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A girl poses with a sheep in Algiers ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

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Pyres burn Sunday at a cremation ground on the banks of river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Varanasi. Hindus believe that dying in Varanasi and having their remains scattered in the Ganges allows their soul to escape a cycle of death and rebirth, attaining ‘moksha’ or salvation.

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Foreign workers gather for a mass feast in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the end of the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

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A silverback mountain gorilla gazes out over his home in the lush volanoes of Rwanda.

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A man holds a skeletal figure representing the folk saint known in Mexico as Santa Muerte, or Saint of Death, during a ceremony in Mexico City on Sunday. Santa Muerte changed its official image Sunday from that of a skeleton holding a globe and scythe to one of a female figure wearing a crown, in a cramped chapel in a working-class neighbourhood of Mexico City.

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A woman takes a photo of paper lanterns, released to comfort the souls of atomic bomb victims on the Motoyasu river in Hiroshima, Japan

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A Hindu holy man with his face painted with the names of gods and goddesses at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathamndu.

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“Together we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict and inspire hope where there is despair.” Former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela announced the formation of The Elders, a group of world statesmen that seeks to fulfill the traditional role of elders in a village.

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Veiled Pakistani female students of The Red Mosque hold bamboo sticks and shout anti-government slogans on a loudspeaker outside the seminary during an exchange of fire between radical students of the mosque and paramilitary soldiers in Islamabad.