Judy Watson, left, consoles Livia Chiurazzni at the scene where a gunman killed eight people at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach. A ninth victim is in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. Chiurazzni works at the salon next door.

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Ayutthaya, Thailand — Residents catch relief goods distributed from a helicopter. About one-third of the country has been inundated by deadly monsoons, floods and mudslides since mid-July.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Sukree Sukplang / Reuters

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Cologne, Germany — Participants are led by "blind walk" creator Alex Rudolph during a tour through the city.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Oliver Berg / European PressPhoto Agency

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Sayano-Shushenskaya, Russia — Final testing takes place on new spillway at Russia's largest hydroelectric power station. The spillway was constructed as an emergency outlet in times of flooding or technical failure.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

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Thimphu, Bhutan — Novice monks at the Dechen Phrodrang Buddhist monastery look down from a hilltop in the capital.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Adrees Latif / Reuters

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London — Artist Kitty Kraus' artwork Untitled (Spiegellampe) is displayed at the White Cube Bermondsey gallery, newly opened to the public.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Luke MacGregor / Reuters

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Motte Majra, India — A worker floats on rubber tube as he collects water chestnuts from a village pond.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ajay Verma / Reuters

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Yangon, Myanmar — Family members of prisoners wait for their release outside the Insein central prisonn. Myanmar started to free dozens of prisoners, including political detainees, in a further sign of change in the authoritarian state after decades of repression.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Soe Than Win / AFP / Getty Images

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Monrovia, Liberia — A man sells newspapers a day after Liberia's second post-war polls, in which incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf received a controversial late boost by winning the Nobel Peace prize. Provisional results are expected in one day.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Issouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images

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Damascus, Syria — Syrian regime supporters wave the Baath party flag during a demonstration to show their support for President Bashar Assad and thank Russia and China for blocking a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Muzaffar Salman / Associated Press

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Bhubaneswar, India — An Indian villager sets dried earthen lamps.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press

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Seoul — A protester participates in a rally against a free-trade agreement between South Korea and the United States near the U.S. Embassy.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press

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Huntington Beach, Calif. — The moon sets into a fog bank at dawn as fishermen on the Huntington Beach Pier watch their lines and others take a stroll on the sand.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times

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