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July 27, 2012
Michelle Obama plays tennis during an event for children of U.S. military service members as well as British and U.S. students at the U.S. Embassy in central London.
Olivia Harris
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Reuters
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Venus Williams of the United States practices at the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Tennis competition is scheduled to begin Saturday.
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AP
July 26, 2012
British divers Tonia Couch, right, and Sarah Barrow take photographs of teammates from the 10-meter board at the Aquatics Center in the Olympic Park in London.
Toby Melville
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Reuters
July 27, 2012
U.S. basketball player Kobe Bryant smiles as he answers a reporter's question during a news conference in the Olympics media center in London.
Stefano Rellandini
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Reuters
July 26, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at 10 Downing Street to meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London.
Jason Reed
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Reuters
July 26, 2012
British Prime Minister David Cameron greets Olympic torch bearer Florence Rowe after she received the flame in London.
Cathal McNaughton
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Reuters
July 26, 2012
A victim of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy takes part in the "Bhopal Special Olympics 2012" at a stadium in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Survivors of the Bhopal gas leak in 1984 held their own special version of the Olympic Games in India on Thursday as a form of protest against the sponsorship of the London Games by Dow Chemical.
Raj Patidar
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Reuters
July 27, 2012
Protesters play dead to campaign against Dow Chemical's sponsorship of the Olympic Games in London. Dow is one of 11 international Olympic sponsors who have global marketing rights to the Games. The criticism that the company faces over Bhopal stems from Dow's acquisition of Union Carbide almost a decade after that company settled litigation linked to the gas leak at its Indian unit, which killed and injured thousands.
Neil Hall
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Reuters
July 26, 2012
A small boat passes along the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Miss. In a reversal of extremes, the river has dropped to very low levels this summer, unlike last year when the river was flooding much of the Delta because of record high levels. The drop in water level now exposes the river bottom, slowing river traffic to a trickle as barges are forced to lessen their loads to keep from getting stuck on sandbars.
Rogelio V. Solis
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AP
July 26, 2012
Delbert Craig, driving tractor, shows visitors the drought damage to the pasture on his farm near Goreville, Ill. The farm was one of several in southern Illinois that were visited by Karis Gutter and other officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Seventy percent of Illinois, the nation's No. 2 corn-producing state, is classified as experiencing some level of drought. Craig raises crops and beef cattle on the farm, which he bought in 1960.
Scott Olson
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Getty Images
July 26, 2012
Drought-damaged corn stalk is seen near Brownville, Neb. The widest drought to grip the United States is showing no signs of abating. The drought, covering two-thirds of the continental United States, had been considered relatively shallow, the product of months without rain, rather than years. But a report released Thursday showed that its intensity is rapidly increasing, with 20 percent of the nation now in the two worst stages of drought, up 7 percent from last week.
Nati Harnik
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AP
July 26, 2012
Walla Walla Valley Little League player Diego Cardenas cools off in the dugout during a Washington state little league majors state tournament baseball game in Walla Walla, Wash. Walla Walla lost the game against visiting Mercer Island, 11-1.
Jeff Horner
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AP
July 27, 2012
An installation using watering cans is seen at a fountain in the southern German city of Stuttgart.
Marijan Murat
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AFP/Getty Images
July 26, 2-12
Fiestin poses for a picture on the last day of the fourth annual Latin American Clown Congress in Guatemala City. Clowns from Central America, South America and the Caribbean have gathered for three days to exchange ideas and attend workshops.
Rodrigo Abd
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AP
July 26, 2012
A woman touches the tomb of Argentina's late former first lady Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, better known as Evita, at a cemetery in Buenos Aires. Argentines commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of their most famous first lady on Thursday. Peron died of cancer on July 26, 1952, at age 33.
Sergio Goya
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AP
July 26, 2012
Julia Kouris hugs Steve Sundberg as they visit a memorial across the street from the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed in a shooting rampage.
Joe Raedle
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Getty Images
July 26, 2012
Amanda Medek, whose sister Micayla Medek was killed in the Colorado shooting rampage, is escorted before Medek's funeral to a church in Denver.
Ted S. Warren
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AP
July 26, 2012
Marlene Knobbe, the grandmother of Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting victim Micayla Medek, comforts Medek's second cousin Kailyn Vigil, after Medek's body was loaded into a hearse following her funeral in Denver.
Ted S. Warren
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AP
July 26, 2012
Malia Castrejon, 4, waits in line with her mother to receive food and other essentials in Portland, Ore. More than 3,500 boxes were to be distributed to 1,200 local families in need, from the partnership between the Salvation Army and Feed the Children’s Americans Feeding Americans project. The boxes contained food as well as hygiene and household products.
Rick Bowmer
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AP
July 27, 2012
People wait in line to receive food and other essentials in Portland, Ore. More than 3,500 boxes were to be distributed to 1,200 local families in need from the partnership between the Salvation Army and Feed the Children’s Americans Feeding Americans project. The boxes contained food as well as hygiene and household products.
Rick Bowmer
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AP
July 26, 2012
Grain bins are silhouetted against approaching storm clouds in Pleasant Plains, Ill. The widest drought to grip the United States in decades is showing no signs of abating.
Seth Perlman
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AP
July 26, 2012
Workers wait inside a food stand while a summer storm sweeps over the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio.
Eric Albrecht
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AP
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