This little girl is the first giant panda to be born on Earth this year. She’s one of the twins born over the weekend to mom Haizi at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China.
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Nigerian laborers take dot the steep walls of a mine — believed to contain gold — in Minna.
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Number three flashes the ‘303’ (that’d be Dwayne Wade and Miami’s area code, for the uninitiated) at fans during the victory parade for the NBA Champion Miami Heat.
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A Palestinian boy searches the mounds of littler on the beach in Gaza City.
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Workers peer at the hazy sky created by burning trees in Rokan Hilir, ndonesia’s Riau province. Malaysia has had to declare a state of emergency in Johor as smoke from the land-clearing fires in Indonesia is stoking heavy polution throughout the region.
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Soldiers rush an injured Indian pilgrim from a rescue helicopter after he was saved from the mountainous regions near Joshimath, India. Officials said the death toll in the north could rise as soldiers clear towns and villages flattened by landslides and monsoon flooding.
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The much-touted ‘supermoon’ rises over the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion.
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Shiite Muslim worshippers stream across the plaza outside the Imam Hussein shrine — outside Baghdad — during the annual festival of Shabaniyah, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the ninth-century leader.
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Indian soldiers creep through a field of wildflowers near the site of a shootout with suspected insurgent rebels that left five soldiers dead outside Srinagar,.
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Indonesian children play on a ride at a traveling fair that’s stopped at a slum in Jakarta.
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A lightning bolt strikes just off shore in the Panama Bay.
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A child gawks at his own reflection in an art installation by Leandro Erlich titled ‘Dalston House.’ The interactive piece is a full facade of a house built on the ground with a large mirror above it.
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