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15 INCREDIBLE photos from around the world

September 20, 2013 09:56 IST


Photographs: Bernadett Szabo/Reuters

Here is a collection of some of the best photographs from across the globe in the last 24 hours.

Dancers perform during a rehearsal of "Prey", a dance choreographed by Yvette Bozsik, in Budapest.

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Photographs: Beawiharta/Reuters

A worker tightens a rope to raise a four-metre-high statue of horses at a new housing complex at Parung village in Bogor, Indonesia's West Java province. 

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Photographs: Toru Hanai/Reuters

A man wearing an iMac on his head waits for the release of Apple's new iPhone 5S, near the Apple Store at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district September 19, a day before the phone goes on sale.   

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Photographs: Max Rossi/Reuters

A blogger poses as she arrives for the presentation of the Gucci Spring/Summer 2014 collection during Milan Fashion Week.   

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Photographs: Reuters

An aerial view of a flooded neighbourhood is seen in Acapulco, Mexico.

Looting broke out in the flooded Mexican beach resort of Acapulco as the government struggled to reach tens of thousands of people cut off by flooding that had claimed at least 80 lives by Wednesday. Stores were ransacked by looters who carried off everything from televisions to Christmas decorations after floodwaters wreaked havoc in the Pacific port that has experienced some of the worst storm damage to hit Mexico in years.

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Photographs: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters

A boy sits on an idol of Ganesha, the deity of prosperity, after it was immersed in the waters of Hussain Sagar lake on Wednesday to mark the end of 10-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad on September 19.

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Photographs: Thomas Peter/Reuters

A staff member puts finishing touches to a wax figure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel before its presentation at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Berlin.

The new wax figure of Merkel, which is the second in Madame Tussauds collection, has been modelled on photographs from this year's campaign events for the upcoming general election, a spokeswoman of the museum said.       

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Photographs: Pichi Chuang/Reuters

The "Rubber Duck" by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman is displayed at Kaohsiung Harbor, southern Taiwan.

The giant rubber duck, which is 60 ft high and weighs 1,000 kg made its first public appearance in Taiwan on Thursday. It will be displayed at Kaohsiung Harbor from September 19 to October 20.      

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Photographs: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

A protester hurls a petrol bomb at police during clashes between police and angry anti-fascist protesters following the killing of a 35-year-old anti-racism rapper by a man who sympathized with the far-right Golden Dawn group in an Athens suburb.

More than 5,000 people rallied where the man was stabbed and marched through the streets of Keratsini. Police fired teargas at protesters who broke off the march hurling stones and petrol bombs at a police station and set garbage containers on fire.     

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Photographs: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

A gold Lamborghini model is on display at the Lamborghini showroom in Dubai.

A prototype of a model Lamborghini that will be made of 500 kg of gold and diamonds is now on display in a showroom in Dubai, the first stop ahead of a world tour later in the year. It is also the warm-up act for the real deal which is looking to get into the Guinness World Book of Records, for an interior and exterior that will glitter with $2.9 million worth of precious metals and gems.    

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Photographs: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Business entrepreneur Richard Branson arrives in a vintage US army jeep to attend a Virgin Mobile news conference to launch a new service in Paris.     

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Photographs: Juan Medina/Reuters

Spanish riot police remove a member of Afectados X la Hipoteca (Mortgage Victims' Platform) during a protest to prevent an eviction in Madrid.

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Photographs: Hamid Khatib/Reuters

A boy gestures at the camera with blood on his fingers after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo.

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Photographs: Jacky Chen/Reuters

A North Korean soldier looks at a window as she stands along the bank of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.

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Photographs: Mike Blake/Reuters

A dog runs along the beach at sunset in Leucadia, California.

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