TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of Pope Francis waving to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican; One World Trade Center emerging from the clouds in the night sky in a photo taken from a passing airplane in New York and penguins at Edinburgh Zoo enjoying their new enclosure – Penguins Rock.
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Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican
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One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky in a photo taken from a passing airplane in New York
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Edinburgh Zoo is set to reopen to the public following a £750,000 revamp. The outdoor pool, called Penguins Rock, offers improved viewing areas for people visiting one of the zoo's most popular species
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People pass a sand sculpture of the new pope at the Golden Sea beach on the Bay of Bengal coast in Puri, Orissa state, India
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Ian Whyte, of Whyte & Sons Auctioneers Ltd, holds the only known surviving promotional copy of a 1954 recording of That's All Right (Mama) by Elvis Presley, the vinyl that kick-started his career. It is expected to fetch £43,000 to £60,000
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President Barack Obama, escorted by House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, right, waves as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, for closed-door talks with House Speaker John Boehner and the House Republican Conference to discuss the budget
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Comet Pan-STARRS is seen over the western horizon and just above Mount Taylor, from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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A seagull flies in front of a fire that still burns after a tugboat and barge hit a gas pipeline yesterday evening in Perot Bay in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
