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June 19, 2012
A man runs on Botafogo beach near a huge sculpture made from plastic bottles in Rio de Janeiro.
Victor R. Caivano
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AP
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Suzanna Myers, of Chalfont, Pa., applies sunscreen on her daughter, Kiley Plenderleith, 12, at Ninth Street in Ocean City, N.J.
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Yoga practitioners celebrate the summer solstice during the Mind Over Madness event in New York's Times Square.
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June 20, 2012
A staff displays Global Wave Inc's new Pic3D-II lenticular sheet for Apple's iPad, which the company says is the world's first glasses-free 3-D protection sheet, allowing the user to see 3-D content, at the 3-D and Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo.
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June 19, 2012
Chris Miller works on his sculpture of a pickup truck made from fieldstone and granite in his yard in Calais, Vt.
Toby Talbot
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June 19, 2012
Elle Bustamante of Sacramento takes her children Theo, 1, left and Lennon, 3, on a bike ride from Midtown Sacramento to the California State Railroad Museum. "This is my transportation," said Bustamante.
Hector Amezcua
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AP
June 20, 2012
Four little dogs sit in a baby stroller on hot and sunny day in Vienna, Austria.
Lilli Strauss
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AP
June 20, 2012
A fully grown male wild leopard climbs a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, India.
Diptendu Dutta
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June 20, 2012
A cat sleeps besides a computer in front of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei in his studio in Beijing.
David Gray
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June 19, 2012
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stands next to bakery owner Linda Hundt while tasting a piece of her cherry pie at the Sweetie-licious Bakery Cafe in DeWitt, Mich.
Larry Downing
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
Race-goers drink beer on the first day of the Royal Ascot, southwest of London.
Andrew Winning
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
A race-goer poses for photographs on the first day of Royal Ascot.
Andrew Winning
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Reuters
June 20, 2012
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to process into the Sheldonian theater to receive her honorary degree at Oxford University.
Andrew Winning
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
Miners fire handmade rockets at riot police officers as they defend their position after blocking a road in Cinera, near Leon, Spain. Striking Spanish coal miners firing homemade rockets and using slingshots have clashed with authorities in northern Spain, driving officers out a town where the miners cut off a highway and railroad service.
Emilio Morenatti
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AP
June 19, 2012
An X-ray from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami shows a spear that pierced through the head of 16-year-old Yasser Lopez. Lopez was spear fishing with a friend when he was accidentally shot in the head. The spear entered just above his right eye, and penetrated through his brain to the back of his skull. Miraculously, no vital brain structures were damaged by the harpoon, and Lopez is now recovering from the incident.
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
A gang member flashes his gang's sign during a mass at the prison of Izalco, 40 miles from San Salvador. Last Saturday marked the 100th day of an unprecedented truce between two violent Salvadoran gangs to reduce the high rate of homicides in the Central American country. The leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang and their rival 18 decided last March to end the fighting and killing among them to reduce the alarming murder rates in the impoverished country.
Ulises Rodriguez
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
A noticeboard shows pictures of a portion of gang members held at the prison of Izalco.
Ulises Rodriguez
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
Maura Castellanos cries next to the body of her daughter Ana Victoria Chacon, 12, on the outskirts of Guatemala City. According to local media, the girl was washed away by a river when it rained the night before. Her body was found by rescuers.
Jorge Dan Lopez
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
A very large tree, upended by heavy winds during a thunderstorm, crushed a car parked on Galvin Avenue in West St. Paul, Minn.
Jason A. Cook
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AP
June 20, 2012
The third and last blade of a wind turbine is fitted near the village of Charrat in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland.
Denis Balibouse
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Reuters
June 19, 2012
A dripping hose nozzle provides a girl relief from the heat as the sun sets behind her in LaPorte, Ind.
Bob Wellinski
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AP
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