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Five-year-old Simon Hughes stands in front of the skinned 900-pound alligator he shot on his family's ranch in Livingston, Texas.

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A 58-year-old down and out has been crowned Miss Homeless in Belgium with a first prize of a rent free flat for a year. Therese Van Belle, 58, beat nine other finalists in the contest who will now all go back on the streets. Organizer Aline Duportail said the competition was meant to draw attention to the plight of the homeless. "It was about the contestants' inner strength and determination to get themselves out of their old life and on a new path," she explained.

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Helicopters from the Indian air force's Sarang aerobatics team pass close to each during rehearsals for the Indian Air Force Day parade on the outskirts of New Delhi.

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National Security Guard commandos display their martial-arts skills in New Delhi, India.

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A total of 379 people at the University of Melbourne in Australia set out to smash the Guinness World Record for robot dancing on Sept. 29. The previous record was set by 279 people at the University of Kent in England. The robotic macarena was organized by Robogals, a nonprofit group of young engineering undergraduates who teach robotics to Australian schoolgirls.

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Georgian Jemal Tkeshelashvili inflates a hot water bottle with his nose in Tbilisi on Sept. 30. Tkeshelashvili used his nose to inflate and burst three water bottles during a contest where he set the record for the quickest burst at 13 seconds.

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A 60-foot statue of the cartoon robot Gigantor nears completion on Sept. 29 in Kobe, Japan. The statue is being built to symbolize the completion of reconstruction after the Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated Kobe in 1995.

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Seventeen people walk around covered in flames in South Russell, Ohio, as they attempt to break a record for the most people engulfed in fire at the same time. With Guinness Book of World Records representatives on hand, the group remained on fire for 43.9 seconds and broke the record. None of the participants was burned, WKYC-TV reported.

Amy Sancetta, AP

Parade participants stand on board a float with the theme of science and technology during a rehearsal ahead of the 60th National Day celebrations in Beijing. Authorities shut down a major part of central Beijing to conduct a rehearsal for the parade, which is scheduled for Oct. 1.

Ng Han Guan, AP

Surgeons have finally got to the bottom of shooting pains a mugging victim felt in her backside more than four months after she was robbed.

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