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University students participate a competition of folding quilts during a military training at the start of a new semester in Hengyang, Hunan Province, China.China Stringer Network/Reuters

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A worker walks next to a partially collapsed railroad bridge connecting Burkina Faso to Ivory Coast in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast.Luc Gnago/Reuters

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USA's Jessica Long practising for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games' Women's 400m Freestyle S8 competition at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Bob Martin/AFP / Getty Images

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A mounted Kyrgyz berkutchi (an eagle hunter) holds his bird, a golden eagle, during the World Nomad Games 2016 in the Kyrchin (Semenovskoe) gorge, some 300 km from Bishkek.Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP / Getty Images

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Samuel Bail, 30, of Toronto, is seen in the process of swimming the roughly 32-kilometre stretch between England and France along the English Channel.The Canadian Press

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A young woman with a balloon walks through a sunny street right after a rain in Moscow, Russia.Alexander Zemlianichenko/The Associated Press

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Swiss Samuel Volery, professional mountaineer, walks on the 585 meter line during the Highline Extreme event on top of the Moleson peak at 2000 meters above sea level in the Swiss Alps near Fribourg, Switzerland.Laurent Gillieron/The Associated Press

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A government worker examines a painting of former Alberta Premier Alison Redford hanging in the Alberta Legislature amongst past premiers, in Edmonton.Jason Franson/The Canadian Press

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Traders sleep on a coat amid the goats at a livestock market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Kolkata, India.Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

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Indian model and acid attack survivor Reshma Quereshi has make up applied before walking to present Indian designer Archana Kochhar's Spring/Summer 2017 collections during New York Fashion Week in the Manhattan borough of New York.Lucas Jackson/Reuters

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