June 10, 2010: Gregory da Silva, who calls himself the Eggman, smiles during a party for soccer fans in Cape Town, one day prior to the start of the 2010 World Cup.
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June 9, 2010: Italy's Fabio Cannavaro, left, and Fabio Quagliarella head balls with teammates during a training session in Irene, South Africa. The 2010 Soccer World Cup kicks off June 11.
Stefano Rellandini-Reuters
June 9, 2010: A man makes animal figures in the sand in Durban, South Africa.
Martin Mejia-AP
June 10, 2010: A soccer supporter from Argentina leans toward a giraffe at the Lions Park near Johannesburg.
Radu Sigheti-Reuters
June 10, 2010: A lion cub rests inside an enclosure at the Lions Park near Johannesburg.
Radu Sigheti-Reuters
June 10, 2010: Chelsea Pensioners on mobility scooters join the march during the annual "Founder's Day Parade" at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. The parade is held in honor of Britain's King Charles II, who set up the hospital in 1682 to care for soldiers unfit for further duty because of injury or old age.
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June 9, 2010: A military Airbus A400M is reflected in the heart-shaped sunglasses of a spectator at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Berlin.
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June 9, 2010: Devin Evans washes shrimp imported from Mexico at the Deep Sea Foods processing center in Bayou La Batre, Ala. The owner of the company, Charles Kraver, said he has not been able to get local shrimp since the waters were closed because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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June 9, 2010: Commercial fisher Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Tex., pours a jar of syrup made to look like oil over herself as a U.S. Capitol Police officer drags her from a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar testified before the committee about the Obama administration's increased safety regulations of energy exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf in the wake of the ongoing spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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June 9, 2010: The "Silver Streak," by David Mach, is on display at the Royal College of Art's Summer Exhibition in London. The work is constructed entirely of coat hangers.
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June 9, 2010: Actor Jorge Garcia attends a "Lost" portrait session during the annual Monte Carlo Television Festival in Monaco.
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June 10, 2010: U.S. Actress Jane Fonda receives the Vermeil Medal from Mayor Bertrand Delanoe at City Hall in Paris.
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June 10, 2010: A villager looks over his fields while plowing for rice planting in Kob Srov, Cambodia.
Heng Sinith-AP
June 9, 2010: Israeli dancers perform at Jaffa Gate during the Festival of Light inside Jerusalem's Old City.
Tara Todras-Whitehill-AP
June 9, 2010: A police officer stands guard outside the C4 police headquarters after an attack by gunmen in Garcia, Mexico, on the outskirts of Monterrey.
Tomas Bravo-Reuters
June 9, 2010: An armed member of the Baghdad council squad walks past carcasses of stray dogs during a culling campaign in Baghdad. A new kind of death squad is roaming the streets of Baghdad, with killers packing hunting rifles and poisoned meat. Their prey: the estimated 1 million stray dogs that multiplied in the Iraqi capital while violence paralyzed public services following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Saad Shalash-Reuters
June 9, 2010: Buses lie wrapped around trees after an early morning flash flood along the Guadalupe River in Gruene, Tex.
Rodolfo Gonzalez-AP
June 9, 2010: A fisherman casts his net in Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. Northern India has been suffering from record high temperatures in a heat wave that has caused 156 deaths.
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June 9, 2010: Activists from the Socialist Unity Center of India demonstrate against the Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict in Kolkata. India said on June 8 that the case against the absconding ex-boss of chemical group Union Carbide, blamed for the 1984 Bhopal disaster, was still open amid outrage over the sentencing of those responsible.
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June 9, 2010: A worker's boot is covered in oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Belle Terre, La.
Eric Gay-AP
June 9, 2010: Workers collect snare boom used to contain the Deepwater Horizon spill in Belle Terre, La.
Eric Gay-AP
June 9, 2010: A suction hose is used to remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Belle Terre, La.
Eric Gay-AP
June 9, 2010: A dead crab sits in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on a beach in Grand Terre Island, La.
Lee Celano-Reuters
June 9, 2010: Scott and Rachel Traham of Delcambre, La., play in the surf in Orange Beach, Ala., as a shrimp trawler skims oil from the surface of the water. Large amounts of the oily tar balls have started washing up on Orange Beach and the beaches in the western Florida panhandle.
Dave Martin-AP
June 9, 2010: Kristy Holiday and Deets Finley, both of Houston, do yoga exercises as oil cleanup workers hired by BP pick up oil and tar balls on the beach in Orange Beach, Ala.
Dave Martin-AP
June 9, 2010: Veterinarians clean an oil-covered brown pelican at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, La.
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June 9, 2010: Oil-covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras.
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June 9, 2010: Boys cool off in a fountain in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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June 10, 2010: People frolic in the Wannsee lake near Berlin.
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June 10, 2010: A turkey looks out of its cage during an agricultural exhibition near Liavonavichi, Belarus.
Vasily Fedosenko-Reuters
This undated handout photo provided by the archaeology department at Ireland's University College Cork, shows a well-preserved and complete shoe that was recovered at the base of a Chalcolithic pit in a cave in Armenia. The cow-hide shoe dates back to 3500 BC, making the footwear 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and 400 years older than Stonehenge.
University College Cork-AP
This newly released image provided by NASA shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the image April 13.
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Gallery Credits:
Photo and text editor Dan Murano
