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GOING GREEN: The shadow of a hot air balloon is cast on a meadow during a ballooning meeting in Kirchberg in the Austrian province of Tyrol. (Kerstin Joensson, AP)
TALKS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and President Jacob Zuma confer at a symposium against racism, xenophobia and other intolerances at the United Nations in New York. (Sapa)
IN MOURNING: Afghans pray over the grave of Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council, during his burial ceremony on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul. (Ahmad Masood, AP)
LOST: A Pakistani boy sitting on a bed covered with a mosquito net looks on as he takes refuge with his family on a roadside in Mirpur Khas in Pakistan's Sindh province. (Muhammed Muheisen, AP)
ON HOME SOIL: The aeroplane carrying Pope Benedict XVI approaches to land in Erfurt, Germany. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (Frank Augstein, AP)
OPEN GRAPH: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gestures during the f/8 conference in San Francisco. (Paul Sakuma, AP)
DRAMA: Paramedics help a resident of Schubart Park in Pretoria after he was pushed from his wheelchair. Residents are protesting their forced removal from the block. (Nelius Rademan, Beeld)
SPEAKING OUT: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe speaks at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters. (Andrew Burton, AP)
CALL FOR CHANGE: A demonstrator jumps while getting sprayed by a police water canon during a protest demanding fundamental changes in education policies in Santiago, Chile. (Aliosha Marquez, AP)
CAMPAIGN: A State of Palestine sticker, part of a campaign to support the Palestinian UN bid for statehood, is seen at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah. (Marco Longari, AFP)
PLEASE HELP: Ayanda Nxumalo, 2, is among those being accommodated at a church hall in Pretoria after residents were evicted from the Schubart Park flats in the city, where up to 15 000 people had been staying. (Nelius Rademan, Beeld)
BALANCING ACT: A model displays a creation by a local designer on the catwalk during Nepal fashion week in Kathmandu. (Prakash Mathema, AFP)
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