Hot air balloons are prepared for a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of China Anyang Aviation Tourism Festival in Anyang, central China.
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Israeli soldiers wearing gas masks walk through black smoke rising from burning tires during clashes in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, near the Jewish settlement of Kdumim.
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High school graduates celebrate the last day of their classes outside a school in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Russian teenagers celebrated today the end of their studies in a traditional ceremony called the “Last Bell” that has rung out across the country.
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Greece’s team competes in the synchronised teams technical routine during the 31st LEN European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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A surfer walks on the beach with his dog in Cape Town, South Africa.
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A boat passes a giant image of Britain’s Royal family standing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Queen’s 1977 Silver Jubilee. The giant canvas, weighing nearly two tons, was officially unveiled on Friday and will be displayed until the end of June, in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee, marking the Queen’s 60 year reign.
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Buranovskiye Babushki of Russia perform their song “Party For Everybody” during a rehearsal for the Eurovison Song Contest final in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Indian Sufi Muslim pilgrims sit under a tree as they take shelter from blowing dust before prayers at the Adhai-Din Ka Jhonpra Mosque near the Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary.
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British climber Kenton Cool crosses a precipice at the ice fall about halfway up the south side of Mount Everest as he was acclimatising for his summit attempt. Cool reached the summit of Everest on May 25, his website announced, fulfilling an 88-year-old promise to carry an Olympic gold medal to the top of the world’s highest peak. He was carrying one of 21 golds awarded to members of the 1922 British Everest expedition at the 1924 Winter Olympics, in an era when mountaineering was included as an Olympic sport.
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A woman pushes her dog in a stroller along the beach in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Hurricane Bud lost a little of its sting early Friday, but remained a potent Category 2 storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico’s Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.
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A streaker runs onto the field during the seventh inning of the St. Louis Cardinals game against the Philadelphia Phillies in St. Louis, Missouri.
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An inmate, handcuffed to the bars of his cell as punishment for beating a guard, smokes a cigarette at the San Pedro Sula Central Corrections Facility in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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Dancers from the “Unost” troupe representing the Ukraine stretch in the foyer of the theater ahead of their performance at the 10th World Dance Championships in Modern Dance Sport, in Eastbourne.
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Night falls over radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array at the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope near Carnavon in the country’s remote Northern Cape province in this long exposure picture.
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People enjoying sunshine and hot weather in Hyde Park, London.
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