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Day in photos The Olympics, Mars Curiosity, the Sikh temple shooting and more.
Aug. 5, 2012
Sanya Richards-Ross of the United States reacts after winning the women's 400-meter race at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
Markus Schreiber
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AP
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Aug. 5, 2012
China’s Lulu Zhou competes to win the gold medal during the women's 75-kilogram Group A weightlifting event of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Aug. 5, 2012
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the men's 100-meter final race during the track and field competition in Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Games in London. Bolt won in 9.63 seconds, the second-fastest 100 in history and an Olympic record that let him join Carl Lewis as the only men with consecutive gold medals in the Summer Games’ marquee track event.
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AP
Aug. 5, 2012
NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden closes his eyes as the rover Curiosity begins its descent to the surface of Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The rover landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 p.m. Pacific time to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, NASA said.
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
Brian Schratz, the entry descent and landing communications lead for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hugs a colleague at the laboratory’s Pasadena, Calif., mission control center as they celebrate the successful landing of the Mars rover Curiosity rover.
Brian van der Brug
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
From left, Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity team members John Grunsfeld, NASA associate administrator; Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Pete Theisinger, MSL project manager; Richard Cook, MSL deputy project manager; Adam Steltzner, MSL entry, descent and landing lead; and John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist, raise their arms in celebration of the rover’s landing on the surface of Mars at the lab in Pasadena, Calif.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
Aug. 5, 2012
One of the first images taken by NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars at 1:31 a.m. Eastern time. The rover is equipped with a nuclear-powered lab capable of vaporizing rocks and ingesting soil, measuring habitability and assessing whether Mars ever had an environment able to support microbial life forms. After traveling 354 million miles since its Nov. 26 launch, the rover’s landed within the 9-by-3-mile ellipse selected for touchdown. Curiosity is most likely in a dune field now, but it will set out for nearby Mount Sharp in the weeks ahead.
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Aug. 4, 2012
A man takes off on his water jet pack during a recreational sporting competition near the village of Pleshchenitsy, Russia. An estimated 200 participants from neighboring countries took part in the weekend event, which featured biking and water sporting activities.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
Children in Hebburn, England, play in floodwater as torrential downpours caused flash floods throughout the United Kingdom.
Scott Heppell
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AP
Aug. 3, 2012
Eleven-year-old Zach Collins beats the heat by diving into the waters of Fern Ridge Reservoir, just west of Eugene, Ore. This past weekend marked the hottest of the year in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Chris Pietsch
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Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard via AP
Aug. 5, 2012
Crew members push Ryan Newman's car through the downpour at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. The race was called after 98 laps because of the rain. Newman finished 14th in the race; Jeff Gordon, in his 86th career victory, won for the first time since September 2011 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Mel Evans
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AP
Aug. 5, 2012
Floodwaters rush by a home in Johnson City, Tenn. Heavy rains pounded northeast Tennessee, stranding vehicles and surrounding homes and apartments with floodwaters.
Dave Boyd
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Johnson City, Tenn., Press via AP
Aug. 4, 2012
A dog stands on the edge of a bridge in Duda, India, that was damaged after a flash flood. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains killed people in northern India, including three firefighters who were swept away as they helped rescue the stranded, an official said Saturday.
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AP
Aug. 6, 2012
On the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, people release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River across from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in remembrance of atomic bomb victims.
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Kyodo News via Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
A man waits to hear information about his loved ones outside a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where six people were fatally shot during a religious service.
Mike De Sisti
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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP
Aug. 5, 2012
Unsure of the whereabouts of her family members, a woman waits to be escorted into a building housing the survivors of a shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek. The reported shooter, who was fatally shot by a police officer, was a military veteran from a neighboring community, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said Monday morning. A senior law enforcement official identified the veteran as Wade Michael Page, 40, a six-year Army enlistee who rose to the rank of sergeant before being demoted to specialist and leaving the military in 1998.
Kyle Grillot
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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP
Aug. 6, 2012
Activists from National Akali Dal, a regional Sikh political party, hold swords and shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi against Sunday’s shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis.
Adnan Abidi
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
People stand near Turkish military vehicles stationed in front of the military outpost at Gecimli, Turkey. Six soldiers, two village guards and 14 Kurdish rebels were killed following an assault by Kurdish rebels on an army post in a village in the southeastern province of Hakkari, the local governor told the Anatolia news agency. Three of the slain rebels were women, Gov. Orhan Alimoglu said. An additional 15 soldiers, one village guard and five civilians were wounded, according to a statement from the governor's office cited by Anatolia. The rebels, from the Kurdistan Workers Party, launched simultaneous assaults on three border posts, but the casualties occurred at the one in Gecimli, the Turkish television news station NTV reported.
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Aug. 4, 2012
Activist members of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist clash with Nepalese police personnel during a torch rally to demand the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, in the capital city of Kathmandu.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover during clashes with Syrian army soldiers in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of Aleppo.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 4, 2012
Participants in Amsterdam’s Canal Parade pose as their boats pass through the city’s waterways. The parade is the highlight of the Dutch capital’s annual gay pride festival.
Paul Vreeker
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
Revelers dressed as Viking warriors land in Catoira, Spain, during the annual Viking Festival. The event, which takes place on the first Sunday of August, commemorates the Viking raids on the northwestern coasts of Spain 1,000 years ago.
Lalo R. Villar
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AP
Aug. 5, 2012
Bettina Monroe, dressed as Marilyn Monroe, pays her respects at Monroe's grave in Los Angeles’s Pierce Bros. Westwood Memorial Park. A memorial service was held Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the actress's death.
Krista Kennell
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Reuters
Aug. 4, 2012
A masked celebrant takes part in a parade commemorating Neku Jatra-Mataya, the Buddhist festival of lights, in Lalitpur, Nepal. The festival marks the victory of Sakyamuni Buddha over Mara; participants celebrate by praying for the souls of departed family members and holding parades throughout the city.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
A French bulldog stands in Bruges’s Grote Markt on a sunny day in the Belgian capital.
Yves Herman
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Reuters
Aug.5, 2012
This photo, made available by police, shows a squirrel stuck in a manhole cover on a street in Isernhagen, Germany. The animal was rescued and set free by the police after several attempts using olive oil failed.
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AFP/Getty Images
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