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An East European steppe eagle named Steppi starts from the hand of keeper Didi Wechselberger in Mayrhofen, Austria, on Friday. The eagle is training to star in a daily bird show where he will be able to demonstrate his unique natural behaviors and physical features. Kerstin Joensson/AP
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Swimmers compete in the women's 400 m freestyle final during the Commonwealth Games at the Dr. S.P. Mukherjee Aquatics Center in New Delhi, India, on Friday. Domenico Stinellis/AP
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An artist of the Australian aerial dance group Strange Fruit performs 'The Spheres' during the Hi Seoul Festival at Yoido in Seoul on Friday. Ahn Young-joon/AP
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A general view of Moscow at night is seen from the window of a passenger jet on Friday. Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters
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An aerial view shows the toxic flood near the Hungarian village of Devecser is seen on Thursday. Pollution levels from a red sludge spill in Hungary have subsided in the Danube and there is no risk of a biological or environmental catastrophe in the major European waterway, Hungarian officials said. There were still no estimates of the financial damage wrought by the sludge -- waste from bauxite refining that has a strong caustic effect -- over an area of 1,920-2,400 acres. Five people were killed and more than 150 injured in the disaster. Peter Somogyi-Toth/Reuters
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Riva Lemanski poses with a 1930 Steiff large brown Dicky teddy bear on display at an auction house in London on Friday. The tall teddy bear is to be auctioned in a 'Private Collection of Steiff Teddy Bears and Soft Toys' sale on Oct. 13 with an estimated price of 10,000 to 15,000 pounds ($15,873 to $23,810). Sang Tan/AP
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The YM Uranus, a chemicals tanker carrying 6,000 tons of solvent aboard, is seen off France's northwestern coast Friday. The tanker, sailing under the Maltese flag, ran into trouble after a collision off the coast of France on Friday but authorities said its crew was rescued and its cargo did not seem to be leaking. Rescuers took the ship's 13 crew members to safety by helicopter, a port authority spokesman said, after it apparently hit another ship south of the island of Ouessant. Marine Nationale/CPAR Brest/Reuters
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People watch the start of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-01M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early Friday. The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
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The South Korean Air Force's special flight team, the Black Eagles, performs during an air show at the US airbase in Osan, Korea, on Friday. Shin Young-gun/AP
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A security guard (front l.) speaks to journalists as the authorities stop the media entering the apartment house where Liu Xia, wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, stays in Beijing on Friday. Andy Wong/AP
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A woman greets a British Army soldier of the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, on the unit's return from Afghanistan to Catterick Barracks in Catterick, northern England, on Friday. Nigel Roddis/Reuters
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In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, England's Greg Rutherford competes in a men's long jump qualification during the Commonwealth Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India, on Friday. Lee Jin-man/AP
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Samples from the Danube River are seen in Turnu Severin, western Romania, on Friday. Red sludge contaminated Danube waters on Thursday, threatening a half dozen nations along one of Europe's key waterways. Romanian monitors are stepping up the sample collection over the weekend to determine the levels of contamination. Vadim Ghirda/AP
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Fishermen try to push a stranded boat back to the sea at the port of Tanmen in Qionghai, Hainan Province, China, on Friday. Torrential rains have submerged more than 1,000 villages in the subtropical Chinese island of Hainan, home to much of the country's rubber plantations, the Xinhua news agency said. China Daily/Reuters
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Chefs cook an omelet during a Guinness World Records attempt for the world's largest omelet in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday. The Turkish Egg Producers Association celebrated World Egg Day on Friday with an attempt to cook the world's largest omelet weighing 6 tons with a total of 432 liters of oil and 110,000 eggs used. Umit Bektas/Reuters
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Showgirls dressed as Obama, Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho, as well as nuns and nurses at former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's parties. Karima El Mahroug testified about showgirls dressing up at a prostitution trial in Italy.
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Sara Rossi, Reuters /
May 18, 2013
(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)