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A man's dead body is covered with a tarp before being tested for the Ebola virus Saturday, September 27, in Monrovia, Liberia. Health officials say the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever. More than 3,000 people have died, according to the World Health Organization.

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Actor George Clooney and his wife, lawyer Amal Alamuddin, wave from a boat after their civil wedding ceremony Monday, September 29, in Venice, Italy. The day before, a private ceremony was attended by some of their celebrity friends.

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A pro-democracy demonstrator raises umbrellas as tear gas is fired by police outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sunday, September 28. Demonstrators are angry at China's decision to allow only Beijing-vetted candidates to run in the city's elections for chief executive in 2017. They say Beijing has gone back on its pledge to allow universal suffrage in Hong Kong, which was promised "a high degree of autonomy" when it was handed back to China in 1997.

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hold their granddaughter Saturday, September 27, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky is the first child of the Clintons' daughter, Chelsea.

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Firefighters and members of Japan's military conduct a rescue operation at a cabin near the peak of Mount Ontake on Sunday, September 28. At least 47 people were killed when the volcano erupted over the weekend.

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Mars is seen in this image taken by the Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan and released Tuesday, September 30, by the Indian Space Research Organization. The spacecraft will orbit the Red Planet, mapping its surface and studying its atmosphere.

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A devotee of the Chinese Bang Neow Shrine, with two plastic guns pierced through his cheeks, takes part in a street procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, on Monday, September 29. The festival, which features face piercing, spirit mediums and strict vegetarianism, celebrates locals' belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the month will help them obtain good health and peace of mind.

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A woman poses next to a mural, created by street artist Banksy, in Folkestone, England, on Tuesday, September 30.

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Tens of thousands of walruses gather on a shore near Point Lay, Alaska, in this aerial photo taken Saturday, September 27, by scientists working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to NOAA, the walruses are forced onto land when sea ice, which they use to rest between dives, disappears.

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Activists dismantle a statue of Soviet hero Vladimir Lenin at a pro-Ukrainian rally in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, September 28.

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A member of the U.S. Secret Service patrols the White House grounds Tuesday, September 30, in Washington. Julia Pierson, the first female director of the Secret Service, resigned in the aftermath of a recent White House breach and a congressional inquiry that uncovered other security lapses.

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Pope Francis, right, greets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as he arrives at St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, September 28.

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Girls in Donetsk, Ukraine, play hopscotch during a break in school on Wednesday, October 1. The school year had been postponed for a month because of the fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in the country.

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"Out of Many, One," a landscape portrait by artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, appears on the National Mall in Washington on Wednesday, October 1. The 6-acre portrait will be viewable until October 31.

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A man holds a gun and a hostage on the capital of the St. Peter Hotel in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday, September 29. The gunman, whose identity was not released, surrendered to authorities, and it was not immediately known whether the vest on the hostage carried real explosives, a police spokesman told the Agence France-Presse.

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A security guard walks along a wall Saturday, September 27, as he tries to move past Muslims praying during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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A Catholic nun in Madrid laughs Saturday, September 27, as she comes out of a portable toilet before the start of the beatification ceremony for Bishop Alvaro del Portillo.

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Protesters assist a person who was injured during clashes with police officers Friday, September 26. in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Australia has struck a multimillion-dollar deal with Cambodia to settle refugees in the Asian nation. But protesters say Cambodia, one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations, is ill equipped to host the asylum seekers.

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Members of a special police unit perform during a parade leading up to the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, September 28.

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A woman walks among statues and busts at the Roman Agora archaeological site in Athens, Greece, on Monday, September 29.

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A woman walks by an art installation called Mars Mission on Tuesday, September 30, during the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India. India's Mars Orbiter Mission successfully entered Mars' orbit last month.

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U.S. Rep. John Lewis, left, and musician Harry Belafonte were among eight people who received W.E.B. Du Bois Medals on Tuesday, September 30, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The medal, named for the famous author and civil rights activist, is awarded for contributions to African and African-American culture.

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A visitor at London's St. James' Park enjoys the sunshine on Tuesday, September 30.

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man performs the Kaparot ceremony in Jerusalem on Thursday, October 2. It is believed that the Jewish ritual, which involves swinging a live chicken above one's head, transfers the sins of the past year to the chicken, which is then slaughtered and traditionally given to the poor. The ritual is performed before Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar.

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A child prepares for a run at the Madison Avenue Soapbox Derby in Decatur, Georgia, on Saturday, September 27. The annual event raises money for families of children with developmental disabilities.

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People are covered in paint as they take part in a Color Run event in London on Sunday, September 28. The race, billed as "the happiest 5K on the planet," involves lots of colored powder and takes place in different cities worldwide throughout the year.

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Syrian Kurds wait near a border crossing in Suruc, Turkey, as they wait to return to their homes in Kobani, Syria, on Sunday, September 28. Tens of thousands have fled Kobani, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab, to escape the militant group ISIS.

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Members of the media are silhouetted against a sunset as they cover an anti-government protest in Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday, September 28.

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Vehicles are partially submerged in a flooded neighborhood of Srinagar, India, on Friday, September 26. Recent flooding brought by heavy monsoon rains has wrought death and destruction in India and Pakistan since the rains began on September 2.

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A dog wipes out during the annual Surf City Surf Dog contest in Huntington Beach, California.

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Riot police use pepper spray as they clash with protesters outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Tuesday, September 28.

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Emergency personnel in Provo, Utah, remove Camille Stepan's body after she was found by a hiker at Bridal Veil Falls on Tuesday, September 30. Deputies said Stepan suffered serious injuries consistent with a fall from great height.

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Men dressed as American GIs take part in a World War II-era re-enactment Monday, September 29, outside the Headhunters Barber Shop and Railway Museum in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

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A car lies in a sinkhole outside Simferopol, Crimea, on Sunday, September 28. Six people were killed, according to local media.

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Debris flies after the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan on Friday, September 26. The Russian rocket was carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station. See last week in 38 photos