susan Collins (unseen) and Joe Liberman (L) at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. The senate delegation said that it had told Libyan leaders of Washington's strong opposition to any early release by Scottish authorities of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi.
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Aug. 13: Pennies at the Springfield, Ill. Old State Capitol depict Lincoln speaking to the Illinois Legislature. The newly minted coins were made in celebration of Lincoln's 200th birthday.
Seth Perlman-AP
Aug. 13: Candidates who passed a session in Officer Candidate School stand at attention during graduation ceremonies in Quantico, Va. This summer's graduating class is the second largest since the Vietnam War.
Linda Davidson-The Washington Post
Aug. 14: Mock turtles lie on the beach in Scheveningen, Netherlands. The turtles were displayed by the International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW) to warn tourists not to buy souvenirs made from wild animals.
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Aug. 14: Rescuers herd residents toward a helicopter in Namsha, Taiwan. Thousands of people have been trapped in villages across southern and central Taiwan as the island's leader warned the death toll from flooding could jump to 500.
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Aug. 14: Women mourn relatives missing in the devastated village of Hsiaolin in southern Taiwan. Rescuers battled to reach over 15,000 people still trapped in mountain villages nearly one week after a powerful typhoon triggered the island's worst floods in half a century. President Ma Ying-jeou told a national security meeting that, with 117 confirmed deaths from Typhoon Morakot and some 380 people feared buried by mudslides in Hsiaolin village, Taiwan's death toll could rise to more than 500.
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Aug. 14: Residents look in the direction of their hometown near the Laonong River in Sinkai, Taiwan, following a landslide caused by Typhoon Morakot.
Pichi Chuang-Reuters
Aug. 13: Members of the Lima Lima flight team fly over Chicago. The team will perform in the Chicago Air and Water show on Aug. 15-16. The T-34 aircraft were built in the 1950s and used as military trainers.
John Gress-Reuters
Aug. 13: Zoo veterinarians in Montevideo, Uruguay, carry lion cubs that were born in May 20. The cubs were the first ones born at the zoo in more than a decade.
Andres Stapff-Reuters
Aug. 13: A boy stands stands in front of the main headstone in the Lockerbie memorial garden in Lockerbie, Scotland. Families of victims of the 1988 bombing stood sharply divided over reports that the former Libyan agent jailed for life for the attack is to be freed on compassionate grounds.
David Moir-Reuters
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