Smoke clings to the forest as flames burn near the highway in La Jonquera, Spain, near the French border.
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President Obama hugs Stephanie Davies, who helped keep her friend, Allie Young, left, alive after she was shot during the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
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Soldiers jump as they take part during a military training session in muddy water at a military base in Jinan, China.
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People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people across Iraq Monday, in the nation’s deadliest day so far this year.
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A boy cools off at a fountain in Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul, South Korea.
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A worker rows a boat in Chaohu Lake, filled with algae, in Hefei, China. The local environmental protection department implemented machines to pump the algae from the lake to a treatment reservoir where it would be decontaminated and recycled.
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A man is gored by a bull during a traditional festival known as “Xiquenada” at the Hidalgo street in Xico, Mexico. The bulls are let loose as part of celebrations to honor Santa Maria Magdalena.
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Women eat ice cream on the Seine river banks in Paris during the 11th edition of Paris-Plage, which takes place from July 20 to August 19. Every July and August, roadways on the banks of the river are blocked off to host various activities, including sandy beaches and palm trees.
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A visitor to the National Mall pushes a stroller as he walks pass sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display, in Washington DC. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display this week during the 19th International AIDS Conference.
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Tourists sit in beach chairs on the beach of Travemuende in northern Germany.
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A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire in Ller near La Junquera, close to the Spanish-French border. Three people were killed as winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in northeastern Spain, forcing thousands of people to take refuge indoors.
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A house burns in Kachugaon village in Kokrajhar district, northeastern state of Assam during violent clashes. Police issued shoot-on-sight orders on July 23 in a bid to quell violent clashes between Bodo tribal groups and Muslim settlers over land rights in India’s remote northeast that have prompted thousands of villagers to flee their homes and left 19 people dead.
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Riot police clash with protesters as the latter try to get closer to the Philippine Congress to protest the third State of the Nation address of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines.
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Accused movie theater shooter James Holmes makes his first court appearance at the Arapahoe County Courthouse in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes allegedly killed 12 people and injured 58 others during a shooting rampage at an opening night screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” July 20, in Aurora, Colorado.
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A worker puts up a tarp on a temporary fence around the statue of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno before removing the statue outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania.
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Police patrol the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, in Yichang City, China. Due to the downpours in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam experienced its largest flood peak this year on Tuesday.
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President Obama gestures at a campaign stop in Oakland, Calif.
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A torrential flood, triggered by continuous rain, hit downtown Chongqing in China. The flood waters have impacted nearly 300,000 people along the Yangtze River.
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Syrian rebels hunt for snipers after attacking the municipality building in Selehattin, during fights between rebels and Syrian troops.
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A combine harvester makes its way through a field near Arnsberg, Germany. After weeks of rain, farmers in wide parts of the country hurry to bring in the harvest during a short, warm and sunny period as meteorologists forecast rain at the end of the week.
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An aerial view from a Pakistani army rescue helicopter shows water supplies being thrown to residents in a flood-affected area on the outskirts of Sukkur. Roughly 13.8 million people have been affected by massive floods in Pakistan, making the scale of the disaster worse than the devastating 2004 tsunami.
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A Chinese Army attack helicopter, designed and manufactured by China, makes a flight demonstration for press at a base of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Beijing, ahead of next week’s Army Day.
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A farmer spreads fertilizer on a paddy field in Sanand, India. Indian farmers are desperately waiting for the long-delayed monsoon season that replenishes rivers and quenches crops. So far, the total rainfall is 22 percent below average.
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Azari Bland, 5, runs through the spray of the fountain at Johnnie W. Walker Park in Jackson, Fla.
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A Nebraska National Guard Blackhawk fights the Fairfield Creek fire in the bluffs on the north side of the Niobrara River in north central Nebraska.
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Rescuers transport a resident on a makeshift raft on a flooded street in Yongchuan district, China. Torrential rain has swept through 17 provincial areas since July 20, leaving 95 dead and 45 missing.
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Dancers rehearse their performances for the London 2012 Olympic Beach Volleyball matches at the practice facility near to Horse Guards Parade in London.
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Belarusians harvest a wheat field in Yatskovo, near Minsk.
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Hannes Steim drives his 1937 Miller Sprintcar through a sharp turn during a race demonstration at the Offene Rennbahn cycling track in Zurich’s Oerlikon suburb.
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A crowded beach as people enjoy the seaside in Katwijk, The Netherlands. Reports state that many visitors went to the Dutch coast to enjoy the summer weather after a long period of rain.
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Two men dressed as Santa Claus rest on a bench, during the annual World Santa Claus Congress at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark.
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A pair of Havaianas sandals lay on the beach as women sunbathe in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Brazil, literally everyone wears Havaianas, the now world-famous brand of rubber and…
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A horse walks past a fire-ravaged forest in Darnius, Spain after wildfires swept through the region.
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Houses are seen in Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village in China’s Guizhou Province. The Qianhu Miao Village is over 2,00 years old and has more than 1,200 wooden Diaojiaolou, or houses on stilts, making it China’s largest Diaojiaolou stockaded village of the Miao ethnic group.
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A remote-controlled helicopter captures people lying in the grass next to a swimming pool in the Netherlands.
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Umbrellas are displayed over a street for sales promotion in Seoul, South Korea.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and his wife, who was named by the state broadcaster as Ri Sol-ju, visit the Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang.
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A man prays near the sea at sunset after a day of fasting in the holy month of Ramadan in Benghazi.
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Katie Medley holds her son Hugo Jackson Medley who was born at 7:11 this morning at University of Colorado Hospital Wednesday in Aurora, Colorado. Katie’s husband Caleb Medley, who is in critical but stable condition, was shot in the face during last week’s shooting spree during a showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’
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A burning car is seen in General Santos City, Philippines after an incendiary bomb that was planted underneath the parked vehicle exploded, hurting one bystander.
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Hikers walk on the the upper ice field of Switzerland’s Aletschgletscher glacier in the Bernese Oberland. The Aletschgletscher glacier is the longest in the Alps.
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Locals and tourists enjoy Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro during an unusually-warm 89 degree winter day.
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People spend some free time at the Wannsee Lake in Berlin.
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Pakistani police escorts suspects arrested during a police operation in Karachi.
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Thai riot-police take part in an exercise at the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok.
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A fighter from the Syrian opposition aims his rifle during clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
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Indonesian students at the Ar Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Sumatra hold prayers during Ramadan.
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An elderly woman stands by her damaged home in a devastated area of Beijing, after the worst rainstorms in six decades pounded the capital city.
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Helping hands control an anaconda at the Oklahoma City Zoo as it has dental floss taped to the snake’s head and body to measure its length
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A jet is silhouetted against the setting sun as it passes in the distance behind spires of the Tower Bridge in London.
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Specialist Philip Finale works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks soared at the opening bell after the president of the European Central Bank vowed to do what it takes to preserve the continent’s monetary union.
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Male members of British diving team (from left: Chris Mears, Tom Daley and Jack Laugher) have pictures taken by their teammates during a training session at the Aquatics Center on the eve of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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A visitor looks at several vintage cars at the Avus car park in Berlin, Germany. A Swiss Lagonda oldtimer from 1937 (foreground) is one of more than 120 vintage, historic and classic cars featured in the 2nd German Automobile Club rally.
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A man sits next to bags filled with vegetable carbon, which costs costs $0.05 for half a pound, in the central market known as La Terminal in Guatemala City.
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A Palestinian man rides a donkey cart on Gaza beach as the sun sets in Gaza City.
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Spanish bullfighter David Fandila, knows as ‘El Fandi,’ is tossed by a bull during a bullfight on the occasion of ‘La Blanca’ bullfighting festival in Vitoria, Spain.
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A freight tanker is seen on fire near the terminal of Petronas Chemicals Methanol Sdn Bhd in Labuan on Malaysia’s island of Borneo.
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Alex Chamberlain and Lynn Schreifels perform during Arthur Murray Dance Center’s 100th Anniversary celebration at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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A Palestinian woman waits to be given permission by Israeli border policemen to cross into Jerusalem at the Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian Muslims are heading to Jerusalem to attend the second Friday prayers of the fasting month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
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Chinese residents standing on the river banks between the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers during sunset in Hefei, China. Hefei enjoys the reputation as the “Green City” and “Garden City”, with its elegantly built park around the city center.
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Iranian women pray outside Tehran University in Tehran, Iran, during Muslims holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim year which lasts 30 days during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset.
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Children play in a water fountain in front of the Berlin Dome while temperatures have reached up to 99 degrees Fahrenheit in Berlin, Germany.
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A man dressed as ten-headed demon king Ravana dances as protesters rally to support India’s anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, India.
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Indian Muslims pray at the Jama mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan in New Delhi, India. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk.
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A taxi in service is attacked by other taxi drivers during a demonstration in Madrid. The taxi drivers are protesting the planned deregulation of the taxi sector.
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People are reflected in mirrors at an entrance of a shopping complex in Tokyo.
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A pro-Syrian regime man tosses a couch into burning tires during a protest against Sunni Muslim Salafists who are supporting the Syrian opposition and are leading an open-ended sit-in, in Sidon, southern Lebanon.
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President Obama signs the the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which is aimed at helping to deepen the Unites States’ security cooperation with Israel, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
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Members of the University of Florida marching band perform during First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move-London” event at the Winfield House in London, hours before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Construction workers add the final touches on a Nelson Mandela statue outside Howick, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The monument will form part of the museum that was recently opened in the Midlands Meander on the spot where Mandela was arrested in August 5, 1962.
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A young participant wearing an outfit featuring an animation character performs at the annual Comics Festival and Game Fair in Hong Kong.
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Two men employed to use their buttocks for advertising, walk beside Trafalgar Square in central London, where sunny weather has returned ahead of the 2012 London Olympic games.
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A model walks the runway during the Intimissimi Fall/Winter 2013 Fashion Show in Verona, Italy.
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A crane being used in the construction of 1 World Trade Center is inspected in New York. The photo was taken from the 93rd floor.
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