October 28, 2014
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A diamond-encrusted sword, from the royal family of Monaco's private Napoleonic collection, is shown at Paris’ Osenat auction house. Nearly 1,000 objects will be offered Nov. 15-16.
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An Indian Hindu offers prayers a day before the Chhath festival on the Yamuna river in New Delhi. In this celebration of the sun god Surya, devotees fast by day and offer prayers as the sun sets over water.
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The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush transits the Gulf of Aden as its strike group returns to the naval station in Norfolk, Virginia, after operations in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Abe McNatt)