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Comic con, sewage diver, horse wash (13 images)

22 July

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Comic-Con attendee Cher Delacy, dressed as a character from "Alice in Wonderland" talks on her cell phone at Comic-Con International on Thursday, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

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U.S. Army troops from the 1st Battalion 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, duck as an Afghan soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade towards insurgent positions at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Gary Faulkner, the Colorado man who was detained in Pakistan last month while on a mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden, points to a painting entitled "A Renaissance Dream of 9-11: The Killing of Osama bin Laden" at the home of artist Jerry Cool in Muncie, Ind. On Monday, Faulkner accepted Cool's painting honoring his attempts to capture the al-Qaida leader. Cool said he made the painting after he had a dream in 2008 in which "a man with gray hair and a dark beard" kills bin Laden. "Once I saw Gary on TV, I knew that was him in my vision," Cool said. "To me, he's the only one that deserves that painting." (AP Photo/The Star Press, Kelly Day)

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Southeast Asian clouded leopards, (Neofelis Nebulosa) are seen at Jardin des Plantes Zoological in Paris on Thursday. The two female cubs, named Pati and Jaya, born on May 14, 2010, recently made their first appearance in public . (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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Greek actresses, playing the role of priestesses, perform a dance inside the ancient stadium at Ancient Olympia, where the Olympics were born in 776 B.C., on Thursday. The ceremony was part of a full dress rehearsal carried out amid the ruins of Ancient Olympia. The official ceremony to light the flame that will burn at the Aug. 16-26 Singapore inaugural Youth Olympic Games will be on Friday. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

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Greek actress Ino Menegaki, playing the role of high priestess, lights the flame at Ancient Olympia, where the Olympics were born in 776 B.C., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

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Mexican sewer diver Julio Camara goes down on a cage for a dive at the city's drainage system plant, on the outskirts of Mexico City. Camara, who makes less than US $ 500 a month diving in the city's sewage system clearing blockages and repairing infrastructure, says he is the only sewage diver in the Mexican capital, from where at least 1000 tons of rubbish are extracted per month, according to Alejandro Martinez, Mexico City's water system operator. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)

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A Palestinian boy takes a photograph of his friend outside a children's center in Gaza City on Thursday. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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A CHP officer investigates a Greyhound Bus crash on Highway 99 that killed at least 6 people and injured many on Thursday, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

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A man in a World War One uniform stands guard outside Prowse Point Cemetery during the re-burial ceremony for Australian World War One soldier, Private Alan James Mather in Ploegsteert, Belgium on Thursday. Mather, originally from Invernell, NSW, Australia was one of 216,000 men from Australia, New Zealand and the UK who fought in the Battle of Messines from June 7-14, 1917. The body of Mather was discovered by a British archeological team in 2008 and further DNA tests by a Belgian laboratory revealed his full identity. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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A child lies in a hammock as his family works at a construction site in the commercial Connaught Place area of New Delhi, India on Thursday. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

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Exercise riders work horses at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Thursday. The Saratoga horse racing season opens on Friday. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Don't Forget Gil is washed by groomer Sergio Hernandez after morning exercise at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Thursday. The Saratoga horse racing season opens on Friday. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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