World News in Pictures

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Aleppo, Syria: an old woman, wounded in artillery shelling by the Syrian army, is carried into Dar al Shifa hospital

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Srinagar, India: an employee of the government of Jammu and Kashmir shouts slogans as he is detained by police during a demonstration. The employees want the government to compensate them for unpaid salaries and raise the retirement age

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Sagami Bay, Japan: the Shirataka, a Japanese maritime self-defence force patrol ship, fires a decoy during a fleet review

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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip: relatives of Palestinian militant Mohammed Abu Ftair cover their ears as militants fire in the air at his funeral

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: an armoured vehicle drives through the Manguinhos slum during an operation to install a pacifying police unit

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Bode, Nepal: a member of the rapid response team holds a culled rooster as he walks through a poultry farm infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus

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Villavicencio, Colombia: a rider participates in the 17th Encuentro Mundial de Coleo. Coleo is a cowboy sport in which the rider has to topple a cow or young bull by pulling its tail

Red Bull Soapbox Race

The Red Bull Soapbox race takes place in Hong Kong, China. Each team of four builds a car in the shape and material of its choice, with the winner determined by its speed, creativity and showmanship

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Battle of Hastings rerun in East Sussex

Re-enactment groups from across Europe aim to faithfully recreate the Battle of Hastings in 1066 which saw the death of King Harold

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Portable toilets were available for the 1,066 participants

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Charge!!!!!!!!!!!!

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A father and son grieve at the loss of a wife and mother following a Syrian government helicopter strike in Aleppo

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Sergai Tarasov completes a modular origami model of a cathedral in Minusinsk

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Felix Baumgartner in freefall

Battle for Aleppo

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Members of the Free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb during clashes with pro-government soldiers in the city of Aleppo, October 15, 2012.

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Riot police stand guard outside the Portuguese parliament beside a fire set by demonstrators during a protest against the government's 2013 budget, on Oct. 15, 2102 in Lisbon. Portugal's government is taking the bailed-out country deeper into austerity, announcing sharp tax increases next year that risk worsening a recession and stoking public discontent.

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An inmate and his bride kiss during a mass wedding ceremony for prisoners at the Lurigancho prison. Although Lurigancho prison is one of the most overcrowded, violent, and unruly jails in Latin America, its more than 8,500 prisoners live with so much freedom inside the walled perimeter that they have created their own city which mimics the urban society on the outside.

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Inmates participate in an Independence Day parade dressed in uniforms and carrying mock rifles.

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the roof of a wing at the Lurigancho prison.

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Filipinos supporting a framework peace agreement react after hearing news of its signing in Manila, Philippines, Oct. 15. The Philippine government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Oct. 15 signed a preliminary peace pact aimed at ending a 43-year rebellion in the troubled south. The framework agreement calls for the establishment of a new autonomous region to be called Bangsamoro, which means Muslim nation, in the southern region of Mindanao by 2016.

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Moro Islamic Liberation Front Peace Panel Chief Mohagher Iqbal, left, exchanges documents with Philippine government chief peace negotiator Marvic Leonen, right, after signing a peace deal at the Malacanang palace in Manila Oct. 15. Joining them to witness the signing are Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, back left, Malaysian peace facilitator Dato' Tengku Abdul Ghafar Tengku Mohamed, center, and Philippine President Benigno Aquino, back right.

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Members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front shout "Allahu Akhbar," or God is great, as they gather at their stronghold at Camp Darapanan in Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, to coincide with the tentative signing of the agreement on Oct. 15.

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The plane carrying 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for campaigning for the right to an education, sits on the tarmac after landing at Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, central England on Oct. 15. Yousufzai will be cared for at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, a highly specialized facility where British soldiers seriously wounded in Afghanistan are treated, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron said.

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Pakistanis light candles in front of a banner showing a picture of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot last Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Oct. 15. The banner reads, "Malala Yousufzai, daughter of proud parents, she raised the flag of education for the whole nation."

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has a serious message to deliver while recording his video blog in Moscow. Medvedev has launched a crackdown on smoking in Russia with a bill to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes

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It's no joke for this clown and fellow anti-airport protestors as police evacuate them from the area that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France. The new airport near Nantes is scheduled to be constructed for 2017.

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A woman searches through the debris of her store a day after clashes at a market in the neighborhood of Abobo in Abidjan

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Actors Terry Jones and Michael Palin attend "A Liar's Autobiography" photocall during the 56th BFI London Film Festival

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Nurses shout slogans during a rally in front of Government House in Bangkok. Thousands of Thai temporary status nurses are calling on the government to change their working conditions by offering them permanent contracts to secure their status and cut their workload. Thailand's public health service is facing a critical shortage of nurses in state hospitals with hundreds leaving each year due to poor pay and conditions

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Riot police were out in force last night around the Prime Minister's official residence at Sao Bento Palace during a protest against the Portuguese government's 2013 state budget

European car sales 'fall for 12 months in row'

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New car sales in the European Union have fallen for the 12th month in a row in September, according to the region's biggest carmakers.

Demand across the 27 European Union countries fell 10.8% from last year.

But of the major markets, the UK was the only one to grow, up 8.2% from the same month last year, said the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.

Carmakers had 1.1 million new EU registrations last month - with 9.4 million cars sold this year so far.

In September, the major car markets in the eurozone - which is weighed down by recession, spending cuts and high unemployment - fell sharply.

Germany - the largest economy in Europe and one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world - saw its car sales drop 10.9%. France fell by 17.9%, Italy fell by 25.7% and Spain declined by 36.8% from September 2011.

Across the EU as a whole, the 10.8% drop in September is the steepest drop so far in the past 12 months

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Standing more than 66 feet tall, and weighing more than 55,000 pounds, "Verity", a statue by British artist Damien Hirst was installed on the harbor wall at Ilfracombe in north Devon, South West England.

The bronze-clad, sword-wielding statue of a pregnant woman features an anatomical cross-section of her head and body revealing a developing fetus in her stomach.

Hirst states on his website, ‘Verity’ is a modern-day allegory for truth and justice.

The statue's title is from the Italian word for truth and she holds the symbols for justice; a sword and a set of scales.

Hirst has given the statue to the seaside town on a 20-year loan and was erected today by crane onto the pier, according to Getty Images.

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Firefighters in protective clothes on the grounds of Kraft Foods in Bad Fallingbostel, northern Germany, after a chemical accident on Oct. 16.

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The emergency alarm was sounded when a tank of sodium hydroxide solution was by mistake filled with nitric acid, producing a poisonous cloud of nitrous gases considered extremely harmful if they come into contact with skin or are inhaled. At least 1400 people were evacuated from their homes Monday night after the accident at the factory in the town of Bad Fallingbostel in Lower Saxony

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Mourners take pictures of a large portrait of the late former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk that was placed in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh Oct.16

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Cambodia’s former king, Norodom Sihanouk, who freed the country from colonialism before becoming a tragic pawn through decades of turmoil, died on Monday in a Beijing hospital at the age of 89. Officials expect at least 100,000 people to line the route on Wednesday from the Phnom Penh airport to the Royal Palace where his body will lay in state during a week of official mourning

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The Premier Padmini, the iconic workhorse in Mumbai's fleet of black and yellow cabs for nearly 50 years, faces an imminent demise. With the introduction of a government order banning taxis over 25 years old, the number of Padminis has begun to dwindle and, in a few years, they will be gone from the Indian city's streets altogether.

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Reuters photographer Vivek Prakash, once a taxi driver himself (though in the relatively sedate streets of Brisbane, Australia), set out to pay an affectionate tribute to the car he calls "the grand old dame of Mumbai's streets":

Power steering? Who needs it. Nothing a bit of elbow grease can’t fix. Air conditioning? Forget about it! You live in a sultry humid city, you should learn to love it. Electric windows? I don’t think so, use the handle to roll it down. Suspension? What suspension? Just remember you’ll feel every little bump on your way home tonight.

Here in Mumbai we love to hate the Padmini. They are uncomfortable, hot, steamy, and funny smelling. But when they’re gone, we’ll miss them.

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Lisbon, Portugal: a demonstrator takes part in a protest in front of the Portuguese parliament

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Bhaktapur, Nepal: a Nepalese health official wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant after an outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm

Syria's civil conflict

Fighting between government and rebel forces in Syria is exacting a devastating human toll

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An injured man arrives at the Dar al Shifa hospital in Aleppo

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A father cries as he carries his dead child into Dar al Shifa hospital

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A child covers his wounds after being injured by a Syrian army sniper. Activists in Syria claim the death toll from violence across the country reached 80 on 4 October, with the majority of casualties occurring in the northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo

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A Free Syrian Army fighter illuminates the body of a man killed by Syrian army artillery shelling before burying it in a common grave in an Aleppo cemetery

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The body of a child lies in front of Dar al Shifa hospital. His entire family was killed by Syrian army artillery shelling

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An old woman, wounded during Syrian army artillery shelling, is carried into Dar al Shifa hospital. Aleppo's few operating hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of casualties

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People watch an installation at Lille's Fantastic Festival in France

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Stars of the latest Bond film 'Skyfall'. Critics have praised the film calling it the best Bond ever.

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Actress Catherine Bach, aka Daisy Duke, at the Motorhome and Caravan exhibition in Birmingham, England

'The drought India forgot'

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AP reports -- Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centers where an intricate maze of computers process Internet search requests, show YouTube video clips and distribute email for millions of people. The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new website unveiled Wednesday.

Where the internet lives - Google data centers

The photographic access to Google's data centers coincides with the publication of a Wired magazine article about how the company builds and operates them. The article is written by Steven Levy, a journalist who won Google's trust while writing "In The Plex," a book published last year about the company's philosophy and evolution.

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A Brazilian policeman from the Action Battalion (BAC) searches for drugs as two boys look on, in a narrow street of the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro on October 16, 2012.

Some 1,300 heavily armed police participated in raids on Jacarezinho and another shanty town, Manguinhos

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London, England: the yet-to-be-named armadillo mascot for the Brazil 2014 World Cup poses beside a taxi outside the Brand Licensing Europe 2012 exposition at Olympia

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Aleppo, Syria: Syrians ride in a vehicle packed with their belongings as they try to escape the fighting

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Experts are warning that culling badgers will have 'unimpressive' results in reducing tuberculosis in cattle and cost taxpayers more than it saves. Two pilot culls have been given the go-ahead in Gloucestershire and Somerset, which will involve free-running badgers being shot over large areas over the next four years

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It's time to send in the clowns as circus workers protest in front of the Italian parliament in Rome's Piazza Montecitorio while the parliament is holding a session to discuss animals used in circus performances

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Some of the thousands of striking Anglo Gold Ashanti workers hold a mass meeting near Carltonville, South Africa. Anglo Gold Ashanti have given the miners, who are on an illegal strike, until 2pm tomorrow to return to work or face being fired

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Students are out in force protesting against education cuts at the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona. The Spanish government has said it will decide within the next few weeks whether to ask for outside financial help, noting it might opt for a precautionary line of credit instead of bailout cash

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Kosovan police struggle with leaders of the opposition party during a protest trying to halt a privatization deal from being signed inside the government building in the capital Pristina.

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This fantastic image of entitled 'A London Hurricane' is one of the winning entries in the 2012 Royal Air Force Photographic Competition

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South Korean rapper and internet sensation Psy draws the crowds as he performs for an Australian television show at Martin Place in Sydney

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Let the games commence: Moderator Candy Crowley, centre, applauds as President Barack Obama shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York

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