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Tropical Storm Isaac
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Children run for shelter at the Bahoruco beach in Barahona, Dominican Republic August 24, 2012, where the strong swell announces the arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac.
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An injured woman carries her wounded children to a hospital in Quetta. Police say that a roadside bomb targeting a security convoy killed at least one civilian and injured countless others in SW Pakistan
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Center fielder Michael Saunders #55 of the Seattle Mariners (R) collides with right fielder Eric Thames #10 as they go for a fly ball hit by Paul Konerko #14 of the Chicago White Sox during the ninth inning at U.S. Cellular Field on August 24, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. The ball was dropped and Dewayne Wise #28 of the Chicago White Sox scored the winning run. The White Sox defeated the Mariners 9-8.
Tropical storm Isaac brings heavy rains to Haiti
Storm threatens to bring floods and mudslides to Caribbean country where thousands of people remain homeless after the 2010 earthquake, but it is unlikely to gain enough steam to strike as a hurricane
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A surfer swims out to sea at Manresa beach as tropical storm Isaac approaches Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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A Free Syrian Army fighter runs away to take cover from the exchange fire with regime forces in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Syria's south west city of Aleppo August 24, 2012.
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Sunni Muslim gunmen climb a ladder to take cover during sectarian clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in the Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, August 24, 2012.
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Family members hold up a mummy before giving it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of Indonesia's South Sulawesi Province, August 23, 2012
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Mexican marines stand next to a bullet-riddled armoured U.S. embassy SUV on a road near the town of Tres Marias, on the outskirts of Cuernavaca August 24, 2012.
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Immigrants living in Greece take part in a rally in front of the parliament as they protest against racism attacks in Athens August 24, 2012
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Students of the Universidade do Amazonas (Amazon University) measure a pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), a species of three-toed sloth that inhabits tropical rainforests in northern South America, at the Sauim Castanheira Wildlife Refuge in Manaus
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Free Syrian Army fighter run away to take cover from the exchange fire with regime forces in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Syria's south west city of Aleppo August 24, 2012.
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Defence lawyers Geir Lippestad (L) and Vibeke Hein Baera (R) sit with Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik as the Oslo Court delivers the verdict of his trial in the Oslo Courthouse August 24, 2012.
Camorra mafia boss shot at beach resort in Italy
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Police in Italy are hunting the killers of a Camorra mafia boss who was gunned down on a beach south of the capital, Rome, in front of terrified bathers.
Two men attacked Gaetano Marino, who was reportedly shot when he came out of the water at Terracina to answer a call on his mobile phone.
Marino, 48, was dubbed Stumpy after losing both his hands while reportedly planting a bomb in the 1990s.
One reported theory is that he was killed as part of a power struggle.
He headed the Scissionisti clan in Naples, the Italian news agency Ansa reports.
His killing on Thursday came a month after a similar attack in a public square in the coastal town of Nettuno, also south of Rome, when organised crime suspect Modestino Pellino was shot and killed.
Italy's public broadcaster Rai screened a gala show in February which featured a tribute to Marino by his young daughter, where she called him in a song "the world's most beautiful daddy". Marino himself was in the audience.
Roberto Saviano, the anti-mafia journalist and author, accused the channel of pandering to criminals. A Rai official said the show had been purchased from an outside producer.
Nineteen shot in Chicago night of mayhem
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Nineteen people were shot in seven attacks overnight in Chicago, as the US city's gun violence epidemic continued.
Thirteen of the victims were shot within a half-hour period, including eight in a drive-by shooting on a single street.
Chicago officials have been battling a sharp increase in shootings and homicides, with some elected officials arguing gangs do not fear the police.
The city's murder rate has spiked 29% year-over-year as of this month.
By that time in 2011, 270 people had been killed in the city, according to data complied by the local newspaper RedEye Chicago.
In 2012, that number is 348.
Most of the violence has been in Chicago's troubled south and west sides, but there also have been a handful of incidents in the downtown area.
Blast at Amuay oil refinery in Venezuela
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Life in pictures: Neil Armstrong who has sadly passed away at the age of 82
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Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon in 1969
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Pictured here with Michael Collins (C) and Buzz Aldrin (R)
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Hundreds of millions of people over the world watched the first moon landing
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Armstrong was famously modest about his achievements in later life. He lived in the seclusion of his Ohio farmhouse, taught engineering at the University of Cincinnati and went into business. Here he is seen during a visit to congress in 2011
Brazil's 1970 goalkeeper Felix dies
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The goalkeeper of the 1970 World Cup winning team in Mexico, Felix, has died at the age of 74.
A heavy smoker, Felix Mieli Venerando died of emphysema in a hospital in his home town, Sao Paulo.
Criticised at home as a weak link prior to the Mexico World Cup, he returned home as one of the heroes of the team that many hail as the best in history.
A minute of silence will be observed at all Brazilian league matches this weekend to remember Felix.
Tributes have been paid to the former goalkeeper by former teammates in the national squad and his former teams, Portuguesa and Fluminense.
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A man pushes through a guide rope to prostrate himself in grief on the steps in front of the coffin of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at the prime minister's official residence, the national palace, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aug. 25. In an emotional outpouring of national grief, Ethiopians continued to line up by the thousands Saturday to pay their respects to Zenawi, who died Aug. 20, of an unknown illness. Zenawi is scheduled to be buried on Sept. 2.
Isaac tracks toward Florida
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Simone Haug, left, looks on as Mary Piszker kicks a section of shutter into place as they finish up storm preparation at the "Womankind" clinic in Key West, Fla., Aug. 25, where the storm's maximum impact is expected tomorrow.
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A houseboat is towed in the middle Keys in preparation for Tropical Storm Isaac, Aug. 25.
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A man stands on a post with a stop sign as waves pass the seawall during Tropical Storm Isaac in Baracoa, Cuba, Aug. 25
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Residents who live on the Ozama River bank play in the floodwaters triggered by Tropical Storm Isaac in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Aug. 25. Authorities said they evacuated nearly 3,000 people from low-lying areas, and at least 10 rural settlements were cut off by flooding. Power was out in parts of the capital, Santo Domingo, but there were no reports of injuries.
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Chios, Greece: A man holding a makeshift fire broom helps to contain a major forest blaze on the eastern Aegean Sea island. Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers are struggling to tame a fire that has already burnt 7,000 hectares of forest, cultivated land and groves of the island's famed mastic trees
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Nabi Saleh, Palestine: An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian girl back as she cries following the arrest of her mother during a demonstration in the West Bank village in protest against the confiscation of Palestinian land to expand the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish
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Aleppo, Syria: A young boy who was injured when a shell, released by regime forces, hit his house, waits to be treated at a hospital. Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the Aleppo, activists said, as western powers sought to tighten the screws on embattled President Bashar al-Assad
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Dublin, Ireland: Sailors from the 'Cuauhtemoc', a Mexican Tall Ship, celebrate at a prize giving ceremony outside Dublin's Customs House during the Tall Ship's Race 2012 Festival stopover
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Family members gather around the corpse of Piter Sampe Sambara’ (left), who died 80 years ago, during a traditional Ma’nene ritual in Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, on Thursday. The people of Toraja clean the corpses of their families and change their clothes as part of the Ma'nene ceremony to express their compassion for the dead. (Antara/Sahrul Manda Tiukupadang)
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Kabul, Afghanistan: A street vendor near the Darul Aman Palace
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Stockholm, Sweden: People in costume wait for a train after the city's annual zombie walk :)
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Marsa Matruh, Egypt: People enjoy the summer weather at the beach - Don't knock it, she's saving an absolute fortune on suncream :)
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California, USA: A person walks past a plate on Hollywood Boulevard dedicated to astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin E Aldrin and Michael Collins
Tropical Storm Isaac passes through Cuba and the Dominican Republic towards Florida
The storm batters the Caribbean islands as Florida battens down the hatches
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A home that was built twice within the last two years is left in ruins again after tropical storm Isaac passes through Baracoa, Cuba
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A woman wades through flood waters as she works to save her possessions from her flooded home in Port au Prince, August 25, 2012
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A member of the Free Syrian Army runs for cover during clashes with Syrian army soldiers in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla district, August 25, 2012
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Groundsmen remove a raincover from the field after a rain delay during the third day of the first test cricket match between India and New Zealand in Hyderabad, August 25, 2012.
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A member of the Free Syrian Army holds an unexploded shell as he eats during clashes with Syrian army soldiers in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla district, August 25, 2012
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ART MotoGP rider Randy de Puniet of France reacts after he crashed during the qualifying practice session at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno August 25, 2012.
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Germany's Robert Stieglitz react after the WBO Super Middleweight World Championship fight against his compatriot Arthur Abraham in Berlin August 25, 2012.
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Released hostage Hussein Omar, one of 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims abducted in Syria, hugs his mother upon his arrival at Beirut international airport August 25, 2012.
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A woman works to recover her personal possession from her flattened home in a camp for displaced people in Port-Au-Prince, August 25, 2012.
Chinese bus collides with tanker, killing 36
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At least 36 people have died after a sleeper-bus collided with a methane-laden tanker in northern China, state-run media say.
The two vehicles burst into flames after the accident in the city of Yanan in the middle of the night, Xinhua news agency reports.
It quoted local police as saying that three people survived the collision, but suffered injuries.
The cause of the accident in Shaanxi province is being investigated.
The two vehicles collided at about 02:00 local time (18:00 GMT Saturday) on the Baotou-Maoming motorway.
"Soon after the collision, the bus was engulfed by flames," local police officer Yue Jiuxiang told the state-broadcaster CCTV.
"The front part of the bus was seriously damaged. Also most of the passengers were sleeping. This is why so many people died."
Chinese media later published photos, showing the burnt wreckage of the bus stuck against the back of the tanker.
Officials said the bus had been heading to Shaanxi's provincial capital of Xian from Inner Mongolia.
China's roads are highly dangerous, with traffic laws and safety widely flouted across the vast country.
In 2011, more than 62,000 died in traffic accidents, state media reported
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Oil floats on water in the foreground as the half-sunk Cyprus-flagged carrier Thmothrmopolyseara lies in the Indian ocean off the southern suburban coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 26. Authorities mobilized coast guards and volunteers to clean beaches following an oil spill after the Thmothrmopolyseara sank off-shore because of bad weather. The ship went down Thursday after remaining in anchorage for over three years following a dispute over its cargo.
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A doll covered by mud lies on the floor of a flooded house after the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 26. The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Isaac has climbed to seven after an initial report of four deaths, the Haitian government said Sunday.
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A TV anchor reports in front of tents of the "Occupy" movement campsite outside the HSBC bank headquarters in Hong Kong on August 27, 2012.
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The Occupy movement's last Asian outpost is due to be closed down on Monday as protesters in Hong Kong face a deadline to leave their camp.
On August 13 a court approved the eviction of protesters camped outside the HSBC bank headquarters, giving them until 9 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) on August 27 to leave the courtyard of the bank's downtown office tower, Agence France Presse reported.
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Members of the Paraiso School of Samba prepare to perform at the Notting Hill Carnival on August 27, 2012 in London, England.
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Bédar, Spain: members of the wildfire brigade of Iznalloz and Puerto Lobo in Granada try to extinguish a forest fire
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Valletta, Malta: a competitor grabs a flag as he slips off the 'gostra', a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian
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Guatemala City, Guatemala: a family visiting graves of relatives at the municipal cemetery take in the damage inflicted by a small tornado
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Poznan, Poland: four newly married women in their wedding dresses go down a water slide for a charity photoshoot
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Florida, USA: Ron Paul supporters gather at the University of South Florida's Sun Dome in Tampa before the Republican party's national convention