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Chad le Clos gets his picture at OR Tambo airport taken with a fan wanting to take the swimming ace to her matric dance. Picture: Antoine de Ras
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South Africa's 800m Olympic silver medalist Caster Semenya, far right, is welcomed by her grandmother as teammates watch during their arrival at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Picture: AP
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Cameron van der Burgh, the men's 100-meter breaststroke Olympic gold medallist and world record holder, centre, poses for a photograph at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Picture: AP
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South Africa's Olympics Bronze medalist canoeist in K1 500 metre, Bridgitte Hartley, right, talks with teammates, silver medal winner 800m runner Caster Semenya, and gold medal winner for lightweight men's rowing four, Sizwe Ndlovu, left, looks on during their arrival at ...
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Striking miners arrive at a gathering outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100km northwest of Johannesburg on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Shares in world number three platinum producer Lonmin dropped almost five percent in London and four percent in Johannesburg on ...
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A college girl gets her eye painted in tri-colours of India's national flag on the eve of the country's Independence Day celebrations in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Picture: Reuters
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Members of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot who are still at large, wait before an interview with Reuters journalists in Moscow on Monday, August 13, 2012. A court will deliver a verdict on Friday in the case of three members of the band who are accused of hooliganis ...
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Flood affected residents gather under the rain as they queue for relief goods in suburban Marikina, east of Manila on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Tropical Storm Kai-Tak will continue to move northwestward on Wednesday toward southeastern China and is expected to dump more ...
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A man, with his face painted depicting the colours of the Pakistan national flag, attends a ceremony to mark the country's Independence Day at the Wagah border crossing with India on the outskirts of Lahore on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Pakistan gained independence from B ...
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A couple pick flowers on a warm and sunny day in a field, Duesseldorf, Germany, on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Temperatures in Germany are forecast to rise above 30C. Picture: AP
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Vegetarian Silvia Wald puts a cloth ham on the sales counter of her shop "Aufschnitt" (German for cold cut) in Berlin on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. The engineer for clothing technology started in 2009 to design cold cut from cotton stretch velvet, lycra, wool or micro fib ...
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Yang Guang, a male giant panda, licks honey from a bamboo stem during a media event for his ninth birthday celebrations in his enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Yang Guang's partner Tian Tian celebrates her ninth birthday on A ...
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An earthquake victim stands near rubble in the earthquake-stricken town of Azerbaijan in Iran on Monday, August 13, 2012. Rescue workers in Iran on Tuesday recovered more bodies three days after two powerful earthquakes struck the northwest of the country, killing more t ...
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A worker inspects the decoration of a beer tent at the construction site for the Oktoberfest in Munich on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital for the 179th Oktoberfest beer festival, which will start ...
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An exile Tibetan places candles on a sculpture known as Tibetan martyr's wall, during a candlelit vigil in Dharmsala, India, in solidarity with Tibetans who allegedly self-immolated in Tibet on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Exiles claim that two Tibetans from the Kirti monas ...
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Construction workers are seen at the Riverbank Stadium in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. The Olympic Park will be one of the venues for the London Paralympics, which begins on August 29, 2012. Picture: Reuters
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US President Barack Obama orders from Mark Raymie while stopping at the Coffee Connection in Knoxville, Iowa, during his bus tour of Iowa on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Picture: Reuters