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July 15, 2012
A competitor celebrates his team's victory in a swamp football match in a man-made mud pool in Beijing. The sport, which originated from England, is usually played in a bog or swamp. In the Beijing games, the rules require at least one female competitor on each soccer team.
Ng Han Guan
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AP
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July 15, 2012
Tourists play with the mud during the 15th annual mud festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and mud king contest.
Ahn Young-joon
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AP
July 15, 2012
Kaycee Feild of Elk Ridge, Utah, dives into the mud after winning the bareback event on the horse Nelly Kelly to win $100,000 during the finals at the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede Rodeo in Alberta.
Todd Korol
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Reuters
July 15, 2012
Jason Glass of Shaw GMC Chevrolet Buick yells as he wins the Rangeland Derby Chuckwagon finals at the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede Rodeo.
Todd Korol
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Reuters
July 15, 2012
Competitors pull themselves over water along a rope during the Tough Mudder at Mount Snow in West Dover, Vt. The Tough Mudder is a nine-mile endurance event that runs competitors through a military-style obstacle course complete with mud, water and fire.
Jessica Rinaldi
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Reuters
July 15, 2012
A competitor reacts after jumping into a vat of ice water during the Tough Mudder race at Mount Snow in West Dover, Vt.
Jessica Rinaldi
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Reuters
July 15, 2012
Serena Williams celebrates after defeating Coco Vandeweghe during the finals of Bank of the West Classic women's tennis tournament on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. It was Williams’s second consecutive win at the tournament.
Robert Galbraith
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Reuters
July 16, 2012
A coot water bird stands next to the bronze sculpture "El Nino" by German artist Ubbo Enninga on the banks of the Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Radolfzell, Germany, which has experienced heavy rains this past week.
Patrick Seeger
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AFP/Getty Images
July 16, 2012
A visitor touches a high-resolution digital movie (4000 x 2000) of a whale shark during a press preview at the Sony showroom in Tokyo on Marine Day. Sony will display a high resolution movie illustrating Okinawa's aquarium through Sept. 9 to attract summer vacationers.
Yoshikazu Tsuno
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AFP/Getty Images
July 16, 2012
Shaped in the form of an airplane, an attendant opens the door to the entrance of a cave that was once the headquarters of former Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao, in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing. The cave has been turned into a “Military Bar” using old military ordnance as furniture including sandbags, helmets, artillery shells and land mines.
David Gray
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Reuters
July 16, 2012
A room decorated with military maps and old propaganda posters can be seen in a cave that was once the headquarters of former Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao, located in mountains on the outskirts of Beijing. Marshal Lin Biao used the cave as his headquarters in 1968 shortly before he died when his plane crashed in Mongolia following what appeared to be a failed coup to oust Chairman Mao Zedong. Shortly after his death, he was officially condemned as a traitor by the Communist Party of China.
David Gray
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Reuters
July 16, 2012
A collapsed house lies in a riverbank in the Hoshino River in Yame City, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, following four days of torrential rainfall. Flood victims began a full-scale clean-up operation after record rainfall forced hundreds of thousands to flee and left at least 32 dead or missing.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
July 15, 2012
The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide blasted off aboard the Soyuz spaceship for a four-month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA
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Reuters
July 15, 2012
Artists burn a 33-foot-high straw art installation of a phoenix during the 7th Straw — Land Art Festival in Osijek, Croatia. Twenty artists from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Mexico made 20 installations using 30 tons of straw.
Antonio Bronic
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Reuters
July 13, 2012
An equestrian rides his horse during a competition at the Equestrian Festival in Baborowko, Poland.
Janek Skarzynski
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AFP/Getty Images
July 14, 2012
The pack of riders cycles past a woman on a horse during the 13th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and Le Cap d'Agde. German rider Andre Greipel won the stage.
Stephane Mahe
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
Divers strum on an artist's marine-themed musical instruments at the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Big Pine Key in this handout photo supplied by the Florida Keys News Bureau. About 300 divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast piped beneath the sea via underwater speakers suspended from boats.
Bill Keogh/Florida Keys News Bureau
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
Miss Venezuela 2012 contestants pose on the stage during an official presentation to the press in Caracas.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
Contestants warm up backstage during the Boy and Girl Fitness Sao Paulo 2012 contest in Brazil. The annual contest received more than 2 million entries, according to the organizers.
Paulo Whitaker
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
A Scottish games dancer performs the Highland Fling during competition at the 37th Annual Caledonian Games in Athena, Ore.
Jeff Horner
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Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP
July 14, 2012
Balinese watch a traditional kite competition during a kite festival in Padang Galak, on the island of Bali in Indonesia. The three-day national festival was organized to promote tourism.
Firdia Lisnawati
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AP
July 14, 2012
Military helicopters fly over the Arc de Triomphe during the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris.
Mal Langsdon
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, left, plays guitar during an election rally in Barquisimeto.
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
People pray at a tree with a scar that residents claim looks like Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Mexican representation of the Virgin Mary, in West New York, N.J. Hundreds of onlookers have gathered daily around makeshift shrines at the base of the tree in the New Jersey town across the Hudson River.
Keith Bedford
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Reuters
July 14, 2012
Flowers and prayer cards are pinned to a tree with a scar that residents claim looks like Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Mexican representation of the Virgin Mary, in West New York, N.J.
Keith Bedford
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Reuters
July 15, 2012
Central American migrants take a nap while waiting for a northbound freight train on the outskirts of Mexico City. A surge of Central American migrants is making the 1,000-mile northbound journey to the United States this year, fueled by the rising violence brought by the spread of Mexican drug cartels. The migrants have also been the target of animosity from people in Lecheria, as the neighborhood surrounding the migrant center is known. The Saint Juan Diego migrant shelter is temporarily closed after people upset with clusters of men and women lingering outside their homes blocked the streets to stop volunteers from delivering food.
Marco Ugarte
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AP
July 14, 2012
In a congratulatory tradition, Amanda Barber runs through a gauntlet of teammates after breaking the league record for the 100-yard freestyle at the Lake Arbor Community Pool in Mitchellville, Md. It's Barber's last team meet. The 18-year-old swims for Towson University.
Doug Kapustin
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For The Washington Post
July 14, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney takes his family for a boat ride on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Evan Vucci
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AP
July 14, 2012
President Obama speaks during a rain-soaked campaign event at Walkerton Tavern in Glen Allen, Va.
Mandel Ngan
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AFP/Getty Images
July 13, 2012
In this handout photo provided by SeaWorld, Sarah Michelle Gellar and her 2-year-old daughter Charlotte Prinze made a new friend in Nanuq the beluga whale at SeaWorld San Diego.
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Getty Images
July 14, 2012
"Willie doesn't have eyes, but he's a sweetie. Look at him. He's beautiful," Tammy Basenese says, holding the Dachshund she's just adopted at the Coastal Animal Rescue's Family and Fur Festival at Cool Daddy’s restaurant in Surfside Beach, S.C. "His tail is a little messed up too. I don't want to know what happened to him. He may have been born this way for all I know. All I know is he's mine now and I love him. He's just so sweet. What a lover."
Janet Blackmon Morgan
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Myrtle Beach Sun News via AP
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