Pictures of the Week: Sep. 20-26

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  This image provided by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) shows a new sunspot at upper right, which after many weeks of a blank sun with no sunspots and very few sunspots this entire year, emerged Sept. 23. This new spot has both the magnetic orientation and the high-latitude position of a sunspot belonging to the new solar cycle.
  
  
  

  ESA, NASA / AP

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  Mourners lay candles near the Kauhajoki vocational high school in Kauhajoki, western Finland, Sept. 24, after the country's second school massacre in less than a year. The day before, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire at a vocational college, killing 10 people -- including eight female students -- before shooting himself in the head.
  
  
  

  Lehtikuva, Vesa Moilanen / AP

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  A man stands in front of the Marriott Hotel after a bomb blast in Islamabad Sept. 20, 2008. A car bomb exploded outside the Marriott in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, killing at least 40 people and starting a fire that swept through the hotel.
  
  
  

  Faisal Mahmood / Reuters

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  A Zenit St. Petersburg fan with a sign on his t-shirt reading, "Welcome to Hell" shouts amidst the smoke of burning flares during the Russian Premier League soccer match against CSKA Moscow in St. Petersburg, Sept. 21.
  
  
  

  Alexander Demianchuk, Reuters

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  A man walks past beach chairs along the shoreline on a sunny day at Berlin's Wannsee lido on Sept. 24.
  
  
  

  Johannes Eisele, Reuters

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  Sri Lankan fishermen, perched on stilts, fish in Koggala, about 94 miles southeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 20.
  
  
  

  Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP

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  Visitors enjoy a night ride on the Star Flyer carousel in front of the Peter and Paul church during the third day of the Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany, Sept. 22.
  
  
  

  Matthias Schrader, AP

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  Police have a tug of war with an activist of the All India Youth Federation (AIYF) that they wanted to arrest, after the activists tried to storm into a cinema hall protesting against obscenity in films and film posters in Hyderabad, India, Sept. 23.
  
  
  

  Mahesh Kumar A., AP

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  Belarus special anti-terrorist troop commandos leave a polling booth during pre-term election in the army in Minsk on Sept. 23.
  
  
  

  ALEXEY GROMOV, AFP / Getty Images

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  A barber gives a head massage after a haircut to a man who has taken refuge on a roadside following flooding of the River Yamuna in New Delhi, India, Sept. 24.
  
  
  

  Manish Swarup, AP