In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
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Visitors lay roses over the names of the first responders at the South Pool of the 9/11 Memorial, ahead of the 11-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at 'ground zero' in New York. Adrees Latif/Reuters
Members of the public release olive ridley turtle hatchlings during an event by the Kuta Beach Sea Turtle Conservation at Kuta Beach, Bali. According to the conservation, more than 20,000 eggs were safely relocated to the hatchery since 2002, 80% of which have been successfully hatched and released to the ocean. Desmond Ang/Reuters
Long distance runner Mo Farah takes part in a parade of British Olympic and Paralympic athletes through London. Tens of thousands of Britons took to the streets of London on Monday to welcome the stars of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and celebrate a summer of sport that surprised even the most optimistic by lifting the national mood. David Davies/Reuters
A female police officer conducts a body search on a woman near the voting hall in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Members of parliament in Somalia will vote for a new president on Monday in the first vote of its kind in decades amid fears that the historic election will be rigged and do little to alter the political landscape. Ismail Taxta/Reuters
Syrian Mohammed Ramadan, who is displaced from his home in Dir el Zour, due to fighting between the rebels and government forces, comforts his daughter Haneen, who suffers from a lung infection, while waiting to be examined by a doctor at a makeshift hospital in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Israeli soldiers run after Palestinian stone throwers (not seen) in the Israeli-controlled area of the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian demonstrators, fed up with high prices and unpaid salaries shuttered shops, halted traffic with burning tires and closed schools throughout the West Bank in the largest show of popular discontent with the governing Palestinian Authority in its 18-year history. Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP
Pensioner Olga Kostina works on a mosaic, made from plastic bottle caps, which decorates the facade of her house, in the village of Kamarchaga, in the Siberian Taiga area about 50 miles southeast of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A Wedge-tail eagle and a crow fight in the sky above Gunnedah, Australia. Rob Griffith/AP
Designer Yohji Yamamoto (c.) talks to a technician about a light installation before a presentation of the Y-3 Spring/Summer 2013 collection during a walk through at New York Fashion Week September 9, 2012. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
A resident displays used bullet cartridges after an attack in Kilelengwani village in Tana River Delta in Kenya's coastal region. Hundreds of armed raiders killed at least 38 villagers and torched more than 150 houses on Monday in the latest fighting between rival tribes in a dispute over land and water in Kenya's coastal region. Charles Makunda/Reuters
Palestinian protesters throw shoes at a banner of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad during a demonstration against high living costs and the government in the West Bank city of Hebron. Darren Whiteside/Reuters
A Syrian rebel fighter (r.) eats while others chat as they wait for transportation to go and fight government forces in Aleppo, at their headquarters in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Iraqi born architect Zaha Hadid and Antwerp Port and government officials press a button to begin construction of the new Port Authority headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium. The new headquarters, designed by Zaha Hadid is scheduled to begin construction in September and employees plan to move in in the autumn of 2015. Virginia Mayo/AP
Two spectators dressed as Elvis Presley wait for the start of the second International T20 cricket match between England and South Africa at Old Trafford cricket ground, Manchester, England. Philip Brown/Reuters
A worker is silhouetted in early morning light as he sets up a portable irrigation system to water a polo field in Del Mar, California. Mike Blake/Reuters
Alcoa Inc's workers protest against their dismissals from employment in downtown Rome. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
A man cleans a piece of an aircraft engine before the ILA Berlin Air Show in Selchow near Schoenefeld south of Berlin. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
Miners march to the Lonmin Platinum Mine in an attempt to stop operations, near Rustenburg, South Africa. Labor unrest spread in South Africa with a wildcat strike by 15,000 workers stopping operations at a gold mine while few workers reported for duty in the fourth week of a stoppage at the world's third largest platinum mine. Themba Hadebe/AP
Chicago teachers walk the picket line outside Anthony Overton School in Chicago. Some 29,000 teachers and support staff went strike, setting up an awkward confrontation between Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's former top White House aide, and organized labor in the president's home city. Jean Lachat/Reuters
An Afghan soldier stands attention during a hand over ceremony of US-run prison to Afghan government in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Musadeq Sadeq/AP
Indian policemen escort political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi (c.) in black as they leave a court in Mumbai, India. Trivedi whose drawings mock Indian government corruption has been jailed on a sedition charge in an arrest that was widely condemned Monday as evidence of political leaders' increasing intolerance of criticism. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
Pedestrian look at various advertisement of job hunting and rooms, apartments and houses for rent on a public bulletin board in Beijing. China's imports shrank unexpectedly in August in a sign its economic slump is worsening and the Chinese president warned growth could slow further, prompting expectations of possible new stimulus spending. Andy Wong/AP
Passers-by and members of the media gather in front of a high rise apartment building where the body of Banking Minister Tadahiro Matsushita was found in Tokyo. Toru Hanai/Reuters
Children and local villagers gather to receive food distributed in Luozehe town after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province. Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by earthquakes that killed at least 81 people and damaged thousands of buildings. More than 800 people were injured, state media reported. Jason Lee/Reuters
A supporter of Ukraine's jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko holds a poster with an image of Tymoshenko, during a rally in front of the Higher Administrative Court in central Kiev. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
North Korean commuters read a public copy of the daily newspaper as they wait on the subway platform for the train to arrive at the metro station in Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder/AP
A car drives along the Baikal M53 highway during sunset on the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Under Hugo Chávez, big businesses endured threats of state takeover. This week, Chávez's successor reached out to the boss of Venezuela's largest privately held company.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's successor seems to be turning toward big business for help in ending rampant scarcities of basic consumer goods and an almost 30 percent annual inflation rate.
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