Explosions line the length of the two-mile Dunyang highway viaduct during a controlled demolition in Wuhan, China. Demolition teams had to figure out how to destroy the highway while protecting miles of electrical and gas lines beneath.
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Firefighters help driver Marco Corr from the cab of his overturned truck, in Shawnee, Okla. Corr was driving along Interstate 40 when his vehicle was pummeled by a tornado, which was just the beginning of the devastation.
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Lebanese mourners hoist the coffin of 18-year-old Hezbollah fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, killed in battles against Syrian rebels, through his hometown of Nabi Sheet.
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Chickory (left, with giant tongue) and Chipper pose in costume at the Milwaukee Pug Fest in Franklin, Wis. The annual event helps pay for medical and dental bills for rescued pugs.
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A rescue worker totes a dummy through a flooded canal during an international rescue workshop in the mountains of Kazakhstan.
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New Yorker Ben Goldfarb — who was to snag a degree in marine conservation — sends a text while in line at Yale University’s commencement in New Haven, Conn.
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Guards line the border area between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, beneath a battered Palestinian flag. Egyptian police, angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen, have reportedly kept a crossing into Gaza closed for four days.
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Tracy Hopper and daughter Maci, 13, mourn together during a vigil for Hailey Dunn at Colorado Middle School in Colorado City, Texas. Dunn, a 13-year-old student, was missing for more than two years before her remains were found in March.
AP
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A hot air balloon plummets tfrom the sky after colliding with another over Cappadocia, Turkey. Two Brazilian tourists were killed and 23 others were hurt in the collision.
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A Dutch reaches out to a dolphin as it swims by the viewing area of an aquarium at the under-rennovation Dolfinarium, in Harderwijk, Netherlands.
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A group of Afghan children grab what shade they can from a small tree on a hillside in Kabul.
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A protestor squats atop a stone sculpture on the dome at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Vatican City, apparently seeking assistance from Pope Francis with the ‘political horror show’ in Italy.
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