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A firefighter works the scene of a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, Colo. As many as 21 structures were destroyed by the fire on Saturday. Eight separate wildfires are burning across Colorado, which is seeing record-breaking heat.

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A Belarus woman sets a wreath afloat on a river as she celebrates Ivana Kupala night, an ancient heathen holiday, in the countryside near Minsk.

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A laborer sits among building debris at a construction site which was damaged by a storm in Luoyang, China.

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Kashmiri residents watch as firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the nearly 200-year-old Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani Shrine, popularly known as Ghaus-e-Azam, or Dastgeer Sahab, in downtown Srinagar, India. Anti-India clashes erupted after the highly revered Muslim shrine was destroyed in the fire.

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People take photographs as confetti falls on the Miami Heat NBA Finals championship parade in Miami.

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People gather around ''Levitated Mass'', artist Michael Heizer's art exhibit which features a 340-ton megalith rock at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Calif. The massive granite rock made headlines in March when it was slowly carted along a winding, 105-mile journey from Riverside County to the museum.

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Stranded vehicles, trapped between two flooded sections of CR 95 in Palm Harbor following a day and night of heavy rain as Tropical Storm Debby hangs out in the Gulf of Mexico and takes a slow, uncertain track.

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A rider prepares to spear a suspended ring as he races through a cheering crowd during the Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) in the Balearic Islands town of Ciutadella. The riders represent the different classes of ancient Ciutadella society -- nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers.

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Kenny Riedmann, (R) collides with Fernando Amantini during an AMA SportBike motorcycle race at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. as part of the Triumph SuperBike Classic.

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A Pakistani carpenter works on a fishing boat at the harbor of Karachi, Pakistan.

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People look at an old-fashioned tall ship on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, during the "Scarlet Sails," a romantic holiday with laser show to honor high schools graduates. "Scarlet Sails" is the title of a story by Alexander Grin, the story of a young girl, who never gave up on her dreams and they finally arrived on the tall ship with the scarlet sails. According to the Head of Tourism in St. Petersburg, Marianna Ordzhonikidze, an average of 5 million tourists flock each year to watch the White Nights phenomenon from late May to mid-July.

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A Pakistani official uses a steamroller to crush bottles of liquor during a ceremony to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in Karachi.

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A woman cries for the four children she lost in a landslide induced by torrential rains. Landslides destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda on Monday.

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A coal miner carries a tree trunk to a bonfire built as a barricade on a motorway between Asturias and Leon, during a protest in northern Spain.

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Lifeguard towers on Clearwater Beach are awash in high waters caused from Tropical Storm Debby, in Clearwater Beach, Fla. Debby.

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A C-130 military cargo plane drops thousands of gallons of flame retardant on the Waldo Canyon fire west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The fast-growing wildfire has forced 11,000 people from their homes and threatened popular summer camping grounds beneath scenic Pikes Peak.

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Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal for "West Side Story" at the German Opera house in Berlin.

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Swimmers warm up in the pool ahead of the start of competition on day two of the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska.

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A Colombian anti-drugs police officer stands guard next to marijuana packages in Cali, Colombia. The anti-narcotics unit of the National Police seized two tons of marijuana during the operation in the municipality of Bugalagrande.

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A demolition team uses explosives to blow up this Dodge Caravan off Tamarack Road in Waterford Township, Pa. Students in a summer course conducted by Mercyhurst University's Applied Forensic Sciences program watched the pre-planned explosion as part of a program called "Recovery and Interpretation of the Disaster Scene."

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French President Francois Hollande and Myanmar opposition and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walk in the garden of the Elysee palace following a meeting in Paris.

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A Pakistani man controls two oxen during a competition on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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Slavomir Tkac drives a solar-powered car that was created by the University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project team at the Engineering and Fisheries Laboatory.

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The cargo ship Ville D' Aquarius is docked at the Port of Newark as federal authorities search for suspected stowaways on board. The Coast Guard began to suspect the presence of stowaways while performing a routine inspection of the vessel at sea.

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A police dog subdues a member of the German federal police force, during a mock battle demonstration in Berlin.

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A Kashmiri Muslim woman grieves at the charred remains of the 200-year-old shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, also known as Dastigheer Sahib, in downtown Srinagar.

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Indian schoolchildren walk during a heavy downpour in the northern hill town of Shimla.

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Riot police attempt to arrest members of the "Stop Evictions" social movement in Oviedo, northern Spain.

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A church is pictured in the early morning on a mountain in Sarnen, Switzerland.

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FMX-13 team riders Alexei Kolesnikov (left) and Alexei Aisin perform during the Red Bull X-fighters Jams freestyle show in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

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Myanmar model Thandar Bo presents a Philippine traditional dress during the ASEAN-Myanmar fashion and culture show at National Theater, Yangon, Myanmar in honor of the upcoming Myanmar Women's Day.

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Fire from the Waldo Canyon wildfire burns as it moved into subdivisions and destroys homes in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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Spanish bullfighter Jose Palazon looks on as his first bull tumbles headfirst during the last bullfight of Saint John's Hogueras Fair held in Alicante, Spain.

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A Pakistani woman walks on a dry bank that provides water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi, at Rawal dam in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Switzerland's quadruple scull team -- Andre Vonarburg, Augustin Maillefer, Nico Stahlberg and Florian Stofer -- trains on the Sarnersee at the Swiss rowing center in Sarnen. The team will take part in the Olympic Games next month in London.

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A Civil Defence member extinguishes a fire at the site of an explosion outside Syria's highest court in central Damascus. The explosion tore through the car park outside the court, torching at least 20 cars.

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Kids jump in the new pool at the McCarren Park during the reopening ceremony in Brooklyn. The pool closed in 1983 and it's located on Lorimer Street, between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street.

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A Indian mahout moves an elephant to higher ground as villagers padddle with their belongings through flood waters in India's Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary.

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People carry a huge Chilean flag during an anti-government rally demanding changes to the public state education system in Santiago.

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Royal Air Force Tornado fighter jets perform a flyby during the opening of the Bomber Command Memorial commemorating the loss of 55,573 airmen during the Second World War, in Green Park, London.

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Pakistani children living in Islamabad's slums play a game late in the afternoon.

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Charred homes that were destroyed by the Waldo Canyon wildfireare seen in the Mountain Shadows residential area of Colorado Springs, Colo. More than 30,000 have been displaced by the fire, including thousands who frantically packed up belongings Tuesday night after it barreled into neighborhoods in the foothills west and north of Colorado's second-largest city.

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Greek police officers search for two armed suspects who earlier robbed, and briefly abducted a man in the upscale northern Athens suburb of Kifissia, Greece.

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Cypriots living in Greece clash with the police during a protest against the visit from the leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement party in Thessaloniki. MHP's leader, Devlet Bahceli, visited the Turkish consulate which is the birthplace of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

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With the Capitol in the background, Republican presidential candidate, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks about the Supreme Court's health care ruling in Washington.

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Supporters of President Barack Obama's health care law celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington after the court's ruling.

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A general view of the illuminated Supertrees Grove at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. The 101-hectare gardens, situated at the heart of Singapore's new downtown at Marina Bay, have two greenhouses and 220,000 plants from almost every continent.

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Smoke rises from the site of bomb explosion in the garage of the Justice Palace in Damascus, Syria. According to SANA, a bomb injured three people and caused material damage.

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Liam Joyeux-Macmillan (left), comes out of the water with his dad Bruce after Liam's first surfing lesson at Doheny State Beach, Calif.

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Ivet Lalova of Bulgaria celebrates winning the Women's 100 Metres Final during day two of the 21st European Athletics Championships at Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland.

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George Zimmerman enters Seminole County courtroom during his bond hearing on Friday in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman is charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

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An Anna firefighter sprays water towards a burning vehicle that caught fire after a two-car accident at the intersection of Sharp Road and Scott Road north of Sidney, Ohio.

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Yuzo Shiozawa applies makeup after dressing himself into his alter-ego, 1970's Japanese cartoon character Candice "Candy" White Ardlay at his home in Tokyo. Shiozawa, known as Candy H. Milky in the transvestite world, has three sons from a marriage that ended when his wife left him after years of arguments over his transvestism.

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Luxembourg's Prime Minister and President of the eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker arrives for an EU Summit in Brussels. European leaders have agreed to use the continent's permanent bailout fund to recapitalize struggling banks, and agreed to the idea of a tighter union in the long term.

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Michael Phelps swims to victory in the Men's 200m Butterfly final on day four of the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Villagers travel on a country boat through flood waters at the flood-affected area of Tataliguri, India At least 27 people have died and 1,000,000 others have been forced to leave their homes as monsoon rains swamp wide areas of the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

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Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinian families from the village of Nabi Saleh from going into their own property, which had been confiscated by Israeli authorities to expand the Halamish settlement in the occupied West Bank.

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Early-rising photographer Colleen Spears composes a picture on the Camp Ellis jetty as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean in Saco, Maine.

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Indonesian flight demonstration team Jupiter KT1 performs an aerobatic flight routine in Bangkok ,Thailand, during the 100th anniversary of Royal Thai Air Force.

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Kim Conley reacts after seeing that her last second push against Julia Lucas won the third and final spot on the Olympic team in the women's 5,000 meters at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials Thursday in Eugene, Ore.

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Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, center, Liu Wang, left, and Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut, salute in front of the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday, ending a mission that put the country's first woman in space and completed a manned docking test critical to its goal of building a space station by 2020.

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Nebraska National Guard crew members of Company C 2nd-135th General Support Aviation Battalion dump a Bambi bucket onto flames of the High Park fire, in Larimer County, Colorado.

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A boy uses a piece of foam to stay afloat as he plays in the waters of the Arabian Sea at Juhu Beach in Mumbai.

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A fisherman carrying fish walks past buildings destroyed in the war near a port in Mogadishu.

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A portion of the over 8,000 unearthed terracotta warriors that have been repaired stand atop a massive underground tomb (Pit 1) built for Emperor Qinshihuang's protection in his afterlife just 100 miles north-west of Xi'an, one of the oldest cities in China and the capital of Shaanxi Province. The Museum of the Terracotta Army has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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This image, taken by an Expedition 31 crew member aboard the International Space Station, recorded a series of images of the current wild fires in the southwestern United States.

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A group of women from an adjacent quilting fair sneak into the National Tattoo Association Convention in Cincinnati to take a picture of a heavily-tattooed convention-goer in Ohio.