Children dance at the festival of light in Memphis, the Occupy Wall Street protesters take a different approach in Washington and a giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo takes a bite out of its bamboo dinner.
Also, Japan's H-IIA rocket lifts off from the launch pad at the Tanegashima space centre in Kagoshima prefecture. That and more in today’s Pictures of the day.
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