A soaking-wet child sits on a post on a flooded street in suburban Manila. More than one million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods amid relentless monsoon rains.
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Surfers compete during the Relentless Boardmasters pro-surfing competition at Fistral Beach in Newquay, England.
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Firemen work on extinguishing a wildfire, near Corinthos, Greece.
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A man carries a flower arrangement on his back during the annual festival of flowers in Medellin, Colombia. The flower festival has been celebrated since 1957.
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Pedestrians hold on to their umbrellas as strong winds and heavy rainfall from Typhoon Haikui hits Shanghai.
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North Korean performers flip colored cards to form a giant picture of a handgun during a performance in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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Residents walk along a flooded road in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines.
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Laborers work to reconnect an electric circuit after pylons were turned over by Typhoon Haikui in Wenling, China.
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A long exposure picture shows commuters on a platform after leaving trains of the Swiss Federal Railways in Lucerne.
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A wall mural painted by Brazilian graffiti artist Os Gemeos is seen in Boston. The work has created a stir with people claiming it looked “like a terrorist” and urging for its removald.
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A bus is seen in flames during a demonstration against the Chilean government demanding changes in the state education system.
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Lt. Michael Sturm of Philadelphia hugs his fiance, Susan Brooks, after disembarking the nuclear powered aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va.
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Bikers take part in a group cycle around the suburbs of Athens.
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Displaced Congolese children take shelter from the rain under plastic sheets as they wait for aid to be distributed in Kibati, Congo.
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A soldier in the 1st platoon Comanche Company of the US Army secures a position on the road as they detain a man suspected of setting off a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
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A taxi driver swims to his car in an attempt to extract documents from it after an accident, in the central Bosnian town of Zenica. The accident occurred due to a mechanical fault in the vehicle, according to the police.
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School children dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna take part in a function held ahead of “Janamashtmi” celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laughs as South African jazz singer Judith Sephuma invites her to dance at a gala dinner at Sefako M. Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria.
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Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama works at her studio, filled with wall-sized paintings filled with her dot theme in Tokyo. Kusama’s signature splash of dots has now arrived in the realm of fashion in a new collection from French luxury brand Louis Vuitton – bags, sunglasses, shoes and coats.
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Houses swamped by floodwaters in Bulacan province, north of Manila is seen in this aerial photograph. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces.
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