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Waura Indians participate in a ceremony during this year's 'quarup,' a ritual held over several days to honour in death a person of great importance to them, in Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State, August 25, 2013.
Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's biggest street festival opened on Sunday with revelers watching a giant parade through London's streets.
Vadim Veligurov, 12, walks with Abi, a wild sparrow, near his grandmother's house in the town of Minusinsk, some 425 km (264 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, August 22, 2013.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel signs autographs during a German Government "Open Day" in Berlin August 25, 2013.
Close to 1,200 participants throw their hats into the air inside a hangar, in an attempt to set a world record, at an event to promote the city's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
People dance among colored powder at the finish of the Color Run at Centennial Park in Sydney August 25, 2013.
Firefighters on Saturday battled to gain control of a fast-moving wildfire raging on the edge of Yosemite National Park that is threatening power and water supplies to San Francisco about 200 miles (322 km) to the west.
Visitors watch sand sculptures during the Fourth International Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition of the 135th Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Canada on Aug 23, 2013.
People come to attend the 100th birthday celebration of the statue "Little Mermaid" at Langelinie in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Aug 23, 2013.
Giant panda Mei Xiang has given birth to a cub at the US National Zoo in Washington on Friday afternoon, the zoo authorities announced. The mother panda's water broke at around 3:36 pm local time, and she gave birth at 5:32 pm, the zoo said in a statement.
Miranda and Borda are the first gay couple to get married after the Uruguayan parliament passed a bill allowing same-sex marriages and become the second country in Latin American to recognize same-sex unions.
A tour bus ferrying passengers to a California casino lies on its side between a freeway and railroad tracks after it crashed in Irwindale, California August 22, 2013.
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