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Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform with fire during the annual Buddhist festival of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists throng the hill-capital every year to venerate Buddha's tooth relic which is taken on a parade on decorated elephants with traditional dancers and drummers performing. The event is considered as Sri Lanka's most prominent religious and cultural ceremony that dates back to centuries.
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Buddhist monks walk in thick mist during a monsoonal rain in Dharmsala, India. The area receives heavy rainfall during the summer monsoon season though this year it has been lighter than usual.
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An Indian laborer sleeps on a pushcart in New Delhi, India
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Orthodox Jews arrive for the 12th Siyum HaShas, a celebration marking the completion of the Daf Yomi, a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying texts from the Talmud, the canon of Jewish religious law, at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. More than 90,000 Orthodox Jews are expected to gather at the stadium for the event which involves speeches, singing and dancing, according to the organisers.
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A police officer is confronted by a masked protester during a demonstration opposing Quebec student tuition fee hikes in Montreal. A disorderly scene erupted in downtown Montreal at the start of Quebec's election campaign as a night protest saw several arrests, injuries, and clashes with police.
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A man changes his sacred thread during the Janai Purnima, or Sacred Thread, Festival at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. Hindus take holy baths and change their sacred threads, also known as janai, for protection and purification during the festival.
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A labourer has his dinner under his shed at a construction site of a residential complex in Hefei, Anhui province. The average home price in China's 100 major cities edged up in July for the second straight month, reinforcing signs of a recovery in the property market even as the government seeks to spur broader economic growth, a private sector survey showed.
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A baby rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) touches the face of a tiger cub as they play together at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province.
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A girl plays along the flooded banks near the Huangpu River in Shanghai. China's meteorological agency issued typhoon warnings on Thursday for the southern and eastern provinces of Fujian and Jiangsu as Typhoon Saola and Typhoon Damrey approach. On Tuesday, China's Premier Wen Jiabao told authorities to be on the highest alert.
(ALY SONG/REUTERS)
