Jerusalem — Israeli border guards arrest a Palestinian stone thrower during clashes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. Some 22,000 Israeli police were on high alert across the country, poised to respond to any unrest resulting from a Palestinian bid to seek United Nations membership in New York.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP / Getty Images

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Sanaa, Yemen — Supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abduallah Saleh stand on flagpoles, celebrating his return to Sanaa. Saleh made a surprise return to Yemen on Friday after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. His return is certain to further enflame battles between forces loyal to him and his opponents, which have turned the capital into a war zone.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Hani Mohammed / Associated Press

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Calcutta, India — An Indian worker descends with a support on a huge face of a demon at a pandal or makeshift structure next to an idol of Goddess Durga before the Durga Puja festival in Calcutta. Durga is portrayed as the 10-armed slayer of a buffalo inhabited by the fierce demon Mahisha. The Hindu festival of Durga Puja is widely celebrated in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Orissa and Tripura, where it is a five-day annual holiday.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: PIYAL ADHIKARY / EPA

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Wellington, New Zealand — American fans enjoy the atmosphere during the Rugby World Cup match between Australia and USA at Wellington Regional Stadium.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mike Hewitt / Getty Images

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Nairobi, Kenya — A construction worker walks on scaffolding on a tunnel along the Nairobi-Thika highway project, under construction near Nairobi.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: THOMAS MUKOYA / Reuters

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Kirchberg, Austria — Two hot air balloons soar over a green meadow during a ballooning meet.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kerstin Joensson / Associated Press

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Singapore — Driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany drives his car from his team garage during a practice session on the Marina Bay City Circuit at the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press

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Hyderabad, Pakistan — A flood-affected farmer dries a chilies crop to earn his living.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Pervez Masih / Associated Press

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Mirpur Khas, Pakistan — A displaced Pakistani holds her granddaughter as they take refuge on a roadside after fleeing their flood-hit homes. In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed more than 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, according to the United Nations.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press

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Mirpur Khas, Pakistan — Displaced Pakistanis wash their belongings in a flooded field after fleeing their flood-hit homes.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press

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Kabul, Afghanistan — An Afghan boy carries a chair after the burial ceremony of Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council in Kabul. Weeping Afghans gathered under tight security to bury Rabbani, the government's chief peace negotiator killed this week by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy with a message about possible talks. After prayers at the presidential palace, a coffin draped in the black, red and green national flag was taken to a hilltop in the Wazir Akbar Khan district for burial.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: OMAR SOBHANI / Reuters

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Milan, Italy — Models display creations from the John Richmond spring-summer 2012 women's collection during Milan Fashion Week.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ALESSANDRO GAROFALO / Reuters

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Kunar, Afghanistan — A U.S. soldier mans his machine-gun post in a bunker of Combat Outpost Pirtle King in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ERIK DE CASTRO / Reuters

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Tehran, Iran — A member of Iran's Basiji paramilitary flashes a victory sign as he takes part in a parade to commemorate the Iran-Iraq war.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Reuters

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Singapore — Ferrari's mechanics practice a tire change on Brazilian driver Felipe Massa's car in preparation for the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: SAEED KHAN / AFP

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Surt, Libya — Forces loyal to Libya's interim leaders cheer and wave flags in the coastal city of Surt -- the hometown of deposed leader Moammar Kadafi.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ANIS MILI / Reuters

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Chungthang, India — An Indian child, a survivor of Sunday's magnitude 6.9 earthquake, looks out from an opening in a tent. Rescuers in helicopters on Thursday reached some of the villages in India's remote northeast that were cut off by the powerful earthquake that rattled the Himalayan region.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Altaf Qadri / Associated Press

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New York — A boat chugs on the Hudson River in low fog covering the Statue of Liberty. The statue will celebrate its 125th anniversary on Oct. 28, and will close on Oct. 29 for one year for renovations on its interior.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Julio Cortez / Associated Press

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Athens, Greece — Students, members of Greece's Communist Party, march during a protest against economic austerity and planned education measures.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: YANNIS BEHRAKIS / Reuters

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Shanghai, China — A firefighter and a sculpture can be seen as a building burns in downtown Shanghai. Road workers damaged an underground gas pipe Thursday, setting off an explosion that caused a nearby building to catch fire.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Reuters

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Jackson, Ga. — An anti-death penalty protester is helped off the ground after hearing about a delay in the execution of Troy Davis. Although the Supreme Court looked at a petition for a stay, it rejected the request, and after a delay of about four hours Davis was executed by lethal injection.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Stephen Morton / Associated Press

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Players participate in what organizers called the world's largest dodgeball game Wednesday at UC Irvine. Almost 4,500 people took part.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

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Santa Ana — Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas addresses a news conference Wednesday at which he announced that two Fullerton police officers would face criminal charges in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

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St. Petersburg, Russia — Believers light candles during celebrations for the religious holiday of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Kazan Cathedral. Believers also marked the 200th anniversary of the construction of the cathedral.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ALEXANDER DEMIANCHUK / Reuters

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Mangan, India — Rescued villagers react as a rescue helicopter takes off in Mangan in northeastern India. The death toll from a Himalayan quake exceeded 100 as rescuers reached some remote areas of Sikkim.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: EPA

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Surt, Libya — An anti-Kadafi fighter sits on a Soviet-made Scud missile with a fellow fighter outside a village near Surt, one of Moammar Kadafi's last remaining strongholds.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: GORAN TOMASEVIC / Reuters

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Umerkot, Pakistan — A displaced boy, center, looks on as he and others collect water from a tanker in Sindh province. Flood victims camped out near inundated fields and crowded hospitals on Monday as authorities and international aid groups struggled to respond to Pakistan's second major bout of flooding in just over a year.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press

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Qalandia checkpoint, West Bank — Israeli soldiers keep their position during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP / Getty Images

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Hebron, West Bank — Palestinian boys burn tires close to an Israeli army checkpoint near the Jewish settlers' zone of Abraham Avino in the center of Hebron.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HAZEM BADER / AFP / Getty Images

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Mexico City — Visitors look at a sculpture entitled "Drift" by Australian sculptor Ron Mueck at the San Ildefonso Museum.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HENRY ROMERO / Reuters

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Quetta, Pakistan — Residents carry the coffin of a man, killed in a shootout by unidentified gunmen a day earlier, for burial. Gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan in a suspected sectarian attack, killing at least 26 Shiite Muslim pilgrims traveling to Iran.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: NASEER AHMED / Reuters

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Solo, Indonesia — Tori, a 5-year-old male orangutan, smokes a cigarette at the Taru Jurug Zoo. Zoo officials in Indonesia have launched a campaign to get an orangutan to stop smoking after a wildlife activist demanded the zoo to closely monitor the orangutans. Tori developed the habit after being given cigarettes from visitors.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: MOHAMMAD ALI / EPA

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Srinagar, India — A Kashmiri woman rows a small boat loaded with weeds collected from the Dal Lake.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: FAYAZ KABLI / Reuters

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Centreville, Mich. — Kimmie Eaton, 10, of Centreville, Mich., rests on her two dairy cows inside a barn at the St. Joseph County Grange Fair. This is Kimmie's first year participating in 4-H.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jonathon Gruenke / Kalamazoo Gazette

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Tokyo — A man makes his way through strong winds and rain from Typhoon Roke. The powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast Wednesday, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Shizuo Kambayashi / Associated Press

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Manila — A Filipino protester 'planks' during a rally marking the 39th anniversary of the declaration of martial law near the gates of Malacanang presidential palace. The protesters called on Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to learn from the lessons of martial law and release all political prisoners in the country. The Philippines was under martial law from 1972 to 1981 under the late President Ferdinand Marcos.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: DENNIS M. SABANGAN / EPA

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Mangan, India — Villagers evacuated by helicopter in the wake of the Indian earthquake arrive.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Altaf Qadri / Associated Press

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Chungthang, India — An earthquake survivor walks in the ruins of a government building damaged in Sunday's quake.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Altaf Qadri / Associated Press

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Gangtok, India — Rescuers search for bodies in the wreckage of homes after the earthquake.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: STRDEL / AFP

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Gangtok, India — Children gather for food distributed by Indian army personnel.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Manan Vatsyayana / AFP

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Phengla, India — Members of the Indian army engineering wing help a Buddhist monk descend a landslide following Sunday's earthquake in Phengla, about 12 miles from Gangtok, in Sikkim, India. Thousands of homeless villagers in the Himalayas spent a miserable night outdoors in heavy rains after the quake.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Altaf Qadri / Associated Press

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Sanaa, Yemen — Medics carry a wounded antigovernment protester after clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen. At least six people were killed Tuesday in a third day of violence in the nation's capital, medics said, and Reuters reporters saw snipers positioned on the upper levels of buildings as protesters took to the streets.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

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Mogadishu, Somalia — A severely malnourished child from southern Somalia is held in a makeshift shelter in a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. The United Nations World Food Programme is bolstering its nutritional support for malnourished children and mothers in the Horn of Africa.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Farah Abdi Warsameh / Associated Press

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SIRTE, Libya — Revolutionary fighters fire at forces loyal to Moammar Kadafi near east of Sirte, Libya.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ASMAA WAGUIH / Reuters

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Lusaka ZAMBIA — Armed Zambian police officers stand near a burning truck in Lusaka's Kanyama area during election-related riots. Stone-throwing mobs smashed cars and blocked roads during voting, after opposition leader Michael Sata accused President Rupiah Banda's rival camp of rigging the ballot.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: THOMAS NSAMA / AFP

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Char Darah, Afghanistan — An Afghan boy salutes as he sits with a German soldier during a long-term patrol near Char Darah, outside Kunduz, Afghanistan.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press

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CHANDIGARH PUNJAB, India — A woman holds a candle as members of the Global Alliance for Rights and Duties make a formation with earthen lamps on the eve of International Peace Day in Chandigarh, India.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: AJAY VERMA / Reuters

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THE HAGUE Netherlands — The "golden carriage" carrying Queen Beatrix of Netherlands arrives at the Ridderzaal on Prince's Day for the traditional opening of the parliamentary year in the Hague.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ROBIN UTRECHT / ROYAL IMAGES / ANP

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Cape Town, South Africa — South African Xolile Mngeni, who is accused in the murder of Anni Dewani of Britain during her honeymoon in South Africa in 2010, is escorted from prison for his appearance at the Wynberg Regional court in Cape Town. The case against Mngeni and Mziwamadoda Qwabe, who is also accused in the slaying, was transferred to the Western Cape High Court for a pretrial conference to be held in February. Mngeni, who is accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Dewani, has a brain tumor but will remain in prison. Dewani's husband, Shrien, faces deportation from the United Kingdom to stand trial in Cape Town.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: NIC BOTHMA / EPA

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Kiev UKRAINE — A cleaner sweeps in front of riot police at the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev after a mass rally. Thousands of Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet Afghan war and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster cleanup tried to storm the building because they were outraged at planned benefit cuts, an AFP correspondent reported.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

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Katmandu, Nepal — A Nepalese woman with her daughter looks out a window at debris of collapsed buildings damaged by an earthquake in Katmandu. Rescue workers raced to clear roads blocked by mudslides as they scrambled to reach remote villages cut off after the quake of magnitude 6.9 shook northeast India, Nepal and Tibet.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Niranjan Shrestha / Associated Press

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Siliguri, India — A young Indian girl, who was injured in a building collapse that followed an earthquake, is treated at a hospital in Siliguri. Rescue workers in helicopters and earth movers raced to reach Indian villages cut off by mudslides after Sunday's powerful earthquake damaged more than 100,000 homes in the remote Himalayan region, officials said.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Anupam Nath / Associated Press

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Sanghar, Pakistan — Aerial image taken from a Pakistani army helicopter shows flood-affected villagers seeking refuge on a dry patch in the flood-hit Sanghar district. The United Nations and Pakistani government appealed for $357 million in foreign donations to help more than 7 million people swamped by a second year of catastrophic floods.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: ASIF HASSAN / AFP / Getty Images

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Kalohi, Pakistan — People displaced from flooded areas live in temporary shelters.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: REHAN KHAN / EPA

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New York City — Participants in the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration around Wall Street attempt to disrupt pedestrian traffic as financial workers try to get to work. Hundreds of demonstrators, who descended on Lower Manhattan on Saturday with the aim of staying at least until the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, had planned to turn the area into an "American Tahrir Square."

PHOTOGRAPH BY: EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP / Getty Images

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Bucharest, Romania — A 6-year-old enjoys strewn feathers along with his father during a performance by French theater company Les Studios de Cirque in Bucharest. The performance celebrates the Days of Bucharest, which mark the day when the Romanian capital was first mentioned in a document, on Sept. 20, 1459, by medieval Romanian King Vlad Tepes. The infamous Vlad Tepes inspired Bram Stoker's fictional character Dracula, with his cruel punishments for criminals who were often impaled for their crimes.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Octav Ganea / Associated Press

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Scheveningen, Netherlands — Members of the cavalry ride on the beach. The horses and riders are tested with gunfire, music and smoke for Tuesday's parade in The Hague, including the Queen in the Golden Carriage who will pronounce the Speech from the Throne, the main feature of government policy for the coming parliamentary session.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: JERRY LAMPEN / AFP / Getty Images

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Barcelona, Spain — City riot police move in to clear out some 50 "indignant" protesters who had blocked the entrance to the Barcelona Stock Exchange.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: MARTA PEREZ / EPA

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Seville, Spain — A close-up of a protester as workers from the Astilleros shipyard cut off traffic along a floodgate road leading to the port of Seville during a protest against the possible closure of the company in Seville.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: SERGIO CARO / EPA

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Sanaa, Yemen — Anti-government protesters carry a fellow protester injured during clashes with security forces, who killed 20 people, some shot by snipers from rooftops, in a crowd of protesters demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, medics and witnesses said, in rising violence that has broken an uneasy stalemate.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

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Shanghai — A newly married couple walk to the spot for their wedding photo in Shanghai.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press

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Yokohama, Japan — New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt celebrates with the crowd en route to winning the 2011 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Yokohama in Japan. This is the first major international sporting event in Japan since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Delly Carr / Associated Press

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Singapore — The street circuit of the Formula One night race is illuminated during a light testing seen from Swissotel at dusk. Singapore will be the host city for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix from Sept. 23-25.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wong Maye-E / AP

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