Bangkok, Thailand: Customs officials display one of 136 live pangolins and 450kg of scales that were seized Wednesday from two pickup trucks after the authorities received a tip off that it had been smuggled from Malaysia. Customs Department Director General Kulit Sombatsiri said his department has seized more than 2.9 tons of pangolin-related items this year worth more than 29 million Thai baht (US$870,000). Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP.
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Members of the 中国残疾人艺术团简 (China Disabled Peoples Performing Art Troupe) perform “My Dream” at Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Municipal Theatre in Bogotá, Colombia. The company, composed of artists with hearing, mental, motor, visual or speech disabilities, was founded in 1987 and is currently both an honorary and goodwill ambassador of UNESCO for its example of inclusion. Photo: John Vizcaíno/AFP/Getty Images.
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Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: Two zebras come together at the perfect moment to make it seem like they are a two-headed animal. Photo: Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/Solent News & Photo Agency.
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Rolle, Switzerland: A swan makes its way on Lake Geneva at sunrise. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images.
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The Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna” will participate with its own stand through which it will promote both classical and Fischerandom chess in the “Notte Bianca dello Sport” (Sleepless Night Sports Festival) in Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, starting in the evening of Thursday, September 7, 2017, and also featuring open shops as well as music, dances, art exhibits, street theatre, and food and wine stalls all night long.
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Ernesto Che Guevara dancing a conga line in a kindergarten in 上海 (Shànghǎi), China, 1960. Photo: History in Pictures (@HistoryInPics).
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Kamchatka brown bears are seen at the Kurile Lake in Kamchatka peninsula, Russia. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
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A prospective bride with a traditionally face painting is seen in Pizren, Kosovo. Photo: Haris Alija/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
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A boy admires some of the street art that adorns many of the Aida refugee camp’s walls just outside Bethlehem. Banksy famously created the image of a white dove with a sniper target on its chest on a wall not far from here. Photo: Murad Abusrour.
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As usual, the Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna” will participate with its own stand through which it will promote both classical and Fischerandom chess in the annual Festa dello Sport traditionally staged at the Giardini del Campo di Marte in Florence, Italy, from Monday, September 4 to Friday, September 8 2017, starting everyday at 16,30 and ending at 19,00.
The event is promoted by the Quartiere 2 Campo di Marte and organized by the UISP Comitato Territoriale Firenze. The entrance is free. |
Family, friends and supporters join the funeral of Kian Loyd delos Santos, 17, in Caloocan, Philippines, executed by police death squads during one of their so-called anti-drug operations. Photo: Jes Aznar/Getty Images.
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A woman works in a sorghum field in a valley between 遵义 (Zūnyì) and 茅台 (Máotái), 贵州省 (Guìzhōu province). The plant is used to produce 茅台酒 (Máotái), a brand of 白酒 (báijiǔ), a distilled Chinese liquor. Photo: Aleksandar Plavevski/EPA.
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From his vantage point on the International Space Station, 250 miles above earth, NASA astronaut Jack David Fischer captured this stunning image of Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas.
Photograph: Jack Fischer/NASA.
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The piercing green eyes of a shag on the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England. Photo: Rose+Sjölander/Greenpeace.
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A Chinese man sorts abandoned share bicycles stored at a temporary parking lot in 上海 (Shànghǎi), China. The bike-sharing industry has known a boom with Chinese city-dwellers, but has grown so much that 上海 (Shànghǎi)’s authorities last week had to prohibit any further deployment of bikes in the city in order to prevent sidewalk clutter. Photo: Chandan Khanna/Getty Images.
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It was such a stroke of luck to have found today a framed art print of the French Algerian-born painter Thierry Ona’s danseurs, just to remind everyone what can (still) happen to those who don’t squeeze themselves into suburban shopping malls for common Sunday people! Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Police using water cannon and batons have clashed with refugees who had occupied a square in Rome, Italy in defiance of an order to leave a building where they had been occupying since 2013. Photo: Angelo Carconi/AP.
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Migrants and refugees demonstrate as police continue its operation of eviction. Photo: Angelo Carconi/AP.
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Two bears show off their dance moves on the beach in Oregon, United States. Photo: Karie Lefebvre/Solent News & Photo Agency.
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Robert James “Bobby” Fischer (pictured left) and Boris Vasilievich Spassky (pictured right) argue a point at a cocktail party after a news conference in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia on Monday, September 15, 1992. At that point, Fischer was leading 3–2 in their 10-game, open-ended rematch, with their next game scheduled for Wednesday. Photo: AP.
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11th World Chess Champion Robert James “Bobby” Fischer (pictured right), shakes hands with the then President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević (pictured left) in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on Tuesday, October 6, 1992. Fischer’s rematch vs. Boris Vasilievich Spassky would be continued on Wednesday in Belgrade with Fischer leading by 5 to 3. Speaking on the occasion, Milošević said that the match was proving that “Chess and sports cannot be limited by politics”. Photo: AP.
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And, of course, our penetrating eye could not overlook so great a vision as the dancers of Italian sculptor Davide Dall’Osso, still on display downtown in Pietrasanta, Italy.
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And finally, after purifying our House with Crying Windows from the filthy fluids of Arcovazzi, we took a day of holiday, wandering around the art town of Pietrasanta, Italy just in time to admire the view of more than one thousand of colourful, floating umbrellas covering almost one km above the main centre street. Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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A Chinese woman browses her smartphone on a sofa displaying a panda and bears at a shopping mall in 北京 (Běijīng), China. Some shopping malls and retailers in the capital are staging installations and decorations to attract shoppers in the summer holidays. Photo: 王身敦 (Andy Wong)/AP.
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