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Photo: J.P. MOCZULSKI for THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Heather Cooke and her daughter Haidan choose a pumpkin from a pumpkin patch in Georgetown, Ontario, October 12, 2009.
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Residents carry out their belongings, at Diogo Pires shantytown in western Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 12, 2009. More than half of the 600 families living in the shantytown lost all their belongings in a blaze Sunday evening.
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Photo: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images
Tourists enjoy the healthy mud at the Israeli Dead Sea resort of Ein Boqeq October 12, 2009.
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Photo: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images
A competitor trains for the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at the 02 Arena, in east London, on October 12, 2009. The competition runs from October 13 to 18.
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Photo: Ajit Solanki/AP
A Hindu trader carries newly purchased account books on Pushya Nakshatra in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. Pushya Nakshatra is considered highly auspicious for beginning new ventures, investments and purchases.
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Photo: MAHMUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images
Spanish soldiers working with the contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon parade during a ceremony to celebrate Spain's National Day at their military base in the southern Lebanese village of Blat on October 12, 2009.
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Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images
Members of the Melbourne outdoor theatre group Strange Fruit perform Ringing the Changes in which performers perched atop five-metre poles and sway amongst bells, playing a specially commissioned score for the Melbourne International Arts Festival, on October 12, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Photo: DEEPA SHRESTHA/REUTERS
A guard adjusts a scarf on a statue of the late Sir Edmund Hillary in Kathmandu October 12, 2009. Nepal has put up statues of Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the first mountaineers to climb Mount Everest.
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Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/REUTER
A group of men play checkers on the side of a railway track in a slum in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 12, 2009.
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Pilgrims pray at the remains of Saint Therese of Lisieux in Westminster Cathedral on October 12, 2009 in London, England. Saint Therese of Lisieux was a French Carmelite nun who died, aged 24, from tuberculosis in 1897 and was described by Pope Pius X as the greatest saint of modern times.
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Photo: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
A man dressed as Italian explorer Christopher Columbus skates on the rink at New York's Rockefeller Center on the Columbus Day holiday October 12, 2009.
