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Besse Cooper turns 114 years old in the Walton Regional Medical Center's skilled nursing facility in Monroe, Ga. Cooper was born Aug. 26, 1896, and the Gerontology Research Group, which certifies supercentenarians, lists her as the third oldest person in the world. -- PHOTO: AP

Indigenous Miskitos pull ashore endangered green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) to be sold in Puerto Cabezas, along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Around five hundred turtles are sold for food per month in the port. The going rate for turtle meat is approximately $1.10 per pound. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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A man dives into the sea near Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro. The temperature reached 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Fireworks illuminate the sky during the international fireworks festival in Logoisk,some 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Minsk. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Visitors walk past a Disney World sand sculpture during a Hollywood-themed exhibition of sand sculptures in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Stephanie Moser, second from right, hoops during a evening hooping class in Pittsburgh. Born of the Hula Hoops first made in the 1950s, hooping has become hip again, with clubs across the country bringing together hoop aficionados, exercise classes and DVDs incorporating hoops and even...

People demonstrate against insecurity and violence in the Venezuelan capital, in Caracas. According to a report by the National Institute of Statistics, a gun was used in the great majority of the 19.133 murders committed in Venezuela in 2009. -- PHOTO: AFP

Riot police spray water at high school students during a protest in Valparaiso city, about 121 km northwest of Santiago. Students protested against changes to the public state education and are demanding that government increase their budget to fund universities. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Margareth Abito lost her leg after stepping on a landmine, left over from the civil war in northern Uganda. Abito said that after losing her left leg, she felt useless and even considered suicide. Apart from close family members she gets no assistance. Disabled women have been largely...

Pro-North Korean protesters participate in a rally to oppose the North Korea sanctions in front of the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea. -- PHOTO: AP

A worker inspects lettuce plants growing under artificial light and in a liquid solution at China's first computer-controlled greenhouse seedling factory located on the outskirts of Beijing. The factory will supply 15 million pesticide-free vegetable, fruit and flower seedlings per year to...

A boy wading through neck-deep polluted water, holds recyclable items that he found among the debris in the water after a fire at a slum in Navotas City in Metro Manila. Some 200 houses were damaged, leaving 300 families homeless. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

The photograph shows a man standing beside a cart carrying his wife, four children and a baby by the road in Jakarta's exclusive district of Menteng waiting for alms from passing motorists.

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People listen to a computer-controlled sound installation as they visit the train wagon 'Outside in (Blue)' of the 'sounding D' project at the main railway station in Dresden, eastern Germany.

A cemetery employee carries a coffin containing a foetus during the first funeral for illegally aborted foetuses, near a mausoleum for them in Vina del Mar. The Catholic movement Vida Familia Sociedad (Life Family Society) last month founded what would be, according to the movement, the...

A pilot flies next to the Metropolitan Cathedral during the 2010 Super Race Brasil-Brasilia Hang Gliding Championship in Brasilia, Brazil. -- PHOTO: AP

Aaron de Souza does a hand stand in Brook Andrew's installation called 'The Cell' at the Australian artist's solo exhibition in Sydney. The inflatable room decorated with Wiradjuri Aboriginal motifs was designed for introspection in all the 'inmates' who enter the disorientating space. --...