Dancers of the Feeling Fantasy dance studio perform during the 43rd Debrecen Flower Festival in Debrecen, east of Budapest, Hungary. Hungarians celebrate King St Stephen’s Day on August 20, one of the most important national holidays commemorating the foundation of their state.
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More than 70 hot air balloons soar during Rhineland-Palatinate’s biggest hot air balloon meeting, the Mosel-Balloon-Fiesta, at the airfield in Foehren, western Germany.
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President Obama arrives to speak at a campaign event at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas, Nev.
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Japanese nationalists waves Japan’s national flag in from of a lighthouse on a disputed island, part of a group known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. Around a dozen members of the right-wing group Gambare Nippon (Hang In There Japan) swam ashore, an AFP journalist witnessed, from a 20-boat flotilla carrying activists and lawmakers. Nationalists raised Japanese flags on the island at the heart of a corrosive territorial row, sparking street protests in China and an angry reaction from Beijing.
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A boy takes a bath in a fountain in central Berlin, Germany.
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Anti-Japan protesters march in Chengdu, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. Japanese activists swam ashore and raised flags Sunday on an island claimed by both Japan and China, fanning an escalating territorial dispute between the two Asian powers.
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An Indian woman wades through the banks of the River Tawi flooded due to monsoon rains in Jammu, India. Monsoon rains usually hit India from June to September.
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A man jumps into lake Ammersee in Utting, southern Germany.
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A balloon seller takes a nap in front of the closed shops in the old quarters of Delhi.
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Adrian Martin (26), of Spain, and Niklas Ajo, of Finland, crash on the opening lap of the Moto3 motorcycle race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.
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Gu Kailai (C), wife of ousted Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai, stands at the defendant’s dock during a trial in the court room at Hefei Intermediate People’s Court in this still image taken from video. A Chinese court sentenced Gu to death on Monday but suspended her execution, ending one chapter in a scandal that has shaken the ruling Communist Party ahead of a leadership transition later this year. The sentence means Gu is likely to face life in jail for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood last year, provided she does not commit offences in the next two years.
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A man cools off at a weir of the Berounka river in the village of Dobrichovice, near Prague.
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Citizens of the village of Lithi find refuge at the beach as a wildfire burns on a mountain next to it, in the island of Chios, Greece.
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Rescuers and relatives stop a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a building in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province. The woman was rescued as she tried to commit suicide after killing her nephew following a family dispute.
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Swedish made JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets of the Hungarian Air Force fly in formation after they took off at the Kecskemet air base, southeast of Budapest, Hungary.
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An aerial view of sunbathers at the beach in Katwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands.
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Members of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force rappel down from a UH-60JA helicopter during the annual live-fire drill at the Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo.
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An S-Bahn city train lies derailed on the track between the Tegel and Schulzendorf stations near Berlin, Germany.
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An armored U.S. Embassy vehicle is checked by military personal after it was attacked by unknown assailants on the highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca, near Tres Marias, Mexico. Two U.S. government employees were shot and wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Mexico City.
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Palestinians enjoy a ride in an amusement park on the third day of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Islam’s fasting holy month of Ramadan, in Gaza City.
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A firefighter walks past trees on fire during a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte near Leon, Spain. Some 500 soldiers have been deployed to help battle a wildfire authorities believe was started intentionally and which has burned 30 sq. miles in northern Spain.
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A man rides his bicycle through a waterlogged street during a monsoon shower in Jammu, India. The monsoon rains, which usually hit India from June to September, are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.
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A boy jumps into the Hoyoux river as steam billows from the cooling towers of Tihange’s nuclear plant in Tihange, Belgiun.
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Smoke rises from a residential building at the Sunni Muslim dominant neighborhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, during clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites.
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A man sits on the roof of his home at a flooded village in the Thar Pound township delta area in Myanmar.
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Ash and steam billow from the Tungurahua volcano near Huambalo, Ecuador.
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Swiss farmer Kari Gisler carries a bundle of hay as he practices wild haying on a steep hillside on the mountain Rophaien in the Swiss village of Flueelen, south of Zurich. The tradition of wild haying in Central Switzerland dates back around two hundred years and is practiced from mid-July until mid-September on high altitudes with steep hillsides.
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A DC-10 drops fire retardant on the Ponderosa Fire, near Paynes Creek, Calif. Nearly 1,900 firefighters were battling the Ponderosa Fire in rugged, densely forested terrain as it threatened 3,500 homes in the towns of Manton, Shingletown and Viola, about 170 miles north of Sacramento.
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A Montgomery County Ride On bus careened into a home after colliding with a taxi cab in Silver Spring, Md. There were injuries to some bus passengers but there were no injuries to those in the home.
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Bill Bouton, an amateur photographer, was driving down the coast in Luis Obispo, California on Saturday when he managed to capture a stunning aquatic spectacle of a pod of feeding humpback whales. Boaters and kayakers in the waters had cameras of their own poised to take pictures, fearlessly advancing toward the hungry animals, typically from 39-52 feet in length with an average weight of around 79,000 lbs.
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A Mercedes Benz is seen after it crashed into a fire hydrant and a food truck on 45th Street near 6th Avenue in New York.
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An Indian vegetable vendor clears rain water from his flooded shop after a downpour in Amritsar. Heavy rains, which fell in several areas of northern India, brought respite to the scorching heat which has dominated life in the northern plains in previous days.
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Barges and their towboats accumulate alongside the Mississippi banks of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Miss. Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say low water levels that are restricting shipping traffic, forcing harbor closures and causing towboats and barges to run aground on the Mississippi River are expected to continue into October.
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A fire fighter appears to use a garden hose to extinguish a fire in the hills around Florence. Reportedly the fires were threatening nearby houses. Some of the buildings and a hotel in the area that were hit by the blazes had to be evacuated.
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People try to recover a vehicle that got washed away into the Basantar river during a flash flood due to monsoon rains in Samba, near Jammu, India.
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Riot policemen detain an injured peasant farmer as they evicted protesters near the Supreme Court in Tegucigalpa. Riot policemen fired tear gas to remove peasant farmers who set up barricades and burned tires to block a main avenue as they demanded that a decree disallowing Bajo Aguan farmers in northern Honduras from being armed, be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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Federal policemen escort a group of prisoners toward a plane bound for an undisclosed location at the Morelia International Aiport in Morelia, Mexico.
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A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Isaac. Isaac strengthened on Wednesday and looked set to become a hurricane as it churned through the Caribbean on a path that could have it hit Florida during next week’s Republican convention. The storm, packing gusts of up to 45 miles per hour, was expected to intensify over the next two days and “could become a hurricane by Thursday.”
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Four perfume warehouses are seen on fire at the industrial district of Ras al-Khor in Gulf emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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A Kashmiri boat woman rows a grass-laden shikara (boat) on Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.
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South African President Jacob Zuma (C) speaks to the leadership of striking Lonmin mineworkers during his visit to Marikana near Rustenburg, South Africa. President Jacob Zuma announced an inquiry into the violence at the Lonmin mine and declared a week of national mourning. South African police confirmed 34 people were killed and 78 injured during the strike by mine workers from Lonmin Marikana mine.
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Yemeni men perform a traditional dance with Yemeni daggers celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the Dar al-Hajar (Rock Palace), in the Wadi Dhahr valley on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. Muslims worldwide celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
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An image released by the Nasa Earth Observatory shows a thick plume of smoke sent by an intense wildfire that broke out on the Greek island of Chios.
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Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds a baby during a campaign event at SMT, Inc. in Raleigh, N.C.
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A police vehicle drives in the smoke during clashes with opposition supporters demonstrating in Lome. Togolese security forces clashed with opposition supporters in the capital Lome, with officers firing tear gas on protesters who responded by throwing rocks and setting tires on fire.
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A woman swims through the Isar river in Munich, southern Germany.
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A resident searches through debris in the Kapuk Muara district of Jakarta, following a fire caused by a power surge. The north Jakarta fire department chief said that 300 houses were burnt down, making some 1500 people homeless.
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Swimmers jump on Lake Zurich, during the tradional lake crossing from the lido Mythenquai to lido Tiefenbrunnen, in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Army military police rush to stand guard as rural workers participating in a protest march arrive at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia. According to officials more than 5,000 representatives of rural social movements marched to the presidential palace demanding the government resolve the country’s agrarian issues including the demarcation of indigenous lands and financing for small family farms.
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Japanese toilet maker TOTO employee Akiko Matsuyama gets on a “Toilet Bike Neo” displayed at its showroom in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. TOTO rolled out the eco-friendly three-wheel 250cc motorcycle with a specially customized toilet-shaped seat that runs on bio-fuel from the discharge of livestock or waste water.
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A visitor to the Gardens by the Bay is silhouetted against illuminated flower billboards in Singapore.
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People play football at Juhu Beach against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in Mumbai, India.
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Residents of the District of Columbia participate in U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s 15th annual job fair at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
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Aerofex, a Manhattan Beach aerospace company, has developed a Jedi-style hoverbike that can fly nearly 30 mph and hover inches above the ground.
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A spray of sand laced water shoots out from the Dredge Jadwin, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessel that is clearing out some of the silt and left over mud and debris from last year’s record flood on the Mississippi River and cutting a deeper channel for barges and their towboats to navigate north of Greenville, Miss.
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Vehicles and pedestrians make their way down a flooded King Street in St. Augustine, Fla. after a severe storm drenched downtown, bringing 2 to 3 inches of rain for more than an hour.
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Mining community gathers at a hill dubbed the “Hill of Horror” during a memorial service for miners killed during clashes at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg, northwest of Johannesburg. South Africans held a memorial service on Thursday at a platinum mine where police shot dead 34 strikers, bloodshed that revived memories of apartheid-era violence and laid bare workers’ anger over enduring inequalities since the end of white rule. Some 500 people crammed into a marquee pitched at the platinum mine, near what has been dubbed the “Hill of Horror” where police shot dead 34 striking miners in the deadliest security incident since apartheid ended in 1994.
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A woman meditate while enjoying the view from Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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A time exposure photo of a thunderstorm with lightnings over Zurich, Switzerland, as seen from the ‘Waid’ at the Hoenggerberg Hill in Zurich.
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Cars make their way through a road affected by a mud slide caused by heavy rain dumped by Typhoon Tembin in Pingtung County, Southern Taiwan.
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Family members put on a new set of clothing on the preserved body of their relative during a traditional ritual called “Ma’nene” in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi island, Indonesia. The ritual is held once every few years when family members gather to clean the graves and change the clothes of their deceased relatives to honor their spirits.
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Smoke billows from a building in the Lebanese northern port city of Tripoli during clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian factions. A sniper killed Sunni Sheikh Khaled al-Baradei in Tripoli, sparking new fighting which brought to 12 the number of people killed over the past five days and stoked fears of a spillover of major violence from the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
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Self confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik (C) speaks with his defence lawyer Vibeke Hein Baera (R) at Oslo’s central court. Norway’s mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was found sane and sentenced to 21 years in prison today for a bloodbath that left 77 people dead, traumatized the nation and shocked the world.
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Displaced Pakistani villagers move to safer ground after their houses were flooded due to heavy monsoon rains in Hafizabad, Pakistan. Pakistani officials say heavy monsoon rains that triggered flooding in the country’s north have caused dozens of deaths.
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A firefighter sprays water during a burn operation in Boise National Forest near the community of Featherville, Idaho. The Idaho fire was one of dozens burning across 10 parched western states, with Nevada, Idaho, and California each seeing hundreds of thousands of acres charred.
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A view of fallen trucks and a section of a collapsed bridge in Harbin, in northeast Heilongjiang province, China. Four trucks fell off when the section of the bridge which opened to traffic only nine months ago collapsed in the early morning. Three people were killed and five injured in the accident.
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Hengchun Township sits half submerged in floodwaters caused by heavy rains dumped by Typhoon Tembin in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan island.
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Russian driver Evgeny Novikov and French co-driver Nicolas Klinger jump in their Ford Fiesta RS WRC on the track in Kluesserath during a stage of the Rallye Deutschland in Trier, Germany.
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Members of the Madison County tactical response team take a two-year-old child to a waiting ambulance in Washington Park, Ill. The child was rescued after a teenage girl reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a home and went to police, saying her child was still in the house. The girl reported that she was raped by her captor, got pregnant and had a baby.
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A member from the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services walks amidst the rubble of a collapsed two-story house in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. One girl was killed and seven others were injured after a double-storied house collapsed on Friday following overnight rains.
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Free Syrian Army fighters take cover as they exchange fire with regime forces in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Syria’s south west city of Aleppo.
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A tour bus lies on its side after being blown over by winds caused by Typhoon Tembin in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan.
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A model showcases designs by “We Are Handsome” on the catwalk as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
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Madonna with her arms tattooed ”Free Pussy Riot” performed in Nizza, France.
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Tango couple Sebastian Matias Bianchi, from Argentina, and Yuka Sato, from Japan, compete in a stage category during the Tango Dance World Cup 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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An entertainer performs at the “Mons Venus” adult club in Tampa, Fla. The club, located less than 6 miles from where the Republicans will gather to nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate was opened 30 years ago by Joe Redner, who almost single-handedly made Tampa’s adult entertainment world famous.
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Jennifer Hawkins, center, and other models showcase designs by Bendon on the catwalk as part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
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Entertainers dance around a statue of Chuchok, a greedy Brahmin who died accordingly to a buddhist story from gluttony due to his new found wealth. Some Thai Buddhist’s hire dancers to give thanks to Chuchok statues after their wishes have been fulfilled. It is believed that wealth and luck would come to those who believe in Chuchok.
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People cool down in a swimming pool in Daying county, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.
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