A long-exposure shot captures Buddhist worshippers — candles in hand — circling the standing Buddha statue in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
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A worker stands over the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversized load struck the four-lane bridge sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the drink.
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Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Bowatte Indaratane is engulfed in flames after setting himself on fire. His self-immolation — in the central town of Kandy — in protest of the slaughter of cattle.
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Indian people gather at a government tanker in hopes of securing supplies for their families as an acute water shortage continues in New Delhi.
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Lanterns are released into the sky over the University of the Philippines Miagao Campus in Iloilo — 15,185 of them, to be precise — in an attempt to break the current Guinness World Record.
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First lady Michelle Obama plays with pre-kindergarden students at Savoy Elementary School in Washington.
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Dutch golfer Christel Boeljon waits for a landing plane to pass before her shot during at the International Golf Course in Amsterdam.
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Austrian tightrope walker Christian Waldner crosses the roof of St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna.
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A Congolese woman wells up at the sight of what remains of her home, destroyed during fighting between army and rebel forces.
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A protester hides from riot police behind a roadblock in the village of Bani Jamra, Bahrain. Shi’ite Muslims angered by a raid last week on a top cleric’s home clashed with police while thousands more gathered for a peaceful sit-in against their Sunni-led government.
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Afghan police wait in cover during a gunbattle that erupted following a suicide attack in Kabul.
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Trainer Guenter Skammel gets a hug from Duke, a sea lion, at a preview event ahead of the re-opening of the Wildlife Conservation Society New York Aquarium in Coney Island. The aquarium was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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