World News in Pictures

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Protesters from Occupy Wall Street march through New York's financial district dressed as corporate zombies Monday, Oct. 3. The protests have gathered momentum and gained participants in recent days as news of mass arrests and a coordinated media campaign by the protestors have given rise to similar demonstrations around the country.

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Relatives weep after gunmen opened fire on a taxi killing the driver and the passenger in Acapulco, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 2. Violence in Acapulco has escalated as rival drug gangs battle for control of the region, claiming at least 20 people this weekend along a stretch of coastal tourist destinations.

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People row a long-boat with their legs at a traditional rowing competition during the annual Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda festival at Inle Lake October 3, 2011. Inle Lake, Myanmar's second largest lake, is located 2,980 feet (908 metres) above sea level at Shan Hills, and is one of the country's most popular tourist sites

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Residents wade through floodwaters while boats queue up to ferry others at Calumpit township, Bulacan province, Oct. 3, 2011.










Army rescue teams and volunteers carry a dead body on a stretcher through floodwaters in Calumpit town on October 3, 2011 in Bulacan, Philippines. Destruction and flooding in the wake of the powerful typhoons Nalgae and Nesat have left nearly 60 dead and millions affected as disaster management teams and aid agencies scramble to provide much needed food and assistance.

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Protestors with Yemeni and Syrian flags painted on their faces chant slogans during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. The Arabic writing on the man's face at right reads "get out."

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Antonia Tamer, left, and a woman who identified herself as "Cheyenne" walk their dogs in San Francisco. There are more dogs in the city than there are children.





Dogs walk off-leash with their human companions at Fort Funston in San Francisco

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The container ship Rena sits stranded on a reef off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Authorities have been assessing whether any oil has spilled from the 236m cargo vessel Rena, which struck the Astrolabe Reef, north of Motiti Island in the early hours of Oct. 5.

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Amanda Knox, right, is comforted by her mother, Edda Mellas, center, and offered water by her father, Curt Knox, looks on as they wait to talk to reporters, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, in Seattle. Knox was freed Monday after an Italian appeals court threw out her murder conviction for the death of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

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An Afghan boy leans against a wall as he cries on the outskirts of Kabul on Oct. 4. Afghanistan is at the bottom of the Mothers' Index, compiled by the nonprofit group Save the Children, which shows mothers and their children endure "grim conditions," with one in six kids dying before age five and one in three suffering from malnutrition.

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Divers and first responders help people to shore at a dock the East River after their helicopter crashed, Tuesday, Oct. 4, in New York. A helicopter with five people aboard crashed into river after taking off from a launch pad on the riverbank, killing one and injuring injuring others.



Divers pull a woman from the water onto a dock on the East River after the helicopter she was in crashed, Tuesday, Oct. 4 in New York

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Some of the 20 million bats emerge from Bracken Cave in Bracken, Texas. A depleting insect population has forced millions of bats around drought-stricken Texas to emerge before nightfall for food runs, making them more susceptible to natural predators. Some experts have already noticed fewer bats emerging from caves and have seen evidence that more infant bats are showing up dead, hinting at a looming population decline.


Some of the 20 million bats emerge from Bracken Cave in Bracken, Texas.


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This undated photo provided by the Vaughn family shows Aaron Vaughn, right, and his wife Kimberly of Virginia Beach, Va. Aaron Vaughn, a 30-year-old father of two, was among the Navy SEALs killed in August when a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a Taliban insurgent downed their Chinook helicopter en route to a combat mission

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General view of the first solar power plant by concentration with a central tower receiver, inagurated in Sevilla, southern Spain, on 04 October.



Photographers and a cameraman work at the new solar power plant "Gemasolar" the day of its inauguration in Fuentes de Andalucia, southern Spain October 4, 2011.



The new solar power plant "Gemasolar" is pictured the day of its inauguration in Fuentes de Andalucia, southern Spain October 4.

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Russian police officers detain an opposition activist during an unauthorized rally in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 4. About 20 supporters of The Other Russia party protested

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Afghan teacher Meher Afroza, right, teaches the Koran at an Islamic school in Kabul on Sept. 4. Women's rights in Afghanistan risk being forgotten as international troops withdraw and the government struggles for a peace deal 10 years after the Taliban were ousted.Separate reports by Oxfam and ActionAid say women's rights have improved since the October 2001 US-led invasion, particularly access to education, with 2.7 million girls now in school, according to Oxfam.



Afghan school girls play basketball at their school in Herat, Afghanistan on October 4. Oxfam, an international aid agency report said, gains made on women's issues in the last 10 years in Afghanistan are under serious threat, asking international allies in the war-torn country not to abandon Afghan women in a quick fix deal for peace. Some 2.7 million girls are in school, compared to only a few thousand during Taliban rule, while other areas have shown patchy progress, Oxfam said.

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Namibians turned out at Windhoek airport Tuesday to welcome the return of the skulls of twenty ancestors who were taken by German forces for racist experiments more than a century ago.

Prime Minister Nahas Angula said that he "accepts these mortal remains as a symbolic closure of a tragic chapter,"

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People carry a wounded man at the scene of an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 4. Dozens of people were reported killed after a car laden with explosives blew up in front of the Ministry of Education in the Somali capital.



A truck bomb killed at least 65 people at government buildings in the heart of Somalia's capital on Tuesday, an ambulance worker said, and al-Shabab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack.

Witnesses said there was a loud blast at a compound housing four government ministries in the K4 (Kilometer 4) area of the capital Mogadishu, where students had gathered on Tuesday to take exams.

"We have carried 65 dead bodies and 50 injured people," ambulance coordinator Ali Muse told Reuters. "Some are still lying there. Most of the people have burns."

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Typhoon victims rest inside a gymnasium turned into a temporary evacuation center in Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines, on October 4. President Benigno Aquino III and his cabinet have created rehabilitation plans for the areas affected by the recent typhoons Nesat and Nalgae. According to the Office of Civil Defense, typhoon Nalgae has so far left one person dead, while 57 people died and 30 were missing in typhoon Nesat's onslaught, which also flooded central Manila.

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Shamans perform a ritual to send good vibes to Peru's soccer team next to photos of Peru's players Jefferson Farfan, left, Juan Vargas, center, and Claudio Pizarro outside the National Stadium in Lima, Peru, Wed., Oct. 5. Peru will face Paraguay in a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer game in Lima, Peru next Friday.

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Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, Spanish Duchess of Alba, dances flamenco in presence of her husband Alfonso Diez after their wedding at Las Duenas Palace in Seville, Spain Wednesday Oct. 5.






Duchess of Alba, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James-Stuart dances with son Cayetano Martinez de Irujo during her wedding ceremony to Alfonso Diez Carabantes held at Duenas Palace on Oct. 5 in Seville, Spain.

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Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth right, integration leader, escorts Dwight Armstrong, 9, and his brother Floyd, 11, from the Graymont Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 9, 1963. State troopers, on order from the governor, opened the school but turned the African Americans away.




Civil rights leaders, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, center, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy hold a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., May 8, 1963.



Civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth, front left, greets former President Bill Clinton in Selma, Ala., March 4, 2007, as Sen. Barack Obama stands behind them


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called Shuttlesworth "one of the nation's the most courageous freedom fighters ... a wiry, energetic and indomitable man." Though King was more well-known, Shuttlesworth led the fight in Birmingham-- the center of the civil rights struggle. He survived a bombing, was beaten, injured by fire hoses during protests and repeatedly arrested.

I wonder how he felt when President Obama was inaugurated as our first black president?

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An ultra Orthodox Jewish boy peers through a curtain as a butcher takes hold of a chicken before the bird is slaughtered as part of the Kapparot ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel on Oct. 5. Kapparot begins by reciting a prayer and then spinning the bird over their head to release the sins accumulated over the past year, ahead of the high-holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. After the Kapparot ritual is performed, the bird is slaughtered and donated to charity.

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This scene seems more like an art installation that an accident. The heat wave in London caused these early autumn leaves to stick on the non-slip section of the road

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George Peppard, center left, and Audrey Hepburn take a break during filming 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' in New York City in June 1961



Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the classic film "Breakfast at Tiffany's." It is hard to believe that the film has been around for half a century. It still feels contemporary and modern, largely due to how ingrained it has become in our culture. The film continues to be regularly referenced, and can be credited with setting the standard for the "little black dress." The dress worn by Audrey Hepburn was designed by Givenchy and sold at auction for $923,187 in 2006.

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Riot police detains a demonstrator during clashes in Athens, Greece, 05 October 2011. Civil Servants' Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY) and General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE), Greece's two largest umbrella federations representing the public and private sector staged a 24-hour nationwide strike protesting against the ongoing austerity measures taken by the Greek government.



Policemen take their positions around the parliament during a protest in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square October 5, 2011. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in central Athens Wednesday, where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy.