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IN PICS: News of the world Sept 9
Indian Kashmiri Muslim demonstrators throw stones towards Indian police during a demonstration in Srinagar. Indian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters in the Kashmiri summer capital, a day after a protester died in similar anti-India demonstrations. Police fired teargas and use batons as scores of young Kashmiris, angry at the death of the Muslim man, threw rocks at riot police in Srinagar, police and witnesses said. The 20-year-old man was killed on Aug. 6 when police fired rubber bullets and teargas at hundreds of demonstrators in Srinagar. In the past few months, the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley has witnessed the biggest separatist rallies since the revolt against New Delhi’s rule erupted in 1989. (Getty Images)
Competitors play an evening game of beach polo on the sand at Watergate Bay near Newquay in Cornwall, England. The free to watch Veuve Cliquot sponsored event (now in its second year) claims to bring polo to a wider audience and to blend the glamour of polo with the raw beauty of Cornwall. (Getty Images)
A herd of 100 South African Boer goats chews on tough weeds and dry grasses to clear a steep hillside lot near the Angels Flight funicular railroad in the Bunker Hill high-rise district of downtown Los Angeles, California. Leaders of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency rented the goats as an economical and environmentally friendly alternative to using gas-powered weed-whacker-wielding humans. Human workers would have charged as much as $7,500 to clear the two-acre Angels Knoll lot. The goats cost only about $3,000 and there will be no overtime charges. An additional 50 goats will be added to the herd soon to help complete the job in the next week to 10-days. (Getty Images)
A container (R) used for storing liquified CO2 stands at a CO2-free power plant operated by Swedish energy provider Vattenfall at Schwarze Pumpe on its inauguration day in Spremberg, Germany. The pilot project, which includes a lignite coal-powered 30MW generator, liquifies the generated CO2, which is then transported to an undergorund storage site where the CO2 is pumped deep into the ground. Vattenfall is hailing the project as a milestone in environmentally-friendly energy production, though critics charge the technology is not feasible on a large scale. (Getty Images)
An ad showing the new iPod Nano is displayed during an Apple special event in San Francisco, California. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a new version of the popular iTunes software new versions of the iPod Nano and Touch. (Getty Images)
Julie Martin from Pengenna Pasties prepares their version of a Cornish pasty in their bakery in Bude in Cornwall, England. The EU is currently considering an application that would give the Cornish pasty protected status and if successful, only pasty makers in Cornwall that use strict traditional methods and recipes for their meat and vegetable snacks would be able to use the trademark, which would end copy-cat products from branding and marketing their products as being Cornish pasties. (Getty Images)
Dennis Hunter of Lafarge cement stands beside a huge cement works machine which is the largest of its kind in Europe in Dunbar, Scotland. Engineers are in the process of moving the 1,034-tonne machine, which stands higher than seven stacked double decked buses, to another quarry. The machine designed in Germany, was built onsite in 1981 its recent refurbishment cost four million pounds. (Getty Images)
A policeman looks on as firefighters tackle the fire on the historic Fleetwood pier after a blaze destroyed most of it’s boarded up buildings in Fleetwood, England. The derilect pier was built in 1910 and comes six weeks after the pier at Weston-Super-Mare was also gutted by fire. (Getty Images)
The US Department of Energy unveiled 891 photovoltaic modules on the roof of the the department’s Forrestal building roof in Washington DC. According to the department, the 891 photovoltaic modules will generate approximately 200MW hours of electricity annually, providing up to eight-percent of the Forrestal complex’s energy during peak hours. (Getty Images)
