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Police use colored water from a water cannon to disperse Kashmiri teachers during a protest in Srinagar, India. Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir detained dozens of government teachers during a protest demanding a hike in salary and regularization of their jobs. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian men walk a street where three bombs rocked the Saadallah al-Jabri square, in Aleppo city. Activists reported multiple casualties and heavy material damage. (AP Photo/SANA)A crew member works ahead of an international hot air balloons festival during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in Park Timna at the Araba Desert, southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)A Kashmiri Muslim villager carries stacks of hay after a paddy harvest in Beerwah, India. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)Smoke rises over Saif Al Dawla district in Aleppo, Syria. The U.N.'s deputy secretary-general says UN chief Ban Ki-moon made a strong appeal to Syria's foreign minister to stop using heavy weapons against civilians and reduce the violence that is killing 100 to 200 people every day. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)Bavarian herdsmen and their beasts are carried on a boat across lake Koenigssee near Berchtesgaden, southern Germany. The trip by boat is the only way to bring the cattle from their remote summer mountain-pastures back to their homestead. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, left, embraces Raul Ibanez after Ibanez hit a 12th inning, walk-off RBI single to give the Yankees a 4-3 win in their baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)A volunteer prepares labels for seats in the debate hall ahead of the presidential debate, at the University of Denver in Denver. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will hold their first debate Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Goldman)In this photo released by the United Nations African Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), a UNAMID peacekeeper recovers in a hospital after an ambush Tuesday night that killed four peacekeepers, in El Geneina, Sudan. United Nations spokesman Martin Nesirky says the secretary-general "is appalled and deeply saddened" at an attack that killed four Nigerian peacekeepers and wounded eight in Sudan's restive West Darfur region. (AP Photo/Albert Gonzlez Farran, UNAMID)A 700 kg crocodile called Rex calmly waits just beneath the water for a feed after coming out of a three-month hibernation at the WILD LIFE Sydney zoo in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)CP
Models wear creations by fashion designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton's ready to wear Spring-Summer 2013 collection presented in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
