Wildcard surfer Jack Freestone of Australia turns on an enormous Pipeline wave during the Billabong Pipeline Masters on North Shore Beach, Hawaii.
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Rescue workers evacuate people after a fire engulfed Amri hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. “I can confirm that at least 30 people have lost their lives in the incident,” Deputy Police Commissioner B. Dasgupta told AFP, adding that 60 people had been rescued.
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A barber earn his livelihood for support his family at his roadside stand in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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A 3-month-old Orangutan baby peeks out from inside a wooden box in East Kutai, East Kalimantan province, Indonesia, after being rescued after seperated from its mother. Expert say there are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger limps down the steps to the locker room after the Steelers’ 14-3 win over the Browns in Pittsburgh. Roethlisberger injured his left ankle in the second quarter but returned for the second half.
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An Indian hotel employee holds down an exiled Tibetan during a protest rally in New Delhi, India. Tibetan activists protested the visit of China’s Deputy Chief of General Staff General Ma Xiaotian. Xiatian is on a two-day visit to India.
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Will Lowe, of Canyon, Texas, rides in the bareback competition for a score of 82.5 and fourth place in the event during the eighth go-round of the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
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A North Korean man shovels snow in a parking lot in Pyongyang after overnight snow fell on the North Korean capital.
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A Pakistani firefighter tries to extinguish burning NATO oil tankers after they were allegedly torched by terrorists at a terminal on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan.
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Specialist Michael Gagliano, foreground right, works at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the IPO of Rose Rock Midstream.
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A hunter releases his tamed golden eagle during an annual hunting competition outside Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Wounded French UN peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon are seen after receiving treatment near the site where a bomb exploded on the outskirts of the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon. The bomb exploded near a peacekeeping patrol, wounding five French soldiers in southern Lebanon.
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Anti-government protesters perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally to demand the trial of Yemen’s outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa.
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An Israeli border policeman fires tear gas at Palestinian protesters during a demonstration against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah.
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Boys practice flips at sunset in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq is transitioning nearly nine years after the 2003 US invasion and subsequent occupation. American forces are now in the midst of the final stage of withdrawal from the war-torn country. At least 4,485 US military personnel have died in service in Iraq. According to the Iraq Body Count, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died from war-related violence.
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A member of Iran’s revolutionary guard (R) points at the U.S. RQ-170 unmanned spy plane as he speaks with Amirali Hajizadeh, a revolutionary guard commander, at an unknown location in Iran. The unmanned US drone Iran said on Sunday it had captured was programmed to automatically return to base even if its data link was lost, one key reason that US officials say the drone likely malfunctioned and was not downed by Iranian electronic warfare.
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Security guards detain activists of Ukraine’s protest group Femen, outside the Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow, Russia.
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Thousands line up duirng the opening of the Apple Store Grand Central in New York.
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