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July 25, 2012
A boy swims behind the glass of a public swimming pool in Essen, Germany, on a hot and sunny day.
Frank Augstein
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AP
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An indigenous child swims in the Sao Miguel River during the Meeting of Traditional Cultures of Chapada dos Veadeiros in Goias, Brazil. The annual event, in its 12th year, celebrates Brazilian popular and traditional culture.
Ueslei Marcelino
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Reuters
July 23, 2012
Michael Phelps, second from left, shares a laugh with fellow U.S. swimming team members during a training session at the Aquatics Center at Olympic Park in London.
Jae C. Hong
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AP
July 26, 2012
An Italian gymnast performs on the beam during a practice session for the Summer Olympics in London.
Julie Jacobson
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AP
July 25, 2012
In a photo taken using multiple exposures, U.S. gymnast Jonathan Horton practices at the O2 Arena before the start of the Olympic Games in London.
Mike Blake
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Reuters
July 26, 2012
People wait for the Olympic torch to be carried through the packed streets of London. The flame is making its way through the capital on penultimate day of its journey around Britain. It will arrive in the Olympic Stadium on Friday evening for the Games' opening ceremony.
Matthew Lloyd
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Getty Images
July 25, 2011
Students cool themselves by pouring water on their heads via their helmets during a military drill with a unit of airborne troops in Incheon, South Korea, west of Seoul. About 100 female students from high schools and a women's university who want to be army officers participated in the drill.
Ha Sa-hun
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Yonhap via Reuters
July 25, 2012
Assateague ponies swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island in the 87th annual Chincoteague pony swim. Tens of thousands of spectators from around the world gather on Virginia’s Chincoteague Island each year to watch the event.
Bonnie Jo Mount
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The Washington Post
July 25, 2012
A horse walks past a fire-ravaged forest in Darnius, Spain, after wildfires swept through the region.
Lluis Gene
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AFP/Getty Images
July 25, 2012
This summer's drought has killed this field of corn next to the Lincolnland Agri-Energy ethanol plant in Palestine, Ill. The weather, which has scorched corn and soybean crops across the Midwest, is expected to affect the price of gasoline which in most states contains at least 10 percent ethanol. The price of ethanol on the Chicago Board of Trade has risen nearly 25 percent this year.
Scott Olson
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Getty Images
July 26, 2012
An Iraqi man cools off as temperatures reach 118 degrees in Baghdad.
Ahmad Al-Rubaye
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AFP/Getty Images
In this photo released by North Korean state media this week, the North’s leader, Kim Jong Eun, and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, attend the opening ceremony of Rungna People's Pleasure Ground, an amusement park, in Pyongyang. North Korea announced this week that the couple are married.
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Korean Central News Agency via Reuters
July 25, 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel signs autographs as she arrives for the opening of the Bayreuth Wagner opera festival at the Gruener Huegel opera house in Bayreuth, in northern Bavaria.
Michaela Rehle
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Reuters
July 25, 2012
People enjoy the beach at Wannsee Lake in Berlin as temperatures in Germany climb into the high 80s.
Joerg Carstensen
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AFP/Getty Images
July 25, 2012
A model presents a creation by a Colombian designer at fashion show in Medellin, Colombia.
Raul Arboleda
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AFP/Getty Images
July 26, 2012
Employees process solar-panel components at a plant in Hefei, China. China's solar firms on Thursday warned of a trade war, calling on the government to respond to an anti-dumping complaint filed by European competitors that they said could deliver a fatal blow to the industry.
Jianan Yu
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Reuters
July 25, 2012
Cody Bartels, 13, makes an adjustment while building a light bulb with a kit designed to re-create the experiments leading to the development of Thomas Edison's first bulb during a technology camp in Dubuque, Iowa. IBM hosted the camp to encourage middle-schoolers to pursue careers in math, science and engineering.
Jeremy Portje
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Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald via AP
July 25, 2012
Patti Smith helps clean a fresco by Giotto di Bondone during her visit to the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy. The singer, whose latest album was inspired by Saint Francis, meditated before the tomb of the saint, who is a symbol of peace, and ate a simple meal with the monks in their refectory.
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sanfrancesco.org via Reuters
July 25, 2012
A capsule is prepared for Austrian Felix Baumgartner's second manned test flight for the Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, N.M. Baumgartner made his second stratospheric leap Wednesday, this time from more than 18 miles above the Earth — nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners. The mission, according to its Web site, is to jump from a stratospheric balloon and break the speed of sound in free fall.
Predrag Vuckovic
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Red Bull via AP
July 25, 2012
A balloon lifts Felix Baumgartner during the second manned test flight for the Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, N.M.
Joerg Mitter
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Red Bull via AFP/Getty Images
July 25, 2012
Felix Baumgartner descends to New Mexico’s desert after completing the second manned test flight for the Red Bull Stratos.
Joerg Mitter
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Red Bull via AFP/Getty Images
july 25, 2011
Felix Baumgartner celebrates after he lands following his second test flight for the Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, N.M.
Balazs Gardi
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Red Bull via Getty Images
July 25, 2011
Ben Leung carries his belongings outside his Aurora, Colo., apartment complex, to which he is being allowed to return after officials searched the apartment of fellow resident James Holmes. Holmes is suspected of killing 12 and injuring 58 last week during a shooting at a screening of the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Joe Raedle
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Getty Images
July 25, 2011
Mourners hold onto each other as they depart a memorial service for Gordon Cowden in Denver. Cowden was one of 12 people killed in a shooting attack last week at a packed screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
Alex Brandon
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AP
July 25, 2012
Genevieve Huizar, second from right, the mother of Manuel Diaz, who was fatally shot by Anaheim police, breaks down after pleading for a stop to violence. Huizar was at a news conference in Santa Ana, Calif., with her daughter Correna Chavez, left. The conference followed a fourth day of violent protests over the Saturday shooting of Diaz and Sunday’s death of another man.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
July 25, 2012
A mock graveyard across from the United Nations in New York represents those killed by arms everyday around the world. The group Control Arms set up the display to draw attention to deaths by guns and other armaments while negotiations continue for a new U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.
Spencer Platt
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Getty Images
July 25, 2012
Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, visit the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Payload Operations and Command Center at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, in Meyrin, near Geneva. CERN assembled a $2 billion cosmic-ray detector that Kelly and his team had carried to the international space station.
Martial Trezzini
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AP
July 26, 2012
An owl looks alert at a zoo near Amman, Jordan.
Ali Jarekji
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Reuters
July 25, 2012
A jet is silhouetted against the setting sun as it passes in the distance behind spires of the Tower Bridge in London.
Charlie Riedel
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AP
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