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Western wildfires, Florida flooding, Olympic team trials, evictions in Spain and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
June 26, 2012
The Waldo Canyon fire burns an entire neighborhood in near the foothills of Colorado Springs. Colorado has endured nearly a week of 100-plus-degree days and low humidity, sapping moisture from timber and grass and creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state and punishing conditions for firefighters.
Helen H. Richardson
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AP
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June 26, 2012
A helicopter flies down Route 89 as smoke from the Wood Hollow fire fills the sky north of Fairview, Utah.
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Reuters
June 26, 2012
Diver Calvin Longstaff, 43, briefly swims away from a sunken boat at Pass-a-Grille (Fla.) Marina. High winds and heavy rains spawned by the approaching Tropical Storm Debby caused the damage.
Dirk Shadd
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AP
June 26, 2012
Christine Greene, 30, walks by a sinkhole in the front yard of her home on Nodding Shade Drive in the Trillium development south of Brooksville, Fla. After the deluge of rain dumped on the area by Tropical Storm Debby, sinkholes started opening up in the retention ponds in Trillium, then around homes bordering the area.
Vragovic, Will
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AP
June 26, 2012
Austin Tinker floats on floodwaters from Tropical Storm Debby in downtown Live Oak, Fla. The National Hurricane Center says Debby has weakened to a tropical depression as it continues to move across Florida, bringing flooding to many areas.
Matt Stamey
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AP
June 26, 2012
Swimmers warm up in the pool ahead of the start of competition on the second day of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha.
Frederic J. Brown
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AFP/Getty Images
June 26, 2012
New York Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher holds up the ball after making a sliding catch on a ball hit by Cleveland Indians Asdrubal Cabrera during the third inning of their MLB American League baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Adam Hunger
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Reuters
June 27, 2012
Heather Watson of Britain celebrates after defeating Jamie Lee Hampton of the United States in their women's singles tennis match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London.
Stefan Wermuth
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Reuters
June 26, 2012
First lady Michelle Obama hugs a woman in the audience after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a measure allowing military personnel and their spouses a quicker transfer of their professional licenses to Illinois during a military relocation.
Sitthixay Ditthavong
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AP
June 26, 2012
President Obama places an order at the Varsity restaurant in Atlanta.
Carolyn Kaster
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AP
June 26, 2012
France's President Francois Hollande and Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walk in the garden of the Elysee presidential palace following a meeting as part of her historic European tour. The 67-year-old Nobel Peace laureate comes to France after warm welcomes in Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Britain.
Bertrand Langlois
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AFP/Getty Images
June 26, 2012
Men sit in a building destroyed during a fight between al-Shabaab militants against African Union and Somali government forces in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Goran Tomasevic
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Reuters
June 27, 2012
Kashmiri Muslims react after getting a glimpse of the relic of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, a Sufi saint, at a house where it was moved to from a shrine where a fire broke out Monday in Srinagar, India.
Danish Ismail
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Reuters
June 27, 2012
A boat overflows with about 150 asylum-seekers in the Indian Ocean. The Australian Maritime and Safety Authority said the boat was taken mid-morning before it capsized between Indonesia and Australia's Christmas Island, the second such incident in less than week, highlighting Australia's struggle to stem the flow of boatpeople.
Australian Maritime and Safety Authority
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Reuters
June 27, 2012
Riot police try to arrest members of the "Stop Deshaucios" (Stop Evictions) social movement during a protest to prevent an eviction in Oviedo, northern Spain. The protesters tried to prevent the eviction of an Ecuadorian family unable to maintain its mortgage payments. The plight of more than a million Spanish people facing a crippling mortgage debt is increasingly attracting public support as an anti-eviction movement accelerates to put politicians under pressure to act.
Eloy Alonso
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Reuters
June 26, 2012
The mud-covered legs of Yemeni laborer, Sameer Saleh, 25, who works in a traditional brick factory, are seen as he takes a break from work on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.
Hani Mohammed
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AP
June 26, 2012
An image created through medical imaging technology shows an X-ray-like image of 2-year-old Jesus Rodriguez, prior to having a benign tumor removed from his body. Mexican doctors successfully removed a 33-pound benign tumor protruding from the boy's right side, connected to the body from the armpit to the hip,
Mexican Social Security Institute
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AP
June 26, 2012
The famous self-portrait of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is seen in critical condition. The portrait is suffering from blotches, stains and fungi, and art experts say because the small drawing is so delicate they will have to be prudent in deciding whether to attempt a restoration or cleaning. The small drawing was done in the early 1500s, when Leonardo was in his 60s.
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Reuters
June 27, 2012
Tuka the Komodo dragon leaves a paint print on a canvas at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Taronga and Western Plains Zoo pledged a a new elephant conservation project in Thailand, and animals at Taronga made their pledge by dipping their feet and hands in paint and smudging them on canvas.
Cameron Spencer
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Getty Images
June 27, 2012
Mr. Munro, a Fiordland penguin, paints his prints on a canvas at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
Cameron Spencer
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Getty Images
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