JUNE 19: Ancient stone statues are installed in preparation for the "Egyptian Sunken Treasure" exhibition at Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan.
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JUNE 18: A man walks past recently erected tipis at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Engand. Next week, the tipis will be occupied by festival goers attending what is generally considered Europe's biggest music festival.
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JUNE 18: Sharon Redrobe treats Mr Ben, a pygmy slow loris, during one of Bristol Zoo's in-house veterinary clinic routine health check-ups in Bristol, England.
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June 19: Fishermen row through the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, China.
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June 19: Water gushes from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on China's Yellow River during a sand-washing operation. The Yellow River has been plagued by an increasing amount of mud and sand.
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June 19: People walk on the beach beside rows of empty beach chairs at the Baltic Sea beach resort Travemuende in Germany.
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June 18: A javan leopard growls inside a cage before being release dinto the wilds of Kaduhejo, Indonesia. The endangered leopard was rescued by environmental activists and members of Indonesian Natural Conservation Agency.
Tatan Syuflana-AP
June 19: Whalers cut open a 35-ton fin whale, one of two caught aboard a Hvalur boat off the coast of Hvalfjsrour, Iceland. Iceland could be forced to end its controversial whale hunting tradition in its bid to join the European Union.
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June 19: Wind blows during preparation activities for Belarussian Independence Day festivities in Minsk. Belarus will celebrate Independence Day on July 3.
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June 19: A Bahujan Samaj party supporter protests as part of a rally in Allahabad, India. The rally condemns ruling Congress party's General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and his alleged attempts to woo Dalits, who belong to the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system.
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June 19: Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, shout slogans and burn tires during a protest against the state government and police outside a registration center for the Amarnath Hindu pilgrimage in Jammu, India.
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A woman attends to her child injured during clashes between Somali government forces and insurgent fighters in Mogadishu.
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June 19: A girl waits to be admitted at a health clinic run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders in Nasir, Sudan. Tribal violence in south Sudan has killed hundreds of people in recent months and displaced thousands more.
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June 19: Protesters try to throw stones inside an armored police vehicle as part of a civil outcry over the alleged rape and murder of two Muslim women, in Srinagar, India. Residents say two women, were abducted, raped and killed by security forces on May 29, triggering large anti-India protests.
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April 26: "Long live the Taliban" is painted on a wall in a minority Christian area near in Karachi, Pakistan.
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June 10: Mazhar Iqbal Mashwani, senior superintendent of police and counter-terrorism, displays hand grenades and a "suicide jacket" recovered from a suspect in Karachi, Pakistan.
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June 16: An exhibitor shows the ViBot, a one-millimeter-long robot, at a biomedical conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. Researchers at Israel's Technion Institute of Technology say the ViBot can be used in the future to deliver a targeted dose of medication to a tumour in the lung or clear a blockage in the brain.
Gil Cohen Magen-Reuters
June 19: Supporters of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi hold candles to celebrate her birthday in Kuala Lumpur, Burma. Suu Kyi spent her 64th birthday in detention as supporters worldwide condemned her trial and called for tougher sanctions against the ruling military regime.
Bazuki Muhammad-Reuters
June 18: Claudio Vargas, also known as Anxelica Risco, an activist that fights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, touches up his make up while in the bathroom at his office in Mexico City.
Eliana Aponte-Reuters
June 19: An woman holds a poster picturing newly re-elected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a pro-government demonstration outside Tehran University.
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June 18: Iranian supporters of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi demonstrate in Tehran, Iran.
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June 18: Reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks to a crowd during demonstrations in the streets of Tehran, Iran.
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An man holds a portrait of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a pro-government demonstration at Tehran University.
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June 18: Men watch supporters of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi demonstrate on in Tehran, Iran.
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June 19: Actress Brittany Daniel of the U.S. comedy series "The Game" receives a tattoo on her back at the Tattoo Master Noo Kanpai parlor in Pathum, Thailand.
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June 19: A race goer shows off her hat during the fourth day of the Royal Ascot race meeting.
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June 19: A yellow-vented bulbul bird returns to feed its young at a garden in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Zainal Abd Halim-Reuters
June 18: Lightning covers the sky over Voyle's Field in Galesburg, Ill.
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June 19: A Palestinian protester in a wheelchair protects his face from tear gas during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Bilin.
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June 18: Mourners attend the funeral of a protester killed in Habileen, Yemen.
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June 17: An employee of French tire maker Michelin throws a tire in a fire set in front of his factory in Montceau-les-Mines, France. The action protests a plan to cut 477 jobs at the plant.
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June 18: Visitors look at a Dassault Aviation joint-venture military drone aircraft on display at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France.
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June 19: Soccer-player figures line the roof of a gas station in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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June 18: Fans of Argentina's Estudiantes de la Plata cheer during a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Uruguay's Defensor Sporting in La Plata, Argentina. Estudiantes won 1-0.
Natacha Pisarenko-AP
June 16: Miners stand in front of the "gaby" drill after breaking through the Erstfeld-Amsteg section of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Alps.
Arnd Wiegmann-Reuters
June 17: Workers excavate at the Atapuerca Archaeology in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. In 2007, archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of the first European human at the site.
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June 17: Members of the Thai Navy check sand pens designed to place dozens of hawksbill turtle eggs next to the sea at Khram Island, Thailand.
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June 17: An albino baby turtle swims with green sea babies turtle in a pond at Khram Island, Thailand.
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June 19: A man fills plastic kettles with water to be used for ablution during Muslim prayers in Abuja, Nigeria.
Afolabi Sotunde-Reuters
June 19: People create music using a new electronic musical instrument called "The Reactable" at the 16th Sonar Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
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June 18: The highest-resolution topography map to date of the moon's south pole is displayed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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Text Editor Channing Turner
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