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Putin protest, South African police shoot miners, a silicone-based robot and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Aug. 15, 2012
An Albert Einstein mural decorates a school’s wall in the Complexo do Alemao neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
Silvia Izquierdo
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AP
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Aug. 17, 2012
Demonstrators chant slogans in support of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot, whose members were sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in St. Petersburg. The case against the band members, who dashed into Moscow’s main cathedral to sing a song against then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has inflamed the pro-democracy movement here and around the world and put the Kremlin in a dangerous position. The two-year sentence appeared to be an attempt to both reinforce Putin’s message that dissent in Russia will have its limits and prevent more widespread protest, as the charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, and prosecutors had asked for three.
Dmitry Lovetsky
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AP
Aug. 17, 2012
A demonstrator, center, wears a caricature mask of Russian President Vladimir Putin, while others wear trademark Pussy Riot balaclavas during a support rally for the detained Moscow based feminist punk band outside the Russian embassy in Berlin. The group was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after they staged an anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. With public readings, petitions and practical stunts, thousands of people around the world have voiced support for members of Russian feminist punk band.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
Protesters gather outside the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, where Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been holed up for nearly eight weeks. Ecuador granted asylum to Assange Thursday, raising the possibility of a diplomatic showdown between British and Ecuadoran authorities. Assange sought refuge at the embassy on June 19 in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes.
Dan Kitwood
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Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2012
A peddler offers hats in a street of Medellin, Colombia.
Raul Arboleda
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2012
Long-tressed Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews flips his hair before a preseason football game against the Cleveland Browns in Green Bay, Wis.
Jeffrey Phelps
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
A combine cuts rice in a field near Tucker, Ark. Arkansas rice farmers planted 1.135 million acres in 2012, equal to 59 percent of the nation’s rice crop this year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Danny Johnston
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
One green stalk of corn stands out in a dry field near Bennington, Neb. Dry conditions have worsened in the key farming states of Kansas and Nebraska even but eased in other key farming states, as the worst U.S. drought in decades continues, the latest national report said Thursday.
Nati Harnik
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
Drought-damaged corn is seen in a field near Nickerson, Neb. Dry conditions have worsened in the key farming states of Kansas and Nebraska as the worst U.S. drought in decades continues, the latest national report said Thursday.
Nati Harnik
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
Firefighters from Wyoming prepare to work on structure protection the Trinity Fire in Featherville, Idaho. The much larger Trinity Ridge Fire, a few hundred miles to the southeast, posed a greater threat to property on Thursday, and nearly 1,000 firefighters were amassed for a last-ditch effort to keep flames at bay.
Brian Losness
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
A helicopter makes a water drop as crews continue to battle the Taylor Bridge Fire near Cle Elum, Wash. One of the more destructive of the fires flared into its fourth day near the town where authorities reported Thursday that more than 70 homes and more than 200 barns and other structures had been destroyed earlier this week.
Kevin P. Casey
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire near the French sea resort of Lacanau. The fire has destroyed nearly 100 acres of pine forest.
Pierre Andrieu
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2012
A soldier in the Ivory Coast Republican Force (FRCI) patrols the streets of Dabou after armed men attacked an army base, a prison and police stations the previous night. The attack, the latest of a series of assaults, led to the killings of three civilians, military sources and locals said.
Sia Kambou
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2012
A soldier in the Ivory Coast’s army gestures during a patrol in the town of Dabou. Gunmen attacked security posts and freed more than 100 prisoners in a town west of the country's commercial capital of Abidjan during an overnight raid that ended on Thursday morning, officials and local residents said.
Thierry Gouegnon
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
A protester licks his spear outside a South African mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, about 60 miles northwest of Johannesburg. South African police opened fire on Thursday against thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine. The shooting occurred when police, who were laying out barricades of barbed wire, were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine. The South Africa police ministry said Friday that more than 30 miners were killed.
Siphiwe Sibeko
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg, South Africa.
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
WildAid Ambassador and former NBA star Yao Ming looks at the carcass of an elephant in Samburu, Kenya.Yao is in Kenya to film a feature-length documentary called “The End of the Wild,” about wildlife tourism and the current elephant- and rhinoceros-poaching crisis.
Simon Maina
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2012
A Free Syrian Army fighter carries the body of a fellow fighter during clashes in Aleppo, Syria.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012.
People celebrate after Moedi, the horse representing the Valmontone parish, won the Palio di Siena horse race in Italy. Almost without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders compete twice each year in Siena’s shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child.
Alessandro Bianchi
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
Ghasiram Kisan plays with Buddu, a one-and-a-half-year-old sloth bear at Kisan’s family home in Lakhapada, India. The wild bear, who was rescued from the family by wildlife officials Friday, wandered into the village while following a herd of goats, and had lived with the family ever since.
Biswaranjan Rout
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
Children pet Toto the Tornado Kitten at the Rutland, Mass., public library during a book reading by author Jonathan Hall. Toto was a 6-ounce kitten when he was rescued after an tornado struck Brimfield, Mass. on June 1, 2011. The Animal Rescue League of Boston came to help and ended up taking the kitten, who had been rescued by a tree worker the day after the tornado hit. The kitten was called Toto, after the dog from “The Wizard of Oz.” The gray-and-white cat has become a local celebrity, the protagonist of Hall’s children's book, a Facebook personality and an avid fundraiser for the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
Christine Peterson
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Worcester, Mass., Telegram & Gazette via AP
Aug. 16, 2012
Passers-by rescue a woman pinned in a burning car on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, Miss. The fire was extinguished by the hose of a cement mixer and fire extinguishers from nearby 18-wheelers. The woman was then extracted from the wreckage by the civilians as rescue personnel arrived, and she and her handicapped child, who was removed from the wreckage early, were airlifted from the scene.
Gerald Herbert
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AP
Aug. 16, 2012
Space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis switched locations at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla. and in the process came nose-to-nose for the last time in front of Orbiter Processing Facility 3 . Endeavour was moved from Orbiter Processing Facility 2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be housed temporarily until its targeted departure from the space center atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in mid-September. After a stop at the Los Angeles International Airport, Endeavour will move in mid-October to the California Science Center for permanent public display. Now in the processing facility after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building, Atlantis will undergo preparations for its move to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in November, with a grand opening planned for July 2013.
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NASA via Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney writes on a white board as he talks about Medicare during a news conference at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in Greer, S.C.
Evan Vucci
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AP
Aug. 15, 2012
Stellar Solar installers Juan Moedano, right, and Andres Quiroz, unseen, lift a solar panel during installation at a home in Encinitas, Calif. Stellar Solar installs residential and commercial solar panels in the San Diego area.
Sam Hodgson
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Bloomberg News
Aug. 16, 2012
General Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson poses with his 1958 Chevrolet Corvette in Detroit. Akerson plans to auction off his Corvette, with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity Detroit and the rebuilding of the Morningside Commons neighborhood. Akerson’s Corvette will be on display during the Woodward Dream Cruise in the 60th Anniversary Corvette display at the Birmingham Triangle in Birmingham, Mich.
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General Motors via Getty Images
The flexible robot in this undated photo can change colors to blend in or stand out in its environment; this one glows in the dark using chemiluminescence. Scientists in the United States said Thursday that they had devised a rubbery robot, inspired by the squid and octopus, which can crawl, camouflage itself and hide from infrared cameras. The Pentagon-backed gadget is the latest type of a so-called “soft machine,” meaning silicone-based robots that are made from translucent polymers.
S. Morin
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2012
Brazil’s Adriano De Souza competes in round one at the Billabong Pro Tahiti surfing event in Teahupoo, Tahiti. De Souza defeated fellow Brazilian Willian Cardoso and Australia’s Bede Durbidge.
Steve Robertson
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Association of Surfing Professionals via AP
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