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  • Bad crash landing for freeskier Ted Davenport

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    Freeskier Ted Davenport of the United States launches off a drop during the World Heli Challenge Extreme Day at Mount Albert on Minaret Station in Wanaka, New Zealand on on Aug. 1.

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    Ted Davenport crashes after launching off a drop.

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    Ted Davenport lays on the ground after landing a drop and breaking his leg. Medical mountain guides rushed to assist him.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    I've been trying to track down information on the injuries sustained by freeskier Ted Davenport following his crash at the World Heli Challenge in New Zealand.

    Yesterday Davenport tweeted:

    @helichallenge went off on day1 freestyle. tomro is BigMt day!!! (and snow is EPIC)

    and today snowboarder Maria Kuzma tweeted:

    Fingers crossed @davsport is okay after his gnarley crash @helichallenge Mt Albert today. Sounds like fractured tib & fib heal fast buddy

    Read more about Davenport's previous exploits at his personal website.

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  • Ruben Frances / EPA

    People sunbathe on the packed Gandia Beach in Valencia, Spain, on Monday, Aug. 1. August is the main holiday month in Spain, with thousands of people expected to visit the Mediterranean coastline over the course of the month.

    Packing the beach like sardines in Spain

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    I like going to the beach to escape the crowds, but with the right people, this could be fun.

  • Half a million Hindu pilgrims hike to icy cave shrine

    The AP reports that at least half a million Hindu pilgrims are making the pilgrimage to the icy Amarnath cave shrine, which lies 13,500 feet above sea level in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Hindus worship a stalagmite inside the cave as an incarnation of the Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration.

    Altaf Qadri / AP

    Hindu pilgrims make their way to the Amarnath cave shrine over a glacier near Panchtarni, 93 miles from Srinagar, India, on July 27.

    Altaf Qadri / AP

    A Kashmiri Muslim horseman tries to comfort a crying Hindu child before resuming their trek towards the holy Amarnath cave shrine from Sheeshnag on July 27.

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    Hindu pilgrims trek towards the Amarnath cave shrine at Sheeshnag on July 27.

    Altaf Qadri / AP

    Hindu pilgrims are carried on palanquins by Muslim bearers over a glacier near Amarnath cave on July 28.

     

  • AP

    Villagers gather next to derailed coaches after a passenger train collided with another near Malda, 185 miles northeast of Kolkata, West Bengal state, India, on Aug. 1.

    The aftermath of a train accident in West Bengal, India

    The AP reports from KOLKATA, India:

    Officials say a train accident in eastern India has injured several people.

    Barun Bharadwaj, a senior railway official, said the accident occurred late Sunday near Malda, 185 miles (300 kilometers) northeast of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state.

    He said that three coaches and the engine of the Gauhati-Bangalore express derailed and were thrown into the path of the oncoming Azimganj express. Continue reading.

  • Stalking the corridors of power as a deal is done

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    As one of our headlines succinctly put it over the weekend, It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad DC. One less mad just would not have covered it. Here are a few images that struck me from a weekend of deal-making.

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    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) walks from a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the debt ceiling crises on Capitol Hill in Washington July 31.

    Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), right, talks with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as the U.S. Congress tries to hammer out a solution to the looming debt ceiling crisis at the U.S. Capitol July 30.

    Brendan Smialowski / EPA

    Senate Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gives a thumbs-up while walking to the Senate floor to announce a deal July 31.

    Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    President Barack Obama walks past Vice President Joe Biden and White House Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer after speaking on the debt limit impasse from the briefing room of the White House July 31.

    Last Wednesday NBC's cameras secured unique access to the corridors of power, as well as a few more unlikely locations around town, for a special show entitled Taking the Hill: Inside Congress. For me, the most amusing vignette takes place in "what could easily be mistaken for a Capitol Hill frat house" (© Brian Williams) but is actually the shared DC home of Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and Congressman George Miller. Check it out at 3:10 in the clip below.

    As the debt limit debate roiled Capitol Hill, members of Congress and their staffs used a variety of means to find common ground on legislation one member said was tougher to pass than a "kidney stone."

  • Heavy fighting in Libya's western mountains

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    A week ago we published a set of pictures by AFP photographer Colin Summers, who is traveling with rebel fighters in the west of Libya. Here are some more images taken by Summers in the past few days.

    Colin Summers / AFP - Getty Images

    A rebel fighter takes cover during fighting in the village of Josh, at the foot of the Nafusa mountain range, in western Libya, as fighting continues between rebel forces and those loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, on July 31. The Nafusa region has seen heavy fighting since the rebels launched a major offensive earlier in July in a drive on the capital Tripoli.

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    Rebel fighters make a rocket launcher from steel pipes in a workshop in Zintan on July 30.

    Colin Summers / AFP - Getty Images

    Men pray over the bodies of two soldiers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in Zintan on July 27.

    See more images of the conflict in Libya in our slideshow.

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