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Photo: DAVID MERCADO/REUTERS
Competitors from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela race during the BMX Championships at the Bolivarianos Games in Sucre, Bolivia.
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Photo: DAVID W CERNY/REUTERS
Actors dressed as police guards march along the streets of Prague during a parade to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Communist government in the former Czechoslovakia.
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A visitor views the installation The Hoerengracht or Whore's Canal by U.S. artists Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz at the National Gallery in London. The gallery’s display of a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam's Red Light District is a rare foray into contemporary installation art.
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Photo: CHERYL RAVELO/REUTERS
Residents salvage materials after a fire in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila. There were no reported injuries or deaths in the fire that destroyed about a thousand houses and displaced some 5,000 people.
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Photo: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of people take part in an annual protest march from the Athens polytechnic to the U.S. embassy in Athens to mark a 1973 anti-junta student revolt, ahead of protests set to mark a teenager's fatal shooting by police last year.
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Photo: YUSUF AHMAD/REUTERS
Fishermen dock their wooden boat at a polluted beach in Makassar, in Indonesia's south Sulawesi province.
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Photo: MICHEL SPINGLER/AP
British motorsport legend John Surtees drives an electric powered Ginetta through the Channel Tunnel to mark the 15th anniversary of the opening of the tunnel, in Coquelles, northern France. Surtees becomes the first person ever to drive a sports car through the tunnel.
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Photo: REUTERS
Taxis line up to get their tanks filled on a viaduct in Chongqing as central and eastern Chinese provinces face the worst natural gas shortage in years as supplies were diverted to snowstorm-hit northern China.
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Photo: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images
A general view shows Mecca's Grand Mosque. Some 2.5 million Muslims from more than 160 countries converge annually on the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina in western Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage.
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Photo: The Canadian Press
Dan Spears surfs a wave on Lake Ontario, while taking in the cool sunny weather at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto.
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Photo: Christopher Chung/The Press Democrat/AP
Workers attempt to remove a 100,000-pound crane that fell into a Santa Rosa, Calif., home while trying to remove a 150-year-old tree.
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Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
Sean Avery of the New York Rangers is surrounded by Washington Capitals during their game at Madison Square Garden in New York. The Capitals defeated the Rangers 4-2.