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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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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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 neighboring 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 neighborhood of Syria’s 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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