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Prince Charles, Wimbledon, cooling off, Tour de France, county fair fun and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
July 2, 2012
Britain's Prince Charles smells a pork pie, a piece of which he took home, during a visit to Heartlands Community Regeneration Project in Truro, England. The Prince of Wales is celebrating 60 years as the Duke of Cornwall.
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July 2, 2012
Francesca Schiavone of Italy bites a tennis ball after missing a shot against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic during a fourth-round women's singles match at Wimbledon in England.
Alastair Grant
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AP
July 2, 2012
Serena Williams of the United States reacts after defeating wild card Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan at Wimbledon.
Kirsty Wigglesworth
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AP
July 2, 2012
Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic reacts after defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain during a second-round men's singles match at Wimbledon.
Anja Niedringhaus
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AP
July 2, 2012
A model wears a creation by designer Zahia during her fall/winter 2013 haute couture fashion show in Paris.
Francois Mori
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AP
July 2, 2012
Marcus Hewitt swings from a rope while jumping into a quarry lake at the Beaver Dam Swimming Club in Cockeysville, Md. Marylanders continued to seek ways to avoid the heat days after Friday’s severe storm knocked out power — and air conditioning — for hundreds of thousands of residents.
Win McNamee
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July 2, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and wife Ann jet ski on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., where the Romneys have a vacation home.
Charles Dharapak
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AP
July 2, 2012
A man crosses a bridge over the Reuss River in central Switzerland. Heavy rainfalls caused high water levels.
Michael Buholzer
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Reuters
A supporter celebrates with Luigi Bruschelli's horse after the jockey won the Palio race in Siena, Italy. Almost every year since the mid-1600s, 10 riders compete bareback on July 2 and Aug. 16 around Siena's shell-shaped central square in a bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child.
Stefano Rellandini
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Reuters
July 2, 2012
Jockey Luigi Bruschelli, right, leads the Palio race in Siena, Italy.
Stefano Rellandini
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Reuters
July 2, 2012
People lean out of the windows of an office building on fire in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Two people died in the blaze, the cause of which had not been determined, according to the Guayaquil Fire Department.
Diario Expreso
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Reuters
July 2, 2012
From bottom, Andrew Tillman, 12, Alan Tillman, 9, and Caithlin Tillman, 7, lay on a cot in a Red Cross shelter at the Roanoke Civic Center. They were spending the night at the cooling center after high temperatures forced the family to leave its house, which has lacked power since Friday. Three days after a severe storm lashed the East Coast, utilities warned that many neighborhoods could remain in the dark for much of the week.
Kyle Green
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The Roanoke Times via AP
July 2, 2012
A tree rests in the middle Patrick William's Trent Woods, N.C., home after an intense Sunday evening storm toppled trees and knocked out power. No one was hurt at the house, although damage was extensive.
Byron Holland
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New Bern Sun Journal via AP
July 2, 2012
Insurance agent Aaron Portnoy looks through the rubble of a house destroyed by fire in Colorado Springs. Cars were reduced to charred metal and only concrete remained of many homes in neighborhoods damaged by the worst wildfire in Colorado history.
The Colorado Springs Gazette via Jerilee Bennett
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AP
July 2, 2012
Afghan security force inspect the wreckage of a bus hit by a car-bomb attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives near the gates of a university, killing seven people and wounding dozen others, officials said.
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Reuters
July 2, 2012
A view of buildings destroyed during clashes between Syrian rebel fighters and government forces in Homs, Syria.
Yazen Homsy
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Reuters
July 2, 2012
Refugees carry their possessions as they walk along the border road in Jaw, South Sudan, after crossing from South Kordofan in North Sudan. Refugees walk from four days to two weeks to flee ongoing conflict and reach Yida refugee camp. The camp has swollen to nearly 60,000 people, and the rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children there suffering from diarrhea and severe malnutrition.
Paula Bronstein
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July 3, 2012
A woman cooks next to her children on a makeshift banana-plant raft in a flooded village in Kurigram, Bangladesh. At least 100 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people are marooned as floods triggered by heavy rains spread across the country.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
July 3, 2012
Pedestrians try to push a cab through a flooded road in Manila. Large areas of the Philippine capital went underwater — up to waist-deep — and the rainy season began forcing the government to call off classes in many schools.
Jay Directo
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July 2, 2012
Riley Pierce, 6, of Nancy, Ky., pedals hard during a pedal pull at the Lincoln County Fair near Stanford, Ky. Riley's brother Colton also competed in the event.
Clay Jackson
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The Danville, Ky., Advocate-Messenger via AP
Fairgoers enjoy the midway during the Lincoln County Fair near Stanford, Ky.
Clay Jackson
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The Danville, Ky., Advocate-Messenger via AP
July 2, 2012
A supporter waits for the arrival of Spain's national soccer team to celebrate its Euro 2012 victory in downtown Madrid. Spaniards seized on their sports triumph as a source of restored national pride after months of economic anxieties.
Andrea Comas
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Reuters
July 2, 2012
The pack passes fields during the second stage of the Tour de France. The flat leg in Belgium ran 207.5 kilometers, from Vise to Tournai.
Christophe Ena
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AP
July 2, 2012
A flamingo chick is framed by adults as it flaps its wings at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass.
Elise Amendola
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AP
July 2, 2012
The Supertree Grove is illuminated in Singapore. The free nightly light-and-sound display officially opened Monday in the Gardens by the Bay.
Chris McGrath
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July 2, 2012
The Statue of Liberty, center right, is pictured by One World Trade Center, right, which is lit in red, white and blue ahead of the Fourth of July.
Julio Cortez
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AP
An image shows the Flame Nebula on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the Northern Hemisphere on winter evenings. The photo was taken by WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Reuters
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