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Images of AUGUST 2013
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The fingernails of Sweden's Emma Green-Tregaro painted in different
colours, are seen as she competes in the women's high jump
qualification heats at the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the
Luzhniki stadium in Moscow in this picture taken August 15, 2013.
Swedish high jumper Green-Tregaro, who painted her fingernails in the
colours of the rainbow flag in support of Russia's gay community, has
been told not to repeat the gesture in Saturday's world championship
final. Green-Tregaro had her fingernails painted red when competing in
the women's high jump final on Saturday. REUTERS/Erik
Martensson/Scanpix
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A performer sings at a "Getai", Mandarin for song stage, in
Singapore August 15, 2013. The song stages, featuring
animated singers in glittering costumes belting out
Hokkien, Cantonese and Mandarin hits, are held in many
neighbourhoods throughout Singapore during the "Hungry
Ghost month" on the seventh lunar month, when spirits are
believed to freely roam the earth, to entertain the living and the
dead. REUTERS/Edgar Su
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Professor Karl Oldhafer, chief physician of general and visceral surgery at the Asklepios Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek, performs liver surgery, one of the first surgeries
of its kind in Germany with the support of a tablet computer to access and visualize planning data, August 15, 2013. The tablet computer uses augmented
reality, which allows the liver to be filmed with an iPad and overlaid during an operation with virtual 3D models reconstructed from the real organ. Developed by
Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, this procedure helps locate critical structures such as tumors and vessels and is expected to improve the quality of transferring pre-
operational resection plans into actual surgery. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
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Twin explosions hit Lebanon
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Images of New Jersey State Governor Chris
Christie and Democratic challenger State
Senator Barbara Buono are seen cut into a
cornfield maze in this aerial image taken over
Stony Hill Farm Market in Chester
Township, New Jersey on August 16, 2013.
The Stony Hill Farm Market says the maze
will be open to the paying public starting on
August 31, ahead of the 2013 New Jersey
gubernatorial election on November
5. REUTERS/Robert Quinlan
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Pattanachat Monkhatha (L) and Vitaya Saeng-
Aroon (R) shop in a supermarket in Bangkok
August 16, 2013. The couple have been together
for 5 years. A new civil partnership law currently in
the works now aims to give lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) couples the same rights
as heterosexuals. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi carry an injured demonstrator
who was shot during clashes in front Azbkya police station at Ramses Square in
Cairo, August 16, 2013.
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi carry an injured
demonstrator who was shot during clashes in front Azbkya police station at
Ramses Square in Cairo, August 16, 2013.
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi gesture at an army
helicopter as they shout slogans during a protest outside Al-Fath Mosque in
Ramses Square, in Cairo, August 16, 2013.
REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
Day of Rage in Egypt
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Production manager Kevin Shears
walks up a storage tank at
National Grid's liquified natural
gas (LNG) plant at the Isle of
Grain in southern England August
16, 2013. The Mayor of London's
preferred plan for a new airport on
the Isle of Grain would require to
relocate one of Britain's key gas
import facilities at a time the UK
relies ever more on overseas
supplies. REUTERS/Paul Hackett
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August

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans during
a protest outside Al-Fath Mosque in Ramses square in Cairo August 16, 2013.
REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
A military helicopter flies above supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed
Mursi, in Cairo August 16, 2013.
REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi run away from tear gas
during clashes in Cairo August 16, 2013.
Smoke rises in the distance as supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed
Mursi are seen in Cairo August 16, 2013.
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A supporter of deposed Egyptian President
Mohamed Mursi lies on the ground after he was
shot during a protest outside Al-Fath Mosque in
Ramses Square, in Cairo August
16, 2013. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
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Gunbattle in Cairo mosque
Army soldiers react inside a room of al-Fath mosque when supporters of deposed
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi exchanged gunfire with security forces inside the
mosque in Cairo August 17, 2013.
Policemen move into a mosque during clashes with supporters of deposed Egyptian
President Mohamed Mursi inside a room of the al-Fath mosque in Cairo August 17, 2013.
A member of the army points to the second floor of the mosque with a stick during
clashes with supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi inside a room of the
al-Fath mosque in Cairo August 17, 2013.
Soldiers stand guard on an armoured personnel carrier positioned outside Ramses
Square, near al-Fath mosque in Cairo August 17, 2013.
REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
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Sulpicio Express Siete cargo ship a day after a collision with
a passenger ferry on the waters of Talisay City, Cebu
province, central Philippines-Aug17, 2013
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Danish Scientist (right) photographed with
Geminoid-DK robot made by his his identical.
Aug17, 2013
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Gold medalists team Russia kiss and celebrate at the women's 4x400
metres relay victory ceremony during the IAAF World Athletics
Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow August 17, 2013.
From left: Tatyana Firova, Yulia Gushchina, Kseniya Ryzhova, and
Antonina Krivoshapka. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
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Tanks of the Belarusian, Russian, Kazakh and
Armenian lined up to compete for two racing
triathlon near Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia.
Aug17, 2013
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August

He Carmelo Flores, Aymara tribe hand before chewing coca
leaves town Frasquia, the La Paz, Bolivia, 110 kilometers to the
north. -The oldest in the world-aug17, 2013
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August

Indian Students watch a woman
to get money for wiring of the
audience, on a street in
Hyderabad.-aug17, 2013
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August

Breaking the world record for the number of large Alphorn blowing
trumpets, in front of the Matterhorn mountain near Gornergrat
Zermat, Swiss-Aug17, 2013
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August

Rescuers carry a woman across a flooded
street after Typhoon Utor hit Jiangyong
county, Hunan province August 17, 2013.
Severe rain-triggered floods have buffeted
many areas in south Hunan province since
Thursday. At least one person was killed and
13 others were buried by landslides and
collapsed houses, local media
reported.REUTERS/Stringer
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August

A work of art is built on the banks of the Yenisei River in the village OVSYANKA, the Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk, Russia 24 km.-aug17, 2013
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August

People walk past a car stranded in mud after heavy rainfalls
hit Fushun, Liaoning province, China, August 17, 2013.
Another 12 people were reported killed by floods in Liaoning
province on Sunday, bringing the death toll in northeast China
floods to 37, according to Xinhua News
Agency. REUTERS/Stringer
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August

A cloud partially covers the tip of the Rock of the British
territory of Gibraltar at sunrise from La Atunara port
before Spanish fishermen sail in their fishing boats with
their relatives to take part in a protest at an area of the
sea where an artificial reef was built by Gibraltar using
concrete blocks, in Algeciras bay, La Linea de la
Concepcion in southern Spain August 18, 2013. For just
over an hour some 30 fishing boats circled where 70 3-
tonne concrete blocks were dropped in July to form a
reef that Spain said was not legal and prompted the
government to ramp up border checks with the British
overseas territory. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
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August

Ludovic Lucas, director and instructor of professional flyboarding school
SeaSky, conducts a demonstration on a Flyboard in Harchies August 18, 2013. The
Flyboard is an ingenious invention which consists of a board fitted with shoes that
the user wears and is attached to a jet ski on the other end that powers up the board
to propel the user upwards into the air and dive in and out of the water. Flyboarding
is inspired from a mix of extreme sports such as jet-skiing, snowboarding and
acrobatic diving. REUTERS/Laurent Dubrule
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August

Britain's Prince Harry (2nd L) speaks with HALO Trust CEO Guy
Willoughby (L), HALO provincial manager Tony Jose Antonio (C), and HALO
senior managers Colin Watson and Gerhard Zank (R), as they discuss
clearance techniques of a Russian TM57 anti-tank mine, in Angola, in this
undated handout photograph released in London August 18,
2013.REUTERS/Halo Trust/Handout via Reuters
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August

Police wield their batons against a member of the Rajput community during a
protest in New Delhi August 18, 2013. Thousands of Rajput community members on
Sunday held a protest against TV serial "Jodhaa Akbar" which they say is historically
inaccurate. The serial tells the story of the love and marriage between Akbar, the
16th century Mughal emperor and the Hindu princess Jodhaa. REUTERS/Adnan
Abidi
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August

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and
ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout
slogans against the military and interior ministry
during a protest in front of Al Istkama mosque at
Giza Square, south of Cairo, August 18, 2013.
Egypt's army-backed rulers met on Sunday to
discuss their bloody confrontation with deposed
President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood
amid contrasting proposals for compromise and
a fight to the death. In a televised speech to
military and police officers, army chief Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi vowed to crack down on anyone
using violence, but also struck an apparently
inclusive note, telling Mursi's supporters: "There
is room for everyone in Egypt. REUTERS/Amr
Abdallah Dalsh
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August

Ajee Wilson of the U.S. speaks to her compatriot
Alysia Johnson Montano (L) after the women's 800
meters final during the IAAF World Athletics
Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow
August 18, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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August

A helicopter tanker drops fire retardant near a
home at the Beaver Creek wildfire outside
Ketchum, Idaho August 18, 2013. Firefighters
readied for a massive ground and air attack on
Sunday against a wildfire in central Idaho that
has forced the evacuation of some 2,250
homes and threatens the posh Sun Valley ski
resort. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
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August

Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after defeating
John Isner of the U.S. in two sets to win the
championship match at the Men's Cincinnati Open
tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio August
18, 2013. REUTERS/John Sommers II
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August

A man jumps off a bridge into the Soca
river during a traditional jumping
competition in Kanal ob Soci, August
18, 2013. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic
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August

Gondoliers raise their oars as a sign of respect
in front of the place near Rialto bridge where a
German tourist was killed in Venice August
18, 2013. The man appeared to have been
crushed between the two boats, when the
gondola carrying him and his daughter on
Venice's Grand Canal collided with a ferry on
Saturday, a spokesman for Venice's fire brigade
said. The man's three-year-old daughter was
seriously injured during the
incident. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri
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August

A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask arrives on a taxi during a protest against Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, as Leung attends a town hall
meeting in Hong Kong's Kwun Tong August 18, 2013. This is the second meet-the-public session attended by Leung since he took office last year. Five people
were detained by the police during rallies held by Leung's supporters and opponents outside the venue, according to local media. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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August

A Free Syrian Army fighter lights a cigarette as a fellow fighter rests
inside a room in Deir al-Zor August 18, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
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August

the Euphrates river in the eastern countryside of Aleppo to declare the formation of
the Eastern Front August 18, 2013.
The village of Dourit, in Latakia countryside August 17, 2013.
Refugees take the new bridge spanning the Tigris-Syria-Aug18, 2013 UN unknown causes of new-wave evacuate Syria-Iraq border Aug18, 2013
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August

Debris from Fridayâ€ ™s disaster is seen as rescuers searching for victims depart from Talisay fish port in central Philippines August 18, 2013. A ferry sank on
Friday, killing 38 people and leaving 82 missing, after a collision just outside the central port of Cebu with a cargo vessel owned by a company involved in the
world's worst peacetime maritime disaster nearly 30 years ago. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
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August

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits near sandbags inside a damaged
room in Deir al-Zor August 18, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
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August

A boy rides a bicycle in between home-made rice
noodles in Changting county, Fujian
province, China, August
18, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily
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August

Workers wade through floodwaters caused by monsoon rain, intensified
by tropical storm Trami, in Kawit town of Cavite city, south of
Manila, August 19, 2013. Heavy rain in the Philippine capital forced the
closure of government offices, schools, banks and most private
companies on Monday, and residents in parts of the city and nearby
provinces had to flee from their homes because of floods. At least three
people were killed and two were missing in accidents caused by the rain
and flooding, disaster and government officials said.REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
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August

A Palestinian boy sleeps amid suitcases at the
Rafah crossing between Egypt and the
southern Gaza Strip, after the crossing's
closure August 19, 2013. Egyptian authorities
closed the Rafah crossing on Monday until a
further notice following recent violence in
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Hamas officials
said. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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August

Displaced children peer through holes in the fabric
used to make their temporary tent at Sayyidka
camp in the Howlwadag district, south of the
Somali capital Mogadishu August 19, 2013. The
United Nations will unveil a social media
campaign on Monday for World Humanitarian
Day, the organisation's annual day to
commemorate aid workers who have died while in
the field, and to promote humanitarian
aid. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
19
August

Saudi Civil Defence members use a forklift to move
Khaled Mohsen Shaeri, 20, from his house in the
Saudi city of Jizan, and to be airlifted to the capital
Riyadh for medical treatment, August 19, 2013.
Shaeri weighs approximately 610 kg (1345 lbs) and
is suffering from severe obesity due to health
problems that have resulted in a rapid increase in
his weight over the past two
years. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser
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August

Mayflies are pictured above a river at dusk in Heihe,
Heilongjiang province, China, August 19, 2013. The nuptial
flight of mayflies takes place in evening time during spring
and summer every year, as the insect mates and
reproduces. REUTERS/China Daily
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August

The casket of a policeman killed
early Monday morning near the
north Sinai town of Rafah is placed
in a vehicle after arriving at
Almaza military airport in Cairo
August 19, 2013. Twenty-five
Egyptian policemen were killed
and three others wounded in an
ambush by Islamist
militants, medical and security
sources said. Attacks by Islamist
militants in the lawless north Sinai
region have intensified since the
army overthrew Islamist President
Mohamed Mursi on July
3. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El
Ghany
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August

U.S. soldier Bradley Manning is escorted to court for his sentencing hearing at Fort Meade in
Maryland August 19, 2013. Judge Colonel Denise Lind last month found Manning, 25, guilty of 20
criminal counts, including espionage and theft, for handing over some 700,000 secret U.S.
documents to the WikiLeaks pro-transparency website. Today, she will begin deliberations on
Manning's sentence. He could face up to 90 years in prison for his role in a case that catapulted
WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, into the world spotlight.REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueSeptember 3, 2013 47
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August

Brianna Goodwin, 9, reaches out to touch Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper as he greets children from a summer camp in Hay
River, Northwest Territories August 19, 2013. Harper is on the second day of
his annual tour of Northern Canada. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
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August

A firefighter drags a woman into the window of a hotel after
she cut her wrist and attempted to jump off the seventh floor,
in Tongren, Guizhou province, August 19, 2013. According to
local media, the woman attempted suicide because of
relationship problems and was sent to hospital for treatment
after being rescued. REUTERS/China Daily
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August

Syrian refugees cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of
northern Iraq, August 19, 2013. More than 20,000 Syrian refugees have
entered northern Iraq since Thursday in one of the largest crossings in the
more than two-year-old conflict and the influx is continuing, the United Nations
said on Monday. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
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August

A boy reacts as he is found by his friends while playing hide-
and-seek under tetrapods on a beach along the Arabian Sea
in Mumbai August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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August

Bo (L) and Sunny, the Obama family's
new puppy, are pictured on the South
Lawn of the White House in Washington in
this photo released on August 19, 2013 by
the White House. The White House
announced a new resident on Monday.
Sunny, a one-year-old Portuguese Water
Dog, moved into the Washington
residence of President Barack Obama and
his family, joining Bo, a male dog of the
same breed, the White House announced
on its website. REUTERS/Pete
Souza/The White House/Handout vi
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August

A general view of the Arena de Sao Paulo Stadium, one of the venues for the 2014
World Cup, in the Sao Paulo district of Itaquera August 19, 2013. The Arena de Sao
Paulo Stadium will host the opening match of the 2014 World
Cup. REUTERS/Paulo WhitakerSeptember 3, 2013 53
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August

Burnt carriages of a train that were set on fire by
protesters are pictured at Khagaria in the eastern
Indian state of Bihar August 19, 2013. A train killed
at least 34 people crossing a railway track in Bihar
on Monday, triggering a protest by passengers who
beat the driver unconscious, attacked other staff and
torched a carriage, officials and media
said.REUTERS/Stringer
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August

Indonesian soldiers guarding the
prisoners while in prison Labuhan
preparing to move to another place
because this place was burned in the
riots last day.-Aug19, 2013
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August

Sailing Luna Rossa Challenge drills near the Golden Gate
before the Louis Vuitton races in San Francisco, California.-
Aug 19.2013
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August

The truck went to work to come home to on a rainy day in
Manila, Philippines.-Aug19, 2013
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August

The adherents of the sect White Brotherhood south Sofia, Bulglary, concentrated in
the foothills Rita to celebrate their New Year calendar. Aug19, 2013
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August

Check the bodies of policemen killed in Rafah city, northeast of Cairo from 350 km.-
Aug19, 2013
The border area between Egypt and Gaza in the south-Aug19, 2013
Take yourself out of the corpses in the morgue Zenhoum Cairo for burial. Aug19, 2013
Soldiers and armored vehicles arranged in Tahrir Square in Cairo.-Aug19, 2013September 3, 2013 59
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August

A man walks inside the damaged historical old
souk of Homs, Syria, August
19, 2013. REUTERS/Yazan Homsy
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August

A Free Syrian Army fighter rests inside a house in Deir al-
Zor August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
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August

Free Syrian Army fighters take cover inside a damaged
house in Deir al-Zor August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil
Ashawi
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August

Residents wade in waist-deep floodwaters brought by the monsoon
rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, in Paranaque city, metro Manila
August 20, 2013. Heavy rains continue to batter the Philippine capital and
nearby provinces, causing government offices, schools and some
businesses to suspend work, and sending residents to flee their
homes.REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
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August

A truck is seen submerged on a flooded street
under the influence of Typhoon Utor in
Shantou, Guangdong province, August 20, 2013.
The worst floods in decades hit southern China's
Guangdong and Guangxi province, killing at least
30 people, and forcing hundreds of thousands
more to evacuate, state media reported on
Tuesday. REUTERS/Stringer
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August

A boy in a stroller holds an image of overthrown Egyptian
President Mohamed Mursi as his sibling sleeps, in front of dozens
of Muslim-American men praying during a protest in Times Square
in New York August 20, 2013. Several hundred supporters of the
Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights gathered
to condemn what they said were ongoing massacres of Egyptian
civilians by the Egyptian military and police. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
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August

Residents use a mosquito net to catch fish along a flooded
alley in a residential district in Bacoor, Cavite near
Manila, August 20, 2013. Monsoon rains reinforced by a
tropical storm flooded half the Philippine capital in just 24
hours, triggering landslides and killing at least seven
people, officials said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Erik De
Castro
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August

Indian policemen detain an activist of the Forum for
Justice to Enforced Disappeared Persons (FJEDP) during
a protest in Srinagar August 20, 2013. Dozens of activists
on Tuesday appealed to the international community to
press the Indian government to disclose whereabouts of
their family members who disappeared in the custody of
Indian security forces and other agencies, according to a
media release from the FJEDP. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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August

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) lays a wreath at the
former concentration camp in Dachau near Munich August
20, 2013. Angela Merkel paused in her campaign for a third
term to lay a wreath at Dachau concentration camp on
Tuesday, making her the first German chancellor to visit the
Nazis' first death camp where they killed more than 41,000
people in the Holocaust. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
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August

A woman reacts as she reads a
billboard announcing the trial of
disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai
to be held at the Jinan Intermediate
People's Court, in Jinan, Shandong
province August 20, 2013. One of
the charges against Bo relates to his
flouting the authority of central
leaders in Beijing, sources said, an
allegation so sensitive that his trial
could start one day sooner to hear it
in secret. The charge is abuse of
power, and the accusation is that Bo
challenged and ignored the will and
rules of the ruling Communist
Party, the sources said. Bo is also
accused of corruption and taking
bribes, but that charge is likely to be
heard on Thursday, when the trial is
officially scheduled to begin, in a
supposedly open session in the
court in the eastern city of
Jinan. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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August

Sheriff's Deputy John Conley tries
to calm Aaliyah Battle who points
at her mother while on a bus at a
local Walmart following an
shooting incident at McNair
Discovery Learning Academy in
Decatur, Georgia, August
20, 2013. An adult male was in
custody after a gunman fired
multiple shots at an Atlanta-area
elementary school on
Tuesday, police
said.REUTERS/Tami Chappell
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August

A Bedouin man jumps over camels during the
Sanaa Summer Festival in Sanaa August
20, 2013. The two-week festival aims to
stimulate domestic tourism and reassure local
and international tourists about Yemen's
stability. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
20
August

A man carries his bicycle through a flooded street brought by the monsoon
rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, in Pasig city, metro Manila August
20, 2013. Monsoon rains reinforced by a tropical storm flooded half the
Philippine capital in just 24 hours, triggering landslides and killing at least
seven people, officials said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Al Falcon
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August

A Palestinian woman and girls watch from a
window during the funeral of Majed Lahlouh in
Jenin refugee camp, near the West Bank city of
Jenin August 20, 2013. Israeli soldiers shot dead
Lahlouh and wounded two others during a raid in
the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West
Bank early on Tuesday, Palestinian medical
officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman
said security forces arrested a suspected militant
in Jenin and, after being attacked, shot back.
She said one Palestinian was apparently killed
and two soldiers slightly hurt. REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
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August

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man looks down at a
shofar, made from a ram's horn, he is carrying
while praying at the Western Wall, Judaism's
holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City
August 20, 2013. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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August

Men eat lunch and relax on a stairway covered in
artificial grass near St. Pancras Station in
London August 20 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne
Plunkett
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August

People sit on the beach in Blackpool, northern England
August 20, 2013. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
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August

Residents react at the scene of a car bomb attack in Nasiriyah
city, 375km (233 miles) south of Baghdad, August 20, 2013. Twelve
people were wounded from the attack, medical sources
said. REUTERS/Stringer
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August

Geese fly over the the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in
Washington August 20, 2013. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., delivered his "I have a Dream" speech on August
28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the
march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This coming
week, Washington will play host to an array of events marking
the historic anniversary. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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August

A woman listening to music while sitting on a bench in
the hot summer days at the park El Retiro, in
Madrid, Spain. Aug20, 2013
20
August

Syrian refugees sit in the bottom border in Dahuk
Peshkhabour while on the way to Iraq-Aug20, 2013
20
August

Children learn to sail on Lake Galgenweel in Antwerp, Belgium. Aug 20.2013
20
August

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force armoured
tanks fire during an annual training session near
Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in
Gotemba, west of Tokyo, August 20, 2013.
REUTERS/Yuya Shino
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August

People who lost their relatives hold each other after
downpours hit Nankouqian township in Fushun, Liaoning
province, August 20, 2013. The floods which began
August 15 has killed 54 people and leaving 97 missing in
Fushun so far, according to local reports. REUTERS/China
Daily
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August

Girls who survived from what activists say is a gas attack rest inside a mosque in the
Duma neighbourhood of Damascus August 21, 2013. Syrian activists accused President
Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a gas attack that killed nearly 500 people on
Wednesday, in what would, if confirmed, be by far the worst reported use of chemical arms
in the two-year-old civil war. The Syrian armed forces strongly denied using chemical
weapons. Syrian state television said the accusations were fabricated to distract a team of
U.N. chemical weapons experts which arrived three days ago. REUTERS/Mohamed
Abdullah
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August

A written note can be seen with flowers and a
baseball on the Essendon Baseball Club's
homebase plate as a tribute to murdered
Australian Chris Lane in Melbourne August
21, 2013. Lane, 23, who played baseball at the
Melbourne club, was found dead of a gunshot
wound on Friday, according to police in
Duncan, Oklahoma, located about 80 miles
(130 km) south of Oklahoma City. According to
police, one of the three teenage boys charged
on Tuesday with the murder, told them that they
saw Lane jogging and decided he would be
their target, and then followed him in their
vehicle and shot Lane in the
back. REUTERS/Mal Fairclough
21
August

Members of conservative civic groups (not pictured), which
consists of North Korean defectors living in South Korea, release
balloons towards North Korea in Yeoncheon, near the demilitarized
zone separating the two Koreas, north of Seoul early August
21, 2013. The balloons contain soap, socks, condoms, rubber
gloves, toothpaste, toothbrushes and leaflets denouncing the
North Korean regime. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
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August

Gas attack in Syria
People lower the body of a victim, of what activist said was a gas attack, into a
grave during a funeral in Hamoria, area in the eastern suburbs of Damascus
August 21, 2013.
REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
People lower the body of a victim, of what activist said was a gas
attack, into a grave during a funeral in Hamoria area, in the
eastern suburbs of Damascus August 21, 2013.
People dig graves for the victims of what activist claimed was a gas
attack in Hamoria area, in the eastern suburbs of Damascus August
21, 2013.
Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in the
Ghouta region, in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, August 21, 2013.
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Salah al-Din neighbourhood in central Aleppo August 23, 2013. -02
The eastern suburbs of Damascus August 22, 2013. -03
AP Images are proven to find the body was buried on the outskirts of
Damascus, August 21, 2013.
Smoke rising from the blast area.
Aug23, 2013_Lebanon
21
August

A man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people
activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in
the Duma neighborhood of Damascus August
21, 2013. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
21
August

Bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta
region are seen in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus August 21,
2013. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
21
August

A man, affected by what activists say is nerve
gas, breathes through an oxygen mask in the
Damascus suburbs of Jesreen August
21, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Dar
21
August

Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were
killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma
neighbourhood of Damascus August 21, 2013.
The picture shows the victim died of toxic gas?. Aug 21.2013
21
August

A man looks at a giant inukshuk as the moon
rises above it in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut August
21, 2013. The inukshuk is a stone landmark or
cairn used by the Inuit people in the
arctic. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
21
August

U.S. soldier Bradley Manning is escorted into court to receive his sentence
at Fort Meade in Maryland August 21, 2013. Manning, who was convicted of
the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history, was sentenced to
35 years in a military prison. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
21
August

Medics are evacuated after an earthquake outside a
private hospital in Mexico City, August 21, 2013. A
magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Mexico City on
Wednesday, its epicenter located in the poor southern
state of Guerrero, the United States Geological Survey
(USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of
damage or injuries. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
21
August

U.S. singer Madonna smiles as she leaves the
new Hard Candy Fitness centre in downtown
Rome August 21, 2013. REUTERS/Remo
Casilli
21
August

Tricycles carrying bananas in the fruit market
Bogor, Bogor city, West Java, Indonesia-
Aug21, 2013
21
August

An activist of Greenpeace worker dressed to pour oil on the
other activists were sitting still. They protest in Warsaw, Poland,-
Aug21, 2013
21
August

The fire burned trees along U.S. Highway 120 at Buck
Meadows, California, USA, August 21, 2013.
21
August

Water coming out of the exhaust port Sayano-Shushenskaya
hydroelectric station, the city of Krasnoyarsk in Russia's Siberia
region 520 km to the south. Aug21, 2013
21
August

A man cleans garbage and removes water
hyacinths from a river in Wuyi county, Zhejiang
province, China, August
21, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
21
August

Angelica Maribel Murillo, 37, poses for a photograph
at her home in the La Nueva Australia neighbourhood
in Tegucigalpa August 21, 2013. Angelica's husband
attacked her in 2008, accusing her of having an
affair, and cut off her two hands with a machete while
trying to kill her. He is on the run since then, while she
raises their four children by making and selling
tortillas. Some 225 women have been killed during
the first six months of 2013, according to local
media. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera
21
August

A woman carries a suitcase on her head in downtown
Lisbon August 21, 2013. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
21
August

A mother and her daughter rest beneath a statue of
Jesus Christ inside a church converted into an
evacuation centre for residents displaced by the
floods in Quezon City, Metro Manila August
21, 2013. The number of people affected by heavy
monsoon rain and floods since last weekend
breached the one-million mark on Wednesday, the
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Council said. The death toll remained at eight with
41 injured and four missing, local media
reported. REUTERS/Al Falcon
21
August

A party goer is splashed with water after
winning a crab race at a pub called the 'Friend
in Hand' in central Sydney August 21, 2013.
Crab Racing is held every night at several pubs
across Sydney, with up to 30 crabs placed in
the centre of a table and then being released to
see which one reaches the edge of the table
first and declared the winner. The events are
popular mainly with overseas visitors who bet
on the result to win t-shirts or glasses of
beer. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz
21
August

Neighborhood resident Kevin Wilkerson of
Duncan, Oklahoma, stands near a memorial at
the scene where Australian college student
Christopher Lane, 23, of Melbourne, was found
dead of a gunshot wound on Friday in
Duncan, Oklahoma, August 21, 2013. Three
teenage boys were charged on Tuesday in the
killing of an Australian university student in
Oklahoma, in what police said might have been a
thrill killing. REUTERS/Bill Waugh
21
August

A girl looks out from her hut
made of wood and cardboard
in the slums of the Akhdam
community in the southern city
of Adan August 21, 2013.
Yemeni Akhdam, or
servants, are similar to
hereditary castes, but are
distinguished by their African
features and the menial jobs
they
perform. REUTERS/Mohamed
al-Sayaghi
21
August

Lobsterman Steve Train tosses a lobster back into the sea
while hauling traps in his boat "Wild Irish Rose" in the waters
off Cape Elizabeth, Maine August 21, 2013. Lobster
populations in Maine are booming like never before. The
number of lobster processing plants in the state has more than
tripled, from 5 in 2010 to 16 last year. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
21
August

A policeman (R) tries to stop a journalist from
photographing as vehicles enter a gate of the
Jinan Intermediate People's Court, where the
trial of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai will
be held in Jinan, Shandong province August
22, 2013. Police blocked entry to a courthouse
in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan on
Thursday where the trial of Bo is to open, the
final, dramatic chapter of the country's most
politically charged case in more than three
decades. Bo, 64, is set to appear in public for
the first time in 17 months in court, capping the
country's biggest political scandal since the
1976 downfall of the Gang of Four at the end of
the Cultural Revolution. REUTERS/Carlos
Barria
22
August

A girl looks out from a makeshift tent at an
evacuation centre for flood victims in
Calumpit, Bulacan, north of Manila, August
22, 2013. The southwest monsoon that
wreaked havoc on Metro Manila and nearby
areas earlier this week is likely to weaken
now that Typhoon Trami made landfall over
China, state weather forecasters said
Thursday. The death toll from the heavy
monsoon rain and floods since last weekend
rose to at least 16 as of Thursday
morning, the National Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Council
said. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
22
August

A supporter of former president
Hosni Mubarak holds his poster to
celebrate as she waits for his
release in front of the main gate of
Tora prison on the outskirts of Cairo
August 22, 2013. Mubarak may
leave jail on Thursday by court
order after a week of bloody turmoil
in which Egypt's new army-backed
rulers cracked down on ousted
President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim
Brotherhood. REUTERS/Youssef
Boudlal
22
August

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo
Xilai stands trial inside the court in
Jinan, Shandong province August
22, 2013, in this photo released by
Jinan Intermediate People's Court.
Fallen Chinese politician Bo
appeared in public for the first time
in more than a year on Thursday to
face trial in eastern China, the final
chapter of the country's most
politically charged case in more
than three
decades. REUTERS/Jinan
Intermediate People's
Court/Handout via Reuters
22
August

22
August

A petitioner, with his pants removed, balances himself
atop a pillar as he stages a protest near the Jinan
Intermediate People's Court, where the trial of
disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai is held in Jinan,
Shandong province August 22, 2013. Bo appeared in
public for the first time in more than a year on
Thursday to face trial in eastern China, the final
chapter of the country's most politically charged case
in more than three decades. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
22
August

Firefighter Dave Beck rakes embers away from a
road on the rim fire near Buck
Meadows, California, August
22, 2013. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
22
August

A 15-year-old Free Syrian Army fighter takes
position in a house in Salah al-Din neighbourhood in
central Aleppo, August
22, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman
22
August

A Free Syrian Army fighter (L) peeks through a hole behind sandbags in Deir al-Zor
August 22, 2013.
A Free Syrian Army fighter cleans his weapon inside a room in the besieged area of
Homs August 22, 2013.
A Free Syrian Army fighter prays inside a room in Deir al-Zor August 22, 2013. A street in Deir al-Zor August 22, 2013. -02September 3, 2013 117
22
August

A street in Deir al-Zor August 22, 2013.
A view of Salah al-Din neighbourhood in central Aleppo August 22, 2013.
A view of Salah al-Din neighbourhood in central Aleppo August 22, 2013.-02
The Salah al-Din neighbourhood of central Aleppo August 22, 2013.
22
August

Free Syrian Army fighters are seen at the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of central Aleppo
August 22, 2013.
Free Syrian Army fighters gesture as they sit along a street in Deir al-Zor August 22, 2013.
Free Syrian Army fighters sit along a street in Deir al-Zor August 22, 2013.
Free Syrian Army fighters walk past damaged buildings and debris in Deir al-Zor August
20, 2013. Picture taken August 20, 2013.
22
August

The eastern suburbs of Damascus August 22, 2013. The eastern suburbs of Damascus August 22, 2013.
The eastern suburbs of Damascus August 22, 2013.
The Salah al-Din neighbourhood of central Aleppo August 22, 2013. -04
22
August

A Syrian soldier is captured by Free Syrian Army fighters during what
the FSA say is an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad, in Qobtan village in Aleppo August
22, 2013. REUTERS/Saad AboBrahim
22
August

People struggle as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the
banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province, August 22, 2013.
As Typhoon Trami landed in eastern China, tidal level in Qiantang River
was recorded at 6.6 meter high with surge reaching 1.3 meter high, local
media reported. REUTERS/China Daily
22
August

Relatives and friends attend a night mass during the
wake for Romania's late self-styled King of the
Gypsies Florin Cioaba in the yard of his residence in
Sibiu, 190 km (118 miles) northwest of Bucharest
August 22, 2013. Cioaba, 59, died last Sunday of
cardiac arrest in a Turkish hospital. REUTERS/Radu
Sigheti
22
August

Congolese government soldiers take a break after
patrolling in Kanyarucinya village in the outskirts of Goma
in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August
22, 2013. The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in
Congo on Thursday ordered his troops to take whatever
action was needed to protect civilians after shelling hit the
city of Goma on the Rwandan border in renewed fighting
between the army and M23 rebels. REUTERS/Kenny
Katombe
22
August

A veil-clad female worker works at a factory for pickling
olives, dates, jam productions and olive oil in the Saudi
city of Tabuk August 22, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Al
Hwaity
22
August

22
August

People struggle as waves from a tidal bore surge
past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in
Haining, Zhejiang province, August 22, 2013. As
Typhoon Trami landed in eastern China, tidal level in
Qiantang River was recorded at 6.6 meter high with
surge reaching 1.3 meter high, local media
reported. REUTERS/China Daily
22
August

A privately-built illegal
temple-like structure is
seen on the top of a 20-
storey residential block in
the southern Chinese city
of Shenzhen August
22, 2013. A police
spokesman said that the
elaborate temple-like
structure is built illegally
on the roof. The temple on
top of the building in
Shenzhen's Nanshan
district is believed to have
been there for at least
three years, local media
reported. The temple and
the inaccessible rooftop
had caused concerns over
safety issues among
some residents. But
despite complaints from
neighbours, the temple
only came into the
spotlight after a wealthy
physician in Beijing was
given 15 days to tear
down his illegal villa and
garden built atop a 26-
storey apartment block on
August
12.REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
22
August

The U.S. Forest Service aerial photo shows the
Beaver Creek fire in Beaver Creek, Idaho August
22, 2013. The so-called Beaver Creek fire has
destroyed one home and seven other buildings and
forced the evacuation of thousands of area
residents since it was sparked by lightning two
weeks ago. The Beaver Creek fire is now estimated
at 110, 209 acres with containment at 47 percent
according to the U.S. Forest
Service. REUTERS/Mel Meier/U.S. Forest
Service/Handout
22
August

Egyptian army soldiers and medics escort former president Hosni Mubarak after he arrives at a military hospital in the
southern suburb of Maadi on the outskirts of Cairo, August 22, 2013. Egypt's former autocrat Mubarak was flown from jail on
Thursday in a symbolic victory for an army-dominated old order that has overthrown and imprisoned his freely elected Islamist
successor. REUTERS/Stringer
22
August

Two prison officers escort Iranian Saeid Moradi, 29,
(in wheelchair) and Mohammad Khazaei, 43, as they
leave the Bangkok South Criminal Court August 22,
2013. An Iranian man who blew off his own legs was
sentenced to life in prison by a Thai court on
Thursday for his involvement in a botched bomb plot
that rocked Bangkok last year and brought
condemnation from Israel. A court found Saeid
Moradi, 29, guilty of attempted murder in an attack
that authorities say was intended to target Israeli
diplomats. A second defendant, Mohammad
Khazaei, 43, was given 15 years in jail for
possession of explosive
devices. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
22
August

A U.S. student, who is a participant of Mission
Manduhai, practises a handstand near camels on a grass field
between Ulan Bator and Darkhan August 22, 2013. Mission
Manduhai is created by Chimgee Haltarhuu, a former
Mongolian gymnast and victim of domestic abuse, who brought
three U.S. students and six young performers from
Shonkhoodoi Circus in Darkhan to travel through the Mongolian
countryside to give free circus performances. The free
performances are held as a way to raise awareness on
domestic abuse, by distributing leaflets on domestic abuse
before and after the shows. REUTERS/Mareike Guensche
22
August

Los Angeles County firefighters hike in on a fire line on
the Rim Fire near Groveland, California, August
22, 2013. The wildfire raging out of control near
Yosemite National Park in northern California ballooned
to nearly 54,000 acres on Thursday, more than tripling
in size from the day before, forest officials
said. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
22
August

A worker smokes a cigarette as his colleague cooks
soybeans at a tofu factory in Jakarta August 22, 2013.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
said the government would announce an economic
policy package on August 23, 2013, including
measures to combat growing inflation and job losses in
Southeast Asia's largest
economy.REUTERS/Beawiharta
23
August

Customer selection of discount shoes
for sale, 22 cents a pair, shoes
flooded after heavy rains because in
Manila, Philippines. Aug23, 2013
23
August

People run to help outside one of two mosques hit by explosions in
Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, August 23, 2013. REUTERS/Omar
Ibrahim
23
August

Firefighters fight blaze in Vouzela, Portugal. Aug23, 2013
23
August

The faithful pray the god and goddess Osun other in Osun
River, in Osogbo, Nigeria ngày August 23, 2013
23
August

Tadahiro Kanemasu dress styled superhero
Ranger character, standing in Tokyo subway
stations to help the elderly,-Aug23, 2013
23
August

Members of Shonkhoodoi Circus practise in a
gymnasium in Darkhan August 23, 2013. Mission
Manduhai is created by Chimgee Haltarhuu, a former
Mongolian gymnast and victim of domestic abuse, who
brought three U.S. students and six young performers
from Shonkhoodoi Circus in Darkhan to travel through
the Mongolian countryside to give free circus
performances. The free performances are held as a way
to raise awareness on domestic abuse, by distributing
leaflets on domestic abuse before and after the
shows.REUTERS/Mareike Guensche
23
August

Employees work with machinery in a Uralkali potash mine near the city of Berezniki in the Perm
region close to Russia's Ural mountains August 23, 2013. The global potash market faces short-
term turbulence due to a dispute between major exporters Russia and Belarus before a definitive
collapse of the sector's once-mighty cartel brings prices for the fertiliser ingredient down sharply.
Belarus this week detained the chief executive of Russia's Uralkali, the world's top potash
producer, accusing him of inflicting severe economic damage.REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
23
August

Manny Ford performing soap bubbles in Central
Park, New York.-Aug23, 2013
23
August

A general view of the abandoned textile mill where a
photo journalist was raped by five men, in Mumbai
August 23, 2013. A photojournalist was gang-raped in the
Indian city of Mumbai, police said, evoking comparisons
with a similar incident in Delhi in December that led to
nationwide protests and a revision of the country's rape
laws. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
23
August

Firefighters work to prevent the Rim Fire from jumping Highway 120
near Buck Meadows, California, August 24, 2013. A fast-moving wildfire
on the edge of Yosemite National Park has forced the closure of two
more areas of the park, but an official said on Saturday he was
cautiously optimistic that firefighters could halt the advance of flames.
The fire, which had grown to just over 125,000 acres (50,585 hectares)
as of early Saturday, remained largely unchecked with extreme terrain
hampering efforts at containment, which stood at 5
percent. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
24
August

One area contains the Naraha town, located in restricted areas within 20
kilometers back and forth around the diameter of the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant. Aug24, 2013
24
August

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover
inside a house as he looks through a hole
in Deir al-Zor August
23, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
23
August

Pigeons lie on the ground after dying from what activists say is the use of chemical weapons by
forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad in the Damascus suburbs of Arbeen August 24,
2013. REUTERS/Ammar Dar
24
August

Young women dressed in
traditional embroidered parade in
the center of Kyiv to
commemorate 22 years of
independence of
Ukraine.Aug24, 2013
24
August

Near the border village of Paju in
Panmunjeom, northern Seoul, South Korea.
Aug24, 2013
24
August

A boy trying to push a Sumo wrestler in a
show called Sumo Tournament in Jakarta.
Aug24, 2013
24
August

The "race Warsaw Sheep Run" at the harvest festival of
Yiwu County, Autonomous Region of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Aug24, 2013
24
August

The Indians watched floodwaters at Panskura, near
East Midnapore district of West Bengal. Aug24, 2013
24
August

The athletes started the race
Swimming World Championships
triathlon women in
Stockholm, Sweden. Aug24, 2013
24
August

People poured out angry protest recent violence in
Goma, Democratic Republic Congo.Aug24, 2013
24
August

President Washington Monument reflected
on a lake in the early morning. Aug24, 2013
24
August

Remnants of a poster of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi are pictured on a wall on a street in Cairo
August 25, 2013. Egypt's army-backed government shortened a night-time curfew by two hours on
Saturday, 10 days after imposing it during a fierce crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Cairo.
Authorities imposed the curfew on August 14 when police destroyed Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo set
up to demand the reinstatement of Mursi. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
25
August

Luis Jaime Castillo, a Peruvian archaeologist with Lima's Catholic University and an incoming deputy culture minister, flies a drone over the archaeological site of Cerro
Chepen in Trujillo August 3, 2013. In Peru, home to the spectacular Inca city of Machu Picchu and thousands of ancient ruins, archaeologists are turning to drones to speed
up sluggish survey work and protect sites from squatters, builders and miners. Remote-controlled aircraft were developed for military purposes and are a controversial tool
in U.S. anti-terrorism campaigns, but the technology's falling price means it is increasingly used for civilian and commercial projects around the world. REUTERS/Mariana
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A Free Syrian Army fighter wears a hat while resting in a safe house in
Jobar, Damascus August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abdullah
25
August

A Free Syrian Army sniper takes a shooting
position in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr, August
25, 2013. REUTERS/Malek Alshemali
25
August

Orthodox nuns hold candles during a procession in Jerusalem's
Old City early morning August 25, 2013. Christian worshipers took
part in the annual procession in which an icon of the Virgin Mary is
carried from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old
City to a church at the foot of the Mount of Olives, where
Christians believe the tomb of the Virgin Mary is
located. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
25
August

Visitors run away from waves from a tidal bore as it surges
past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou
Zhejiang province, China, August
25, 2013.REUTERS/Stringer
25
August

Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke perform "Blurred
Lines" during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in
New York August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas
Jackson
25
August

Palestinian schoolchildren look out the window of their classroom at a U.N.-
run school in Dir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on the first day of the
school year, August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
25
August

A boy salvages belongings amid burnt debris at
Htan Kone village in Myanmar's northern Sagaing
region August 25, 2013. Authorities restored order
in Myanmar's northern Sagaing region on Sunday
after a Buddhist mob set fire to nearly two dozen
Muslim-owned buildings and attacked rescue
workers in the latest widening of sectarian violence
in the former military-run state. REUTERS/Soe
Zeya Tun
25
August

Railroad workers and police investigators stand near the overturned
carriages of a derailed train in Huimanguillo, in the Mexican state of
Tabasco August 25, 2013. At least six people were killed when a cargo
train nicknamed "La Bestia," or "The Beast," on which would-be migrants
hitch rides toward the U.S. border, derailed in a remote area of southern
Mexico on Sunday, state officials said. REUTERS/Luis Manuel Lopez
25
August

Media and support boats follow the Emirates Team
New Zealand as they celebrate winning the 30th
anniversary Louis Vuitton Cup Final against Italy's
Luna Rossa Challenge on San Francisco
Bay, California August 25, 2013. Emirates Team New
Zealand will challenge defender Oracle Team USA in
America's Cup starting September
7, 2013.REUTERS/Peter Andrews
25
August

Lady Gaga dances to Justin Timberlake's performance
during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in New
York, August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
25
August

Orlando Duque of Colombia dives off the roof of
the Institute of Contemporary Art during the Red
Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2013 competition in
Boston, Massachusetts August 25, 2013. Divers
plunged some 90 feet from the roof of the
contemporary art museum into Boston Harbor.
This is an in-camera, multiple exposure
photograph. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
25
August

Police officers escort a man (face covered), who
was arrested in connection with the gang-rape
of a photo journalist, at a court in Mumbai
August 25, 2013. Indian police arrested the
man, the third suspect in connection with the
gang-rape, an official said on Saturday, in a
case that has drawn comparisons with an attack
in December that led to nationwide protests and
a revision of rape laws. REUTERS/Danish
Siddiqui
25
August

A model, wearing a costume, participates in the 12th Jember
Fashion Carnival in Jember, Indonesia's East Java province
August 25, 2013. Seven hundred and fifty participants
presented creations made by fashion designers from six
different Indonesian cities during the carnival, which has a 3.6
km (2.2 mile) route. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas
25
August

Close to 1,200 participants throw their hats into the air inside a hangar, in an attempt to set a world
record, as an All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane (R) and a Japan Airlines' Boeing 777
plane are pictured in the background, at an event to promote the city's bid to host the 2020 Olympic
Games, at Haneda airport in Tokyo August 25, 2013. The challenge event, organised by the Tokyo
2020 Bid Committee, ANA, JAL and Japan Airport Terminal Co., was held to aim for an entry in the
Guinness Book of World Records for the most people throwing hats simultaneously. REUTERS/Issei
Kato
25
August

A Free Syrian Army fighter
enters his safe house in old
Aleppo, August 25, 2013.
A Free Syrian Army fighter places a locally made bomb in a wall to make a hole for
snipers in old Aleppo, August 25, 2013.
A member of the Free Syrian Army is
seen in a damaged building in Salah
al-Din neighbourhood in central
Aleppo August 24, 2013.
A young Free Syrian Army fighter is seen with his weapon in old Aleppo, August
25, 2013.
25
August

U.N. chemical weapons experts visit a hospital where wounded people affected
by an apparent gas attack are being treated, in the southwestern Damascus
suburb of Mouadamiya, August 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Abo Alnour Alhaji
Residents gather around a convoy of U.N. vehicles carrying a team of U.N.
chemical weapons experts at one of the sites of an alleged poison gas attack in
the southwestern Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya, August 26, 2013.
U.N. chemical weapons experts visit people affected by an apparent gas
attack, at a hospital in the southwestern Damascus suburb of
Mouadamiya, August 26, 2013.
U.N. chemical weapons experts meet residents at one of the sites of an alleged
poison gas attack in the southwestern Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya,
August 26, 2013.
26
August

A civilian is comforted at a site hit by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Fardous neighborhood August 26, 2013. REUTERS-
Molhem Barakat
A U.N. vehicle carrying a team of United
Nations chemical weapons experts, is
pictured as they return to their hotel in
Damascus August 26, 2013, after visiting
one of the sites of an alleged poison gas
attack. September 3, 2013 174
26
August
A U.N. chemical weapons expert gathers evidence at one of the sites of an
alleged poison gas attack in the southwestern Damascus suburb of
Mouadamiya, August 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Ahmad Alshami
A U.N. chemical weapons expert gathers evidence at one of the sites of an alleged
poison gas attack in the southwestern Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya, August
26, 2013.
REUTERS/Ahmad Alshami

A U.N. chemical weapons expert gathers
evidence at one of the sites of an alleged
poison gas attack in the southwestern
Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya, August
26, 2013. The United Nations said on Monday it
was still possible for the U.N. team of chemical
weapons experts to gather evidence necessary
to investigate last week's alleged gas attack
despite the lapse of time. REUTERS/Ahmad
Alshami
26
August

Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover from snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar
Al-Assad in Deir al-Zor August 23, 2013. Picture taken August 23, 2013.
The rubble of a building is
pictured in Khan Al-wazir in
old Aleppo, August 25, 2013.
United Nations (U.N.) vehicles transport a team of U.N.
chemical weapons experts to the scene of a poison gas
attack outside the Syrian capital last week, in Damascus
August 26, 2013.September 3, 2013 176
26
August

Free Syrian Army fighters inspect munitions and a tank that belonged to forces loyal to
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after they seized Aleppo's town of Khanasir August
26, 2013.
Refugee camp in the outskirts of the city of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Picture
taken August 26.
Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad carry a wounded soldier at the front
line during clashes with opposition fighters in the Damascus suburb of Jobar, August
24, 2013.
Survivors from what activists say is a gas attack
rest inside a mosque in the Duma
neighbourhood of Damascus August 21, 2013.September 3, 2013 177
26
August

Workers demolish a privately-built villa, surrounded by imitation rocks, on the rooftop of a 26-storey residential building in Beijing, August 26, 2013. A Chinese property
owner has started dismantling the elaborate villa built illegally, complete with a garden, on top of a Beijing apartment block after complaints from his neighbors and a
government warning to tear it down. On August 12 authorities demanded that Zhang Biqing, the villa's builder, demolish it within 15 days, calling it an illegal structure
after residents complained to the local government. REUTERS/Stringer
26
August

A former Maoist rebel is offered tika by his family members as they
celebrate his integration as a lieutenant into the national army, as
part of the peace deal, at Nepal Military Academy in Kharipati in
Bhaktapur, Nepal, August 26, 2013. This is the final step for the
integration process of Maoist rebels into the national
army. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
26
August

A man rows a boat in the flooded waters of river Ganges under a
bridge in the northern Indian city of Allahabad August
26, 2013. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
26
August

Palestinian tunnel workers rest inside a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Gaza-
Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip, August 26, 2013. Egyptian security
forces have stepped up a crackdown campaign on smuggling tunnels between
Egypt and the Gaza Strip since July, Hamas officials said. REUTERS/Mohammed
Salem
26
August

Workers paste up an election poster showing the top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union
(CDU) in the upcoming German general elections, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in
Berlin, August 26, 2013. Pictured to the right is an election poster showing the top candidate of the
Social Democratic Party (SPD) Peer Steinbrueck. German voters will take to the polls in a general
election on September 22. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
26
August

A man, whose last name is Hou (L), climbs outside a window with a
knife, as his mother (C) and a plain clothes policeman look on, in
Anshan, Liaoning province, China, August 26, 2013. Hou held his
mother captive in his apartment before climbing out of the window and
threatening to cut himself. After several hours, he was controlled by
policemen who managed to enter the house from another window with
the help of his mother, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer
26
August

:Men search for survivors amid the rubble of
collapsed buildings after what activists said
was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's
Fardous neighbourhood, August
26, 2013. REUTERS/Malek Alshemali
26
August

Bishop-General Macarius, a Coptic Orthodox leader, walks around the
burnt and damaged Evangelical Church in Minya governorate, about
245 km (152 miles) south of Cairo, August 26, 2013. Egypt's Coptic
Christians, who make up 10 percent of its 85 million people, have
coexisted with the majority Sunni Muslims for centuries. Violence
erupted periodically, especially in the impoverished south, but the
attacks on churches and Christian properties earlier this month are the
worst in years. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
26
August

Venus Williams celebrates after her victory over Kirsten
Flipkens of Belgium at the U.S. Open in New York, August
26, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar
26
August

A poster recommending the use of condoms is pictured inside an illuminated so-called 'sex box' during a media preview at a sex drive-in west of Zurich August 26, 2013. A
year after voters backed the plan to ban street street walkers from the city centre in a bid to make prostitution safer for both sex workers and customers, the sex drive-in will
be officially opened later today. After passing a check-in gate drivers, who must be alone in their vehicles, follow a marked route, negotiate a rate with one of the 40 prostitutes
stationed there and drive on to one of nine partially enclosed wooden booths to have sex. The facility includes a social room, toilets and showers for the working women, who
have to buy a 'worker ticket' each evening. Panic alarms are also installed in the wooden sheds. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
26
August

Sacramento Metropolitan firefighter John Graf monitors the Rim
Fire line near Camp Mather, California, August
26, 2013. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
26
August

Inmate firefighters line up for dinner at the
Rim Fire camp near Buck
Meadows, California, August 26, 2013. The
fire has burned 160,980 acres on the
northwest side of Yosemite National
Park. REUTERS/Max Whittaker
26
August

A dust storm hit the city of Phoenix, Arizona, USA, on August 26, 2013.
26
August

A Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a cat in al-Jdeideh
neighborhood in the old city of Aleppo August
27, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
27
August

Một chiến binh nổi dậy thuộc
Quân đội Syria tự do cảnh giác
nhìn ra ngoài trong ẩn náu bên
trong một cửa hàng bị bắn phá
tan hoang trong khu phố cổ thành
phố Aleppo, Syria.-aug27

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past a torn
poster amid the rubble in the old city of Aleppo
August 27, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman
27
August

A Free Syrian Army fighter paints a homemade
launcher to camouflage it on a street in Aleppo's
Karm al-Jabal district August
27, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat
27
August

Amhed al-Mekhlafi, 30, a former army soldier dives
into a pool during the men's 50m freestyle final at the
Capital Sanaa Swimming Championship in Sanaa
August 27, 2013. Al-Mekhlafi lost a leg in 2005 during
a battle against Shi'ite rebels in northwestern
Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
27
August

People launch a 30-metre-diameter paper lantern at Xiapo
village, Qionghai, Hainan province, early August 27, 2013.
The lantern, made of 72 smaller lanterns, was designed for
a local ritual ceremony to mark the Chinese Hungry Ghost
Festival. The Ghost Festival, also known as Yu Lan, is a
traditional Chinese festival on the 15th night of the seventh
month of the Chinese calendar. REUTERS/China Daily
27
August

John Isner of the U.S. serves to Filippo Volandri of
Italy as the shadows of spectators show on the court
at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York
August 27, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar
27
August

MiG-29 jet fighters of the Strizhi (Swifts) and Sukhoi Su-27 jet
fighters of the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerobatic teams
perform during a demonstration flight at the MAKS International
Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Moscow August
27, 2013. The world's top aircraft makers, scenting a major
opportunity in replacing ageing Russian air fleets, will be touting their
wares at Moscow's MAKS air show this week in the hope of winning a
big slice of that multi-billion dollar market. REUTERS/Maxim
Shemetov
27
August

A six-year-old boy, whose eyes were gouged out, is pushed in a
wheelchair at a hospital in Taiyuan, Shanxi province August
27, 2013. Chinese police are hunting for a woman suspected of
gouging out the eyes of the boy, possibly to get her hands on his
corneas to sell on the organ transplant black market, state media
reported on Wednesday, a crime which has horrified
China. REUTERS/Stringer
27
August

Local resident Kaidjiatou Ama Coulibaly
shows her henna tattoo in Bamako August
27, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney
27
August

A convoy of vehicles drives through a blackened landscape at the Rim
Fire just outside of Yosemite National Park, California, August 27, 2013.
One of the largest California wildfires on record roared deeper east into
Yosemite National Park on Tuesday, frightening away many late-
summer visitors, while the sprawling blaze also crept closer to
thousands of homes west of the park. REUTERS/David McNew
27
August

Một phu khuân vác người Ấn Độ gắng sức khuân túi gạo nặng 60 kg ở kho hàng gần New Delhi. Aug 27,2013
27
August

Kayakers paddle in the Connecticut River from
Hinsdale, New Hampshire, in front of the Vermont
Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vermont August
27, 2013. Entergy Corp. announced it will will shut down
the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2014 citing
high costs tied to regulation and competition from cheap
natural gas, bringing to an end a long battle with state
politicians and environmentalists seeking to close the
plant. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
27
August

Israelis receive gas mask kits at a distribution point in
Tel Aviv August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Nir Elias
28
August

Revelers battle with tomatoes during the annual "Tomatina"
(tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunol, near
Valencia August 28, 2013. The origin of the tomato fight is
disputed - everyone in Bunol seems to have a favorite story
- but most agree it started around 1940, in the early years of
General Francisco Franco's dictatorship. REUTERS/Heino
Kalis
28
August

Handprints are pictured on a U.N. vehicle carrying a team of U.N.
chemical weapons experts visiting one of the sites of an alleged
chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of
Damascus August 28, 2013. U.N. chemical weapons experts
investigating an apparent gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians
in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus made a second trip across the
front line to take samples. REUTERS/Mohamed AbdullahSeptember 3, 2013 206
28
August

28
August

Free Syrian Army fighters run to take cover
from snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar
Al-Assad near Aleppo International airport
August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat
28
August

An unmanned Delta 4 Heavy
rocket, the largest booster in in the
U.S. fleet, lifts off from Vandenberg
Air Force Base in California to put a
classified satellite into orbit for the
National Reconnaissance Office
August 28, 2013 REUTERS/Gene
Blevins
28
August

Zheng Jie of China (L) shakes hands wirh Venus Williams of the
U.S. after Zheng won their second round match at the U.S. Open
tennis championships in New York August
28, 2013. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine
28
August

An Israeli soldier adjusts sights on a tank during
a drill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
August 28, 2013. Israel ordered a small-scale
mobilization of reservists on Wednesday and
strengthened its missile defenses as precautions
against possible Syrian attack should Western
powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria.
Israel remains technically at war with
Syria, which has long demanded an Israeli
withdrawal from the strategic Golan Heights, land
that Israel captured in a 1967
war. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
28
August

A Free Syrian Army fighter rests inside a safe room in
Deir al-Zor August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
28
August

The map shows the areas
(red) chemical attack.
GeoEye Google-Graphics
28
August

Graffiti is seen on fence surrounding the
construction site for the new headquarters
of the European Central Bank (ECB) in
Frankfurt August 28, 2013. The ECB
council will hold its monthly meeting
September 5. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
28
August

The ferry is shaped like a duck on the
Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Aug
28.2013
28
August

A woman walks past a burnt vehicle near
Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, August
28, 2013. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
28
August

The car burned bare of huge forest fire near Yosemite National
Park, California, USA. Aug 28.2013
28
August

Người diễn trò mặc trang phục khủng long Tyrannosaurus rex trong một
sự kiện quảng bá ở trung tâm Sydney, Úc.-Aug28,2013
28
August

Two Pakistani men cross a river by sliding the wire
in the outskirts of Islamabad. Aug 28.2013
28
August

Actor Hugh Jackman (L) walks onto the stage as a Kuroko (C) (stagehand in traditional
Japanese theatres) gestures to him during a news conference of the movie "The
Wolverine" in Tokyo August 29, 2013. The movie will be screened in Japan on
September 13, 2013. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
29
August

Binh sĩ Israel lái xe ở khu vực
Cao nguyên Golan-Aug 29,2013
29
August

Bức chân dung Hoàng tử Alexei
Romanov thuộc hoàng tộc Sa hoàng
cuối cùng của Nga -Aug 29,2013
29
August

Điểm vui chơi mùa hè tại Thủy cung Hakkeijima Sea
Paradise ở thành phố Yokohama, ngoại ô Tokyo, Nhật Bản .-
29 Aug,2013
29
August

Hỏa tiễn không người lái Delta
4 khởi hành từ Căn cứ không
quân Vandenberg ở bang
California, Mỹ -Aug 29,2013
29
August

Mưa lớn tại vùng Patna ở phía đông
bang Bihar, Ấn Độ.-29 Aug,2013
29
August

A youth stands at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, a day
after the bombing, August 29, 2013. A series of car bombings and
other attacks across Baghdad on Wednesday killed 86 people and
wounded 263, police and medical sources said, extending the worst
wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq for at least five
years. REUTERS/Ahmed Malik
29
August

An aerial view of the Burning Man 2013
arts and music festival is seen in the Black
Rock Desert of Nevada, August 29, 2013.
The federal government issued a permit
for 68,000 people from all over the world
to gather at the sold out festival, which is
celebrating its 27th year, to spend a week
in the remote desert cut off from much of
the outside world to experience art, music
and the unique community that
develops. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
29
August

Yarisley Silva of Cuba competes in
the women's pole vault during the
Weltklasse Diamond League athletics
meeting in Zurich August
29, 2013. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
29
August

A view of the city's skyline from the Beijing Yintai
Centre building at sunset in Beijing, August
29, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee
29
August

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia hits a return to
Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania as the
shadows of spectators show on the court at
the U.S. Open tennis championships in New
York August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Eduardo
Munoz
29
August

A U.N. chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from
one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus
August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abdullah
29
August

Local activists and Syrian-American supporters
of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hold up his
image during an anti-war rally in front of a U.S.
Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times
Square, August 29, 2013. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
29
August

A man takes off his prison uniform while he is
being released from Hoang Tien prison, outside
Hanoi, August 30, 2013. Vietnam has freed
15,446 prisoners on the occasion of its National
Day (September 2), with the exception of
political dissidents. REUTERS/Kham
30
August

A Palestinian protester uses a metal rod at
the controversial Israeli barrier during
clashes with Israeli border policemen after a
protest, which was against Palestinian
prisoners being held in Israeli jails, in the
West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah
August 30, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamad
Torokman
30
August

Free Syrian Army fighters launch locally made rockets in Deir al-
Zor, August 31, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
31
August

Migrants, who said they were from Syria, sit on the
ground after being apprehended by the Serbian border
police, having illegally entered the country from
Macedonia, near the town of Presevo some 383 km (238
miles) from capital Belgrade July 17, 2013. Every
year, the Serbian border police catch thousands of
migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere
who are trying to reach Serbia illegally. In many cases
they come from Turkey, through Greece to Macedonia
and Serbia before they reach Hungary and with it, the
borderless Schengen travel zone. With chaos and
conflict raging in Syria, last year saw a huge increase in
the number of Syrians trying to enter the Western
Balkans in search of asylum in the
West. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

31
August

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