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Pakistan train crash, hot air balloons, Scottish rainbow (13 images)

3 November

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Delegates dressed in traditional Ndebele outfits stand against a wall ahead of the Institute of African Royalty launch in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday. The kings, queens and chiefs of Africa say they have a role to play in democracy and development on the continent _ and that former South African President Nelson Mandela is their role model.Two dozen traditional leaders from across the continent gathered on a Johannesburg university campus to launch the Institute which they say will be a combination of think tank and lobby group. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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Cpl. Casey Liffrig, left, leaps for cover as Lt. Thomas Goodwin gets down as Taliban fighters ambush U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during a patrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province on Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Hot Air Balloons are illuminated at the night mooring show 'La Montgorlfier Nocturne' during the Saga International Balloon Fiesta on Tuesday in Saga, Japan. Over 100 hot air balloons from 15 countries and regions take part in what is one of the biggest ballooning events in Asia, attracting visitors and tourists from far and wide. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

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Children playing in a pool in Dadaab refugee camp, eastern Kenya, on Tuesday. Aid agencies fear the onset of the rainy season will flood many of the makeshift dwellings, but the camp is already so crowded it is hard to find places to put them. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale)

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A Palestinian man keeps dry inside a plastic bag as rain falls on West Bank labourers looking for work in the Jewish State, on Tuesday at the Eyal crossing in central Israel. Stormy weather has brought much-needed rain to the Holy Land which has been suffering from years of below normal precipitation leaving the Sea of Galilee and underground aquifers at dangerously low levels. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

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A motorcyclist goes through flooded water on Nguyen Thien Thuat street in Nha Trang city, a central south coast city in Vietnam on Tuesday. Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing about two dozens of people and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vietnam News Agency, Quang Duoc)

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Rescue workers and volunteers work on retrieving survivors and bodies from a train crash wreck on Tuesday in Karachi, Pakistan. According to railway officials, at least 12 people were killed and 35 injured when a passenger train, the Allama Iqbal Express, collided with a good Super Parcel Express train near Jumma Goth railway station in Karachi. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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People look out over a view of a rainbow over Stirling where a metal detector enthusiast has unearthed a hoard of buried treasure consisting of four 2000-year-old Iron Age gold neckbands or "torcs" on Tuesday in Stirling, Scotland. The torcs are made of twisted gold and believed to date from between the 1st and 3rd Century BC. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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A mother watches over her child who is suffering from severe malaria in the Siaya hospital in Western Kenya as both children are receiving a blood transfusion. A new vaccine being tested here is giving the medical community hope that for the first time it will soon be able to reduce by half the number of African children killed by the mosquito-borne disease every year. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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Firefighters work to control a fire in the Lenformash plastics factory in central St. Petersburg, Russia, early Wednesday. Two people were injured in the blaze. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Los Angeles County firefighters dowse flames on the hillsides at the end of Lisa Court in Diamond Bar, Calif., as fire swept up from the 60 Freeway on Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Leo Jarzomb, San Gabriel Valley Tribune)

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Traffic fills a main street in Belgrade, as seen through the window of a Belgrade city bus, obscured by rain and condensation, as early winter snow causes chaos on the streets in Belgrade, Serbia on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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A boy dressed as an Honor Guard soldier takes part in an Independence Day parade in Panama City on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Monica Rueda)

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