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India Independence Day, Syrian air strikes, Western wildfires, plastination and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 15, 2012
Chase Culp, of Houston, checks his clown makeup before Circus Smirkus’s performance in Montpelier, Vt. Circus Smirkus, based in Greensboro, Vt., is an award-winning international youth circus, founded to promote the skills, culture and traditions of the traveling circus.
Toby Talbot
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AP
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Aug. 15, 2012
Rudy Parraga, from Guayaquil, Ecuador, shows his Galapagos-iguana-inspired haircut on a street in the Ecuadoran capital of Quito.
Guillermo Granja
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Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
A boy tries to control a wind-blown Indian flag as it is installed at a wholesale market in preparation for India’s Independence Day celebrations, in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
Babu
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Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
With the dome of the Jama Masjid mosque setting the New Delhi skyline, Indians fly kites from their rooftops, a common activity while celebrating Independence Day. India marked its 1947 independence from British colonial rule.
Kevin Frayer
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AP
Aug. 15, 2012.
A band member takes part in the celebrations marking the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, outside Valletta, the capital of Malta. Wednesday also marked an important day in the country’s history: It was the anniversary of Operation Pedestal, in which a British convoy arrived in Grand Harbour on Aug. 15, 1942, with much-needed food and supplies, just as the bomb-battered island was on the brink of starvation and close to surrendering to the Axis powers.
Darrin Zammit Lupi
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Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
An Italian Carabiniere falls off his horse during a parade on the eve of the Palio di Siena horse race. The Palio race is held twice a year in Siena, with jockeys riding bareback around a makeshift course set up in the city’s central square.
Fabio Muzzi
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2012
Horses compete during the General Proof on the eve of the Palio horse race, in Siena, Italy.
Fabio Muzzi
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2012
Dozens of houses are submerged in floodwaters after Tropical Storm Kai-Tak hit Baguio City, in the Philippines. Kai-Tak, also referred to as Tropical Storm Helen, battered the northern Philippines after making landfall Wednesday, killing at least two people, disaster officials said.
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Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Harrington Lake, Harper’s official country retreat, in Gatineau Park, Quebec. Merkel is on an official visit to Canada from Wednesday to Thursday. To their right is a traditional Inuit inukshuk stone landmark.
Chris Wattie
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Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
Police stand guard outside the Ecuadoran Embassy in London where Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is seeking asylum. Assange has been living inside the embassy since June 19, after requesting political asylum while facing extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault. He was granted asylum on Thursday by Ecuador, raising the possibility of a diplomatic showdown between British and Ecuadoran authorities.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at an awards ceremony for Russia’s Olympic team in Moscow’s Kremlin.
Maxim Shemetov
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2012
A man carries the body of a boy after a Syrian air force strike in Azaz, some 29 miles north of Aleppo, Syria.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
A man reacts after seeing the body of his relative buried in rubble after a Syrian air force strike destroyed at least 10 houses in the north Syrian border town of Azaz.
Khalil Hamra
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AP
Aug. 15, 2012
Denise Freeman rakes up pine needles to help make her log home less susceptible to a nearby wildfire in Featherville, Idaho. Freeman was among the residents warned that they will likely have to evacuate their homes because of the nearby Trinity Ridge Fire, which has burned more than 100 square miles in the past two weeks.
Jessie L. Bonner
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AP
Aug. 14, 2012
David Firth tries to beat back a fire heading toward his home in Cle Elum, Wash. The blaze sparked up at a construction site Monday afternoon near in this town about 75 miles east of Seattle, and spread rapidly.
Bettina Hansen
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Seattle Times via AP
Aug. 15, 2012
Marcus Johns, of the Department of Natural Resources, watches as the Taylor Bridge Fire burns on the south side of Highway 970 near Cle Elum, Wash. The Taylor Bridge Fire has forced hundreds to evacuate the area and has burned dozens of houses.
Joshua Trujillo
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seattlepi.com via AP
Aug. 13, 2012
This NASA satellite image shows fires burning in California, Nevada and Oregon, among them the Holloway Fire, the Barry Point Fire, the Reading Fire and the Rush Fire. Wildfires roared across the sun-scorched West on Wednesday, threatening to spread into two small towns in Idaho. Firefighters managed to partially dampen a blaze that has destroyed 60 homes in Washington state.
Jeff Schmaltz
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NASA via Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
An inmate fire crew moves out to battle their portion of the Buck Fire, near Temecula, Calif. Across the West, dozens of fires fueled by searing heat, dry weather and strong winds have been adding to the misery of weary residents, who have been dealing with one of the region’s worst fire seasons in decades.
Denise Goolsby
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AP
Aug. 14, 2012
Brian Putman grimaces as he and his car are sprayed with hot coolant while competing in the Figure 8 Demolition Derby at the Clarke County Fair in Berryville, Va. Putman was uninjured and continued to race.
Scott Mason
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Winchester, Va., Star via AP
It has been more than half a century since some of the first concept cars with self-driving features — including this 1959 Cadillac Cyclone, pictured in an undated handout photo received by Reuters last Thursday — were presented to the world, and they’re still not on the roads. But many auto executives say the industry is on the cusp of welcoming vehicles that make the idea of keeping both hands on the wheel an anachronism. The Cadillac Cyclone included an autopilot system that steered the car and a radar system in the front nose cones that acted as a proximity warning system, applying the rocket-like car’s brakes to avoid collisions.
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General Motors via Reuters
Aug. 15, 2012
A woman experiments with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in New York. Samsung unveiled the tablet computer Wednesday. Several key features include an “S Pen” that can be used for jotting notes and drawing on the screen, a 9-hour battery life and its ability to act as a universal remote control for an entertainment center. Note 10.1 tablets are powered by Google’s Android software.
Don Emmert
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2012
Brazilian-born Felipe Sousa Matos holds his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals papers during a news conference in Miami. Sousa Matos graduated summa cum laude from St. Thomas University, with a bachelor’s degree in business studies and a minor in economics. Hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants scrambled to get papers in order Wednesday as the U.S. started accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit, but not a path to citizenship.
Alan Diaz
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AP
Aug. 15, 2012
People line up for assistance with paperwork for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. The U.S. government began accepting applications on Wednesday from young undocumented immigrants seeking temporary legal status under relaxed deportation rules announced by the Obama administration on June.
Jonathan Alcorn
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Reuters
Aug 15, 2012
Students wait in line for assistance with paperwork for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
Jonathan Alcorn
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Reuters
Aug. 14, 2012
“Body Worlds,” an exhibition by Gunther von Hagens at the Universum museum in Mexico City, features this plastinated human body in the posture of a soccer player. Von Hagens is a German anatomist who invented plastination, the method for preserving biological tissue specimens. The exhibition shows whole bodies plastinated in lifelike poses and dissected to show various structures and system of human anatomy.
Henry Romero
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Reuters
Aug. 14, 2012
A plastinated human blood vessel system is among the features of “Body Worlds,” an exhibition by Gunther von Hagens at the Universum museum in Mexico City.
Henry Romero
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Reuters
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