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Devotees carry an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession through the streets on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai.
Stranded tourists salvaged belongings from submerged cars in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco which had become a floodplain.
The new Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and his wife Margie are seen after the official swearing in of government ministers at the Government House in Canberra September 18, 2013.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander officially opens the new parliamentary year with a speech outlining the caretaker government's plan and budget policies for 2014, in The Hague Sept17, 2013.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander officially opens the new parliamentary year with a speech outlining the caretaker government's plan and budget policies for 2014, in The Hague Sept17, 2013.
Two years after getting its start in a downtown Manhattan park, Occupy Wall Street, the populist movement protesting economic inequality, marked its second anniversary on Tuesday with a protest near the New York Stock Exchange and a planned march near the United Nations.
Wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner is lift upright after an unprecedented salvage operation that lasted around 19 hours off the Italian Tuscan island of Giglio, on Sept 17, 2013.
Engineers have declared the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship completely upright after a 19-hour operation to pull it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany.
Soccer is more than a pastime - it's a way of life - in the country that will host next year's World Cup.
Residents take photos of the lanterns at a light-up ceremony marking the Mid-Autumn Festival at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay on Sept 13, 2013.
Jonathan Trappe takes to the air in a bid to become the first man to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean using a balloon cluster system, in Caribou, Maine, Sept 12, 2013.
Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said Thursday.