Women rehearse the "garba" dance ahead of the Navratri festival in Ahmedabad, India. | (REUTERS/Amit Dave)
The Macau synchronized swimming team competes in the 17th Asian Games, in Incheon, South Korea. | (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)
A Palestinian boy stands before burning tires following a protest against the nearby Jewish settlement of Qadomem, in the West Bank village of Kofr Qadom. | (REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini)
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Kamina, a baby Western Lowland gorilla, arrives in Cincinnati by private plane. The Cincinnati Zoo adopted Kamina from the Oklahoma City Zoo, after her mother shunned her and the Oklahoma zoo did not have an adult female able to adopt and raise her. | (AP Photo/Cincinnati Zoo, Michelle Curley)
The New York Yankees' Derek Jeter celebrates after hitting a game-winning single against the Baltimore Orioles in his very last at bat in New York. | (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
The Nairobi Chamber Chorus sings at a concert of remembrance for the victims of the Westgate Mall attack, at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya. | (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Art handlers lift the 1797 Goya painting "The Duchess of Alba," in a gallery for the "Goya: Order and Disorder" exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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A displaced Somali woman carries a child and her belongings as she arrives at a temporary dwelling in Mogadishu after fleeing famine. The United Nations reports more than a million people in war-ravaged Somalia are struggling to meet their daily nutritional needs. | (REUTERS/Feisal Omar)
Farmer Harald Wenske drives his boat, loaded with pumpkins, along a water vein of the river Spree, near the village of Lehde, in eastern Germany. | (AP Photo/dpa, Patrick Pleul)
Kurdish Syrian refugees carry their belongings across the Turkish-Syrian border. | (REUTERS/Murad Sezer)
Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Amarneh carries dry tobacco through his field in the town of Ya'bad, near the West Bank city of Jenin. | (REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini)
Visitors enjoy a fairground ride on the opening day of Oktoberfest, in Munich. | (REUTERS/Michael Dalder)
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