Birds fly past a man walking in Kuwait City during a heavy dust storm.
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Commander Sarah West, 40, the first woman to command a major Royal Navy warship, takes her post on board a naval ship in Faslane, Scotland.
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A man fishes on the banks of the Elbe river near Bleckede, Germany.
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A boy slides down in to a swimming pool as the sun shines in the northern German city of Hameln.
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Railway officials and onlookers stare at the mangled remains of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express after it collided with a stationary goods train near Penneconda town in Ananthpur District. At least 19 people were killed and 36 injured when a passenger train slammed into a stationary goods train in southern India.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket heads for space carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Dragon capsule is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station in a few days.
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Flames rise from burning vehicles that were allegedly set on fire by a mob after unknown armed men opened fire on a nationalist party rally in Karachi, Pakistan.
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A fisherman floating on a rubber tube throws a net to catch fish from the waters of the Sabarmati river in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
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A body surfer rides a wave during high tide in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
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Workers harvest asparagus in the field of an asparagus farm near Beelitz, south of Berlin.
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Lebanese Shiite protesters burn tires and garbage boxes during a protest in Beirut.
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A man spreads rose petals, which will be used to make incense sticks, on the floor to dry in a compound in Lahore.
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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant walks off the court after their 106-90 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of the NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal playoff series in Oklahoma City. The Thunder won the series 4-1.
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An aerial view of the Mosquitia region near the remote community of Ahuas, Honduras.
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Niagara Falls emergency officials rescue a man who plunged over Niagara Falls and survived in an apparent suicide attempt. The man is only the third person known to have gone over without a safety device and live. A waiting helicopter flew him to Hamilton General Hospital, where a spokeswoman says he has critical but non-life-threatening injuries.
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