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Kushti wrestlers, International Day for the Rights of the Elephants, sand sculptures and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
June 21, 2012
A window cleaner works outside on the 23rd floor of a hotel in Ningbo, China.
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June 20, 2012
A toddy tapper walks on a rope as he crosses between coconut trees in order to collect sap to make palm wine, or toddy as it is locally known, in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka. Toddy is a popular local beverage made by fermenting the sap collected from coconut trees.
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June 20, 2012
Children run though water as the fountains are turned on at Georgetown Waterfront Park on a sweltering day in Washington.
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June 20, 2012
Indian Kushti wrestlers react while warming up together for a practice session held in the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Kushti, traditional wrestling on soil, popular in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, was developed in the Mughal era by combining native malla-yuddha wrestling with Persian pahlavani.
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June 20, 2012
New York Red Bulls' Dane Richards, left, of Jamaica, shoves Vancouver Whitecaps' Gershon Koffie, of Ghana, during the first half of an MLS soccer game in Vancouver.
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June 20, 2012
A car sits in a giant sinkhole in Duluth, Minn. Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck northeastern Minnesota, inundating the city of Duluth, officials said Wednesday.
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June 21, 2012
Emergency personnel look through the rubble after an Indonesian military aircraft crashed in Jakarta. The Fokker-27 crashed into a military housing complex in the capital Jakarta, killing six crew members on board and critically injuring at least five other people, officials said.
Ade Adeirawan
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June 21, 2012
A Bulgarian man cools off in a waterfall during a heat wave in Bistritsa river, near the town of Blagoevgrad.
Nikolay Doychinov
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June 20, 2012
An activist from the animal-rights group AnimaNaturalis takes part in a performance to mark the "International Day for the Rights of the Elephants" in front of Barcelona's zoo.
Lluis Gene
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June 21, 2012
People gather during the summer solstice at Stonehenge. Crowds welcomed a spectacularly rainy summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday, with stoicism and wit. But through the wind and rain, drummers inside the ancient stone circle kept up their thumping rhythm, new age pagans kept up their chaotic dance, and visitors kept up their sense of humor.
Lefteris Pitarakis
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June 20, 2012
Activists push an inflatable globe during a "Global March" as part of the People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in Defense of the Commons, a parallel event during the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro.
Felipe Dana
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June 20, 2012
The 150-member Castellers de Vilafranca build another tower configuration after their attempt at a new world record by building the first eight-level human tower ever assembled on a rooftop in New York City.
Timothy A. Clary
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June 21, 2012
International military bands line up as the national flag of China, left, rises alongside the Hong Kong SAR flag, right, during the rehearsal for the International Military Tattoo in Hong Kong. The Tattoo will be held from June 22 to 24 in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Antony Dickson
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June 21, 2012
British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, greets Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi outside 10 Downing Street in London. On Thursday, Aung San Suu Kyi will address both houses of the British parliament — a rare honor bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since World War II. Suu Kyi will follow in the footsteps of President Obama and Pope Benedict XVI when she speaks in the 11th-century Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliament complex.
Carl Court
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June 21, 2012
Carla Creagan wears a multicolored hat as she poses for the photographers on the third day of Royal Ascot horse race meeting at Ascot, England.
Alastair Grant
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June 20, 2012
Miniature sand sculptures representing chariots of Hindu deities, made by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik, are pictured on the beach on the eve of the annual chariot festival at Puri, India. This year marks the 135th annual Rath Yatra, where wooden images or idols of Lord Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, are mounted on ceremonial chariots and taken out in a procession, where hundreds of thousands participate.
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June 21, 2012
An Afghan couple walk in front of a brick factory in Surkh Rod district of Jalalabad east of Kabul.
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June 20, 2012
A young Rohingya Muslim boy sits at the entrance to his home at an unauthorized camp that houses Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled Burma during ethnic strife in 1992, in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. World Refugee Day, a day initiated by the United Nations to raise awareness on the plight of refugees worldwide, is observed on June 20 every year.
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