Police wearing riot gear confront a man during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday, August 11. Some protests in the city turned into clashes between angry citizens and police after a Ferguson police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, on Saturday, August 9.
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People in Los Angeles photograph Robin Williams' handprints and footprints at TCL Chinese Theater on Tuesday, August 12. The 63-year-old actor and comedian was found dead at his Northern California home a day earlier. Investigators suspect it was suicide.
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Bullfighter Vicente Cabanes is tossed by a bull during a bullfight in Madrid on Sunday, August 10.
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A rocket is fired from Gaza City toward Israel on Saturday, August 9. Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza last month after a 10-day campaign of airstrikes failed to relentless rocket fire from Hamas, the Islamic militant group and political party that controls Gaza.
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Men salvage belongings from the ruins of a Gaza City home that residents say was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, August 9.
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A security guard peers out of a glass door while Pope Francis and South Korean President Park Geun-hye meet at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, August 14. The Pope's trip to South Korea marks the first papal visit to the country since Pope John Paul II visited 25 years ago.
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Revelers in Madrid throw colored powder in the air during the Holi Festival of Colors on Saturday, August 9. The festival was fashioned after the annual Hindu festival that celebrates the arrival of spring.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Dara Edwards, the 5-year-old daughter of an American staff member at the U.S. Consulate in Sydney, as he met with embassy and consular staff there on Tuesday, August 12.
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A worker is seen at the top of a ride at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Saturday, August 9. The fair, which has been around for 150 years, mixes agricultural exhibits with amusement rides.
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Aziza Hamid, a 15-year-old Iraqi girl, cries for her father while she and some other Yazidi people are flown to safety Monday, August 11, after a dramatic rescue operation at Iraq's Mount Sinjar. A CNN crew was on the flight, which took diapers, milk, water and food to the site where as many as 70,000 people remain trapped by the militant group ISIS. But only a few of them were able to fly back on the helicopter with the Iraqi Air Force and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.
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Flowers are thrown in the air Wednesday, August 13, as the Our Lady of Fatima statue is carried during a pilgrimage to Fatima Sanctuary in Fatima, Portugal. It is one of the world's most important Catholic shrines dedicated to the Virgin Mary, according to Portugal.com.
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Emergency crews in Santos, Brazil, survey the damage of a plane crash that killed Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos and six others on Wednesday, August 13. The small plane was carrying Campos to a campaign stop when it crashed into a residential neighborhood, state-run Agencia Brasil reported. The country's Air Force said the crash was due to bad weather, but it is continuing to investigate the accident.
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A U.S. soldier mans a machine gun on a Chinook helicopter Monday, August 11, in Afghanistan's Paktia province.
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People run as a high wave hits the Qiantang River bank Wednesday, August 13, in Hangzhou, China.
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A Ryanair commercial jet takes off from East Midlands Airport in Derby, England, as a tornado funnel forms nearby on Thursday, August 14.
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Clothes of some Ukrainian soldiers are placed nearby as they swim in a lake after fighting militants near Donetsk, Ukraine, on Friday, August 8. For months, Ukrainian government forces have been fighting pro-Russian separatists near the Russia border. The fighting has left more than 2,000 people dead since mid-April, according to "conservative" estimates from United Nations officials.
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Nurses carry the body of an Ebola victim from a house outside Monrovia, Liberia, on Friday, August 8. Health officials say the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever. The virus has killed more than 1,000 people this year in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
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A tightrope walker performs between two spheres of the Atomium monument in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, August 11. The 335-foot-tall structure is shaped like a unit cell of an iron crystal that has been magnified about 165 billion times.
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A partially submerged car sits on a flooded section of Interstate 695 in Baltimore on Tuesday, August 12, after heavy rains fell across the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to a crowd Sunday, August 10, in Istanbul. By a wide margin of votes, Erdogan will become the country's first directly elected president, the semi-official Anadolu News Agency reported.
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A Hindu priest takes a holy bath as part of a ritual during the Janai Purnima Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, August 10. During the festival, Hindus take holy baths and change their sacred thread, also known as Janai, for protection and purification.
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A woman poses for a souvenir picture in front of a mural in Shah Alam, Malaysia, on Wednesday, August 13.
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards and police officers inspect the site of a passenger plane crash in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, August 10. Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 was carrying 40 passengers and a crew of eight when it went down shortly after takeoff, according to official news agencies in Iran.
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People watch a full moon known as a "supermoon" Sunday, August 10, at Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Supermoons happen when the moon becomes full on the same day as its perigee -- the point in the moon's orbit when it's closest to Earth. Full moons occur near perigee approximately every 13 months, according to NASA.
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Clifford Brandt is escorted by police after his arrest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, August 12. Brandt was taken into custody after a mass breakout from a prison outside the Haitian capital.
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Cows are seen before they are milked at a new dairy farm in the Russian village of Petrovskoye, about 56 miles north of St. Petersburg, on Friday, August 8. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country.
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A derailed passenger train is seen near Tiefencastel, Switzerland, on Wednesday, August 13. A landslide caused the train to partially derail in the Swiss Alps, injuring at least six people, regional police spokesman Peter Faerber said.
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People attend an air show in Lipetsk, Russia, on Tuesday, August 12. It was Russian Air Force Day.
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Police patrol a residential neighborhood in east Baltimore minutes after a new curfew law took effect Friday, August 8. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the measure is aimed at getting children off the streets before they are put in danger. See last week in 34 photos