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People raise their hands during a protest the day after the banned independence referendum in Barcelona.

Catalonia protests after violent secession vote

People mourn after an interfaith memorial service for victims of the Route 91 music festival mass shooting outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mourning in Las Vegas for shooting victims

FBI agents confer in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino on October 2, 2017, after a mass shooting during a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas.

Deadly Shooting in Las Vegas

The reason Google is celebrating surprises is because it believes the search engine came into being because of a chance encounter between its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1997, Larry Page, had just arrived at Stanford University to pursue his P.h.D in computer science. Of all the students on campus, Google's other co-founder, Sergey Brin, was randomly assigned to show Page around. From there, the two came together with a common goal in mind -- to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, a mantra that would go on to become Google's mission statement. The two hunkered down in a garage - Google's first office - and got to work.

Google celebrates 19th birthday with a Doodle

A Rohingya refugee reacts as people scuffle while waiting to receive aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Rohingya flee Myanmar violence

At least 20 rockets landed near the Kabul international airport on Wednesday hours after US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in the Afghan capital, the media reported. Kabul airport Chief Yaqub Rassouli said the rockets hit the Air Force hangars in the northern part. The missiles were fired from Deh Sabz district of Kabul, TOLONews reported.

Rocket attack on Kabul airport after Jim Mattis arrives

A man looks for valuables in the damaged house of a relative after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Guayama, Puerto Rico.

Hurricane Maria slams Puerto Rico

Support beams are placed on a crumbling wall of a room during the search for students at the Enrique Rebsamen school after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, September 21, 2017.

Mexico races to find survivors at collapsed school

The Movement Hotel, which opened this month in one tower of the Bijlmerbajes, once the Netherlands' most notorious prison, offers both a unique experience for its guests and a glimpse of a more hopeful future for its employees. The hotel is staffed and run by asylum-seekers, selected from a group of 600, mostly Syrians, who are being temporarily housed by the Dutch government - not under lock and key - in other parts of the complex.

Former Dutch prison now offers refuge as hotel

A fireman works on the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on Sept. 19, 2017. More than 100 people were killed in a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit central Mexico on Tuesday, and the number of deaths is expected to rise due to the scale of the quake.

Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes central Mexico

Vessels are seen off St. John 12 days after Hurricane Irma raked the Virgin Islands.

Irma aftermath on U.S. Virgin Islands

Anthony Lamar Smith's mother, Annie, walks with family and protesters during a peaceful rally after the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer charged with the 2011 shooting of Smith, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. September 17, 2017.

Protesters Flock to St. Louis Justice Center

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