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July 7, 2012
A competitor at the Snuff World Championships takes her snuff — powdered tobacco that is inhaled — in Peutenhausen, Germany.
Lukas Barth
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AP
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July 7, 2012
Competitors shovel snuff up their noses at the Snuff World Championships in Peutenhausen, Germany.
Lukas Barth
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AP
July 8, 2012
Washington Nationals left fielder Michael Morse tries to cool down during the game Sunday at Nationals Park. The Colorado Rockies beat the Nats, 4-3, on yet another day in the Washington region with temperature readings above the century mark.
Toni L. Sandys
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The Washington Post
July 7, 2012
An artist airbrushes a model during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Portschach, Austria. The festival, the world’s largest body-painting event, ran Friday through Sunday.
Heinz-Peter Bader
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Reuters
July 7, 2012
A model brings art to life during the World Bodypainting Festival in Portschach, Austria.
Heinz-Peter Bader
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Reuters
July 7, 2012
Tennis player Serena Williams of the United States celebrates after winning her fifth Wimbledon championship. She defeated Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the final women's match at the event in England.
Dylan Martinez
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Reuters
July 8, 2012
Andy Murray of Britain takes a tumble during the men's finals at the Wimbledon tennis championships in England. Murray lost to Roger Federer of Switzerland.
Anja Niedringhaus
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AP
July 8, 2012
People gather in Andy Murray’s home town of Dunblane, Scotland, to watch the battle for the men’s Wimbledon title. Murray squared off against Roger Federer of Switzerland, who won the event for the seventh time.
David Moir
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Reuters
July 6, 2012
With a game-time temperature in the 90s, James McDonald of the Pittsburgh Pirates wipes his face in the dugout during the eighth inning of a ballgame at PNC Park. The San Francisco Giants beat the home team, 6-5.
Gene J. Puskar
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AP
July 6, 2012
A sun bear reacts to the heat at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. The mercury reached 103 degrees.
Nati Harnik
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AP
July 7, 2012
Two horses tussle during the Rapa Das Bestas event in the northwestern Spanish village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend in July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages across Spain’s Galicia region.
Miguel Vidal
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Reuters
July 8, 2012
A girl winces as she gets hit by the hat of a Kiliki during the San Fermin festival's Giants and the Big Heads Parade in Pamplona, Spain. Kilikis, wearing outsize masks as they playfully hit bystanders with sponges on sticks, parade through the city accompanied by brass bands during the nine-day festival.
Susana Vera
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Reuters
July 8, 2012
A cow jumps over revelers in a bullring during the second running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
Ivan Aguinaga
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AP
July 7, 2012
A Congolese rebel fighter walks through an abandoned classroom, which was used as an armory for the Congolese army, in Bunagana, a town near the Uganda border. Rebels said Friday that they had seized Bunagana after days of fierce fighting with government troops, during which a U.N. peacekeeper was killed and thousands of residents displaced.
James Akena
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Reuters
July 6, 2012
In this citizen-provided photo, a Syrian boy, holds a poster that reads, "A message to Bashar [al-Assad]: You cut water and electricity, but you will not cut prayer," during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. Assad said in an interview with a German broadcaster Sunday that he is not afraid of meeting the same fate as the deposed leaders of Libya and Egypt, because he has nothing in common with them.
Shaam News Network
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AP
July 7, 2012
A man in Sirte, Libya, celebrates the country’s parliamentary elections. Libyans defied violence and calls for a boycott to vote in their first free national election in 60 years.
Anis Mili
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Reuters
A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban fires his rifle at a woman accused of adultery during her execution in a village in Parwan province, northwest of Kabul province, in this image taken from undated video footage released Saturday. Local residents and authorities vowed to avenge the execution of the woman, which spurred sharp condemnation from Afghan and U.S. officials. The Taliban denied involvement in the killing. Authorities in Kabul blamed the militant group.
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Reuters via Reuters TV
July 7, 2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defense cooperation after U.S. combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014 and as a political statement of support for Afghanistan's long-term stability.
Brendan Smialowski
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AP
July 7, 2012
A man waves a gun from a balcony to threaten anti-Institutional Revolutionary Party protesters taking part in a march in Xalapa, Mexico. The man was detained and taken to a police station, local news media reported. Across the country, Mexicans are accusing president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of buying votes and paying off TV networks.
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Reuters
July 7, 2012
A man takes a picture of a friend posing inside a public telephone booth painted by Brazilian artist Carla Pires at the Call Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Call Parade is a street-art exhibition involving 100 artists who decorated and painted 100 phone booths, which are falling into disuse as mobile phones become ubiquitous.
Nacho Doce
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Reuters
July 7, 2012
Actress, writer and director Angelina Jolie speaks with Sarajevo Film Festival Director Mirsad Purivatra as she attends the 18th festival in Bosnia.
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Sarajevo Film Festival via Getty Images
July 6, 2012
Slobodan Radakovic, left, and Nedzad Begovic drink while taking a break in a restaurant in Potocari, Bosnia, near Srebrenica. The men, both war survivors, make a living by selling roasted lamb. In 1995, about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the area were killed in a massacre. Begovic lost 70 family members, and Radakovic lost 10.
Dado Ruvic
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Reuters
July 8, 2012
Actress Maggie Q swims with an endangered whale shark off Cancun, Mexico. As an ambassador for international conservation group WildAid, Maggie Q was in Cancun to publicize the plight of sharks threatened by demand for shark fin soup. In a move lauded by such groups, China announced a ban on shark fin from official banquets.
Paul Hilton
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WildAid via AFP/Getty Images
July 7, 2012
A man with a water-powered jet pack makes an appearance on the Willamette River.
Ross William Hamilton
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Portland Oregonian via AP
July 8, 2012
NASA recently pieced together a panoramic view of Mars from the camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the "next best thing to being" on the Red Planet. The full-circle scene fuses 817 images taken by the mast-mounted panoramic camera (Pancam) on the Opportunity over four months, showing new rover tracks and an old impact crater.
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