World News in Pictures

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Occupy protesters in NY



Wills and Kate in Marau



Fresh anti-Japan demonstrations in China over disputed islands


















Paramilitary police stand guard behind barriers as they allow in about 100 protesters at a time to demonstrate in an area outside the Japanese consulate in Shanghai

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Munich, Germany: A man walks through the Hacker Pschorr tent during preparations for the 179th Oktoberfest beer festival



Chongqing, China: A dog with the city's firefighting special mission team is trained on tightropes



Barcelona, Spain: Rail workers march at Sants railway station during a strike



Srinagar, Kashmir, India: Protesters hold a burning sheet bearing the American and Israeli flags

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An Indonesian Muslim protester shouts slogans during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta September 17, 2012. Indonesia police used teargas and water cannon on Monday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who massed outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad



An aerial view at dusk shows the illuminated Marina Bay Street Circuit ahead of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix September 17, 2012. The F1 night race will take place from September 21-23. Picture taken with a fisheye lens



Security guards stand behind the glass doors of a closed shop next to the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court, where Wang Lijun will be tried, in Chengdu September 17, 2012. The former police chief at the heart of China's biggest political scandal in decades faces trial next week on charges of defection, taking bribes and illegal surveillance. Wang will be tried at the Intermediate Court in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Tuesday, a court official said on last Friday. The trial was expected to last for one day, the official said.



New York Police Department officers arrest a Occupy Wall Street activist outside of the headquarters of Goldman Sachs during demonstrations through the financial district on the one-year anniversary of the movement in New York, September 17, 2012.



Britain's Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, smile as they watch women perform a shark ceremony during their arrival in Marapa Island, Solomon Islands, September 17, 2012. Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, are at the third stop of a nine-day tour of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee.



Children wearing Everton (L) and Liverpool jerseys pay their respects to the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster before the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Newcastle United at Goodison Park in Liverpool, northern England, September 17, 2012.

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A resident stands atop of his damaged house after a fire that razed some hundreds of houses in an early morning fire in Quezon City, Manila in the Philippines, Sept. 19. At least one person died and some 800 families were left homeless

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Johnny Noble votes in the auditorium at the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse Annex in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 18, 2012. Alabama voters decided by a 2-to-1 margin to avoid dramatic cuts in state government by withdrawing $437 million from a state trust fund to help balance the General Fund budget for the next three years

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Chicago Teachers Union members celebrate the end of their strike in Chicago on Sept. 18, 2012. Chicago Teachers Union leaders voted on Tuesday to suspend a strike that closed the nation's third-largest school district for more than a week, ending a confrontation with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that focused national attention on how to reform failing urban schools.

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Rival miners from Bolivia's No. 2 tin mine, Colquiri, hurled sticks of dynamite and rocks at each other in the city of La Paz on Tuesday, injuring at least seven people in an hour-long street battle






A riot police officer helps state-employed miners carry a co-worker after he was wounded in a dynamite explosion during clashes with miners from private cooperatives, as the latter marched through the streets of La Paz, Sept. 18.

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A Libyan government militia guarding the main entrance of the U.S. consulate that was attacked last week, fixes a note written by Libyans against the attack, in Benghazi city on Sept. 18. An amateur video appears to show Libyans trying to rescue U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens from a room filled with smoke at the U.S. mission where he was found unconscious after last week's attack by a mob protesting against a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. The poster on left reads, "No to extremism, no to terrorism in free Libya".

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Striking miners dance and cheer after they were informed of a 22 percent wage increase offer outside Lonmin's Marikana mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, on Sept. 18. Striking miners at the mine said on Tuesday they accepted a management pay rise offer and would return to work on Thursday after six weeks of mining sector unrest that shook Africa's largest economy.



Striking miners dance and cheer after they were informed of a 22 percent wage increase offer outside Lonmin's Marikana mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, on Sept. 18.

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Firefighters douse flames of a government vehicle torched during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, on Sept. 18. Muslim majority areas of Indian- Kashmir observed a complete shutdown and staged protests against the controversial anti-Islam movie deemed insulting to Prophet Mohammed. Normal life in the region was affected by the shutdown call and vehicular traffic on roads remained disrupted.









A masked youth attends a strike in Srinagar, Sept.18.. According to locals, a call for all shops, business establishments, schools, colleges and government offices to be closed and public transport to remain off the roads throughout Kashmir was called on by several local groups. The shutdown was to protest against an anti-Islam film that has sparked violent protests across the world.

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U.S. President Barack Obama impersonator Louis Ortiz, right, and Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney impersonator Mike Cote, left, pose for a photo at Times Square on Sept. 11 in New York. As the US presidential election draws nearer the two political impersonators keep a full schedule.

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Palestinian youths throw stones towards Israeli border police (not seen) in the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem September 18, 2012. Clashes between police and protesters erupted following a protest against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.



A man, dressed as the Muppet character Elmo, is arrested in New York's Times Square September 18, 2012. The arrest took place after a loud verbal exchange between the man and tourists, witnesses said. The police at the scene did not give a reason for the arrest.



A Free Syrian Army fighter prepares to fire his weapon at forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the Bustan Al-Basha front line in southeastern Aleppo September 18, 2012.



A representative (C) from the Japanese consulate is escorted by security guards carrying protest letters submitted by demonstrators during a rally against Japan's decision to nationalise the islands, called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China, outside the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong September 18, 2012. Japanese businesses shut hundreds of stores and plants and the country's embassy suspended services in China on Tuesday as anti-Japan protests reignited and risked dragging a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies deeper into crisis. The Chinese characters on the Japanese Self-Defense Force flags (back) held by the protesters read, "Down with Japanese militarism".



A rabbit is pictured next to weapons in a Free Syrian Army bus in Bustan Al-Basha district in Aleppo September 18, 2012.

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An Occupy Vancouver protester, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, checks her mobile phone outside a federal government building in Vancouver, British Columbia September 17, 2012. About 100 protesters gathered to mark the one-year anniversary of their occupation of the Art Gallery grounds, as Occupy Wall Street in New York marked its one-year anniversary on Monday with a day of demonstrations



Muslim demonstrators are seen through a flag as they shout anti-U.S. slogans during a protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, in the southern Indian city of Chennai September 18, 2012.



A lawyer (L) talks to Bulgarian imams before the start of their trial in the city court in Pazardzhik, some 110 km (68 miles) east of Sofia, September 18, 2012. Thirteen Bulgarian imams stand trial on charges of belonging to an unregistered branch of Islamic foundation Al Waqf Al Islami which is believed to preach the implementation of Sharia law in the Balkan country, the prosecutor's office said.



Fishing boats are seen departing from Shenjiawan port in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province towards the East China Sea fishing grounds, September 17, 2012. China and Japan are currently involved in a territorial dispute involving a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.



Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring the winning goal against Manchester City during their Champions League Group D soccer match at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid September 18, 2012.



Artin Elmayan throws a tennis ball in the locker room before playing tennis at the River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires September 13, 2012. Elmayan, who emigrated to Argentina from Europe when it was on the verge of war in 1938 at the age of 21, said he took up tennis as a hobby and has never looked back. Now, aged 95, he is the world's oldest-ranked player.



Seated with talk show host David Letterman, U.S. President Barack Obama makes an appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City September 18, 2012.



A man carries benches to a safer place after a school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu September 18, 2012. India's monsoon rains were 21 percent above average in the week to September 12, the third straight week of heavier-than-normal rains, abating the threat of a widespread drought.

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Battle for Aleppo




Civilians and members of the Free Syrian Army try to pull out a body from under the rubble of a building destroyed by a jet air strike in al-Kalaseh neighborhood in Aleppo September 19, 2012.



The body of a civilian killed by a sniper is pictured in Al-Ezaa district in Aleppo September 18, 2012.









Civilians and Islamist fighters pray over the body of Tareq Naser, an Islamist fighter who died during clashes on Sunday, during his funeral near the village of Fafeen in Aleppo's countryside September 17, 2012.

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A dead sperm whale floats off the southern coast of the Philippines



Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho celebrates Ronaldo's winning goal against Manchester City

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Jerusalem: Masked Palestinians collect bricks in a pram



Aleppo, Syria: A Syrian man carries his wounded daughter outside a hospital



Islamabad, Pakistan: A lawyer helps a colleague who fell during scuffles with police at a demonstration

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Bagram airbase used by the US to illegally detain its 'high-value' targets, without trial, during the everlasting 'war on terror' and is Afghanistan's main military prison.

Another concentration camp or rendition centre?

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A statue of Jesus Christ lays on its side on top of the St. John's School building following a high wind storm, Sept. 19, in Orange, N.J.

An act of God no doubt!






Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!!



Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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Pallbearers carry the casket of slain Plymouth Township police officer Bradley Fox on Sept. 19, following a funeral mass at Epiphany of Our Lord Church in Plymouth Meeting Pa. Fox, a seven-year veteran of the Plymouth Township Police Department, and a Marine veteran of two tours in Iraq, was killed on Sept. 13 as he responded to the report of a fleeing hit-and-run suspect in an industrial area in Plymouth Township.







Slain Plymouth Township police Officer and Marine Corps veteran Bradley Fox was killed on Sept. 13 as he responded to the report of a fleeing hit-and-run suspect in an industrial area in Plymouth Township.

Fox was ambushed and killed by a hit-and-run suspect whom he and his K-9 partner, Nick, were pursuing on foot on Sept. 13 in New Hanover, Penn. Fox, a U.S. Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

The suspect, Andrew Charles Thomas, 44, of Lower Merion, committed suicide, shooting himself in the chest, according to the county coroner’s office

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The space shuttle Endeavour leaves Kennedy Space Center for the last time in Florida, on the morning of Sept. 19. Endeavour, attached to a NASA modified 747 aircraft, is on the first leg of its trip to the California Science Center museum where it will be put on display. Endeavour was to leave the space center on Sept. 17 but was delayed because of bad weather between Florida and Texas, where it will make its first stop before heading to California.

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People help each other to cross the street during a heavy wind storm in Montevideo, on Sept. 19.










According to local media reports, a storm that blew through the coastal town of Montevideo, Uruguay had winds reaching speeds of over 112 mph this afternoon.

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Members of the public bring floral tributes in memory of WPC's Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in Hattersley on Sept. 19 in Manchester, England. A local man Dale Cregan, 29, has been arrested in connection with the shooting of Hughes and Bone, who were killed as they responded to a routine incident at Abbey Gardens in Hattersley




Women embrace before laying floral tributes close to where police constables Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were killed in Hattersley near Manchester, northern England, Sept. 19. One of Britain's most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen in a gun and grenade ambush, police said. The killings are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns.

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Filipino workers remove the ropes and straps tied around the carcass of the a sperm whale on the flatbed of a 16 wheeler trailer truck during its burial. The whale was buried at the fish cemetery of the Zamboanga State College of Marine Science and Technology in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, Sept. 19. The dead giant sea mammal was spotted, already dead, floating near an island off the coast of Zamboanga City.



Workers remove ropes from the carcass of a 52-foot-long sperm whale after it was towed from the sea to the pier of Zamboanga City, on the southern island of Mindanao on Sept. 19. The dead giant mammal was spotted by the coast guard on Sept. 19, floating near Sacol island off the coast of Zamboanga City. Environmental officials believe the whale had been sick and died several days ago, as quoted by press reports.

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Nobel Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi (C) receives the Congressional Gold Medal from House Speaker John Boehner (L), in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, DC, USA



The statue of Christopher Columbus, located in the middle of New York's Columbus Circle has been encircled by an artwork by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, called Discovering Columbus. Nishi has erected a 810-square-foot living room round the statue, which not only offers spectacular views of mid-Manhattan through the windows but also enables visitors to get a closer look of the sculpture which is usually surrounded by the city traffic



Mourners pay their respects during the funeral of three members of the Spence family at Ballynahinch Baptist Church in Northern Ireland. The Ulster rugby player Nevin Spence, his father Noel and brother Graham all died in a slurry tank farm accident last Saturday



An Indian muslim student hits a burning effigy of US president Barack Obama as others shout anti-US slogans during a protest in Kolkata. More than 30 people have been killed around the world in a wave of attacks and violent protests linked to the controversial film which is seen as insulting to the Prophet Mohammed



Sophie Morgan walks with the aid of 'Rex', a robotic exoskeleton at the Wellcome Trust in London. The system allows wheelchair users, including fully paralysed people, to stand upright and walk independently. Sophie was paralysed from the chest down in 2003 following a car accident



Members of the SlutWalk movement gather in London to protest at the way the legal system lets down rape victims. The demonstration calls for a change in police and prosecution priorities to get more rapists and sex offenders behind bars. It comes ahead of a march due to take place later this month



Retired military staff shout slogans outside the parliament building during a demonstration in Athens. Greece's finance minister has said the country is close to sealing a deal with its international lenders on fresh austerity measures in exchange for billions of euros in aid funds

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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom talks to members of the media outside the New Zealand Court of Appeals in Wellington. Dotcom appeared at the court as the US government appeal against a decision that it must disclose documents confiscated in the Megaupload investigation



Smile! A North Korean couple pose for a wedding picture near the newly constructed development project area on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang