photo of the day
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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2nd L) holds the infant son of late presidential candidate Eduardo Campos as he talks with Campos' widow Renata, during the wake inside the Pernambuco Government Palace in Recife. The Brazilian Socialist Party leader, 49, was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 13.
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An Afghan resident walks along a road in Herat province, Aug. 16, 2014.
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One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographs this nighttime image showing city lights in at least half a dozen southern states from some 225 miles above the home planet. Lights from areas in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, as well as some of the states that border them on the north, are visible.
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Participants react as they hold on to a greased pole during the "Panjat Pinang" event organized in celebration of Indonesia's 69th Independence Day at Ancol Dreamland Park in Jakarta.