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July 16, 2012
A performer takes part in the annual Hindu religious festival of Bonalu in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. The word "Bonalu" is derived from "Bhojanalu," the Telugu word for “food.” The main ritual in the month-long festival involves offering cooked rice, jaggery, curd, water and other dishes, which are brought by women in earthen pots, to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power. Devotees believe that the offerings ward off evils and epidemics during the monsoon season.
Krishnendu Halder
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Reuters
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July 17, 2012
Dancers from Taiwan's Paper Windmill Cultural Foundation perform during a dress rehearsal of “Paper Windmill Fantasia” in Taipei, Taiwan, ahead of their performances in Beijing, from July 20 to 22. The production integrates nursery rhymes with dance, literature and other art forms.
Wally Santana
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AP
July 17, 2012
A Filipino protester peeps from behind a mask of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a demonstration outside the gates of the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila. The protesters criticize Aquino and the United States for depriving and cheating Filipinos.
Aaron Favila
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AP
July 17, 2012
Participants splash colored water on each other during a water festival in Seoul.
Lee Jin-man
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AP
July 16, 2012
Residents wade through floodwaters on the outskirts of Siliguri, a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. Continuous rainfall in the past 48 hours has caused flooding and the collapse of a dike under construction on the Mahananda River, with several landslides in the nearby hills of Siliguri and adjoining areas of North Bengal. At least 15,000 villagers have been affected by the floods, according to an official.
Diptendu Dutta
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AFP/Getty Images
July 16, 2012
Marion Kujawa looks over the parched pond he uses to water the cattle on his farm in Ashley, Ill. Kujawa has been digging the pond deeper after it began to dry up during the current drought. According to the Illinois Farm Bureau, the state is experiencing the sixth driest year on record.
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July 16, 2012
Marion Kujawa looks at an ear of corn picked from one of his fields near Ashley, Ill. The field has yielded more than 180 bushels of corn per acre in past years, but Kujawa expects to get fewer than 15 bushels per acre from this year’s drought-damaged crop. According to the Illinois Farm Bureau, the state is experiencing the sixth driest year on record.
Scott Olson
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Getty Images
July 16, 2012
The sun shines on parched corn in a field near Arlington, Neb.
Nati Harnik
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AP
July 16, 2012
Boats sit on the cracked bottom of a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind. The reservoir is down nearly six feet from normal levels, and it is being lowered one foot every five days to provide water for Indianapolis.
Michael Conroy
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AP
July 13, 2012
Elspeth Moore, dressed in a Victorian bathing suit, admires the Queen's Alcove on Osborne Bay, Queen Victoria's private beach on England’s Isle of Wight, which will open to the public for the first time on July 27. English Heritage, which owns Osborne House, the property on which the beach is located, has returned Queen Victoria's original wooden bathing machine to the beach and restored the Alcove, a stone shelter where she sat and sketched coastal views. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Osborne House in 1845 to create a large private home as an escape from court life in London and Windsor. Osborne Bay was often used as a landing for the royal family and visiting dignitaries.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
July 13, 2012
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, Queen Victoria's holiday retreat. Its private beach, Osborne Bay, will open to the public for the first time on July 27.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
July 15, 2012
A goat, which has apparently made a meal of the plants growing outside its home, peers through a window of a shed near Millersville, Pa.
Richard Hertzler
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Lancaster Newspapers via AP
July 17, 2012
Godfrey Evans, principal curator of European Applied Art, peers at the Hamilton-Rothschild tazza, a Byzantine sardonyx bowl mounted on a 16th-century gold stand, the most valuable single object to enter National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh. Acquired from the estate of the late Edmund de Rothschild, the tazza has been allocated to National Museums Scotland under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, which allows donors to leave major works of art to the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. It was one of six outstanding items from the Hamilton Palace collection.
Jeff J Mitchell
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Getty Images
July 17, 2012
A worker for Filipino draftsman Mario Mallari Jr. welds scrap metal at his workshop in Quezon City, in Metro Manila. The sculptures are made from the nuts and bolts of old typewriters, automotive parts and other discarded metallic appliances found in junk shops.
Cheryl Ravelo
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Reuters
July 17, 2012
Filipino draftsman Mario Mallari Jr. shows a tank made from scrap metal at a gallery in Quezon City, in Metro Manila.
Cheryl Ravelo
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Reuters
July 17, 2012
Police officers watch over what appears to be a dead body at a crime scene after a shooting in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto. Two people were killed and at least 19 injured in a shooting at an outdoor party in the Ontarian capital, police said on Tuesday, raising fresh fears of a rise in gun violence in Canada's largest city.
Mark Blinch
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Reuters
July 16, 2012
Andrew Gaston, center, hangs his head on the casket of his brother, Jonathan Batista, as their parents, Jeannette Gaston, left, and Erik Gaston pay their respects at Our Lady of the Magnificat in Kinnelon, N.J. Batista, a 22-year-old paratrooper, was on his first deployment to Afghanistan when enemy forces attacked his unit with small-arms fire in Kandahar province on July 8. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Julio Cortez
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AP
July 15, 2012
Paratroopers from Chosen Company of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry board a waiting CH-47 Chinook helicopter as they begin an assault mission at Combat Outpost Herrera in Afghanistan's Paktia Province.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
July 17, 2012
Catholic priest Liu Yong Wang performs Holy Communion in a makeshift chapel in the village of Bai Gu Tun, China. Chinese Catholics number between 8 and 12 million, and are divided between a state-sanctioned church that has installed bishops without Vatican approval and an "underground" wing long wary of associating with the Communist Party-run church. China and the Vatican broke off formal diplomatic relations shortly after the Communist Party took power in 1949. Pope Benedict has recently encouraged the two sides of the divided Chinese church to reconcile. Just last week, however, a priest who quit China's state-sanctioned Catholic Church and was ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai with the approval of the pope was taken away by officials after the ceremony and has not been heard from since, according to a Catholic online news service.
David Gray
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Reuters
July 16, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli President Shimon Peres hug after a joint statement at the president's residence in Jerusalem. Clinton met Peres for about an hour as part of what is perhaps her final visit to Israel as secretary of state, bringing a message of solidarity to the Jewish state after three and a half years of stunted progress toward a Palestinian peace deal.
Oded Balilty
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AP
July 16, 2012
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are shown kissing on the "Kiss Cam" screen during a timeout in the Olympic basketball exhibition game between the United States and Brazil national men's teams in Washington.
Jonathan Ernst
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Reuters
July 16, 2012
Andras Koroknai of Hungary competes in the World Series of Poker’s $10,000 buy-in, no-limit Texas Hold 'Em main event at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Steve Marcus
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The Las Vegas Sun via Reuters
July 17, 2012
Tiger Woods bounces a ball on his club on the 5th green during a practice round at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club ahead of the British Open Golf Championship, at Lytham St Annes, England.
Tim Hales
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AP
July 3, 2012
NASA Shuttle Food System Manager Michele Perchonok, right, and Lockheed Martin senior research scientist Maya Cooper try a pizza recipe being tested in a kitchen at Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA is planning a mission to Mars. Since the red planet has gravity, more options for food preparation are available, as opposed to the dehydrated fare of current space missions.
Michael Stravato
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AP
July 17, 2012
A Pomeranian wearing a pair of shoes rests atop a dog cart in Tokyo’s scorching heat. The canine wears the shoes to keep from burning on the hot pavement. A heat wave hit Tokyo and its vicinities as temperatures soared up to 91 degrees in the center of the city.
Shizuo Kambayashi
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AP
July 17, 2012
Lion trainer Martin Lacey Jr. plays with six white lion babies in Kempten, Germany. The lions’ mother, Princess, gave birth to the cubs on July 11.
Tobias Kleinschmidt
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AFP/Getty Images
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