The Earth and sun seen from the International Space Station (in orbit over Minnesota at the time) in a shot snapped by a member of the Expedition 36 crew.
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Red Cross volunteers make their way through the flooded streets of Passau, Germany. Heavy rainfall caused three nearby rivers to break their banks, and the water was expected to continue its rise.
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A Chinese paramilitary policeman watches over the touriusts milling about Tiananmen Square in Beijing following the traditional flag-lowering ceremony.
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Workers wait for a section of a massive crane to be moved into place at as they build a new housing development in the Nine Elms district of London.
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A trio of mountain bikers ride through the Tengger caldera — a cluster of volcanoes at Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park — in Indonesia’s East Java province.
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Canoeists race along the Yamuna river in Allahabad, India.
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Still standing, this window frames what’s left of the rest of the home it was attached to before wildfires swept through Lake Hughes, Calif.
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Two men try to douse a burning police car set alight in Istanbul, Turkey’s Taksim Square. Protests there against the Islamic-rooted government began last week and have quickly spread.
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A sanctioned food fight dubbed the Great Tomatina rages in Boyaca, Columbia — which happens to be the largest tomato-producing region in Latin America.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is mobbed by members of the 507th unit of his Korean People’s Army at Mount O-sung.
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A seemingly uninjured passenger stands amid emergency personnel at the mangled front of a tour bus near Orebro, Sweden. A pair of buses — carrying about 60 passengers — collided with a gasoline tanker, injuring 14.
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A bolt of lightning strikes over Manhattan as massive thunderstorms pushed through New York City overnight.
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A protestor waves the Turkish flag on a rooftop overlooking Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey. Protests which initially began over the fate of a local park have escalated in response to police brutality and what’s viewed as an increasingly authoritarian government agenda.
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A policeman stands guard at a burnt-out poultry slaughterhouse in Dehui, China, after a fire there left at least 120 people dead.
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Two men paddle their canoe into a building in the flooded city of Wehlen, Germany.
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A Japanese soccer fan leaps into the Doton-bori river in celebration of his nation’s qualification for the World Cup finals in Brazil. The team is the first in after a 1-1 draw with Australia.
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Just a small section of the tens of thousands that gathered are seen at a vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park marking the 24th anniversary of the China’s military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing.
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Sculptor Ruslan Knyazev works on a sand sculpture entitled ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ for an exhibition of Russian folk fairy tale-themed works in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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A surfer catches a wave caused by a nearby hydroelectric plant in a river near Turbigo, Italy.
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Airmen heft the casket containing the remains of Army Spc. Ray A. Ramirez off a transport at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Ramirez, 20, of Sacramento, Calif., was killed by an IED in Wardak province, Afghanistan, on June 1.
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A broadcast journalists stands inside the Serpentine Gallery 2013 Pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, in central London’s Kensington Gardens.
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Horses head out to the track to train at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY, ahead of this weekend’s Belmont Stakes.
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Brazillian officials meet with indigenous Munduruku Indians at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia in an attempt to defuse mounting worries over the decision to stop setting aside farmland for native groups and plans to build more hydroelectric dams in the Amazon.
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Workers unfurl an illustrated cover for the scaffolding that surrounds the landmark Plaza Hotel. The 105-year-old facade is being restored and will be covered by the mockup through 2013.
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Two-month-old orphaned baby elephant Ajabu is given a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper at an event to mark World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A child is carried by an adult in Khanaung Chaung Wa village, southeast of Yangon Myanmar.
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Justin Moore performs during Rodney Atkins’ 3rd annual Music City “Gives Back” concert on the streets of Nashville.
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Normandy veterans (from left) Victor Urch, 88 and Frank Baugh, 89 (who were in the Royal Navy) and Derek Whitehead, 88 (who was in the Durham Light Infantry) share a joke as they walk along what was the British Sword beach at Colleville Montgomery near Caen, France.
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A street vendor sells Guy Fawkes masks on Taksim square in Istanbul.
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Horses gallop around the 1 1/2 mile track during a morning workout at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
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Rescue personnel work the scene of a building collapse in downtown Philadelphia.
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Munduruku Indians, many of who are flying for the first time, board a Brazilian Air Force plane to fly to Brasilia for talks with the government, in Altamira.
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People stand near Damascus gate outside Jerusalem’s Old City as it is projected with images during the “Jerusalem Light 2013” Festival.
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A record 566 employees gather at Sears corporate headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill. to break the Guinness World Record for most number of people dressed as Superman in one place.
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Don Long sits on a high and dry marina at Benbrook Lake in Benbrook, Texas.
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The casket of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg is carried from the funeral service at the Park Avenue Synagogue, in New York.
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A casket bearing the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg is carried into the Capitol building by an honor guard. New Jersey’s Lautenberg, the Senate’s last surviving World War II veteran, is to lie in repose in the Senate chamber.
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A light installation titled ‘lux eucharistica’ illuminates the inside of the Cologne, Germany.
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A masked protester considers some troubling graffiti on a barricaded street near Istanbul’s Taksim Square.
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A surfer flips off a wave at Kuta Beach, Bali.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John White, right, is interviewed during a protest in opposition to the Sun-Times’ decision to lay off its 28 full-time photographers.
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A farmer steps over a marsh on her way to her fields in Khokana, Napal.
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Diners enjoy a meal on a platform suspended by crane over Brussels, Belgium. ‘Dinner in the Sky’ accommodates 22 guests seated 148 feet from the ground.
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A Kashmiri woman mourns during the funeral of a militant commander in Rajpora, Kashmir. Two militants — including commander Mohammed Abbas Nangroo — were killed Wednesday in a shootout with security forces.
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One member of a traditionally dressed welcoming party awaits the arrival of China’s President Xi Jinping at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico. The Chinese first couple toured the ruins on the final day of their visit with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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A man bails out his home along the river Blanice in Putim, Czech Republic, as central Europe continues to suffer heavy flooding that has left at least 11 dead.
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South Africa’s A.B. de Villiers dives for a run out during his squad’s ICC Champions Trophy match against India at Cardiff Wales Stadium.
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One of the more than 800 firefighters on the scene battles the still-growing Thompson Ridge wildfire which is wreaking havoc near Jemez Springs, NM.
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