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June 18, 2012
President Obama, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Los Cabos, Mexico. The leaders are in Los Cabos to attend the G20 summit.
Jason Reed
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Reuters
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June 18, 2012
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Carlos Gomez blows a bubble during the second inning of a ballgame with the Toronto Blue Jays in Milwaukee.
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AP
June 18, 2012
A patient is stung by a bee as he receives an apitherapy treatment at a hospital in Zhengzhou, in China’s Henan province. Apitherapy is one of the ancient methods of curing diseases by using honey, pollen, bee bread, propolis, royal jelly, apilarnil and bee venom. The therapy is claimed to be of use in several types of arthritis, neurological problems such as insomnia, migraine headaches and neuritis, and skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and herpes.
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China Daily via Reuters
June 18, 2012
Levi Murray, 8, holds the World Harmony Run torch before taking a tap around the field at the Boys and Girls Club in Coos Bay, Ore., with members of the World Harmony Run team. Ten people form the North America team, running a 10,000 mile loop around the United States, starting in New York. Sri Chinmoy started the World Harmony Run in 1987 to promote world peace. Now people in 140 countries run 35,000 miles on seven continents to promote their message.
Benjamin Brayfield
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The World via AP
June 18, 2012
A girl laughs during a rehearsal that is part of a project called Symphony for Peru: Music and Social Inclusion, in Manchay, a shanty town on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. The project, which is headed by Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, targets youths at risk and has set up a music training centre in Manchay, at which 200 children of low-income families would benefit from.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
Nick Hudyma, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., gives the eggs a stir in a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine created by engineering students to scramble an egg in 13 uneasy steps.
Bruce Lipsky
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AP
June 19, 2012
A man smokes a cigarette as he sits by the streets of the ancient city of Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, Nepal.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi tries on a baseball cap that was given to her following a discussion at the London School of Economics. Suu Kyi is visiting Europe for the first time since 1988, when she left her family life in Britain and found herself thrust into Myanmar's fight against dictatorship, mostly from the confines of her Yangon home.
Suzanne Plunkett
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
People hold a 550 foot-long sacred cloth to offer at the tomb of Emperor Shah Jahan on his 357th death anniversary at the historic Taj Mahal, in the northern Indian city of Agra, . The Taj Mahal was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife and is one of the world's most famous monuments.
Brijesh Singh
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For Reuters
June 19, 2012
Volunteers wearing masks hold up signs next to a table displaying empty plates and flags representing the problem of hunger in those countries during a protest organized by members of non-government organization Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) at Copacabana beach ahead of the Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Paz hopes to press world leaders participating in the Rio +20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, for better conditions for poor people. The conference opens Wednesday.
Ueslei Marcelino
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
Keith Youngblood, of the nonprofit Liberty Foundation, displays a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. The World War II era bomber was used in the movie “Memphis Belle” and will be available for public flights at the airport this weekend along with a Curtiss P-40E fighter. The original Memphis Belle B-17, one of the first B-17s to complete 25 combat missions with her crew intact, is on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
Al Behrman
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AP
June 19, 2012
A Palestinian man sits close to a burning garbage bin along a street in the Palestinian Ain al-Helweh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, a day after two Palestinians were killed in clashes with the army at refugee camps in Lebanon that also left several people wounded, including soldiers, security officials said. By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the refugee camps, leaving security inside to the Palestinians themselves.
Mahmoud Zayyat
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AFP via Getty Images
June 18, 2012
A man looks at a post office destroyed during fighting between the army and al Qaeda-linked militants in the southern Yemeni city of Zinjibar. The Yemeni military last week said it had driven Islamist fighters from territory they had held for over a year, including Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, and another city, Jaar.
Khaled Abdullah
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays as a head priest, unseen, displays a relic, believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammad at the Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Devotees thronged the Hazratbal shrine during Muslim festival of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven.
Mukhtar Khan
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AP
June 18, 2012
A Kashmiri Muslim clerk displays a relic (inside glass tube) of Prophet Mohammad to devotees during Meeraj-un-Nabi celebrations at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, India. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Monday thronged to the Hazratbal shrine which houses what is believed to be a relic from the beard of Prophet Mohammed. The festival marks the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven.
Fayaz Kabli
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
Contestants in an annual beauty pageant for plus-size women stand backstage in the southern city of Beersheba June 18, 2012. 16 women competed on Monday night in the annual beauty pageant, which requires contestants to weigh more than 176 pounds.
Amir Cohen
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
An Israeli soldier directs a tank, maneuvering near the border between Israel and Egypt. Unidentified militants crossed from Egypt's turbulent Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel on Monday, opening light arms and antitank fire on civilians building a security fence meant to fortify the porous border, defense officials said. One of the Israeli workers was killed, and two militants were gunned down by troops responding to the attack, the officials said.
Tsafrir Abayov
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AP
June 19, 2012
An interior view of a spacecraft owned by Excalibur Almaz outside the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. The company announced its plan to fly people to the moon on what is the 40th anniversary year of the Apollo 17 moon landing.
Rosie Hallam
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Getty Images
June 18, 2012
The 1 World Trade Center building is seen above the Manhattan skyline.
Shannon Stapleton
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Reuters
June 18, 2012
The Statue of Liberty is seen through a hole in a mesh wire fence on top of 4 World Trade Center in New York.
Shannon Stapleton
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Reuters
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