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A devotee carries a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, into the Arabian Sea on the first day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.
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Children walk above destroyed houses after a pre-dawn fire engulfed a slum area in Manila on September 19, 2012. Two people were killed while some 800 residents were affected by the fire according to local media reports.
It's the one-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, which started on Wall Street in New York and spread around the world. While the issues — economic, social, political, environmental, philosophical — that were raised a year ago remain real concerns, protesters now struggle to capture the public's imagination for their causes. A look back at Occupy in 25 photos:
A masked protestor participates in the Occupy Vancouver group assembly in Vancouver Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. A grassroots protest movement that began in the United States has crossed the border as Canadians across the country gathered to demonstrate against social inequality and corporate greed. (The Canadian Press/Geoff Howe)
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Withdrawn criminal charges laid by a discredited Toronto police drug squad continue to haunt Toronto cab driver Abdulkadir Mohamoud. The charges show up in a vulnerable sector police check, which must be clear for Mohamoud to make extra money driving TTC Wheel Trans clients.
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Performance artists Kitsch & Sync Collective entertain visitors to the Number Six Festival on September 15, 2012 in Porthmadog, United Kingdom. The classic Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales is staging the first ever No. 6 Festival, named after the famous 1960's cult TV series 'The Prisoner' which was filmed in the village. The three day festival is a kaleidoscope of entertainment with music, art and performances ranging from poetry to pop and classical music.
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A protester shouts slogans as he stands on a burnt car during clashes with riot police along a road leading to the U.S. embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo September 14, 2012. Egyptian protesters, angry at a film they say insults Prophet Mohammad, hurled stones on at a line of police blocking their way to the U.S. embassy, which was attacked earlier this week.
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Protesters break the windows of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa September 13, 2012. Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and security guards tried to hold them off by firing into the air. Yemen's embassy in Washington said no casualties were reported when the protesters stormed the U.S. embassy compound in Sanaa.
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Libyan civilians help an unconscious man, identified by eyewitnesses as US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, at the US consulate compound in Benghazi in the early hours of September 12, 2012, following an overnight attack on the building. Stevens and three of his colleagues were killed in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city by Islamists outraged over an amateur American-made Internet video mocking Islam, less than six months after being appointed to his post.
