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Tibet, the San Fermin festival, NASA’s view of the Colorado burn scar and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
July 6, 2012
A Tibetan girl in Kathmandu, Nepal, is dressed in traditional attire during the 77th birthday celebration of the Dalai Lama. Nepal ceased issuing refugee papers to Tibetans in 1989 and recognizes Tibet as a part of China.
Navesh Chitrakar
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Reuters
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July 6, 2012
Tibetan exiles in Kathmandu, Nepal, perform a mask dance as they mark the birthday of their spiritual leader at a monastery. The well-wishers are celebrating the 77th birthday of the Dalai Lama, who lives in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala after his exile from Tibet during a failed revolt against Chinese rule.
Niranjan Shrestha
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AP
July 6, 2012
Revelers on a balcony over the town hall in Pamplona, Spain, hold up red scarves during the start of the city’s annual San Fermin festival. Best known for its daily running of the bulls, the festival commenced Tuesday with the traditional Chupinazo rocket launch; it will continue until July 14.
Vincent West
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Reuters
July 6, 2012
Participants celebrate during the Chupinazo to mark the start of the San Fermin festival in front of Pamplona, Spain’s town hall. Tens of thousands of people packed the city's streets for the kickoff of Spain's best-known, nine-day fiesta.
Ander Gillenea
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AFP/Getty Images
July 5, 2012
Members of the animal-rights groups People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and AnimaNaturalis protest in front of the town hall in Pamplona, Spain, spelling out "Stop Bullfights" with their paint-covered bodies. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the famous bull runs.
Rafa Rivas
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AFP/Getty Images
July 5, 2012
Female soldiers march during a parade marking Venezuela's Independence Day in Caracas.
Ariana Cubillos
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AP
July 6, 2012
Spanish miners burn tires to cut a road during a miner's demonstration in Caborana, Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a nationwide, union-organized strike against reductions to government mining subsidies, which were cut this year from 301 million euros to 111 million euros.
Cesar Manso
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AFP/Getty Images
July 5,2012
New Delhi police escort Sayed Zabiuddin, center, who is suspected of playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, to a court in the Indian capital. Officials there say the Indian citizen, who was deported from Saudi Arabia last week, has admitted tp helping coordinate the deadly assault from a command post in Karachi, Pakistan.
Rahul Singh
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AFP/Getty Images
July 5, 2012
A marshal is treated for heat exhaustion on the 18th green during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament, in Kohler, Wis. Oppressive heat is greatly affecting the middle of the country, with record temperatures that aren't going away after the sun goes down.
Jeffrey Phelps
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AP
July 5, 2012
A dock extends into a dry cove of the Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind. The reservoir is down 3.5 feet from normal levels, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees in central Indiana.
Michael Conroy
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AP
July 5, 2012
Kenyardia Chambers, left, spins Kale Currin in the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago. Temperatures in the Chicago area are expected to stay at about 100 degrees through Saturday.
Jeff Haynes
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Reuters
June 5, 2012
Ethan Pastore, left, and his brother Evan swim in their family's pool, near Lafayette, Ind. Extreme heat continued in the area for the second day in a row, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.
Michael Heinz
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Lafayette, Ind., Journal and Courier via AP
July 5, 2012
Randy Williams, left, and Ryan McMahon clean off with a blower at a job site in the Historic Millwork District of Dubuque, Iowa. The area reached a high of 96 degrees Thursday; Williams and McMahon packed up at noon because of the heat, Williams said.
Jeremy Portje
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Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald via AP
July 6, 2012
Hydro One linemen from Canada prepare for the day in Arlington County after being called in to help with restoring power to the D.C. area.
Jabin Botsford
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The Washington Post
July 5, 2012
A worker on a traveling crew from Florida Power & Light mops sweat from his forehead as his crew works to repair Pepco power lines downed by heavy storms last Friday in Bethesda. About 600,000 customers from Ohio to Virginia remained without power six days after the violent storms first struck and as a heat wave continued to bake much of the region, local power companies said Thursday.
Jonathan Ernst
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Reuters
July 5, 2012
A couple walk past a giant fan installation by artist Tal Tenne Czaczkes, which is being exhibited in Rabin Square, near Tel Aviv City Hall. The fan is nearly 20 feet tall and runs for two minutes every half-hour.
Jack Guez
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AFP/Getty Images
July 4, 2012
The Waldo Canyon fire, near Colorado Springs, as seen from space by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on the Terra satellite. When the image, which includes both visible and infrared light, was taken, the wildfire was 90 percent contained. Vegetation-covered land is red in the false-color image; patches of unburned forest are bright red, in contrast with areas where flecks of light brown indicate some burning. The darkest brown areas burned the most severely. Constructed surfaces, such as buildings and roads, appear light gray and white; the bright red patches of vegetation near Colorado Springs are likely to be golf courses, parks or other irrigated land. The Waldo Canyon fire was first reported June 23, and by the time this image was released, it had burned 18,247 acres. The blaze severely damaged or destroyed 346 homes, making it the most destructive fire in Colorado history.
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July 5, 2012
An Ariane-5 rocket blasts off from the European space centre at Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket placed two telecommunications satellites, Echostar XVII and MSG-3, into geostationary orbit — the 49th successive success for the European rocket.
Jerome Valette
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AFP/Getty Images
July 5, 2012
The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and aerobatic pilot Michael Goulian form up for a flight over Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, as the 2012 Vectren Dayton Airshow prepares to get underway.
Mike Ullery
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Piqua, Ohio, Daily Call via AP
July 5, 2012
The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and aerobatic pilot Michael Goulian form up for a flight over Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio.
Mike Ullery
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Piqua, Ohio, Daily Call via AP
July 5, 2012
Visitors walk through the site of the International Festival of Gardens and Flowers in Moscow's Gorky Park. More than 50 floral experts from Russia, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and the United States went to Moscow to demonstrate their collections of floral art at the first international flower show in the Russian capital.
Natalia Kolesnikova
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AFP/Getty Images
July 6, 2012
The Nanjing children's gymnastic team stretches during a training session in Nanjing, China. The team — comprising about 30 young gymnasts between the ages of 4 and 8 — is Nanjing’s representative for Jiangsu province’s gymnastic games.
Sean Yong
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Reuters
July 5, 2012
Members of human rights groups and others organizations react after hearing the verdict in the trial of former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla and other military officers in Buenos Aires. Videla got a 50-year jail sentence for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners between 1976 and 1982 during the country's “Dirty War.” The children, who were stolen from their parents and illegally adopted by military families, are one of the most painful legacies of the crackdown on leftist dissent, in which rights groups say up to 30,000 people were killed. Just over 100 of them have discovered their true identities.
Enrique Marcarian
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Reuters
July 5, 2012
People look at a chocolate replica of the Lord of Sipan, made with Peruvian cocoa, during a chocolate convention in Lima, Peru. The five-day event, which drew distributors from Latin America and chocolate sommeliers from Europe, featured organic dark chocolate candy bars, chocolate sushi and sculptures carved out of chocolate.
Mariana Bazo
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Reuters
July 5, 2012
Blizzard, a polar bear, eats a fish while swimming in his new aquarium at the zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
Philipp Guelland
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AP
July 6, 2012
Tori, a 15-year-old orangutan, smokes a cigarette inside her cage at the Tama Satwa Taru Jurug zoo in Solo, Indonesia. Zookeepers said they plan to move Tori, who learned to smoke about a decade ago by imitating people, away from visitors, who regularly throw lit cigarettes into her cage so they could watch and photograph her puffing away and exhaling smoke.
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AP
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