A member of the Kuwaiti diving team, search for pearls during the 24th Pearl Diving Trip, in Kuwait. At least 160 divers aboard nine ships dive for pearl oysters. Pearls used to be a major contribution to Kuwait’s and the wider Arabian Gulf’s wealth, before oil was discovered in the region.
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In this handout satellite image provided by NOAA, Tropical Storm Isaac moves toward the Florida coast in the Atlantic Ocean. According to reports, Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to strengthen into at least a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall Tuesday or Wednesday, somewhere over an approximately 300 mile portion of the Gulf Coast, which includes New Orleans, near the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Sunset approaches as people enjoy various activities at Seal Beach, south of Los Angeles. Hot temperatures this summer have helped make the last 12 months the hottest on record in the United States, with the searing heat in July contributing to a widening of troubling drought conditions.
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Participants of the Holi festival spread color pigments in Dresden, eastern Germany. Holi is actually a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus in many countries, where people cover each other with colored powders and water.
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Goats climbing up an Argan tree to eat its fruit, near Essaouira, Morocco.
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Germany’s Robert Stieglitz reacts after the WBO Super Middleweight World Championship fight against his compatriot Arthur Abraham in Berlin. Abraham won after twelve rounds by points.
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A competitor tries to grab a flag as he slips off the “gostra”, a pole covered in grease, during the religious feast of St Julian, outside Valletta. In the traditional “gostra”, a game stretching back to the Middle Ages, young men and women have to make their way to the top and try to uproot one of the flags to win prizes. From May to September in Malta, there is hardly any weekend when a town or a village is not celebrating the feast of its patron saint or other saints revered in different churches.
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Spanish matador Tulio Salguero is stepped on by a bull during a fight in The Mexico bullring in Mexico City.
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An unidentified woman leaves the pier as high wind and rough surf from Tropical Storm Isaac moves over the island. Tropical Storm Isaac lashed south Florida with winds and heavy rain on Sunday after battering the Caribbean, disrupting plans for the Republican National Convention in Tampa and threatening to interrupt about half of the US offshore oil output.
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A column of smoke rises, a day after an explosion at Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo in the Peninsula of Paraguana. Venezuela’s Amuay refinery will not restart operations until it completely extinguishes a fire caused by an explosion on Saturday.
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A boatman rows his boat in the Nigeen Lake, one of the fresh water lakes situated in Srinagar, Kashmir.
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Protesting Muslim youths stand next to burning tires in Mombasa, Kenya, after Aboud Rogo, a Muslim cleric facing terror-related charges, was shot dead.
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A surfer at Saltburn beach in Cleveland, England enjoys an amazing sunrise as he prepares to go for a morning surf.
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A fire hits the Federal Revenue and Finance Ministry building, in central Belem, Para state, in northern Brazil.
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An indigenous Guarani Indian family stands under a blooming yellow Lapacho tree in Canindeyu. The Lapacho tree is Paraguay’s national tree.
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