A hot air balloon made up of lots of smaller balloons and tied to a barge flies through Tower Bridge in central London on Oct. 2 to promote Disney’s latest film entitled ‘Up’. It is the first time a hot air balloon has been allowed to travel under the bridge. The film is about an old man who ties hundreds of balloons to his house and goes off on an adventure.
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A view from an airplane of the Tungurahua volcano spewing a few ashes and smoke, around 86 miles south of Quito Thursday. The Tungurahua volcano has been erupting frequently since 1999.
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A model wears a creation from the Mila Schon women’s spring/summer 2010 fashion collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Tuesday
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Canadian space tourist and founder of Cirque du Soleil Guy Laliberte jokes with his wife Claudia Barilla during a press conference at Kazakhstan’s Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome on Sept. 29. The crew of Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, US astronaut Jeff Williams and Laliberte traveled from Baikonur in a Russian Soyuz TMA-16 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 30.
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Hindu devotees dressed as Hindu gods Ram and Hanuman, seen near the immersion ground in Bhubaneswar, India, Tuesday
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A Kashmiri Muslim village woman carries dried grass on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Tuesday.
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Suri, an Indonesian woman, is rescued out from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang on Oct. 2 after a 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the area late on Sept. 30. Indonesia said it feared thousands had died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands in a race to find survivors.
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Indonesian rescue workers walk on a damaged building still smoldering from Wednesday’s earthquake, in the Sumatran Island city of Pedang, Indonesia, Friday. Medical teams, search dogs, backhoes and emergency supplies were flown into the devastated western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island Friday to bolster frantic rescue attempts for thousands buried by a powerful earthquake.
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A U.S. soldier shakes hands with a boy during a patrol near the city of Mosul on Sept. 27. For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq’s Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years. Streets littered with bombed-out rubble have been cleared and collapsed buildings resurrected, trash has been swept and trees planted along newly paved boulevards.
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A Jordanian veiled woman is seen Sept. 28 in Amman.
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Zach Kniestedt, 10, stands on some boxes to interview Sacramento Kings center Spencer Hawes, who stands 7 feet, 1-inch, for his sports blog during the Kings’ NBA basketball media day in Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 28.
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First Lady Michelle Obama is shown in this undated publicity photograph as she plants a garden on “Sesame Street” with characters Big Bird and Elmo. “Sesame Street”, the world’s largest informal children’s educator, celebrates its 40th birthday on November 10, 2009 with Obama’s appearance on the show.
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President Obama sits next to first lady Michelle Obama before speaking in Copenhagen Oct. 2 to promote Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Chicago’s bid lost to Rio de Janeiro.
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Japan’s Daichi Suzuki, left, a 1988 Olympic Swimming gold medallist, and Danish swimmer Jeanette Ottesen, warm up during a practice with young swimmers in Copenhagen Sept. 29. Tokyo was competing with Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Rio won.
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Children sleep on whatever is available at a makeshift evacuation centre in Cantas Town on the outskirts of Manila on Sept. 29. Philippine flood survivors crowded into the presidential palace, gymnasiums and hundreds of other makeshift evacuation centres as the death toll from the disaster soared to 240.
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A mother cuddles her child while wading through floodwaters in Taytay township, Rizal province east of Manila, Philippines Oct.2. Tropical storm Ketsana brought the worst flooding in metropolitan Manila and neighboring provinces in more than 40 years that left more than 250 people dead and dozens more missing.
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A large Golden Orb Spiders crawls on the face of Sydney Wildlife World Keeper Borisat in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 1. The Wildlife park is holding a survey to establish which of the two types of animals the public find more creepy, snakes or spiders. A dangerous and deadly trail has revealed that most people (87 percent) would not know how to identify a dangerous snake if they saw one, even though Australia has five of the top 10 most deadly snakes in the world.
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Japanese artist Takashi Murakami poses with his artwork Kirsten Dunst & McG & Me at the launch of the Pop Life: Art in a Modern World exhibition at the Tate Modern in London Sept. 29. High-profile contemporary artists like Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami have long embraced Andy Warhol’s infamous provocation that “good business is the best art.”
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Stunned survivors search for bodies amongst the debris left by the tsanami on Lalomanu Beach on the south coast of Samoa on Sept. 30. Rescuers reached scenes of stunning devastation after a killer tsunami obliterated Samoan island villages, killing at least 148 people and leaving scores more missing.
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A man prepares to unveil the new monument for victims of the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, Sept. 29. The monument is a metal statue representing a 12-year-old boy, the main character of Anatoly Kuznetsov’s novel “Babi Yar,” who is reading an announcement on a brick wall ordering all Kiev’s Jews to report to the authorities with their money, identification documents and belongings. Many Jews thought they were being shipped to a ghetto, but what met them was their death. More than 33,700 Jews were rounded up and shot at Babi Yar over 48 hours beginning on Sept. 29, 1941.
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A visitor virtually stops a wave at an interactive installation “The Waves” by French artist Thierry Kuntzel as part of the Francophone Games at Dome-City Center, in downtown Beirut, Sept. 29. The Francophone Games, a sports and art event held once in every four years, is held in Lebanon from Sept. 27 to Oct. 6 this year.
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