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Tables and chairs stand empty in the Olympic Park in London on Monday August 13, 2012, following the end of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Games ended on Sunday with a lavish closing ceremony and the handing over of the Olympic Flag to Rio De Janeiro the host city fo ...
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Pippi Kruger made her first trip home over the weekend to her mother Anice's house in Melville, Johannesburg. Her parents made up a bed with special pink sheets for her visit. Picture: Supplied
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Residents joined an anti-crime march to Pinetown's Santi sports field on Sunday, August 12, 2012, where they were addressed by Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa. Picture: Abhi Indrarajan
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Displaced people from Valle Hermoso Village, wait to leave the Island at San Sebatian harbour in La Gomera, Spain, on Monday, August 13, 2012. Wildfires spurred by high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Gomera and Alicante. Flames are threatening som ...
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A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Kuklici, known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones which resembles human beings, near Kratovo, 80km east of the capital Skopje, August 13, 2012. The Perseids meteor shower is observed every August w ...
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Women of Jammu and Kashmir police march during a rehearsal for the Indian Independence Day celebrations in Jammu on Monday, August 13, 2012. India celebrates its 1947 independence from British colonial rule on August 15. Picture: AP
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Clouds pass over St Peter's square at the Vatican on Monday, August 13, 2012. A Vatican judge ordered the pope's butler and a fellow lay employee to stand trial in the scandal of pilfered documents from Pope Benedict XVI's private apartment. The indictment accused Paolo ...
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A doorway is seen near collapsed rubble in the earthquake-stricken village of Varzaqan near Ahar, in East Azerbaijan province, on Sunday, August 12, 2012. Iran's government faced criticism from lawmakers and the public on Monday over its handling of relief efforts after ...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, centre, during the country's Heroes Day Commemorations in Harare on Monday, August 13, 2012. Zimbabwe's president says his party's symbol of a raised fist was used to fight colonial-era white rule and is not a gesture of violence towar ...
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Workers sew prayer caps in a factory ahead of Eid al-Fitr, in old Dhaka on Monday, August 13, 2012. Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday to mark the end of Ramadaan, will be celebrated in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh during the third week of August. Picture: Reuters
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An artisan works on an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, at a workshop in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Monday, August 13, 2012. Idols of Ganesh are made two to three months before the day of "Ganesh Chaturthi", a popular religious fest ...
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A supporter of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, during the country's Heroes Day Commemorations in Harare on Monday, August 13, 2012. Zimbabwe's president says his party's symbol of a raised fist was used to fight colonial-era white rule and is not a gesture of violenc ...
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People look through a slot in a segment of the Berlin wall at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, August 13, 2012. Germany marks the 51th anniversary of the day communist East Germany sealed itself off behind the Wall. Germany had ...
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The Reverend Joshua Liljenstolpe, right, holds a flower as hundreds of people gather on the steps of Saint James Cathedral in Seattle on Sunday, August 12, 2012. Hundreds of people came out to support Catholic nuns on the steps of Saint James Cathedral, the episcopal sea ...
