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A boy rides on a merry-go-round on the Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai August 31, 2012.
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A boy rides on a merry-go-round on the Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai August 31, 2012.
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A picture taken on August 30, 2012 shows pictures and flowers laid down under the "Flame of Freedom" statue at the Pont de l'Alma underpass where Lady Diana died, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of her death. Diana died in a car crash in a Parisian road tunnel on August 31, 1997 alongside her companion Dodi Fayed, triggering an extraordinary chain of events.
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A Syrian rebel (R) covers a fellow fighter carrying the body of his brother and comrade, killed during a battle in the Saif al-Dawla district of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, amid heavy street fighting between opposition and government forces on August 29, 2012. The battle for Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, has lasted for over a month, with the army unable to dislodge the rebels.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (back to camera) shakes hands at a campaign event on the Monfort Quad at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, August 28, 2012.
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A demonstrator blocks the entrance to a classroom at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal Monday, August 27, 2012 in Montreal. Some classes are being disrupted during the return to school of Quebec universities as students disobey the back-to-school law.
Lydia Ko of New Zealand is doused with water by fellow players after winning the LPGA Canadian Women's Open golf tournament in Coquitlam, British Columbia August 26, 2012. New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko became the youngest player to win a LPGA Tour event when the 15-year-old captured the Canadian Women's Open by three strokes on Sunday. (Reuters/Ben Nelms)
On the occasion of Neil Armstrong's passing, today's photos are a nod to astronauts past and present — and all the wonder and amazement they inspire.
This July 24, 1969, photo provided by the Richard Nixon Foundation shows Apollo XI astronauts, from left, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin laughing with President Richard Nixon aboard the USS Hornet. The president was on hand to greet the astronauts after their splashdown in the Pacific. Armstrong, who was famous for being the first man on the moon, died Saturday Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Nixon Foundation)
Russian cosmonaut (no name given) takes a photo during a mission in open space outside the International Space Station in this handout picture released August 24, 2012. Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko conducted a 5 hour 50 minute-long mission in open space on August 20, 2012. (Reuters/Roscosmos/Handout)
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A Syrian boy who was injured when a shell, released by regime forces, hit his house on August 24, 2012, waits to be treated at a hospital in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. 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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A child stands in the pouring rain in the slum of Susan's Bay in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, August 22, 2012. Sierra Leone's government has described the current cholera outbreak in the West African state as a "national emergency." At the height of the wet season, over-populated areas with poor water and sanitation are exacerbating the spread of the disease. Some 170 deaths are reported since the start of the year.
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Two giraffes look at each other from the windows of there enclosure during the annual weigh-in at London Zoo on August 22, 2012.
