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Giant vegetables, Muhammad Ali awarded Liberty Medal, world’s tallest dog and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
Sept. 14, 2012
Weight lifter Jonathan Walker lifts a marrow weighing 119 pounds, 12 ounces, which won the giant marrow class at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, England. The giant marrow was grown by Peter Glazebrook, who won all six classes in the giant vegetable competition during the event at the Great Yorkshire Showground.
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Sept. 14, 2012
Giant vegetable grower Peter Glazebrook poses with his world-record-breaking onion that weighed 18 pounds, 1 ounce, beating his previous world record by almost two ounces, at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Rick Strohl of Bowie, Tex., helps corral sheep with his border collie, Dusty, 12, during the Sheep Dog Trials at Ector County Coliseum in Odessa, Tex. Dusty has qualified for seven Cattle Dog National Championships.
Albert Cesare
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Odessa, Tex., American via AP
Sept. 12, 2012
Sisters Allison, left, and Shana Hardy, both of Viroqua, Wis., struggle to get their brown Swiss heifer to the wash rack at the Vernon County Fair in Viroqua. They are the third generation in their family to show dairy cattle and brought nine animals to this year’s fair.
Jim Massey
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Eau Claire, Wis., Country Today via AP
Sept. 13, 2012
A boy plays flute as he participates in a fair during a traditional boat race on the Kaliganga River in Manikganj, Bangladesh. Thousands of villagers gathered to enjoy the race.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Children ride in the back of an army truck as they leave Morazan, about 78 miles south of Guatemala City, after the village was affected by columns of ash released by the Volcan de Fuego. Guatemala's Volcano of Fire had its strongest eruption in a decade Thursday, prompting the evacuation of about 33,000 people, officials said.
Johan Ordonez
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Sept. 13, 2012
Ash spews from the Volcan de Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, as seen from Palin, south of Guatemala City. The long-simmering volcano erupted Thursday, hurling the thick clouds of ash nearly two miles high and spewing rivers of lava down its flanks.
Moises Castillo
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AP
Sept. 14, 2012
A worker frowns amid dust inside an open-air plant that crushes rocks to produce construction materials in the Gobi Desert in Aksu, China. China's economic slowdown is expected to reach its nadir this quarter, with a recovery of momentum delayed until the final quarter, leaving growth for 2012 likely to fall below 8 percent, a level unseen since 1999, a Reuters news service poll showed.
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Sept. 13, 2012
An injured Egyptian protester looks on during skirmishes with riot police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Police used tear gas as they clashed with protesters. Waves of anti-American protests across the Muslim world were sparked by a movie that mocks the prophet Muhammad.
Khaled Desouki
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Sept. 14, 2012
Libyan President Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf, center, visits the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, to express sympathy for the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in the Tuesday attack on the consulate.
Mohammad Hannon
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AP
Sept. 14, 2012
Muslims shout slogans during a protest in front of Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque of Bangladesh, in Dhaka. About 10,000 Muslims from a half-dozen Islamist groups staged the noisy protest in the capital over the U.S. film said to have insulted the prophet Muhammad.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
Sept. 14, 2012
A man jumps into the Kaliganga River as fellow boaters prepare for a traditional race in Manikganj, Bangladesh.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
Sept. 14, 2012
A bomb expert inspects explosives recovered at a house in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi. Kenyan police seized a cache of explosive-laden vests, grenades and automatic rifles in an overnight raid on an apartment, thwarting what they said was an imminent attack by Somali Islamist militants.
Thomas Mukoya
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Potato farmers install pipes to drain water from a lake to their farms because of prolonged drought in Dieng, Indonesia. The drought has left tens of thousands of Indonesians without water and facing the bleak prospect of massive crop losses.
Clara Prima
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2012
Students ride on the Lego Technic roller coaster ahead of the opening of Malaysia's Legoland park in Johor Bahru. LegoLand Malaysia will open to the public Saturday and is the first Legoland in Asia. It has more than 40 interactive rides, shows and attractions.
Roslan Rahman
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2012
Chinese Shaolin monks perform kung fu as part of a martial-arts exhibition at the U.N. headquarters in Vienna.
Alexander Klein
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2012
Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, take their shoes off before entering a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The royal couple is on a tour of four countries in Southeast Asia.
Mark Baker
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AP
Sept. 13, 2012
Capt. Eugene Cernan, a former NASA astronaut, speaks about Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, during a public memorial service at Washington National Cathedral. Armstrong died Aug. 25.
Matt McClain
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For The Washington Post
Sept. 13, 2012
Carol Armstrong is escorted by Adm. Patrick Lorge as she leaves the public service for her late husband, astronaut Neil Armstrong, at Washington National Cathedral.
Jonathan Newton
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The Washington Post
Sept. 13, 2012
Boxing great Muhammad Ali, center, is awarded the Liberty Medal by his daughter Laila, right, as his wife, Lonnie, looks on at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Ali, the retired world heavyweight titleholder, received the $100,000 award for his humanitarian efforts and civil rights work.
Tim Shaffer
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
A woman uses scissors to try to cut the face of a man who was accused of theft in Tactic, Guatemala. The community tied up and beat four men accused of the theft in the aftermath of a school killing. Local media reported that a man who had entered a classroom Wednesday and killed two children with a machete was lynched and burned alive by a mob.
Jorge Dan Lopez
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Reuters
In an undated photo provided by Guinness World Records, a dog named Zeus drinks from a kitchen faucet in Otsego, Mich. The Great Dane is the world’s tallest canine, according to the organization’s 2013 record book. The 3-year-old measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder. Standing on his hind legs, Zeus is 7 feet, 4 inches.
Kevin Scott Ramos
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AP
A new species of monkey found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and identified as a lesula is seen in this undated photograph from an article Wednesday in the science journal Plos One. The monkey was first seen in 2007 by researchers John and Terese Hart of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. The finding represents only the second new species of African monkey to be discovered in the past 28 years, according to the article.
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Sept. 14, 2012
A silvery gibbon named Pangrango balances with her 4-week-old baby on ropes in their compound at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich.
Uwe Lein
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AP
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