September 11, 2013
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his head as part of the Kaparot ritual in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel. Observers believe the ritual transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken. The ritual is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year which starts at sundown Friday.
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North Korean soldiers march during a repatriation ceremony for the body of a North Korean soldier, who was found dead in the Han river near the border in July, at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas.
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A rabbit hops to avoid a five-month-old leopard cub during a test of the cub's wild natural instincts at a wildlife park in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, Sep. 10, 2013.
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Indian engineers work on the Mars orbiter spacecraft at the satellite center of Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore. India’s ambitious US $71,096,000 Mars orbiter mission is scheduled to be launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle between Oct. 21 and Nov. 19, 2013 from Sriharikota in south India, project director Arunan. S said.