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South Africa's Chad le Clos reacts as he wins gold in the men's 200m butterfly swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Picture: AP
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A woman selects sacred threads known as 'Rakhis' at a market in Karachi on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Rakhi, a Hindu festival also known as Raksha Bandhan, is an event when sisters tie a sacred thread, 'Rakhi', around their brother's wrists for his well-being, in return ...
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Iranians recite verses of the Quran, Islam's holy book, during the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadaan at the shrine of Saint Mohammad Helal Ibn Ali, in the city of Aran and Bidgol, some 225km south of the capital Tehran on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. During Ramadaan, ...
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Graffiti is seen sprayed onto the entrance of the Poor Clares Monastery in Malonne, Belgium, on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Graffiti was sprayed in reaction to the eventual of Michelle Martin, the ex-wife of Belgium's child killer Marc Dutroux - the man responsible for se ...
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Mime artists Maciek, right, and Viola, left, painted in gold and silver take a break in the shade, near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. The Polish street artists used to perform in front of the landmark. Picture: AP
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An Indian girl weaves a cloth in candle light during a regular load shedding in Mainakhurung on the outskirts of Gauhati in India on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Factories and workshops across India were up and running again on Wednesday, a day after a major system collaps ...
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Spanish acrobat David Pereira is silhouetted as he performs on the roof terrace of a hotel with the 368m high television tower in the background during a photo call in Berlin on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Pereira and other artists presented parts of the new show "Made in ...
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A man holding a pole stays on the mound of garbage washed ashore by big waves as others search for recyclable materials on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, along Roxas Boulevard in Manila. The slow-moving Typhoon Saola killed at least 12 people and displaced 154 000 in the Phi ...
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Seven-year-old Newlin Hu takes a photograph of Yonghui Ho, right, and Ziaoyan Liu, left, next to a sunflower field near Tonganoxie on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Yonghui is studying at the University of Kansas. The family is from a small town near Shanghai, China. Picture: A ...
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Tourists brave winds and rain from the approaching Typhoon Saola in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Picture: AP
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Multiple bolts of lightning streak to the ground as a severe thunderstorm moves through eastern Henderson County in Kentucky on Tuesday evening, July 31, 2012. The same storm system ripped through Southwestern Indiana, injuring at least four people and causing extensive ...
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Farmers harvest watermelons in a field near the village of Sofiyivka, some 80km south of the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Picture: Reuters