What's on around the world in the last 24 hours
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Afghan girls play outside a makeshift shop in Kabul on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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United States army soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, take up position during a joint US-Afghan military clearing operations in Nagahan district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A student shouts slogans during a protest on the second day of a three-day nationwide student strike against education cuts in the Andalusian capital of Seville on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Thousands of students gather as United States President Barack Obama participates in a campaign rally at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Anti-airport protesters place branches across a road as they face off with French riot gendarmes on land that will become the new airport complex in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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United States President Barack Obama high-fives with a boy in the crowd who greeted him upon arrival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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St Louis Cardinals Jon Jay (left), is out at second as San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford turns the double play in the first inning during Game 3 in their MLB NLCS playoff baseball series in St. Louis, Missouri on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Participants carrying flags are reflected in the waters of Dal Lake during the opening ceremony of Jashan-e-Dal in Srinagar on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A flock of starlings flies over the vineyards in Tartegnin near Geneva on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov (right) gestures while being escorted from his apartment after he was detained in Moscow on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Cambodian royal officers carry the coffin of former king Norodom Sihanouk to put it on a royal truck during its arrival at Phnom Penh international airport on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Verity, a statue by British artist Damien Hirst is seen on its plinth on the harbour wall at Ilfracombe, in north Devon, south-west England on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Afghan girls play outside a makeshift shop in Kabul on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
United States army soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, take up position during a joint US-Afghan military clearing operations in Nagahan district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A student shouts slogans during a protest on the second day of a three-day nationwide student strike against education cuts in the Andalusian capital of Seville on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Thousands of students gather as United States President Barack Obama participates in a campaign rally at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Anti-airport protesters place branches across a road as they face off with French riot gendarmes on land that will become the new airport complex in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
United States President Barack Obama high-fives with a boy in the crowd who greeted him upon arrival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
St Louis Cardinals Jon Jay (left), is out at second as San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford turns the double play in the first inning during Game 3 in their MLB NLCS playoff baseball series in St. Louis, Missouri on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Participants carrying flags are reflected in the waters of Dal Lake during the opening ceremony of Jashan-e-Dal in Srinagar on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A flock of starlings flies over the vineyards in Tartegnin near Geneva on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov (right) gestures while being escorted from his apartment after he was detained in Moscow on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Cambodian royal officers carry the coffin of former king Norodom Sihanouk to put it on a royal truck during its arrival at Phnom Penh international airport on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Verity, a statue by British artist Damien Hirst is seen on its plinth on the harbour wall at Ilfracombe, in north Devon, south-west England on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A selection of the most interesting pictures of happenings around the world over the past 24 hours.
