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Man with world’s stretchiest skin, Hemingway look-alikes, Olympic wrestling and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
July 19, 2012
Gary Stretch, who has the world's stretchiest skin, practices his routine in “The Royal Family of Strange People,” which is part of the Priceless London Wonderground festival at the Southbank Centre in London. The festival runs through September 29.
Oli Scarff
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July 19, 2012
Gary Stretch, who has the world's stretchiest skin, practices his routine in “The Royal Family of Strange People,” which is part of the Priceless London Wonderground festival at the Southbank Centre in London.
Oli Scarff
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Getty Images
July 20, 2012
High school students shout in unison at the Cheongryong Self-Denial Training Camp on Daebu Island in Ansan, South Korea. About 80 students took part in the three-day camp.
Ahn Young-joon
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AP
July 19, 2012
Matthew Lohmann, 16, of Clarke County, Va., does a flip off the diving board at the public pool in Berryville, Va.,'s Chet Hobert Park, as Darius Newman, 8, of Charles Town, W.Va., waits his turn. The temperature in the area reached 92 degrees.
Jeff Taylor
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AP
July 12, 2012
Wrestlers watch as others climb rope during a practice session at the Sports Authority of India complex in Bhiwani. India has hundreds of local academies for mud wrestling, which is an age-old and very popular sport in Indian villages. The academies also train wrestlers for the Olympics. India, which won nine individual medals in the Olympics, has won two bronze medals for wrestling; K.D. Jadhav won the medal at the 1952 Helsinki Games and Sushil Kumar won in the 2008 Beijing Games.
Manish Swarup
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AP
July 12, 2012
An Indian wrestler with cauliflower ear, a common injury among athletes in combative sports, laughs after a training session at the Sports Authority of India complex, in Bhiwani, India.
Manish Swarup
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AP
July 20, 2012
Members of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain perform during a welcoming ceremony for athletes and delegates at the Olympic Village in London’s Olympic Park. The London Olympic Games open July 27.
Miguel Medina
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AFP/Getty Images
July 20, 2012
A woman walks beside a sand sculpture at an exhibit of the Sand Museum in Tottori, Japan. The world's first-ever sand museum is this year holding its fifth exhibition, which focuses on Great Britain.
Buddhika Weerasinghe
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Getty Images
July 20, 2012
A man holds up his new iPad as Apple employees cheer inside their store in Beijing. The latest iPad has received an uneventful launch in China after Apple settled a lawsuit with a Chinese company over rights to use the iPad name in China.
Alexander F. Yuan
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AP
July 20, 2012
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, front, and his lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, walk out of Ai’s studio in Beijing. Shortly thereafter, a Chinese court on Friday upheld a $2 million fine for tax evasion against Ai, one of the country's most famous dissidents, after barring him from attending the hearing. Critics charge that the case is an attempt by Beijing to muzzle the outspoken artist.
Petar Kujundzic
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Reuters
July 19, 2012
Previous winners of the Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar, including 2011 winner Matt Gineo, front left, and 2009 victor David Douglas, front right, consider 2012 contestants during the first of two preliminary rounds, in Key West, Fla. The competition is the highlight of the island city's six-day Hemingway Days festival, which ends Sunday and pays homage to the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who lived and wrote in Key West in the 1930s.
Andy Newman
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Florida Keys News Bureau via Reuters
July 12, 2012
Cuban Gilberto Ruiz, 70, takes an order for construction materials on his cellphone, beside his modified 1948 Ford Deluxe sedan in Havana. Gilberto, an unemployed man with a large family and an expired taxi license, literally welded himself a new job by turning his sedan into a pickup truck so he could work in the private transportation business.
Desmond Boylan
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Reuters
July 20, 2012,
Viewers watch the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" at the Liberty Science Center IMAX theater in Jersey City, N.J., during the museum's first attempt at showcasing a full length Hollywood feature film. Director Christopher Nolan shot nearly half of his “Batman” finale using bulky IMAX cameras, whose 70mm frame is about 10 times the size of standard movie film. He also insisted that distributor Warner Bros. release it in at least 100 IMAX cinemas that can project it on film rather than in the digital format that has been gradually replacing celluloid.
Julio Cortez
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AP
July 20, 2012
A man reacts after arriving at Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colo. Twelve people were killed and dozens were injured early Friday when shots rang out at an Aurora movie theater during a midnight premiere of the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Craig F. Walker
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AP
July 20, 2012
Relatives mourn Maor Harush, who was killed in a suicide bombing in Bulgaria, during his funeral in Acco, Israel. Israeli and American officials are blaming Hezbollah for the bombing that killed five Israeli tourists, a Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas, Bulgaria, a popular destination for Israeli tourists.
Ahikam Seri
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AP
This undated photo shows the fake driver’s license of the man whom Bulgaria alleges was responsible for a deadly suicide bombing of a bus in the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas. The attack killed five vacationing Israelis, the Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber himself, and wounded at least 20.
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AP
This image taken from security video provided by the Bulgarian Interior Ministry Thursday purports to show the unidentified bomber, center, with long hair and a baseball cap, at Burgas Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, on Wednesday. The brazen daytime bombing that killed seven people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgarian officials said Thursday. Israel stood by its claim that Iranian-backed Hezbollah was responsible and vowed to hit back. The identity of the suspected bomber was still unknown, but a Michigan driver’s license that he carried was a fake, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said.
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AP
July 19, 2012
Lurigancho prison is South America's biggest jail, with more than 9,000 inmates, in Lima, Peru. The director of Lurigancho prison, Police Col. Thomas Durand Garay, inaugurated ceramics and textiles workshops to promote the integration of prisoners into society, according to a news release.
Mariana Bazo
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Reuters
July 19, 2012
A police officer walks near a prisoner displaying ceramic products he made during workshops at Lurigancho prison, South America's biggest jail, in Lima, Peru.
Mariana Bazo
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Reuters
July 19, 2012
An Andean weaver from Cuzco, Peru, works on a piece of textile during the "Ruraq Maki,” an artisans’ fair in the Peruvian capital of Lima. A total of 56 associations of artisans from 17 regions of Peru participated in the event, which was organized by the Ministry of Culture to promote and sell their work to visitors.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
July 19, 2012
A boy aims a machine gun on top an armored vehicle during an army exhibition, "The Great Strength of Mexico," at the municipality of Escobedo, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico.
Daniel Becerril
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Reuters
July 19, 2012
A salesclerk arranges pistols at an annual gun show in suburban Mandaluyong, east of Manila.
Aaron Favila
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AP
July 18, 2012
This image shows silver from the SS Gairsoppa shipwreck, which lies approximately 15,500 feet deep in the North Atlantic. Odyssey Marine Exploration announced it has successfully recovered approximately 48 tons of silver bullion from a depth of approximately three miles. This initial recovery of bullion from the SS Gairsoppa, a 412-foot steel-hulled British cargo ship that sank in February 1941, totals 1,203 silver bars of silver. It has been transported to a secure facility in the United Kingdom.
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Odyssey Marine Expedition via AFP/Getty Images
July 18, 2012
This image shows the Aurora Australis, or the Southern Lights, glowing over Concordia Research Station in the Antarctic, one of the most remote places on Earth. It was taken by European Space Agency-sponsored scientist Alexander Kumar and his colleague Erick Bondoux from about three-fifths of a mile from the station, located in the Antarctic at 75 degrees south latitude.
Alexander Kumar and Erick Bondoux
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ESA via AP
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