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A Thai man takes pictures with his son on a custom-built tricycle designed to go through floodwaters in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday Oct. 28, 2011.

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Canada's Dylan Armstrong competes during the shot put at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 25. Amstrong won the gold medal and set a new Pan American record with 21.30m.

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People crowd in a swimming pool to escape a summer heat wave July 4, 2010, in Suining, China.

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British billionaire Sir Richard Branson drinks champagne after repelling down the side of the new Spaceport America hangar Monday, Oct. 17 in Upham, N.M. Branson dedicated the newly completed terminal and hangar on Monday, where his Virgin Galactic will stage its commercial space tourism venture.

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The head of the NGO "S.O.S Rescate Fauna Marina" Richard Tesore swims with a female baby La Plata dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) near the seaside resort of Piriapolis, 90 km to the east of Montevideo, October 17. The dolphin, with its umbilical cord still attached, was found beached near Montevideo city and was sent to the NGO.