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The Week in Pictures: September 4-10, 2010

The Acropolis gets a makeover, Michelle Obama joins the NFL, and Angelina Jolie saves Pakistan

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    Flood victims look for shelter as a storm hits their encampment in Pakistan’s Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province Saturday.

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    Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz removes notes from the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday. Ahead of the Jewish New Year, workers cleaned out the cracks and made room for more paper notes that Jews believe are notes to God.

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    Visitors sit on a rocky outcrop looking out onto the Acropolis Sunday. The newly restored temple of Athena Nike, distinguished by its four Ionic columns, is on a platform below and to the left of the Parthenon at upper right.

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    Jefferson Thomas in 1957, when he was one of nine African-Americans who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus.

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    People wait to take a train to their hometowns in the flooded Senen train station in Jakarta Monday. The station was flooded after heavy rains as millions of Muslims left the capital to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

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    A policeman uses a metal detector to look for bullets next to the bodies of two men and a woman in Mateo, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Monday.

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    Locals watch a small block of shops being demolished in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday.

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    Some of the 333 life-sized casts made by British artist Jason de Caires Taylor stand in Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday.

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    Demonstrators gather and march in Los Angeles Tuesday to protest the killing of Guatemalan immigrant day laborer Manuel Jamines by Los Angeles police officers Sunday.

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    Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the Jalozai flood victim relief camp in Pakistan Tuesday during her visit to flood-affected areas and relief camps supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

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    An AK-47 with Saddam Hussein’s image on it is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad Tuesday.

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    A helicopter is used by the Bureau of Land Management to gather wild horses in the Conger Mountains near Border, Utah, Tuesday. The BLM plans to round-up approximately 480 wild horses for placement in an adoption program or long-term pastures.

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    A South Korean soldier walks past a huge poster depicting North Korea’s food crisis at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul Tuesday.

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    Director Ben Affleck and actress Rebecca Hall pose at the photo call for the film “The Town” at the Venice Film Festival in Italy Wednesday.

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    A gargoyle portraying worker Ahmed Benzizine is seen at the Saint Jean cathedral in Lyon, France, Wednesday.

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    Former Tennessee Titans running back Eddie George, in the No. 27 jersey, watches first lady Michelle Obama as she participates in a fitness festival Wednesday in New Orleans. The festivities were part of Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign and the NFL’s Play 60 Campaign.

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    A Romanian Roma girl dances at an annual Gypsy feast in Costesti, Romania, Wednesday.

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    Pakistani protesters rally in reaction to a small American church’s plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010.

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    A man stands under a suspended bed frame in a flooded house in Tlacotalpan, Mexico, Thursday.

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    Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, right, speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center, left, Thursday in Gainesville, Fla.

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    An ultra-orthodox Jewish man prays as other dance on the banks of a lake in the town of Uman, Ukraine, Thursday. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman.

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    Only the chimney remains from a home near Sunshine Canyon after a wildfire moved through in Boulder, Colo., Thursday. Over 150 homes have been destroyed by fires this week.

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    A massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday.

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    Television personality Ellen DeGeneres clowns it up as she walks the runway with designer Richie Rich during his Spring/Summer 2011 show at New York Fashion Week Thursday.

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    Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council, left, prays alongside Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition after speaking with Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones in Gainesville, Fla., Friday. Mahoney and Schenck tried to persuade Jones to cancel his Quran burning event.

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    A miner sits at an underground crossroads inside Las Cuevas mine near the town of Velilla del Rio Carrion in northern Spain Friday. Fifty Spanish coal miners 1,640 feet underground have been on strike for nine days over unpaid wages and government aid to the coal industry.

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    Investigators comb the site Friday of a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, Russia.

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    An imam looks out from a worship hall after an Eid al-Fitr prayer session at the Niujie Mosque in Beijing Friday.