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Children of Agent Orange, the human family tree re-examined, rhythmic gymnastics and more in the day in photos. News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 7, 2012
Ho Thi Lang, left, combs Ngo Diep Uyen's hair after her nap at a rehabilitation center in Danang, Vietnam. The children were born with physical and mental disabilities that the center's director says were caused by their parents' exposure to dioxin, found in the herbicide Agent Orange. The United States and Vietnam on Thursday launched a four-year joint effort to clean up the chemical, which was mixed, stored and loaded onto planes at a former U.S. military base that is part of Danang’s airport.
Maika Elan
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AP
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Aug. 7, 2012
Ho Thi Lang, 18, left, and Pham Thi Thuy Linh, 21, learn how to make artificial flowers at a rehabilitation center for victims of Agent Orange in Danang, Vietnam. The children were born with physical and mental disabilities that the center's director says were caused by their parents' exposure to dioxin, found in the defoliant. For the first time since the Vietnam War, the United States will begin cleaning up the chemical at a former U.S. military base.
Maika Elan
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
A warning sign stands in a Vietnamese field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport. The sign reads: "Dioxin contamination zone — livestock, poultry and fishery operations not permitted." U.S. planes sprayed Agent Orange during the Vietnam War to reduce jungle cover.
Maika Elan
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
Ho Thi Lang, foreground, helps prepare lunch for other children at a rehabilitation center in Danang, Vietnam. The children were born with physical and mental disabilities that the center's director says were caused by their parents' exposure to dioxin, found in the defoliant Agent Orange. Dioxin can linger in soils and at the bottom of lakes and rivers for generations, entering the food supply through the fat of fish and other animals.
Maika Elan
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
Le Trung Hong Phuc, 9, plays with colored blocks at a rehabilitation center in Danang, Vietnam.The facility assists children who were born with physical and mental disabilities that its director says were caused by their parents' exposure to Agent Orange.
Maika Elan
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
Chu Thanh Nhan,12, watches other children dance at a rehabilitation center in Danang, Vietnam. The children were born with physical and mental disabilities thought to be caused by their parents' exposure to dioxin, found in the defoliant Agent Orange.
Maika Elan
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear, second from right, and Vietnam's Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh, second from left, attend a ceremony marking the start of the project to clean up dioxin leftover from the Vietnam War.
Maika Elan
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
Men cross deep floodwaters in San Juan, north of Manila. Widespread flooding paralyzed the Philippine capital and many other areas as rescue efforts focused on the large number of residents who are marooned on rooftops and unable to move to high ground.
John Javellana
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
This aerial photograph shows houses swamped by floodwaters in Bulacan province, north of Manila. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced by deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of monsoon rains in the Philippine capital and nearby provinces. About 60 percent of Manila, a sprawling metropolis of about 12 million people, remained inundated Wednesday, said Benito Ramos, head of the country’s national disaster agency.
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Philippine Department of National Defense via Reuters
Aug. 9, 2012
A man uses ropes to move to safer ground as a river overflows in Cainta City, a suburb east of Manila. A fresh deluge forced more evacuations along fast-rising rivers in the Philippine capital Thursday.
Pat Roque
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AP
Aug. 9, 2012
Runners taking part in NVA's mass participation public art piece “Speed of Light” cross a path before a performance on Arthur’s Seat during Scotland’s Edinburgh International Festival. Hundreds of people wear light-emitting suits during a traversing of the hill.
David Moir
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Reuters
Aug. 8, 2012
Runners and walkers in light-emitting suits and holding light sticks make their way up Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of a dress rehearsal of the mass participation public art piece called “Speed of Light.”' The piece forms part of the annual Edinburgh International Festival. The light sticks are set to provide a musical accompaniment — movement triggers them to create different sounds.
Dan Kitwood
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Getty Images
Lt. Michael Sturm of Philadelphia hugs his fiancee, Susan Brooks, as he arrives in Norfolk aboard the nuclear-powered USS Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln will stay in its new Virginia home port for at least the next four years as it receives upgrades.
Steve Helber
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States celebrates with relatives after the final match in women’s beach volleyball at the London Olympics. She and Misty May-Treanor won gold medals in the event.
Daniel Garcia
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Bethesda’s Julie Zetlin performs her hoop program during the individual all-around qualification rounds for rhythmic gymnastics at the London Olympics.
Thomas Coex
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Egypt's Yasmine Mohmed Rostom competes using the ball in the individual all-around qualification rounds for rhythmic gymnastics at the London Olympics.
Brian Snyder
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Reuters
Aug. 8, 2012
The Colts Drum and Bugle Corps practices on intramural fields at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The group, founded in 1963 and based in Dubuque, Iowa, and has performed around the country more than 30 times this summer. The Drum Corps International World Championships are being held in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The Colts are not linked to Indianapolis’s NFL team of the same name.
Kurt Hostetler
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Muncie, Ind., Star Press via AP
Aug. 8, 2012
Fans react as a bat from the Tampa Bay Rays' Jose Molina flies into the stands near third base during the sixth inning of the team’s MLB game against the Toronto Blue Jays in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Steve Nesius
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Reuters
Aug. 8, 2012
President Obama wipes his brow in a hot gymnasium during a rally in Grand Junction, Colo. Obama is in Colorado for a two-day campaign trip.
Jason Reed
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Reuters
Aug. 8, 2012
A contestant looks down after finishing a text message during the U.S. National Texting Championship in New York. Last year’s champion, Austin Wierschke, who is not pictured, won the competition for the second year in a row, earning a $50,000 prize.
Andrew Burton
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Reuters
Aug. 8, 2012
A crew worker trims branches from the largest of three poisoned oaks on Auburn University’s campus in Auburn, Ala. The school pruned the oaks at Toomer's Corner to remove weakened branches before fall classes and football games resume; officials said fans will still be able to roll the trees with toilet paper after gridiron victories. An avid University of Alabama football fan is charged with poisoning the trees.
Robin Trimarchi
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
A grasshopper sits on a drought-damaged ear of corn near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Farmers in the nation's corn belt are confronting a drought that stretches from Ohio west to California and from Texas north to the Dakotas. Only in the 1930s and the 1950s has a drought covered more of the United States, according to the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
Nati Harnik
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AP
Aug. 8, 2012
The Martian horizon is seen by a camera on NASA's rover Curiosity. The primary mission of Curiosity is to search for evidence that the planet most similar to Earth harbors, or once hosted, the key ingredients necessary for the evolution of microbial life.
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NASA via Reuters
aug. 9, 2012
Health officials fumigate Accra ahead of tomorrow's burial of late Ghanaian president John Atta Mills. Thousands of Ghanaians in traditional black garb and red tops filed past the body of Mills, lying in state at the parliament in Accra, to pay their respects before the burial, which is slated for Friday.
Pius Utomi Ekpei
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2012
A small amount of debris found by Ocean Voyages Institute's ship Kaisei is put on display in Richmond, B.C. The tall ship has just returned from the north Pacific, where crew members tracked and salvaged man-made debris found floating in the area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The ship also conducted research on debris from last year's Japanese tsunami, which is floating across the Pacific and beginning to wash up on shores along North America’s coast.
Andy Clark
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Reuters
In this computer-enhanced image, a lower jaw, shown as a photographic reconstruction, and a cranium, based on a CT scan of the KNM-ER 1470 cranium found in 1972, is combined with the new lower jaw KNM-ER 60000. A famous family of paleontologists says newly discovered fossils confirm its controversial theory that the human family tree may have sprouted long-lost branches going back nearly 2 million years. Meave Leakey led a team of researchers in Kenya who claim what they dug up shows there once were two additional pre-human species besides the one that eventually led to modern humans. One of the researchers said these wouldn't be our direct ancestors, which are called Homo erectus, but more like very distant cousins. The study appears in the journal Nature.
Fred Spoor
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National Geographic’s Nature via AP
Aug. 8, 2012
A young Barbary macaque and its mother sit in their enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany. The baby monkey was born July 27, weighing just under a pound.
Martin Schutt
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AFP/Getty Images
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