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Models wearing clothes inspired by murals on a portion of the remaining Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery pose next to the 'Brotherkiss' mural at the East Side Gallery on its official re-opening day on November 6, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The East Side Gallery, an approximately one-mile still-exisitng portion of the Berlin Wall, has undegone a year-long restoration effort ahead of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall on November 9. The city of Berlin will mark the occasion with a big event at the Brandenburg Gate attended by European Union and former Allied leaders. The models were promoting the clothes that will be auctioned off for charity. The 'Brotherkiss' mural features former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and former East German communist leader Erich Honecker kissing.

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George Horne, Deputy Executive Director of Operations & Maintenance Resources, rolls out a preserved Burmese Python which was captured in Miami-Dade County, Florida, during a hearing before the Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill November 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was focused on H.R. 2811, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal.

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Squirrel monkeys at Bristol Zoo Gardens investigate a special carved pumpkin that has been left as a special Halloween treat in their enclosure on October 28, 2009 in Bristol, England. The gift of the pumpkin does have a serious side, as they are a great addition to the animals regular diet as they are high in vitamins, potassium, protein and fibre - as well as being the perfect enrichment toy, as the animals have to delve inside to reach the succulent flesh and plump seeds.

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Taliban fighters lay down their weapons as they surrender to the government of Herat Province on October 14, 2009 in Western Afghanistan. More than 40 insurgents handed in their weapons in the wake of an ongoing government security operation which killed the Taliban commander in the Gazara district, Ghulam Yahya Akbari days ago.

German artist Ottmar Hoerl poses after the opening ceremony of the art installation 'Dance with the Devil' at the main square of Straubing on October 15, 2009 in Straubing, Germany. Hoerl installed 1250 plastic garden gnomes giving a Nazi salute. The artwork has been highly controversial as Nazi salutes and symbols have been illegal in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

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The provisional office of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa October 9, 2009. Negotiators with deposed Zeyala insisted Thursday that an October 15 deadline was in place to reach an agreement to resolve the months-old political impasse. The Central American country has been paralyzed since a June 28 coup by now de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, who has said he was prepared to leave office, but only if Zelaya ended his demands of being reinstated.

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A fan in disguise among the thousands of 'cariocas' (Rio's inhabitants) who cheer and dance in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2, 2009, hoping that their hometown will be elected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to stage the 2016 Olympic Games.

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Indian Left Party activists pose with bow and arrows during a protest against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in New Delhi on September 3, 2009. Trade ministers assembled in New Delhi for a two-day WTO meeting from September 3, aimed at bridging differences between developed and developing nations and putting global trade talks back on track. The two days of informal ministerial level talks are billed as key to laying the groundwork for further progress at a meeting of G20 leaders of wealthy and emerging nations in Pittsburgh in late September.

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