Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro poses during a photoshoot for the UNESCO Rio+20 “The Future is Green and Blue” campaign at Africa Agency studios in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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A dancer performs a piece entitled “Colourful Guizhou” in Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou province.
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Belarussian villagers, wearing traditional garb, gather in the village of Sosny to celebrate the pagan holiday of Rusalye, devoted to water nymphs.
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Chinese farmers work in the muddy fields in Mou’ai Village in Fengshan County.
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Gabriel Medina of Brazil completes a second-place run in the men’s final of the Volcom Pro Fiji event in Tavarua, Fiji. Kelly Slater the event.
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Hot-air balloons are inflated ahead of the H1 China Hot Air Balloon Challenge in Haikou, Hainan Province.
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A protester trashes the entrance to a commercial building in downtown Montreal. Police in Montreal arrested dozens before Sunday’s Grand Prix, as students rallying over tuition hikes used the Formula One event to highlight their plight.
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Thousands of students of a Chinese kung fu school line up for a demonstration in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
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A man dressed as the devil hurdles a handful of tots as part of, what else, the baby-jumping festival El Colacho in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia.
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It’s the other way to get “sauced” – pelting each other with tomatoes during the “VI Tomatina Colombiana” festival in Sutamarchan, Colombia.
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A Palestinian girl reads verses from the Koran during a class on how to read Islam’s holy book at a camp in a local mosque in Gaza City.
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Chinese archaeologists measure the the latest unearthing of terra-cotta warriors in excavation Pit One of the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian.
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Mourners raise their hands in tandem as they carry the coffins of Syrian citizens killed by Syrian troops, in Daraa.
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Trees are engulfed in flames in Colorado’s High Park, northwest of Fort Collins. The fire is estimated to cover 37,000 acres, according to the county sheriff.
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A guest jumps into the water along the Boatel in New York. The Boatel, an artist-run hotel built out of more than a dozen discarded boats at Marina 59 in Far Rockaway, offers a sanctuary from nearby John F. Kennedy International Airport and the buzz of New York City. Since opening last year, the hotel has been booked most weekends in the summer. A one-night stay costs $55 to $100, and profits go to support a small but thriving art community.
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Two Pakistani men sleep on a bed set up along a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad. Many Pakistanis sleep outdoors to escape the heat trapped in their homes during the summer months.
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Hungarian tractorist Istvan Puskas poses with his motorcycle made almost exclusively of locust wood in front of his house in Tiszaors east of Budapest.
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Kerri Walsh dives for the ball ahead of teammate Misty May-Treanor, during the finals of the Beach Volleyball World Tour Grand Slam in Moscow against China’s Xue Chen and Zhang Xi.
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Opposition supporters hold a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a rally ‘For honest power, for Russia without Putin!’ in Moscow.
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A girl holds a container as she feeds pigeons in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Polish and Russian fans clash during a march of Russian supporters to the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the Group A preliminary round match of the UEFA EURO 2012 soccer match between Poland and Russia.
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Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown kisses the Stanley Cup after the Kings defeated the Devils 6-1 in Game 6 of the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Final.
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An Indian firefighter extinguishes smouldering stacks of paper at the Khanna Paper Mill in the outskirts of Amritsar. The fire, which broke out in one of the largest paper mills in the country, incurred losses estimated at 1.5 billion rupees.
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Yemeni army soldiers and tribesmen loyal to the army celebrate after they retook the city of Zinjibar from al-Qaeda militants. The terror network had held the city for more than a year.
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A statue of Christ the Redeemer is vandalized with the name and number of Atletico-MG’s football player Ronaldinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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Reid Woodbury, a Sertoma Club member since 1974, places flags along Frederick Avenue in St. Joseph, Mo in honor of Flag Day.
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Workers try to clean up algae from the Chaohu lake in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province. China’s environmental authority has warned of the imminent danger of a blue algae outbreak in Chaohu Lake, the country’s fifth largest freshwater lake.
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Children ride toy cars with their fathers at an amusement park on a public square in Jiuquan, China.
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Kashmiri government employees demonstrate while riot police unleash a purple-dyed water cannon to disperse a protest in Srinagar . Indian police detained dozens of state government employees who are demanding an increase in the retirement age from 58 to 60 and the release of their arrears.
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Brothers in arms stand in the Invalides courtyard in Paris during a national ceremony of remembrance for four French soldiers killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan, where around 4,000 French troops are serving.
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Bangladeshi policemen detain a garment worker during a protest in Ashulia, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workers were staging a demonstration demanding a raise in wages.
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Brazil’s Santos fans cheer during a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Brazil’s Corinthians in Santos, Brazil.
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A child plays between two cartoon military statues on display outside a shopping mall in Beijing.
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A Yemeni man walks past cars destroyed during fighting with al-Qaida militants in the city of Zinjibar. Airstrikes and clashes intensified in southern Yemen on Wednesday as army troops followed major victories with more pressure on al-Qaeda militants holding small towns, according to tribal and military officials.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar opposition leader, waves as she arrives at the 101st International Labor Organization, ILO, Conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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A boy of the Guarani Kaiowa tribe poses for a photo at the Kari-Oca village, where indigenous from around the world are staying during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Soldiers pay a silent tribute after completing the exhumation of the remains of South Korean soldiers, who are believed to have been killed by North Korean soldiers during the 1950-53 Korean War, at an excavation site on a mountain in Sokcho, east of Seoul.
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A Mexican Federal Police instructor pushes on the plastic shields of a riot squad forming a barrier in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico. Thousands of law enforcement officers are rolling into the Los Cabos area for the G-20 Summit to be held June 18-20.
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Nick Franklin of New Zealand performs a demonstration jump in front of the Blue Mosque to announce the third stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Istanbul.
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San Francisco Giants players celebrate after pitcher Matt Cain threw a perfect game against the Houston Astros in San Francisco. Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in Major League history and first for the Giants, striking out a career-high 14 and getting help from two spectacular catches to beat the Houston Astros 10-0.
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A combination of pictures taken shows female supporters from various countries with their faces painted in national colors during the Euro 2012 football championships.
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Wu ping, spokesperson for China’s manned flight program, reacts as a solar panel drops from a scale model of the Shenzhou 9 module docking with China’s Tiangong 1 space module and three astronauts during a press conference at the Jiuquan satellite launch center near Jiuquan in western China’s Gansu province.
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Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta (L) leaves Manhattan Federal Court after hearing a guilty verdict in New York. Gupta was convicted on Friday of illegally tipping his hedge-fund manager friend Raj Rajaratnam with secrets about the investment bank, a major victory for prosecutors seeking to root out insider trading on Wall Street.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands after speaking at a campaign event at the Scamman Farm in Stratham, New Hampshire. Romney is kicking off a five-day tour through the battleground states.
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Somali midwives at a hospital in the Bakool region of Somalia. Bakool has had no hospitals for the past three-and-a-half years when Al-Qaeda affiliated Shebab insurgents closed down a maternity clinic that had been set up in 2008.
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A fire truck arrives at a site where houses are on fire in Sittwe, capital of the western state of Rakhine. More than 30,000 people have been displaced by deadly sectarian clashes in western Myanmar and at least 29 people have been killed since June 8, with scores more wounded and nearly 2,600 homes burned across the state.
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15-month-old Brianna Migoya, plays in a field of flags at the ceremony for the new 9/11 memorial in Miami. The memorial features in its center a steel beam recovered from the rubble of the Twin Towers in New York.
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A Palestinian protester hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes at a weekly protest against the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, near Nablus.
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A man stands at Hopfen lake with a fishing rod during sunset in Hopfen, Germany. Bavaria is expecting summer-like temperatures around 31 degrees celsius for the weekend.
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A Brazilian indian applies make up before the inauguration of the People’s Summit in the Flamego park in Rio de Janeiro. The UN conference, which marks the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit — a landmark 1992 gathering that opened the debate on the future of the planet and its resources — is the largest ever organized, with 50,000 delegates.
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A performer wearing a sheriff costume is pictured during the opening of the Twinpigs City theme park in Zory, southern Poland. Twinpigs City is a theme park characterized by its Wild West style. Gunmen duels, bank robbery, and stunt shows were the main attractions of the inauguration.
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Miners fire handmade rockets at riot police officers, unseen, as they defend their positions near the mine “El Soton” during clashes in El Entrego near Oviedo, Spain. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against government action to cut coal subsidies.
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Sweden’s Fredrik Kessiakoff of Astana is pictured on his way to win the 7th stage of the 76th Tour de Suisse UCI Pro Tour cycling race over the Zurich lake in Gossau, Switzerland.
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A helicopter flies through the Cache La Poudre Canyon, Colo. as flames scorched the forest south of the river. Flames crossed over the Poudre River causing a mandatory evacuation for residents of the Glacier View area.
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People wear illuminated mouse ears that change colors and blink in sync with images and lights projected through water fountains, fire, music and voices at a preview of World of Color show in Paradise Bay, on the eve of the public grand reopening of Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, Calif.
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An aerial view of Christ the Redeemer statue is lit up in green to celebrate the Rio+20 forum in Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development summit will be held from 20 to 22 June.
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A model wears a creation from Adriana Degreas summer collection during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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A woman takes part in a SlutWalk protest in central Seoul. A Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, polling 370 gender specialists, found Canada to be the best place to be a woman amongst G20 nations, excluding the European Union economic grouping. Saudi Arabia was the second worst, after India.
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