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Lone tree punctuates flowering field in Germany
A chestnut tree on a yellow blossoming field is seen near Jacobsdorf, Germany, Sept. 30.
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Tornado rips through fair in Spain
A man walks under the wreckage of a fair ride after a tornado ripped through a funfair in Gandia, near Valencia, Spain, September 29. Ten people, including a young girl and an elderly woman, have died in Spain as a result of floods brought on by downpours, regional officials said.
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Ships stranded off Spanish coast after stormy night
The cargo ship BSLE Sunrise lies stranded close to the shore in Valencia after a heavy rainstorm, Sept. 29. Two cargo ships, Celia and the BSLE Sunrise, which were anchored in front of the Valencia port were stranded by heavy rainstorms on Friday night. According to local media, eight people died due to the storm which hit south-eastern Spain.
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Flock market: Pigeons gather over shop in India
Pigeons sit on the roof of a vegetable shop in Hyderabad, India, Sept. 29.
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Truck falls into pit in road in China
A man walks past a cement truck that fell into a pit after the road caved in, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in China, Sept. 28. No casualty was reported, according to local media.
Cincinnati Reds' Bailey tosses no-hitter against Pittsburgh Pirates
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Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Homer Bailey celebrates with Cincinnati Reds catcher Ryan Hanigan after getting the final out of a no-hitter in a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. The Reds won 1-0. Read the full story.
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Mooning over the night sky's marvels
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NASA's Cassini orbiter captured this view of Saturn on June 15, from a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers). The rings' shadow runs across the planet's sunlit side. The speck in the lower left corner is Enceladus, a 313-mile-wide (504-kilometer-wide) moon of Saturn.
NASA's Cassini sent back this big, beautiful, black-and-white picture of Saturn — but what's that little white speck in the corner?
The image, unveiled by Cassini's imaging team on Monday, shows tiny Enceladus at lower left. It's just 313 miles wide (504 kilometers wide), and yet it shines brightly from a distance of 2 million miles or so. Enceladus is arguably as intriguing as Saturn, and here's why: The icy moon has geysers of water spouting up from cracks in its surface, suggesting that there's a deep ocean and perhaps even some sort of life down below.
To get a more imaginative view of Enceladus, check out this posting on the io9 blog, featuring an illustration from "Planetfall: New Solar System Visions," a big, beautiful, full-color coffee-table book by Michael Benson. NPR's Robert Krulwich showed off the same image earlier this month on his Krulwich Wonders blog.
Enceladus is just one of the moons of the solar system that's been soaking up the spotlight lately: Also this month, NASA's Curiosity rover watched Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos, pass over the sun's disk during a series of mini-eclipses. The rover won't see such a sight again for 11 months or so. Here's a smooth animation of Deimos' transit from Nahum Chazarra on UnmannedSpaceflight.com. And if you haven't seen it already, you'll want to catch up with the sight of a crescent Phobos in Mars' dusky sky.
Shine on, Harvest Moon
Our own moon is definitely worth watching over the next few days: Saturday brings a "Harvest Moon" — that is, the full moon that's closest to the September equinox. That's traditionally a good moon to bring in the harvest by, since it lights up the whole night for late-working farmers.The Harvest Moon also can serve as a guidepost for finding the planet Uranus in the night sky, although the moon's glare interferes with the view this weekend. If you'd like some extra help, the Slooh Space Camera is planning a couple of online viewing parties over the weekend — with Uranus as the guest of honor. Video feeds will be coming in to the Slooh website from a variety of observatories, and a panel of experts will provide commentary. The first show begins at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, with an encore performance at 10.
Next week, the moon continues to act as a guide, as Sky & Telescope's Alan M. MacRobert explains. On Oct. 3, the moon lingers near the Pleiades star cluster. The next night, it sits near the bright red star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus. And on Oct. 5, the waning moon hangs out with Jupiter, starting around 10 p.m.
This weekend is also a good time to look for the International Space Station as well as the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle, which undocked from the station today. To find out when and where to look, check out NASA's satellite sighting database.
Where in the Cosmos
Cassini's picture of Saturn and Enceladus served as today's "Where in the Cosmos" picture puzzle on the Cosmic Log Facebook page. It took just a few minutes for Ian Slota to solve the riddle and report that the speck in the picture was Enceladus. As a reward, I'm sending Ian a pair of big, beautiful, cardboard 3-D glasses, courtesy of Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope project. Those glasses will come in handy for seeing 3-D pictures of Saturn's moons. Click the "like" button for the Cosmic Log Facebook page, and you too may be a winner in next week's "Where in the Cosmos" game.Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ circles. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
Honduran soldiers deployed to public buses
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An Army soldier stands guard on a bus in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sept. 28, 2012. Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, at 92 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Associated Press reports — Honduras' government is assigning soldiers to ride buses in urban areas as a way to free police officers for foot patrols in neighborhoods afflicted by crime and insecurity.
President Porfirio Lobo says there will be at least two soldiers on each bus on 20 routes in the capital and in the city of San Pedro Sula. He says the move is "in response to outcry from various sectors of society."
Officials say the deployment will eventually extend throughout Honduras.
On Tuesday, the government extended a nearly year-old national state of emergency for six months, allowing troop deployments in civilian areas.
The new operation is the second time Honduran soldiers have been placed on public buses, which are frequently targeted by gang members who rob and extort passengers and drivers.
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A soldier boards a public bus in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sept. 28.
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Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, lower right, attends a ceremony for military members to be deployed on public transport buses in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sept. 28.
Hong Kong celebrates the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival
People take pictures near decorative lanterns at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, Sept. 29, 2012. Red lanterns are hung as a symbol of good luck.
Aaron Tam / AFP - Getty Images — The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the lunar new year. The festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is traditionally a time when family and friends gather in the evening to celebrate, eat moon cakes and appreciate the moon.
The moon is framed amongst decorative lights at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, Sept. 29.
Children play near large decorative lanterns at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, Sept. 29.
People walk through decorative lanterns at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, Sept. 29.
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Artists compete in body, hair and nails contest
A model displays a body art creation during the International Contest of Hairdressers, Nail and Body Art Designers in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sept. 28, 2012.
Residents inundated by rainstorm in Malaga, Spain
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A man removes flood water from his house in Villanueva del Rosario, Spain, Sept. 28, 2012. Seven people were killed and hundreds evacuated after flash floods caused by torrential rain swept through the southern Spanish regions of Andalucia and Murcia, emergency services said.
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People pull a cupboard in the flooded streets of Villanueva del Trabuco, Spain, Sept. 28.
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A man walks over a car covered with mud from flooding in Villanueva del Trabuco, Spain, Sept. 28.
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People clean the sidewalk in front of their home in Bobadilla, Spain, Sept. 28.
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The Lata Bridge lies along the shoreline after being dragged by floodwater in Alora, Spain, Sept. 28.
A surreal tattoo? Or a tattoo of a surrealist?
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"Oldies" poses for a photograph to display his tattoos by artist Josh Lin during the 8th International London Tattoo convention at Tobacco Dock east London on Sept. 28. World famous tattoo artists gathered in London for the annual event.
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"Oldies" poses for a photograph to display his tattoos by artist Josh Lin during the 8th International London Tattoo convention at Tobacco Dock east London on Sept. 28.
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Abandoned America: one photographer's quest to document the beauty in old buildings
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Photograph taken at the Angeronia Medical Center.
Reporter's notebook by Jane Derenowski, NBC News
Things sound different in a place where no one goes.
Words echo off walls in empty rooms.
Real or imagined creatures scurry through mysterious puddles.
Shadows fall in strange places.
Time doesn’t stop in abandoned buildings, it just moves differently -- and before their ultimate demise, photographer Matthew Christopher is determined to document the life, purpose, and deterioration of these structures.
Photographer Matthew Christopher , Abandoned America, photographs abandoned sites across America. He documents the lost history and soul of structures as varied as homes, steel plants and asylums.
They aren't just brick and mortar, wood and windows -- Christopher believes the abandoned buildings dotting America’s landscape also have something of a soul. He wants us to remember our country’s neglected factories, schools, churches, and hospitals before they are gone forever.
He started this project 10 years ago while working in the mental health field. Some of his first photographs were inside a deserted asylum.
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Photograph taken at Harmony House Inn.
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Photograph taken at Galilee Steel administrative offices.
Since then, he’s documented dozens of abandoned buildings across the country and presented their stories at galleries and on his website, abandonedamerica.us. The goal, he says, is to highlight the economic failures leading to their downfall and the social impact on communities fractured by the closing of these neighborhood mainstays.
Photographer Matthew Christopher , Abandoned America, explains his passion for taking pictures of abandoned sites across America. He documents the lost history and soul of structures as varied as homes, steel plants and asylums.
We met recently at the partially deserted Holmesburg Prison near Philadelphia. It was eerie, but there was a certain beauty in the stillness and things left behind. Inside, it reminded me of a quote by French composer Claude Debussy who famously said, “Music is the space between the notes.” The places Christopher photographs tell their stories with silence and extraordinary light – the spaces between the life and death of a building.
His pictures make me feel like someone told me a secret.
Christopher is a thoughtful man, melancholy in his assessment of decay -- and I feel lucky he shared his art and technique with us. I am also grateful to NBC News photographer Bob Riggio for documenting our adventure inside a place almost no one goes.
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Photograph taken at First National Bank.
Eviction looms for victim of Spain's unemployment
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Juan Carlos Castano, 43, turns on the TV in his emptied-out bedroom as he waits for the judicial commission to carry out his eviction in Madrid on Sept. 28.
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Juan Carlos Castano, 43, looks through the keyhole as he waits for the judicial commission to carry out his eviction in Madrid on Sept. 28.
Juan Carlos Castano, a Spanish national who came from his native Colombia to Spain in 2000, stopped making mortgage payments after becoming unemployed in late 2009. Spain announced a detailed timetable for economic reforms and a tough 2013 budget based primarily on spending cuts on Thursday in what many see as an effort to pre-empt the likely terms of any international bailout. A quarter of all Spanish workers are unemployed and tens of thousands have been evicted from their homes since a housing bubble burst in 2008 and plummeting consumer and business sentiment tipped the country into a four-year economic slump.
-- Reuters
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The phrase "United against banks" is seen in the emptied-out bedroom of Juan Carlos Castano, 43, as he waits for the judicial commission to carry out his eviction in Madrid on Sept. 28.
Amid Syria's civil war violence, a strange calm in the capital
Japhet Weeks, a 31-year-old American freelance video journalist, just returned from a weeklong trip to Damascus, where he found a suprising level of quiet and normalcy in a country wracked by civil war.
Japhet Weeks
A spice merchant in Damascus's old city.
Weeks wrote in an email to NBCNews.com on Wednesday:
While fighting continues in the suburbs -- and of course most recently bombs went off in the center today -- I was surprised by how regular Damascenes seem to be trying to get on with their lives. The markets are crowded. Vegetable stands are overflowing with fresh produce. People continue to get married with lavish celebrations. Children are out playing in the streets.
Still, signs of the ongoing conflict are everywhere: military checkpoints are frequent, there is an increased number of displaced and mostly poor families, smoke rises from fire fights between government soldiers and rebels in the capital's suburbs.
Japhet Weeks
Images of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad and his father, Hafez, hang at an unmanned checkpoint in Damascus.
Weeks' images of daily life in Syria's capital are a stark contrast to many tragic images coming out of the northern parts of the country, where fighting is fiercest. In those areas, most journalists sneak into the country in order to work independently, though they often rely on rebel troops or aid groups to help guide or shelter them. Weeks used an official visa as part of a video crew centering their work in Damascus. That city is known to be a regime stronghold, so he was accompanied by a government representative who limited his ability to photograph places where fighting was happening, buildings that were deemed a security risk, as well as government soldiers.
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Syrian children in Damascus's Christian quarter.
Most of the citizens encountered by the crew were in favor of President Bashar Assad, though it was hard to discern how much of their commentary was influenced by the government guide's presence. Those residents described the battles as occurring between Syria's army and terrorists sent in by surrounding countries to destabilize Assad, a view touted by state-run television.
Japhet Weeks
Smoke rises from fighting between government soldiers and rebels on the outskirts of Damascus.
Despite working inside this "bubble," Weeks said his use of an iPhone camera (using the Hipstamatic app and the Ben Lowy filter with borders cropped out), and shooting subtly "from the hip," enabled him to capture more candid moments than he can typically film with his much larger video camera on a tripod.
Most days in the capital, Weeks saw large plumes of smoke rising from outlying areas. Despite his proximity to the fighting, Weeks was struck by the lack of a heavy military presence in the capital's center. But that may change as rebels strike closer to the heart of the regime this week and Assad's troops fight back.
Japhet Weeks
A man leans against a car in Damascus.
Weeks said it was hard to come to grips with the dichotomies he was witnessing. After seeing a man who was seemingly relaxed while leaning against a car, he was struck by the fact that in other parts of the country, hundreds of thousands of people have fled fighting. Another example happened the first night in his hotel, where he found an opulent wedding in progress. "I guess she has a right to have her perfect wedding day. It shouldn't really matter that her countrymen are slaughtering each other somewhere else. But at some point it should matter, you know? There should there be more austerity. It all just made me more confused leaving than I was arriving."
Japhet Weeks
A wedding taking place in the lobby of the photographer's hotel. The noisy celebration included traditional singing, women wearing shimmering, sequined miniskirts, and men in suits. For Damascus's wealthy life seems to be going on despite the country's civil war.
Japhet Weeks
A Syrian man walks while texting in Damascus.
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Damascus at sunset.
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An Aston Martin you can afford, but just can't fit in
A Christie's employee poses next to a 1/3 scale replica Aston Martin DB5 used in the film "Skyfall" during the press preview of "50 years of James Bond - The Auction" at Christie's auction house in London on Sept. 28. The model is expected to fetch 30,000 - 40,000 GBP (46,000 - 60,000 USD). To celebrate the 50th anniversary of James Bond on film, Christie's is holding an auction of Bond memorabilia from the archives of EON Productions.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews prepare to celebrate Sukkot
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man and his children push a baby stroller with palm fronds to be used to build a Sukka in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Sept. 28, 2012.
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man inspects the Etrog (Citron), one of four plant species to be used during the celebration of Sukkot, in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on Sept. 27, 2012.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men check etrogs, a lemon-like citrus fruit, for blemishes to determine if they are ritually acceptable, before buying it as one of the four items used as a symbol on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on Sept. 27, 2012.
According to the Bible, during the Sukkot holiday, known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, Jews are commanded to bind together a palm frond, or lulav, with two other branches, which along with an etrog make up the "four species" used in holiday rituals. The week-long holiday begins on Sunday.
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Tourists among 19 killed in Nepal plane crash
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People gather around the burning wreckage at the crash site of a Sita Air airplane near Katmandu, Nepal, early Friday, Sept. 28, 2012.
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A Nepalese police officer instructs police personnel at the crash site.
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Rescue team members move bodies found in the wreckage.
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A woman cries at the crash site.
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Police move the remains of a Sita Air airplane at the crash site.
NBC News wire reports — A plane carrying trekkers to the Everest region crashed and caught fire just after takeoff Friday in Nepal's capital, killing 19 people.
The victims included British, Chinese and Nepali passengers, authorities said.
The pilot of the domestic Sita Air flight reported trouble two minutes after takeoff, and Katmandu airport official Ratish Chandra Suman said the pilot appeared to have been trying to turn back. Read the full story.
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Early rains spur planting as Brazil gears up for record soy crop
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A man works in a mountain of soybeans stocked in the city of Sorriso, Mato Grosso state on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Farmers in Brazil's grain belt started planting after early showers set the scene for what is expected to be a bumper corn and record soy crop, officials at producer associations and cooperatives said on Thursday.
A different outlook of death in Guatemala City
Ersilia Carranza, left, Nubia Pineda, center, and Luchy Rodriguez dance next to the tomb of their friend Jorge, who died nine days before, at the General Cemetery in Guatemala City, Sept. 7, 2012. "Here in Guatemala we're screwed, but we laugh at everything, even death", said Byron Flores to The Associated Press.
Rodrigo Abd / AP — In Guatemala, which has one of the highest mortality rates in the world and where violence is rampant, burial grounds have transformed into social spaces where relatives and friends of the deceased drink and dance as photographers are hired to take pictures and musicians play during funerals. Meanwhile, workers exhume bodies from plots that are behind on their payments, street peddlers set up shop and children play hide-and-seek.
Six years after a burial in the General Cemetery in Guatemala City relatives must pay around U.S. $24 to renew the burial plot for another four years, according to cemetery rules. If there is no payment, cemetery workers exhume the body and place the corpse in a mass grave. Over 2,000 bodies are exhumed annually after relatives fail to pay cemetery fees.
EDITOR’S NOTE: These images were made available to NBC News on Sept. 27.
Juana Lopez, 70, takes a nap as she waits for customers during funerals at the General Cemetery in Guatemala City, July 21.
Musicians from the band Los Tacuazines leave the General Cemetery in Guatemala City, Aug. 23. The band charges U.S. $38 to play eight songs during funerals.
4,800 expected to receive free health care at LA clinic
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An eye examination is performed as part of a free health care service at the Care Harbor clinic at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Sept. 27 in Los Angeles, Calif. Care Harbor is expected to give free medical, dental and vision care to 4,800 uninsured patients at the event, which runs from September 27-30. In Los Angeles County it is reported that 2.2 million people do not have health insurance, which includes an estimated 227,000 young and school-aged children.
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People receive dental treatment at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.
Thousands of uninsured or under-insured people have lined up to receive free health care at a four day clinic in Los Angeles, according to to NBC Los Angeles. Care Harbor, which sponsors the event, is prepared to give free medical, dental, and vision care to 4,800 people, according to Reuters.
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Bridget Turner, 52, second left, waits in line for an eye check at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.
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People receive dental treatment at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.
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A woman hugs a doctor after her dental treatment at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.
Afghan policemen defend against a barrage of water bottles during training
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Afghan policemen take part to an exercise under the supervision of the Eurogendfor, on Sept. 26 in the National Police Training Center in the Wardak province. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force, which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014.
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'This is a bomb, this is a fuse,' says Netanyahu; Israel's PM draws the 'red line' at the UN
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, on Sept. 27.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a diagram in the shape of a bomb that he said shows the progress of Iran's nuclear enrichment progress at the United Nation's General Assembly on Thursday.
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell reports-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that a “clear red line” be set to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, telling the U.N. General Assembly that with a nuclear Iran, no one in the world would be safe.
In a speech at the U.N. Thursday, Netanyahu said that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to build a bomb by next summer. He said his "red line" to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is to stop it from accumulating that uranium -- because it would impossible to know when Iran has achieved the next step: building a detonator to fire a weapon. Read the full story.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the UN general assembly Thursday that sanctions are not stopping Iran's nuclear program.
Words between Israel and Iran have not been kind at the General Assembly. On Wednesday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad complained about 'continued threats' by 'uncivilized Zionists,' according to NBC News.
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Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority, organizes his papers during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 27.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also spoke at the U.N. General Assembly, where he asked that the Palestinian U.N. status be upgraded to a "nonmember state," according to NBC News:
This statement is in contrast to last year, when Palestine asked the U.N. Security Council to recognize it as a full member state. That bid failed.
"Despite all the complexities of the prevailing reality and all the frustrations that abound, we say before the international community there is still a chance - maybe the last - to save the two-state solution and to salvage peace," Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly Thursday through a translator. Read the full story.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly in a speech seeking to upgrade the status of Palestine to a full member state.
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Models show off ready-to-wear creations in Paris
Models present creations for Nina Ricci during the Spring/Summer 2013 ready-to-wear collection show on Sept. 27 in Paris.