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Indians carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha along a road ahead of the Ganesha Chaturthi in Mumbai on September 9, 2015. The Ganesh Chaturthi festival, a popular 11-day religious festival which is annually celebrated across India, runs this year from September 17-27 and culminates with the immersion of the idols in the Arabian Sea and local water bodies. (credit:PUNIT PARANJPE via Getty Images)
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Macmillan Cancer Support and De’Longhi are launching a groundbreaking new fundraising format this September, developed in collaboration with the independent curator Kathleen Soriano. SHARED revolutionises the basic principle of art collecting by inviting artists to create works that will be broken down into components and sold in parts - providing collectors with the rare opportunity to buy and own an element of a single major artwork.
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Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a protest against the visit of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Britain, in front of Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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GRAYSON, KY - SEPTEMBER 8: Rowan County Clerk of Courts Kim Davis (2L) joins hands with her attorney Mat Staver (2R), husband Joe Davis (R) and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (L) in front of the Carter County Detention Center on September 8, 2015 in Grayson, Kentucky. Davis was ordered to jail last week for contempt of court after refusing a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. (Photo by Ty Wright/Getty Images) (credit:Ty Wright via Getty Images)
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A general view of the city of Gaza's Gaza City during sand storm on September 08, 2015. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 09: The Royal Barge Gloriana leads a procession along the River Thames near Tower Bridge to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II becoming Britain's longest reigning monarch on September 9, 2015 in London, England. The Queen will have served for 63 years and seven months - 23,226 days - by around 5.30pm today surpassing her great-grandmother Queen Victoria to become Britain's longest ever reigning monarch. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (credit:Carl Court via Getty Images)
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip, sit with Scotland's First Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, left, as they travel on a steam train en-route to Edinburgh in Scotland Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015. The Queen on Wednesday became the longest ever reigning monarch in British history surpassing Queen Victoria who served for 63 years and seven months. (Andrew Milligan/PA Pool via AP) (credit:PA)
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Queen Elizabeth II, arrives at Edinburgh's Waverley Station on the day she becomes Britain's longest reigning monarch, the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, will travel on a steam train to inaugurate the new £294 million Scottish Borders Railway. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
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TWEEDBANK, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 09: Four month old Harry Pettie waves his Union Jack as he waits for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to arrive at Tweedbank Station on September 9, 2015 in Tweedbank, Scotland. Today, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history overtaking her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria's record by one day. The Queen has reigned for a total of 63 years and 217 days. Accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, she will officially open the new Scottish Border's Railway which runs from the capital to Tweedbank. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) (credit:Chris Jackson via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 09: Demi Lovato seen at BBC Radio One on September 9, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/GC Images) (credit:Neil Mockford via Getty Images)
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LANZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 09: (CHINA OUT) A car falls into a hole in the road on September 9, 2015 in Lanzhou, Gansu Province of China. A car fell into a hole when the road collapsed suddenly at four o'clock in Wednesday morning. No one got hurt in the accident and the collapsed road was under repair. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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Sir Bob Geldof (L) and George Osborne, winner of the Politician of the Year award, attend the GQ Men Of The Year Awards at The Royal Opera House on September 8, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, gestures as she talks to Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, left, after her speech as part of a meeting of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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England's Wayne Rooney lines up with mascot Romeo Beckham prior to the UEFA European Qualifying match at Wembley Stadium, London. (credit:Nick Potts/PA Wire)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 08: Emilia Clarke, winner of the Woman of the Year award, attends the GQ Men Of The Year Awards at The Royal Opera House on September 8, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: DJ Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, Hillary Clinton and Ellen DeGeneres attend 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' Season 13 bi-coastal premiere at Rockefeller Center on September 8, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic) (credit:Laura Cavanaugh via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with former tennis player John McEnroe (L) attend the Women's Singles Quarterfinals match between Serena Williams of the United States and Venus Williams of the United States on Day Nine of the 2015 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 8, 2015 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) (credit:Al Bello via Getty Images)
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Kendall Jenner, left, and model Gigi Hadi prepare to watch a quarterfinal match between Serena Williams and Venus Williams at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Jose Mourinho and daughter Matilde Mourinho attending the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2015 held at The Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London (credit:Doug Peters/Doug Peters)
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Embargoed to 0001 Wednesday September 9A conservator inspects Dippy the diplodocus at the Natural History Museum in London, as preparations begin for a nationwide tour in 2018. (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 09: In celebration of Queen Elizabeth II becoming the longest serving monarch the BT Towers ticker displays 'Long may she reign' on September 9, 2015 in London, England. Today, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history overtaking her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria's record by one day. The Queen has reigned for a total of 63 years and 217 days. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images) (credit:Ben Pruchnie via Getty Images)
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 2015: (This image is free of charge for a month from release. Use or reproduction in any format on any platform after October 8, 2015, must be approved first by Royal Communications at Buckingham Palace.) In this handout photo released by Buckingham Palace on September 8, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II is seated at her desk in her private audience room at Buckingham Palace with one of her official red boxes which she has received almost every day of her reign and contain important papers from government ministers in the United Kingdom and her Realms and from her representatives across the Commonwealth and beyond. The photo has been taken by Mary McCartney in July 2015, to mark the moment she becomes the longest reigning British Monarch. (Photo by Mary McCartney/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II via Getty Images) (credit:Handout via Getty Images)
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Singer Katy Perry poses at the Jeremy Scott And Katy Perry Hand Print Ceremony At TCL Chinese IMAX Forecourt at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on September 8, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) (credit:Jon Kopaloff via Getty Images)
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Jango from Syria and his daughter Varia, foreground right, land with others refugees on the island of Lesbos, as arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to Greece, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A foreign suspect in the August 17 Erawan shrine bombing, identified by the ruling junta as Yusufu Mieraili (centre L-in yellow shirt), is seen during a reenactment with police officers outside the Central World department store, near the Erawan shrine (not pictured) in Bangkok on September 9, 2015. A key suspect in last month's deadly Bangkok blast handed the backpack bomb over to a man in a yellow T-shirt later seen placing it at a busy shrine, Thai police said. Mystery surrounds the motive of the alleged network behind the August 17 bombing that left 20 people dead in the heart of Bangkok and rocked Thailand's key tourist industry. AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:NICOLAS ASFOURI via Getty Images)
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In this photo taken from the view of a plane window, smoke billows out from a plane that caught fire at McCarren International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, in Las Vegas. An engine on the British Airways plane caught fire before takeoff, forcing passengers to escape on emergency slides. (Eric Hays via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Indian laborers work at a brick kiln in Budgham area, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Brick making is an unorganized industry, generally confined to rural and semi-urban areas and is one of the largest employment-generating industries in India. The laborers usually work in hard conditions for 12-14 hours a day to reach a target of 1,000 to 1,200 bricks a day, earning between US$ 100 to 140 a month.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Costumed participants make their way along Eastern Parkway in the Brooklyn borough of New York during the West Indian Day Parade Monday Sept. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The orange sky of sunrise is captured behind the skyline of Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, on the first day back to work for the U.S. Congress after their summer recess. (credit: (AP Photo/J. David Ake))