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Aug. 21, 2012
Lightning illuminates the sky above Billings, Mont., as thunderstorms moved across the area.
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The Billings Gazette via AP
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Aug. 22, 2012
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have named the landing area of the Martian rover Curiosity after the late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who penned “The Martian Chronicles,” a collection of short stories about human exploration of Mars. From left are: Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration program at NASA headquarters; Peter Theisinger, project manger of the Mars mission; Matt Heverly, lead driver for Curiosity; Roger Wiens, principal investigator of images taken by the rover; and Joy Crisp, deputy project scientist for the mission.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), third from left, is shown the test double of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity at the Vehicle System Test Bed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The actual six-wheel Mars rover on Wednesday made its first test drive as a warm-up for the long trek to the mountain expected later this year.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
Tracks are left by Curiosity on Mars as it made its first move, going forward about 15 feet, rotating 120 degrees and then reversing about 8 feet. Curiosity is now about 20 feet from its landing site.
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NASA via Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
The rover is set to explore the Martian surface, looking for signs on last life-forms and the potential for future life on the Red Planet that could sustain human exploration.
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NASA via Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
A hillside lies scorched by the Ponderosa Fire near Red Bluff, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has declared a state of emergency in three northern counties after the fire.
Mary Slosson
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For Reuters
Aug. 20, 2012
Smoke from the Pass can be seen from the Round Valley Airport near Covelo, Calif. Officials said wildfires in the region had destroyed at least 50 buildings and were threatening hundreds more.
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U.S. Forest Service via Reuters
Aug. 21, 2012
Hundreds of barges are stuck north and south of Greenville, Miss., due to low water levels on the Mississippi River. The river, a vital link between the farmlands of the Midwest and the shipping hub of New Orleans, is running well below normal levels, forcing river harbor closures and causing barges to run aground. The low river level is expected to continue into October, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said Tuesday.
Alan Spearman
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The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal via AP
Aug. 22, 2012
People try to recover a vehicle that got washed away into the Basantar River during a flash flood due to monsoon rains in Samba, near Jammu, India. Monsoon rains usually hit India from June to September.
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
People swim during the annual Lake Zurich crossing swimming event in Switzerland. The participants swam across the lake on a 1,500-meter track.
Michael Buholzer
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Syrians wait their turn to buy bread, outside a bakery shop in Kafar Hamra, on the outskirts of Aleppo, the city that has become a battleground between rebel and government forces.
Muhammed Muheisen
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
A Lebanese Sunni Muslim fighter carries a woman away from clashes at the Sunni Muslim dominant neighborhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh in Tripoli. The death toll from fighting between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Tripoli climbed to at least 10 overnight, medical sources said Wednesday. City residents say the fighting is come of the bloodiest since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990.
Omar Ibrahim
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For Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
A Syrian rebel fires towards a pro-government sniper in the Seif El Dawla district in the center of Aleppo.
Youssef Boudlal
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
People react to the death of Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi along the streets of Bahir Dar, near Lake Tana in northwestern Ethiopia. Zenawi, regarded by the West as a bulwark against Islamic militancy, died while being treated abroad for an undisclosed illness, the government said on Tuesday.
Siegfried Modola
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Workers load coal onto a truck at a coal depot in Gauhati, India. Angry opposition lawmakers shouted and crowded aisles in India's parliament to demand the prime minister resign after an audit found the government lost huge sums of money by selling coal fields without competitive bidding. The auditor's report estimated that private companies got a windfall profit of $34 billion because of the low prices they paid for the coal fields.
Anupam Nath
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
Opposition protesters burn tires as they block a street with barricades in Togo's capital Lome. Police in Togo fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse opposition protesters in the capital Lome, as tensions over upcoming legislative elections boiled over.
Noel Kokou Tadegnon
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For Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Participants sit in their 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible car during a prologue of the Raid Suisse-Paris 2012 vintage car rally in Zurich. The Raid Suisse-Paris 2012 runs through Aug. 26 in Basel, Switzerland.
Arnd Wiegmann
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
A man stands beside the open bonnet of a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 car during a prologue of the Raid Suisse-Paris 2012 vintage car rally in Zurich.
Arnd Wiegmann
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Tango couple Sebastian Matias Bianchi, from Argentina, and Yuka Sato, from Japan, compete in a stage category during the Tango Dance World Cup 2012 in Buenos Aires.
Natacha Pisarenko
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
Gabriela Aguirre and Hector Salinas of Argentina compete in the stage category of Argentina's Tango Dance World Cup in Buenos Aires. The two-week long event offers hundreds of free dance lessons, concerts and recitals, as professional dancers compete in the championship and teach many the eight basic steps of the dance in the city where it was born.
Marcos Brindicci
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
A robot that serves soda cans stands on a table at the Campus Party 2012 technology festival in Berlin. The Campus Party brings together 10,000 technology enthusiasts, hackers, nerds and bloggers for five days to concentrate on finding solutions to five problems proposed through the European Digital Agenda from the European Commission.
Sean Gallup
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Getty images
Aug. 22, 2012
Steam punk designer Sven Mueller shows off some of his creations at the Campus Party 2012 technology festival in Berlin. Steam punk enthusiasts try to imagine a world that is still based on steam-engine technology.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2012
Zookeeper Don McFarlane, at ZSL London Zoo, weighs and measures an African Millipede during the zoo's annual weigh-in. The height and mass of every animal in the zoo, of which there are over 16,000, needs to be recorded. The measurements are collated in the Zoological Information Management System, from which zoologists can use the data to compare information on thousands of endangered species.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2012
Members of animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals stage a demonstration as they beat a model of a baby seal on the pavement outside the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. The protesters held signs that read "Stop the Bloody Seal Slaughter" as part of PETA's worldwide campaign against annual seal hunts. In 2011 China joined Japan and South Korea as new markets for Canadian seal products by authorizing seal meat and seal oil imports.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2012
A Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management official checks ivory inside a storeroom in Harare. Zimbabwe has accumulated 50 tons of ivory and will ask the international body regulating its trade for permission to auction its stocks to fund conservation of the animals, the head of the country's wildlife agency said on Wednesday.The ivory has been confiscated from poachers or recovered as a result of natural deaths or government-sanctioned elephant culls, officials said.
Philimon Bulawayo
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
Police in Beaverton, Ore., show pit bulls that were allegedly attacked by four people. Ten pit bulls were seized from the home. The Oregon Humane Society is evaluating them.
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AP
Aug. 22, 2012
Stonemason Sean Callahan tests the crocket he has been working on for fit high atop the earthquake-damaged National Cathedral.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Aug. 22, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI meets a sister during his weekly audience from his summer residence of Castelgandolfo, south of Rome.
Alessandro Bianchi
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
A personal watercraft rider enjoys the sunset at the Albanian beach of Durres, about 25 miles from the capital of Tirana, a popular tourist resort in Albania.
Arben Celi
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Reuters
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