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Hot dog eating contest, Fourth of July celebrations, scorching weather and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
July 4, 2012
Sonya Thomas, known as the “Black Widow,” competes in the 2012 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn. She ate 45 hot dogs, breaking her own record to take home the pink champion’s belt, as well as $10,000, in the women’s eating competition.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
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July 4, 2012
Joey Chestnut, nicknamed “Jaws,” won his sixth-straight Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest, in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Chestnut tied his own record — 68 hot dogs — to take home $10,000 and the prized mustard-yellow belt in the men’s competition.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
July 4, 2012
Spectators, dressed as a hot dog, mustard, ketchup, relish and fries, wait for the 2012 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
July 4, 2012
Contestants compete in Coney Island’s first annual Apple Pie Dive before the 2012 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest in Brooklyn.
Eric Thayer
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Reuters
July 4, 2012
L.L. Bean employees and their family members parade alongside the L.L. Bean Bootmobile during a parade for the L.L.Bean 100th Anniversary Hometown Celebration in Freeport, Maine. The four-day event began Wednesday.
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July 4, 2012
Pedro Saleno gets hosed off on the Mall. The crowd flocked to water stations as temperatures soared toward 100 degrees. The Red Cross and bicycle police were on hand to react to those stricken by heat exhaustion.
Daniel C. Britt
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The Washington Post
July 4, 2012
A man jumps from a tower into a public swimming pool near the international airport in Duesseldorf, Germany, as temperatures rise above 85 degrees.
Frank Augstein
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AP
July 4, 2012
A man cools down in a public swimming pool in Duesseldorf, Germany, as temperatures rise above 85 degrees.
Frank Augstein
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AP
July 4, 2012
Models wear creations by Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela on the final day of Paris’s haute couture shows.
Jacques Brinon
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AP
July 5, 2012
Moddum, an 18-month-old Chihuahua, sits in its owner's hand outside a shopping mall in Bangkok.
Apichart Weerawong
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AP
July 4, 2012
A clown checks his mobile phone during an international clown festival in San Salvador. Every year clowns from Mexico, Colombia and the United States meet in the Salvadoran capital to exchange makeup tips and the latest tricks and jokes.
Ulises Rodriguez
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Reuters
July 5, 2012
Australian comedian Barry Humphries, as Moonee Ponds’s legendary housewife, Dame Edna Everage, appears at a news conference in Sydney. Humphries is performing a limited number of farewell shows to Australian audiences with his final Dame Edna tour, “Eat Pray Laugh.”
Greg Wood
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AFP/Getty Images
July 5, 2012
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, leave the Thistle Ceremony in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Duke of Cambridge was installed into the Order of the Thistle in the ceremony, which was attended by the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Chris Jackson
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Getty Images
July 4, 2012
Activists demanding the creation of a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean protest in front of the hotel where the 64th International Whaling Commission is taking place, in Panama City.
Rodrigo Arangua
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AFP/Getty Images
July 4, 2012
Cuban pensioner Raul Perez Sanchez sells peanuts on a street in Havana. Perez Sanchez, 80, who retired from his job as cook at the University of Havana, receives a state pension of 200 Cuban pesos per month, or about $8. He is one of many taking advantage of the country's economic reforms that now allow small entrepreneurs, such as street vendors, to operate private businesses. Perez Sanchez makes an average of $2 to $3 per day selling the nuts; after paying a monthly tax of $6 to the government, he takes the rest home to his family of seven daughters and 11 grandchildren.
Enrique de la Osa
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Reuters
July 4, 2012
Opposition protesters spray riot police with tear gas in front of the Ukrainian House in Kiev, Ukraine. Opposition activists have clashed with riot police during a protest against a controversial bill that would allow the use of Russian in official settings in Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine.
Efrem Lukatsky
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AP
July 4, 2012
A mural depicts the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a section of Israel's controversial barrier at Qalandia checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. New suspicions that Arafat was perhaps poisoned by polonium prompted the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday to agree to exhume the body of the iconic leader.
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
July 5, 2012
Activist No Su-hui, center, shouts, "Long live reunification!" in front of North Korean officials and soldiers, foreground, before crossing the demarcation line inside the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. South Korean officials, at rear, immediately detained the activist for making an extended trip to Pyongyang without approval from the South Korean government.
Kim Kwang Hyon
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AP
July 4, 2012
A bird flies past the Tian Tan Buddha, a major tourist attraction measuring 111.5 feet tall and weighing more than 275 tons, at Po Lin Monastery on Hong Kong's Lantau Island.
Bobby Yip
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Reuters
July 3, 2012
A man stands near a beached humpback whale lying on the shore near Puerto Eten, Peru. Government specialists collected samples from the 6,000-pound, 23-foot-long cetacean Tuesday to determine what led it to being stranded on the shore, according to local media.
Heinz Plenge
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Reuters
July 4, 2012
Homemade signs criticizing Pepco hang on a light pole on Tenbrook Drive in Silver Spring. For tens of thousands of Pepco customers, the Fourth of July marked their fifth day without power, after a thunderstorm last Friday caused damage throughout the region.
Genevieve Bowles
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The Washington Post
July 4, 2012
Alison Turner struggles for her straw after being buried by friends on Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif.
Grant Hindsley
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AP
July 4, 2012
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France reacts during his quarterfinals match against Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany at the 2012 Wimbledon championships in England. Tsonga defeated Kohlschreiber in four sets, advancing to the semifinals, where he will play Andy Murray of Scotland on Friday.
Kirsty Wigglesworth
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AP
July 4, 2012
Fireworks go off over Washington, D.C., in celebration of Independence Day.
Matt McClain
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For The Washington Post
July 3, 2012
Fireworks light up the sky against the backdrop of a full moon during a Fourth of July celebration in Kansas City, Kan., on Tuesday.
Charlie Riedel
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AP
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