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Day in Photos
August 18, 2015
August 18, 2015 1:34 PM
A look at the best news photos from around the world.
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Ants carry a leaf with a slogan reading "Merkel, Help!", a reference of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the zoo in Cologne. Some of the zoo's 500,000 leaf-cutting ants carry laser-cut leaves with slogans during a campaign to protect the Amazon rain forest, organized by the German branch of World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Cologne Zoo.
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared this photograph on social media, taken from the International Space Station, Aug. 15, 2015. Kelly wrote, "#Aurora trailing a colorful veil over Earth this morning. Good morning from @space_station!"
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A Chelan County Public Utility District worker walks past a burned structure along State Route Alt. 97 highway outside of Chelan, Washington, Aug. 17, 2015. Big wildfires threatened the Lake Chelan resort region of central Washington after driving away tourists, destroying a warehouse filled with nearly 2 million pounds of apples and forcing thousands of residents to flee.
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An Indian Parsi girl prays near relief figures of knights at a fire temple on the Parsi New Year 'Navroze' in Mumbai. Parsis, followers of Zoroastrianism, a small religious community which exists largely in Mumbai, were exiled from Iran in the 7th century AD during religious persecution by the Muslims. The Indian followers of Zoroastrianism are called Parsis because the religion arrived in India from Persia.
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