An Afghan boy launches his kite from a hill overlooking Kabul. The activity was banned during the Taliban regime, but is resurfacing.
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Manchester United players hoist the Premier League trophy, awarded only a few weeks after the team clinched it, during a victory parade at Albert Square in Manchester, England.
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NASA engineer Chris Cassidy (as photographed by fellow spacewalker Tom Marshburn) works outside the International Space Station on a pump controller box that was leaking coolant.
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Indian laborers don’t seem to worried atop a burning grain transport, set alight by an oil leak leakage as it travels through Allahabad.
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A bird rescued from illegal traders in a Dhaka, Bangladesh, bazaar is one of 148 rounded up from the misguided hawkers in a raid.
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Israel’s Neli Shoifer eyes her serve in this double-exposure shot snapped at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Paris.
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Workers secure a giant version of the official poster of the Cannes Film Festival (that’s Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman during the shooting of ‘A New Kind of Love’) on the facade of the Festival Palace in Cannes, France.
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A Pakistani beggar is ignored by passers-by as he blocks a road in Rawalpindi.
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A man surveys the remains of an apartment damaged by a car bombing in Reyhanli, Turkey. Forty-six people were killed in the blasts Syria’s information minister has blamed on the Turkish government.
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Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s creation, patterned ‘blood spatter’ painted on the rooftop of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, gets a look from members during a preview event there.
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A displaced Somali boy wades around the makeshift shelter his family shares after heavy rains flooded the country’s Shabelle region.
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An archaeologist measures the depth at which this human skull was unearthed during the exhumation of a Stalinist-era mass grave in the military cemetary at heart of the Polish capital, Warsaw.
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A man snaps a shot of the atmospheric phenomenon known as a “sun dog” as he stands on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, NJ.
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Evacuated Rohingya boys shiver in rain at a makeshift camp in Sittwe, Myanmar, for those affected by Cyclone Mahasen. The UN warned the approaching storm could swamp makeshift camps sheltering tens of thousands of Rohingya.
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Russia’s Soyuz space capsule (carrying US astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko home from the International Space Station) lands in the turf about 90 miles outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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A US helicopter drops a diver into the Persian Gulf during a 40-nation exercise meant to drill participants on destroying submerged mines.
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A Kenyan policemen beats a protestor (who’s covered in pig’s blood, not his own) during a demonstration against Parliament members who’ve demanded higher wages outside the Pariliament building in Nairobi.
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The giant inflatable Rubber Duck we showed you last week (a creation of Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman) floats deflated in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour after breaking.
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One of the Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System drones launches from the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush over the Atlantic Ocean. The carrier is the first to sucessfully catapult-launch an unmanned aircraft from its flight deck.
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Mexico’s second highest peak, the Popocatepetl volcano, spurts clouds of ash into the sky. The country’s National Disaster Prevention Centre raised the alert level for nearby residents over the weekend.
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Bangladesh army soldiers stand solemly amid the wreckage of the a garment factory building, where they offered prayers for the 1,127 who died in the Savar structure’s collapse last month.
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Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist and Steve Eminger celebrate New York’s game 7 win over the Capitals in the first round of the NHL playoffs.
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A member of Les Souffleurs Poetic Commandos (right) whispers a poem to a passerby during a performance at the Corona market in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Boston bombing survivor Roseann Sdoia gets a hug from Shores Salter, of Reading, Mass., as she leaves the hospital. Salter, a Northeastern University student, helped Sdoia with a tourniquet after the blast.
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Spanish bullfighter Miguel Angel Perera gets his due as his first opponent topples — and almost gores — him during the San Isidro Festival in Madrid.
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Pope Francis frees a dove during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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An Afghan National Police officer looks rather peaceful as he mans a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr. His force is providing security unaided by international troops now in most of Afghanistan.
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A member of the CodePink protest group sees a problem with Eric Holder as the Attorney General testifies at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
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Youngsters carry lanterns during part of a celebration of the Buddha’s upcoming birthday in Seoul, South Korea. The children joined a temple to experience monks’ life for three weeks (it’s called Little Buddha Camp).
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Agents take a group of illegal border jumpers into custody near Falfurrias, Texas. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in the state, where many succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain.
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An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee offers prayers at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti during the Urs festival in Ajmer, India. Thousands travel to the shrine for the annual festival to mark the death of Sufi Muslim saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
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A Palestinian demonstrator heaves a flaming tire during clashes with Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison in Betunia, West Bank.
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O.J. Simpson searches for an answer on the stand at a hearing in Clark County District Court, Las Vegas, where he’s trying to get his robbery and kidnapping sentence tossed on claims of faulty representation.
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She’s still got it, obviously. Cindy Crawford poses on the red carpet before screening of ‘The Great Gatsby’ as the stars gather in France for the Cannes Film Festival.
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A Bangladeshi fisherman crosses to the shore of the river Kornofuli in Chittagong on an his boat’s anchor line. The river is being kicked up by Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall early Friday.
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Ezequiel Garay of SL Benfica leaps for a header over Chelsea’s Juan Mata during the Europa League final match in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Chelsea pulled out a last-second win with a goal by Branislav Ivanovic.
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National Guard Sgt. Gregory Rogers of Lepanto, Ark., hugs his mother Betty at a homecoming event in Jonesboro Ark. Rogers is returning from a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.
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A Kashmiri boy grabs a quick bath in a stream on the outskirts of Srinagar.
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Something seems a bit backward here as a young girl plays (we hope) in a cage backstage at the World Dog Show in Budapest, Hungary. About 17,000 dogs from more than 70 countries are expected to participate.
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Waves crash into the shore of the Bay of Bengal in Chittagong, Bangladesh, as locals sit watching the choppy waters kicked up by the approaching cyclone Mahasen.
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A police officer inspects a home near Granbury, Texas, that was trashed by one of 10 tornadoes that touched down in several small Texas communities overnight. At least six people were killed.
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Mets center fielder Jordany Valdespin slides into home on a double by Daniel Murphy during the third inning against St. Louis. New York snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 win.
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Free Syrian Army fighters watch from a safe distance as they launch a rocket toward government forces in Deir al-Zor.
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A street artist entertains at least one passerby in central London’s Covent Garden.
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American skater Danny Mayer warms up prior to the Skateboard Vert Final at the Montjuic Pool with Barcelona, Spain, as his backdrop. It’s the first day of the city’s X-Games competition.
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Following their daily work at a wholesale fruit and vegetable market, Pakistani boys cool off in a polluted stream — alongside a group of water buffaloes — just outside Islamabad.
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Ernests Gulbis of Latvia hides his head during his match with Rafael Nadal of Spain at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome. Gulbis won the first set, but lost the following two.
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