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An employee works on a mannequin at the 'A Top Mannequin' factory on November 11, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company annually supplies up to 5,000 mannequins to Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore, where they are mainly used to display clothing in fashion outlets.
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Mannequin hands display different types of nail art at the Atarazanas beauty mall center in Mexico City, Mexico, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. Consumers are spending more as wages rise and inflation drops to record lows because of new laws that reduced phone and TV service prices.
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Traders signal offers in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on August 24, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. Uncertainty among traders after big losses in the Asian markets caused a sharp drop in the S&P at the open.
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A view of the Tata Steel processing plant at Scunthorpe which may make 1200 workers redundant on October 19, 2015 in Scunthorpe, England. Up to one in three workers at the Lincolnshire steel mill could lose their jobs alongside workers at other plants in Scotland. Tata Steel UK is due to announce the Scunthorpe job losses this week.
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The shadows of a woman and nearby trees are cast on the wall of Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, May 24, 2015. South Korea is scheduled to release revised first-quarter gross domestic product figures on June 4.
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Workers collect salt at Taibei saltern on September 13, 2015 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China.
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A police officer stands guard at the building entrance as Maria Luisa Montiel, 47, centre bottom, cries next to a friend, during her eviction in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.
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An employee works in the distribution center of the online retailer Amazon during a guided press tour prior to the upcoming Christmas business in Leipzig, central Germany, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. Amazon has more than 285 million active customer accounts worldwide.
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A healthy and happy themed subway train is seen on March 5, 2015 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province of China. Hangzhou Metro is promoting healthy and happy themed subway trains.
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Cooling towers emit vapor into the night sky beyond a harvested crop field at Grohnde nuclear power plant, operated by E.ON SE, in Grohnde, Germany, on Thursday, July 30, 2015. In one of the most ambitious political undertakings of a modern industrial economy, Germany is shutting down all its nuclear power plants by 2022.
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Wind turbines spin next to a giant bull advertisement for the Bodegas Osborne SA winery at a wind farm on February 19, 2015 near Zaragoza, Spain. France and Spain inaugurate the newly combined electricity project on February 20 which will connect both countries after thirty years of demands by the Spanish Government, allowing an increase of opportunities for operations with renewable energies.
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Beekeeper Dave Whyman adjusts one of his hives after moving them to the site of a new apiary on August 8, 2015 in Lealholme, England.
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Shipping containers sit stacked among gantry cranes in this aerial photograph taken above the BNCT Co. container terminal at Busan New Port in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, July 30, 2015. South Korea is scheduled to release trade figures on Aug. 1.
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Hand made carpets, brought from varied regions of Turkey, are laid under the sun on a field to soften their color in Dosemealti District of Turkey's Southern touristic province Antalya on July 25, 2015.
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A child looks at Lego figurines from the Star Wars 'Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle', manufactured by Lego A/S, as it sits on display at the Toy Retailers Association DreamToys 2015 event in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. U.K. economic growth cooled as manufacturing contracted for a third quarter and construction shrank the most since 2012, a sign that Britain may be falling prey to global headwinds.
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An aerial view of tea pluckers picking Mingqian Tea at a tea garden on March 24, 2015 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province of China. Mingqian Tea, characterized by its tender leaves and rich flavors, is a highly valued tea harvested ahead of The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day.
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Offices line a corridor inside the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. German business confidence unexpectedly increased in September as companies benefited from strengthening domestic demand in Europe's largest economy, shrugging off risks from slowing growth in emerging markets.
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A bulldozer moves almond hulls onto a pile at a Select Harvest Ltd. plant near Wemen, Victoria, Australia, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. Bees, responsible for an estimated $15 billion of crop output in the U.S. alone, play an essential role in almond production. With the nut fetching record prices, the insects have become the asset to own -- or steal -- in Australia's biggest almond-producing region.
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An Aer Lingus aircraft, operated by Aer Lingus Group Plc, stands on the perimeter of the runway at London Heathrow Airport, in this aerial photograph taken over London, U.K., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Europe's largest hub at London Heathrow, which has been operating close to capacity since the start of the decade, and rival Gatwick have been short-listed for a new runway by the state-appointed Davies Commission, with a final recommendation due in coming weeks.
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers stand under construction in this aerial photograph taken above the Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Hyundai Heavy is one of South Korea's Big Three shipbuilders.
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The Samsung C&T Corp. headquarters building, bottom, stands in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 12, 2015. American hedge-fund manager Paul Elliott Singer said he would oppose a proposed merger within Samsung Group, thereby laying down a challenge to the country's most powerful company and its richest family.
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Dairy cows graze at a farm that supplies to Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. in Hamilton, New Zealand, on Thursday, March 19, 2015. Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is scheduled to report interim results on March 25.
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Traditional miner Sya'rani (54), who has been mining for 30 years, washes mud in conical bowls known as 'Linggang' as they search for diamond in Cempaka village at Martapura, also known as the City of Diamond, on November 4, 2015 in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
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Hyundai Motor Co. vehicles sit parked at a delivery center at the company's factory in this aerial photograph taken in Asan, South Korea, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Hyundai, South Korea's largest automaker, is scheduled to announce fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 22.
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Pensioners try to get a number to enter inside a bank in Athens, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen Wednesday to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks. Eurozone finance ministers were set to weigh Greece's latest proposal for aid Wednesday.
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Airbus aircraft landing gear is tested at the Airbus aircraft manufacturer's Filton site on November 19, 2015 in Bristol, England.
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A scale model of a plane is prepared for testing in the Airbus Filton's low speed wind tunnel facility at the Airbus aircraft manufacturer's Filton site on November 19, 2015 in Bristol, England.
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Carles Sanmarti checks noodles drying in wood cabinets at Pasta Sanmarti factory on October 27, 2015 in Caldes de Montbui, Spain. The Sanmarti family has been involved in the production of pasta since 1700.
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Steam locomotives sit at sidings as maintenance is carried out in the Grosmont railway sheds at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway on September 24, 2015 in Grosmont, England.
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Cider maker Roger Wilkins, owner of Wilkins Cider Farm picks apples from a tree in his orchard at his farm in the village of Mudgley on October 2, 2015 in Somerset, England.
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Police stand next to a crater created by gold miners during a police operation to eradicate illegal mining in an area known as La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. This past week, Peruvian security forces cleared out nearly six square miles in a crater-pocked jungle zone where some 10,000 people lived, blowing up more than one hundred gasoline engines used to extract gold from the sandy soil.
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A worker passes through part of the disused Down Street underground station on May 18, 2015 in London, England. The disused underground railway station, which closed in 1932, was used by wartime leader Winston Churchill for some cabinet meetings in 1932 as his Whitehall bunker was being built. Transport for London are seeking ideas from businesses that may want to lease some of the 400 square meters available at the station. Out of 270 functioning stations in London there are at least 40, Overground and Underground stations, which still exist but are no longer used.
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In this aerial view combines harvest summer wheat at a cooperative farm on August 14, 2015 near Grossderschau, Germany.
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Steam rises from cooling towers at the coal-fired Kraftwerk Mehrum power plant at Haemelerwald on March 10, 2015 near Sehnde, Germany.
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Finished tyres sit in a storage area inside the Vsevolozhsk tyre manufacturing plant, operated by Nokian Renkaat Oyj in Vsevolozhsk, near St. Petersburg, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. Nokian Renkaat Oyj, the biggest tyre producer in the Nordic region, exports tyres to more than 40 countries making Nokian Tyres the largest exporter of consumer goods in Russia.
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Bundles of steel reinforcement rods sit in a storage area in the rolling shop at the Evraz Consolidated West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant, operated by Evraz Plc, in Novokuznetsk, Russia, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. Evraz is Russia's largest steelmaker by production.
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A brand new Volkswagen Passat and a Golf 7 car are stored in a tower at the Volkswagen Autostadt complex near the Volkswagen factory on March 10, 2015 in Wolfsburg, Germany.
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Visitors and journalists take pictures of the new Samsung Galaxy S6 during the Mobile World Congress 2015 March 1, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress will start tomorrow March 2 hosting some of the world's largest communication companies, with many unveiling their last phones and gadgets.
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Chinese vendors pile squash to sell at a local food market on October 14, 2015 in Beijing, China.
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People walk past shops in al-Moez street in Cairos Khan el-Khalili district, in Egypt on March 7, 2015. Al-Moez street is one of the oldest streets in Cairo, approximately one kilometer long, and according to a United Nations study it's found to have the greatest concentration of medieval architectural treasures in the Islamic world.
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A delegate talks on his mobile phone as he walks toward a hall inside the Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing Thursday, March 5, 2015. China announced a lower economic growth target for this year and promised to open more industries to foreign investors as it tries to make its slowing, state-dominated economy more productive.
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Forklifts transport aluminum cans at the Rexam Beverage can plant in Jacarei, Brazil, on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. Brazil produced 61.4 thousand tons of aluminum in September and 584 thousand so far in 2015, according to a report by the Brazil aluminum association.
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Loaded container trucks line-up at a gate at the Port of Seattle Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Seattle. Seaports in the U.S. West Coast that were all but shut over the weekend because of a contract dispute are reopening as the nation's top labor official tries to solve a stalemate between dockworkers and their employers that already has disrupted billions of dollars in U.S. international trade. U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez plans to meet Tuesday in San Francisco with negotiators for both the dockworkers' union and the maritime association, which represents shipping lines that carry cargo and port terminal operators that handle it once the ships dock.