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  • WHAT DO SHEEP COUNT WHEN THEY TRY TO SLEEP--Sheep huddle together in the shade as they rest after munching on weeds on an acre plot of land near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. The airport has teamed up with Trees Atlanta on a test program to use sheep and goats to control vegetation near the airport.
  • READY FOR DUTY--An Afghan military officer salutes after receiving her certification, unseen, during a graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. The process of taking over security from over 130,000-strong NATO-led ISAF forces by Afghan troops would be completed by the end of 2014 when Afghanistan will take over the full leadership of its own security duties from US and NATO forces.
  • MONEY ON THE RUN--This image provided by KNBC-TV shows bank robbery suspects throwing money from their vehicle during a police pursuit Wednesday Sept. 12, 2012 in Los Angeles. The vehicle was eventually blocked by another vehicle and the suspects were arrested.
  • IT CAN'T BE THAT BAD, OR MAYBE IT CAN--Boston Red Sox fans wear paper bags on their heads during the baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. The Blue Jays won 4-3 to sweep the three-game series.
  • WEDDING DAY--Aymara Indians are silhouetted in the early morning sky as they make their way to the temple of stone walls to attend the wedding of Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and Claudia Fernandez in the highlands of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. The 49-year-old vice president and the 25-year-old journalist were wed by Aymaran spiritual guides at an ancestral site constructed by the ancient Aymara people some 3,000 years ago to observe the heavens.
  • FIGHTING FIRE--A Cal Fire air tanker drops a load of fire retardant across the head of the Scotts Fire above Scotts Valley in Lake County, Calif., Friday Sept. 7, 2012.
  • SCHOOL'S OUT--Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis takes a break from negotiations over teachers' contracts with the Chicago Board of Education to address a rally of thousands of public school teachers on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in downtown Chicago. Teachers walked off the job Monday for the first time in 25 years over issues that include pay raises, classroom conditions, job security and teacher evaluations.
  • CANDLES FOR A SAINT--Catholic faithful light candles and pray in honor of Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, inside the Our Lady of Cobre church on her feast day in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Sept 8, 2012.
  • A LEG UP ON FASHION--The Phillip Lim Spring, 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, in New York.
  • SEEING DOUBLE--The field is reflected as the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies line up to remember the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before their baseball game, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Denver.
  • GREEK PROTEST--Protesters gather outside the International Exhibition Center in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says the final round of austerity measures contains painful and unjust cuts but is necessary to restore Greece's credibility and continue to receive funding from creditors.
  • BLOWING ITS TOP--Volcanic ash spews from the Volcan de Fuego or Volcano of Fire as seen from Palin, south of Guatemala City, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. The long-simmering volcano exploded into a series of powerful eruptions Thursday, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles (three kilometers) high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks and forcing the evacuation of more than 33,000 people from surrounding communities.
  • HIGH RISE FIRE--Indian fire fighters spray water as they try to contorl a fire that broke out on the eleventh floor of the First International Financial Centre (FIFC) high rise building in the suburbs of Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. No casualty has been reported so far and the reason for the fire is not known.
  • THE WINDUP--Miami Marlins' Wade LeBlanc pitches in the third inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, in Philadelphia.
  • CHANGING THE COLORS--Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Egyptian protesters, largely ultra conservative Islamists, have climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, went into the courtyard and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with Islamic inscription, in protest of a film deemed offensive of Islam.
  • A WING AND A PRAYER--A woman watches a released eagle in the souther Negev Desert near Kibbutz Sde Boker, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel trapped 96 eagles in the past days and released them after the birds underwent examination and each has received a number and a ring.
  • ATTACK AFTERMATH--A Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. The American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when a mob of protesters and gunmen overwhelmed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, setting fire to it in outrage over a film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Ambassador Chris Stevens, 52, died as he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as a crowd of hundreds attacked the consulate Tuesday evening, many of them firing machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
  • STORMING THE EMBASSY--Yemeni protestors break a door of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Dozens of protesters gather in front of the US Embassy in Sanaa to protest against the American film
  • TOUGH DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE--Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Barack Obama walk to the Oval Office from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, after the president spoke on the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
  • HONORING A FALLEN BROTHER--The body of California Highway Patrol Officer Kenyon Youngtrom rests in the Mission church in Vacaville, Calif., on Thursday morning, Sept. 13, 2012. Youngstrom was killed in the line of duty last week in Walnut Creek, Calif.
  • A TRUE FAN--A fan sits under an umbrella during a rain delay before a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, in Philadelphia.
  • NEW JERSEY REMEMBERS 9/11--The construction of One World Trade Center, now up to 104 floors, is seen Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, across the Hudson River as a runner glides his hand at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., along the wall of 'Empty Sky,' New Jersey's memorial to the 749 people from the state lost during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Americans paused again Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks with familiar ceremonies, but also a sense that it's time to move forward after a decade of remembrance.
  • REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS--Judy Parisio places a small U.S. flag on the engraved name of her niece, Frances Ann Cilente who worked and died at the World Trade Center, during the commemoration ceremony of the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by the North Pool at World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012.
  • RISING TRIBUTE--The Tribute in Light shines above 1 World Trade Center, left, and 7 World Trade Center, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in New York. Today marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
  • ROYAL WELCOME--Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, left, stops to talk to an honor guard member during the welcome ceremony at the Istana, or Presidential Palace, on Tuesday Sept. 11, 2012 in Singapore. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge started an official three-day trip to Singapore Tuesday.
  • SPACEWALKIN'--In this image provided by NASA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, astronaut Aki Hoshide, Expedition 32 flight engineer, participates in the mission's third session of extravehicular activity Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. During the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk, Hoshide and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (out of frame), completed the installation of a Main Bus Switching Unit that was hampered last week by a possible misalignment and damaged threads where a bolt must be placed. They also installed a camera on the International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2.
  • THE CLOUDS OPEN--A woman struggles with her umbrella as tennis fans take shelter during a rain delay during at the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, in New York.
  • SEEING A SILVER LINING--University of Nevada, Las Vegas students Ryan Klorman, top, and Markus Adams, relax on inflatable pool toys in floodwater at UNLV in Las Vegas Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Intense thunderstorms drenched parts of the Southwest on Tuesday, delaying flights and stranding motorists in the Las Vegas area and flooding two mobile home parks in Southern California.
  • EMBASSY ATTACKED--An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012. An armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam, attacked the US consulate in Benghazi and set fire to the building, killing one American, witnesses and officials said.
 

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