Australia’s Rachel Goh competes in the women’s 50-meter backstroke at the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Moscow.
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Victor Calise, New York City’s commissioner for the Office for People with Diabilities, snaps a shot of a monument at the opening ceremony of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park.
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A circus performer lends his big red nose to protests outside the Italian parliament in Rome as lawmakers hold a session on animal performers.
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Performers stroll the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the urban art piece ‘Blind,’ held by Deviation Performance Collective and the Collective Pi.
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A man launches fireworks in the direction of the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, as protestors demand the extradition of former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, now in exile in the United States.
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Mom Bana takes a nap with her yet-unnamed newborn — born Oct. 11 — at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
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Students protest education cuts at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona. Spain’s government said it will decide within the next few weeks whether to ask for outside financial help.
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Syrian rebels guard near the front line of their clashes with pro-government forces in Aleppo.
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Here’s a preview of some of the coming goodies from tech giant Google, which plans to launch a website featuring shots of the inner workings of its previously secretive data centers.
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A sniper in a control tower in a recently captured airfield scopes out the surrounding area for al Shabaab militants as the Ugandan contingent of African Union peacekeeping troops in Somalia prepares to advance towards Baidoa.
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Oracle Team USA crew members hang from netting after their boat capsized on San Francisco Bay.
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President Obama strolls past a windowed White House door on his way to campaign rallies in the Midwest.
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