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Photos of the Day | Monday, June 1, 2010


Mary Margaret Avelleyra grieves as she looks at the inscribed name of her brother John William Avelleyra, who was killed in Vietnam in 1967, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday, Memorial Day, in Washington. The wall is inscribed with the names of servicemen who were killed or are missing in action from the war in Vietnam.


A huge crater believed to be due to tropical storm Agatha, swallowed this intersection in Guatemala City. A violent storm that whalloped Central America over the weekend killed more than 100 people and left a swath of destruction, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Agatha, the first in a season of tempests that annually strikes the region, was especially brutal in Guatemala, where mudslides proved deadly.


Residents try to move a tree trunk from El Jute river to prevent it from damaging a bridge in La Libertad, south El Salvador , Sunday, May 30 ,2010. Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season, Tropical Storm Agatha, pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering flooding and deadly landslides.


Mike Conway, of England, crashes into the fencing in the third turn during the closing laps of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Dario Franchitti, of Scotland, won the race.


The Tungurahua volcano erupts on May 29, 2010. The Tungurahua, in the central Andes Mountains of Ecuador, started erupting May 28, forcing the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing down the airport and public schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city.


North Korean farmers work the land on the outskirts of Sinuiju in North Korea seen from the Hushan Great Wall near the Chinese border town of Dandong in northeastern China's Liaoning province on Monday, May 31, 2010. China held back from joining the chorus of nations condemning North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship, making quick international sanctions unlikely but perhaps buying time while China quietly leans on its unpredictable, nuclear-armed neighbor.


Oil floats around a rig at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, Monday, May 31, 2010.


An Indian Muslim bride with bangles and henna-decorated hands takes part in a mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai on May 29, 2010. Mass marriages generally organised by social organisations to cut ceremony costs are common in India with its billion plus population where the custom of dowry and expensive gifts from the bride's family still prevails among certain segments of society.


Pakistani mentally disabled youth Gilli asks for food as other inhabitants eat in the corridor of The Edhi Home in Karachi on February 24, 2010. Eight-year old Gilli is known by his single name to all the staff and inhabitants of the home. He is mentally retarded and luckier than two other children - Khalid and Bakhshi - who are physically crippled as well. The three children usually are tied with a string of cloth and the other end of the cloth is fastened to the grille of a window in the corridor. The Edhi Home is home to hundreds of people addicted to drugs, a few dozen abandoned elderly people and at least three children, who are physically and mentally retarded.


Four brave knights are seated on the back of the 'Ros Beiaard', a mythical horse everybody feared greatly, during the historical 'Ros Beiaard' parade in Dendermonde, Belgium, Sunday May 30, 2010. The 'Ros Beiaard' is riden by the four 'Heemskinderen', 4 brothers. The myth dates back to medieval literature.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 2, 2010


This image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station as it was photographed by an STS-132 crew member on space shuttle Atlantis after the shuttle separated from the space station Sunday May 23, 2010.


Bystanders and police search the burning wreckage of a Cessna 206 plane for survivors shortly after it crashed in a busy business district near downtown Anchorage during rush-hour Tuesday, June 1, 2010. A small child was killed and four other people on board were injured.


Baby eels wriggle in a bucket prior to their release into the river Elbe near Bleckede, Germany, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Up to 130,000 young eels were released by the regional chamber for preservation of the countryside to increase the number of fish in that river.


A delegate watches Afghan President Hamid Karzai deliver his speech to the National Consultive Peace Jirga in Kabul on June 2, 2010. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on the landmark gathering in the Afghan capital, where hundreds of delegates are meeting to discuss peace talks. "We have four suicide attackers placed on the top of a tall building near the jirga tent. They are threatening the jirga tent," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told AFP by telephone.


The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months on board the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, June 4, 2010


Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews out incandescent materials during powerful explosions Thursday night. The renewed activity came after the volcano experienced one of its biggest eruptions last week. It forced the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing the airport and schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city.


A halo forms around the top of the Space X Falcon 9 test rocket as it goes through a cloud after lifting off from complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, June 4, 2010. The rocket is carrying a mock-up of the company's spacecraft, named Dragon. The goal is to put the capsule into orbit. NASA hopes to use the Falcon-Dragon combo for hauling cargo and possibly astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttles stop flying. SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, was founded eight years ago by Elon Musk, a South African-born entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal.


Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park Friday, June 4, 2010, to mark the 21st anniversary of the June 4th China military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing.


Rosalba Urrego looks at the remains of charred homes in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, June 3, 2010. A fire broke out in the Comuna 13 slum neighborhood leaving dozens of homes destroyed or badly damaged. No deaths have been reported.


The peleton of riders ride throught the countryside during the second race of the Tour de Luxembourg in Garnich, Luxembourg, Friday June 4, 2010.


Two blue tarp covered tent cities are seen amid destroyed houses in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, on June 2, 2010. Haiti faces an "immense challenge" in rebuilding after January's earthquake, President Rene Preval told a donors' conference June 2 called to speed payment of billions of dollars in pledges.


An Indian mahout feeds his elephant during a dust storm on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Temperatures have soared above 104 degrees Fahrenheit in Northern India in recent weeks as parts of the country have been enduring a heat wave that has left a number of people dead.


The tip of the Golden Gate bridge is seen above a blanket of fog in a view from Crissy Field in San Francisco Thursday, June 3, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 9, 2010


APTN photographer Rich Matthews emerges from an oil slick after videotaping oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La.


An Artic fox runs on the snow in Ny-Alesund in the Svalbard archipelago of arctic Norway.


Local kids play football in the Khayelitsha Township on June 9, 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Cup competition being hosted by South Africa begins on Friday.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, June 10, 2010


Washington State Patrol trooper Michael Conroy gives a citation to a driver for using her cellphone while driving Thursday, the day the the law makes cellphone infractions a primary offense. The driver was using the phone on a ramp to the Highway 520 floating bridge when observed and being pulled over by Conroy. The fine for the offense is $124.


A clown going by the name of Ivan performs a fire-breathing act during a protest by professional clowns against the common practice of armed bandits who pose as clowns and rob people on buses and other forms of public transport, in San Salvador, Thursday June 10 , 2010. The protest was held after two clown impostors killed a passenger last Monday on a public bus during a robbery.


This June 10, 2010 NOAA handout image shows view from NASA's Terra satellite June 9, 2010 as it passed over the Gulf of Mexico. Oil can be seen as a shimmering area reflecting light more vividly than the normal reflectance of water. There are other natural features of the Gulf, such as plankton blooms, that may also create such a reflectance. Multiple satellite passes are required for accurate assessments of the surface oil extents, as are performed by the NOAA Satellite Analysis Branch. The image is at full resolution, showing detail at 250 meters per pixel.


This 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 on April 13, 2010. It is one of 600 recent HiRISE observations newly released to NASA's Planetary Data System.


White pelicans try to catch fish with wide open beaks during the feeding at the bird park Marlow, northern Germany on June 9, 2010. When living in the wild, pelicans catch fish in their huge beak pouches while swimming on the surface.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, June 11, 2010


A washer man beats clothes on a rock in the Daya River as monsoon clouds hover over Bhubaneswar, India, Friday, June 11, 2010. The monsoon season in India begins in June. Last year India's summer monsoon, vital for agriculture because of the rainfall it brings, was the weakest since 1972.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 16, 2010


Oil is burned on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Oil is still leaking from the wellhead at a rate now believed to be 60,000 gallons per day.


The river Artuby floods Draguignan, France, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Regional authorities in southeastern France say at least a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects.


A secretary bird is pictured in his enclosure at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin on June 15, 2010. The raptor birds are native to open landscapes of Africa.


Gelson Fernandes of Switzerland scores the first and only goal during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group H match between Spain and Switzerland at Durban Stadium on June 16, 2010 in Durban, South Africa. Switzerland upset the tournament favorite Spain 1-0.


An Indian youth jumps into the Arabian sea during high tide while the landmark Gateway of India monument is seen in the background in Mumbai on June 16, 2010. India's monsoon, the annual downpour crucial to farmers and national economic growth, hit the western Indian city of Mumbai this week with hopes high for better rains than last year. The Indian government is hoping for a good monsoon to tame soaring food prices after last year's drought, the worst in 37 years, brought poor harvests and despair to farmers.


Visitors to Pathfinder Reservoir, west of Alcova, Wyo., walk around the spillway where the North Platte River just recently overflowed on Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 2010. This is the first time it has overflowed since 1984. Residents battled record flooding Tuesday in southern Wyoming, where area reservoirs were full to the brim, while the central part of the state braced for more flooding that could rival last week's levels.


A Buddhist devotee offers prayers near a wall defaced by vandals at Swayambhunath Buddhist Stupa, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Buddhism, which has about 325 million followers, teaches that every soul is reincarnated after death in another bodily form.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, June 18, 2010


A large funnel cloud touches down west of Albert Lea, Minn., early evening Thursday, June 16, 2010. The tornado was traveling northeast. Several tornadoes were reported in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa Thursday evening, some causing major damage.


Cindy Wood, far right, stands in front of her tornado-damaged home in Wadena, Minn., on Thursday June 17, 2010. At least three people were killed and dozens injured as a series of tornadoes tore through Minnesota on Thursday, flattening homes and toppling power lines.


Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers passes under pressure from Kevin Garnett #5 and Paul Pierce #34 of the Boston Celtics in Game Seven of the 2010 NBA Finals at Staples Center on June 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The LAkers won the game and the NBA Championship, 83-79.


People attend the funeral of victims of a coal mine explosion in Amaga, northwestern Colombia, Friday, June 18, 2010. Dozens of miners were trapped and feared dead after a fiery blast tore through a tunnel in a Colombian coal mine during a shift change, killing at least 16 workers.


Ethnic Uzbek men seen during a Friday prayer in mosque in Suzak, in the Uzbek neighborhood near the southern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border.


A wounded Iraqi woman and her daughter are treated at a hospital after a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq, Friday, June 18, 2010. Car bombs, meanwhile, tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks targeting a police captain and a provincial council member. The deadliest attack was in the northern city of Tuz Khormato when an explosives-laden car blew up about 50 yards from the house of Niazi Mohammed, a Turkomen member of the Salahuddin provincial council, according to police.


A visitor stands in front of paintings by Georg Baselitz during the reopening of the Albertinum, a museum of the Dresden State Art Collection (SKD), on Friday, June 18, 2010. Originally built in 1559, the Albertinum was badly damaged by bombs in 1945 and again by flooding in 2002. The 51 million Euros renovation took more than five years to complete. The new exhibition halls are shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and the Skulpturensammlung. The holdings of both museums, with paintings ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter and sculptures ranging from Rodin to the 21st century, have an outstanding worldwide reputation.


A Hindu holy man performs yoga on a hilltop at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Friday, June 18, 2010. The annual Ambubasi festival will begin Tuesday where hundreds of Tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, June 21, 2010


Papua New Guinea's Manam Volcano releases a thin, faint plume, as clouds cluster near the volcano's summit. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite took this image. The clouds may result from water vapor from the volcano, but may also have formed independent of volcanic activity. The volcanic plume appears as a thin, blue-gray veil extending toward the northwest over the Bismarck Sea.


Smoke billows from fires on a mountainside of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, after midnight, in the earliest hours of Sunday, June 20, 2010.


James McGee vacuums oil from the BP Oil spill in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, June 20, 2010.


The Schultz Fire burns behind homes on Monday, June 21, 2010 in Flagstaff, Ariz. More than 300 firefighters are battling the Northern Arizona blaze.


Miranda Perkins helps her daughter Catelynn, 2, through the flooded street at 6th Avenue South and South 28th Street near South Park after a storm moved through Billings, Mont. Sunday, June 20, 2010.


The "Aliens" team competes during Red Bull Flugtag 2010 in Kiev on June 19, 2010. Some 39 teams are participating in the competition being held in the in the Ukrainian capital to fly the longest distance in home-built funny aircraft.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 23, 2010


U.S. General David Petraeus stands with U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. President Obama announced that he is replacing Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top commander of the U.S. Force in Afghanistan with General Petraeus, after an article quoting Gen. McChrystal disparaging the Obama Administration was published in Rolling Stone magazine.


Dong Han, a worker for Seattle Parks and Recreation installs one of two signs warning people to stay out of the creek running through Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. A study by the Surfrider Foundation shows high levels of fecal-contaminated water in the creek at Golden Gardens.


This image from video provided by BP PLC early Wednesday, June 23, 2010 shows oil continuing to gush from the broken wellhead, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said Wednesday that BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.


A Bangladeshi man looks out from a window at a garments factory in Ashulia, Bangladesh on June 23, 2010. Hundreds of factories in Bangladesh that make clothes for Western brands reopened under a heavy police presence after riots by workers forced their closure. Tens of thousands of people who stitch garments for the leading names in US and European retail have been on strike since June 19 to protest their pay in a major industrial zone outside Dhaka.


Fires burn around the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon rig site in the Gulf of Mexico, June 19, 2010. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's flight to the Development Driller II earlier this month was in many ways a dramatization of the challenges facing the Obama administration as it responds to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.


Alicia Engleman, 10, of Garland, Texas, cools off at a misting station during a visit to the Saint Louis Zoo Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in St. Louis. An excessive heat warning remains in effect through this evening in the St. Louis area with temperatures in the mid-90's and the head index over 100 degrees.


A Chinese farmer stands with his pigs on a roof as floodwater surrounds his house in Luozhen township of Fuzhou city in central China's Jiangxi province Wednesday June 23, 2010. Torrential rains burst a dike in southern China, sending 88,000 people fleeing their homes and prompting China's top leaders to call Tuesday for stepped-up rescue operations.


A Hindu holy man blows a buffalo horn during prayers at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Hundreds of tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple during the annual Ambubasi festival that began Tuesday.


An Amish girl roller blades with her groceries along a road in Middlefield, Ohio on Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, June 24, 2010


Bryan Jones, of Elko, Nev., holds on as a bucking horse flips over Tuesday, June 22, 2010, during the Reno Rodeo in Reno, Nev. The horse flipped over, slamming the cowboy against the ground, got up, and fell on him again. Jones suffered bruising to his hip and back but no serious injuries.


Lightning streams across the sky towards downtown Chicago, on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Tornado sirens were heard in the Chicago Loop as a severe weather system moved through central Cook County.


A man walks through a garbage dump in search of items of value to sell at the Truitier municipal dump in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Haitians unable to afford basic items resort to scavenging at the municipal dump, selling metal and plastic to recyclers for a few cents a pound.


A woman sits on a bus in the town of Osh, Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday June 23, 2010. Authorities in Kyrgyzstan said that more than half of those who fled to neighboring Uzbekistan during recent ethnic clashes had returned to the country in a mass influx across the border.


Joe Matuza of Shakopee, Minn., holds his sons Marc, 8, center, and Joe, 11, as they wait to be rescued from a rock in the St. Louis River, Wednesday in Carlton, Minn.. Joe Matuza and his sons, ages 8 and 11, were trying to cross the river Wednesday by hopping rocks when the boys could go no farther. Matuza swam about 30 feet, climbed a steep bank and was able to reach a phone to call 911, then swam and waded back to where the boys sat on a rock in the fast current.


A Health Ministry's worker sprays insecticides against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (dengue fever vector) inside a house in Guatemala City on June 23, 2010. The Guatemalan government launched Tuesday a strategic plan for the prevention and control of dengue fever, due to the increase in the number of cases in the last days, after tropical storm Agatha. In Guatemala, 2700 cases of mild and 289 of severe dengue fever have been registered, of which six people have died.


Ruben Daniels, left, and Dylan Gabriel react differently to their refreshing shower during Twilight Time at Adventure Quest in Enid, Okla. As Oklahoma temperatures climbed to 96, children and their parents search for ways to keep cool.


The severely damaged tracks are visible at an area devastated by the overflowing of the Mandau river, in Branquinho, Alagoas state, northeastern Brazil, Wednesday. Rescue teams pressed a grim search Wednesday for hundreds of people missing in raging floods that swept through towns in northeastern Brazil, killing at least 44 people.


Frank Wallace, who has been unemployed since May 2009, holds a sign during a rally organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Initial claims for jobless benefits fell by the most in two months last week, but remain above levels consistent with healthy job growth.


A butterfly rests atop a flower on a farm near Glencoe, Ky., Wednesday, June 23, 2010.


People walk past a sand sculpture of US performer Michael Jackson created to mark the first anniversary of his death, at the Bay of Bengal coast, in Puri, Orissa state, India, Thursday, June 24, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, June 25, 2010


Sichuan Pandas rest on a wood play structure at a zoo in Shanghai, China. The Pandas, which were moved from Sichuan specially for the Shanghai World Expo, were to be transferred to Shanghai Safari Park for better living on Monday.


A school of Angelfish swim in a tank during at the Council of Agriculture in Taipei. They have been modified so they glow in a dark tank.


A long barrier guards a portion of the Louisiana coast from oil oozing ashore rom the Deepwater Horizon well.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, June 29, 2010


Priests perform rituals for the arrival of monsoon rains in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday. Northern India has experienced above normal temperatures in recent weeks, Many residents eagerly await the annual monsoon rains, which bring cooler temperatures vital for the farm-dependent economy.


A striker drinks water in front of tied up ships at the port of Piraeus on Tuesday. Public services shut down across Greece as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike.


A makeshift encampment on London's Parliament Square entitled 'Democracy Village.' Mayor Boris Johnson has won a court order allowing him to evict the protesters who have been camping in the square since May 1.


Blue crabs walk along the main seaside avenue of Cancun, Mexico. More than 200 crabs were rescued and another one thousand more were also on the streets after having their nest disrupted during public works projects.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, June 30, 2010


Sea lions swim in their pool at a Frankfurt, Germany zoo.


A boy controls the ball during a soccer game on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa.


A Palestinian boy plays with bubbles as a vendor sells toys at Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem.


David Neal, 1, of Leeton, Mo., tries to get a closer look at three puppies being given away at the Sedalia Area Farmers' Market.


A journalist has her nails painted with the colors of the South African flag as she attends a workshop at the Queens High School in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Photos of the day | Tuesday, July 6, 2010


A nurse works in a ward for patients affected with dengue fever at the hospital Alonso Suazo in Tegucigalpa on July 05, 2010. The dengue epidemic has collapsed all the hospitals in Honduras.


Storm clouds clear over Cook Inlet about 27 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The photo was taken around 9:48 pm Alaska Daylight Savings Time with the sun still high on the horizon.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, June 25, 2010


Sichuan Pandas rest on a wood play structure at a zoo in Shanghai, China. The Pandas, which were moved from Sichuan specially for the Shanghai World Expo, were to be transferred to Shanghai Safari Park for better living on Monday.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, July 12, 2010


Colton Harris-Moore arrives barefoot, handcuffed and shackled as he is escorted by police to Nassau, Bahamas, Sunday July 11, 2010. Harris-Moore was arrested before dawn in northern Eleuthera island, according to police. Island police had been searching for the fugitive since he allegedly crash-landed a stolen plane a week ago on nearby Great Abaco Island, where he was blamed for a string of at least seven break-ins and has been running from U.S. law enforcement since escaping from a Washington state halfway house in 2008.


A calf jumps over revelers after the fifth run of the bulls in the bullring during the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona northern Spain, Sunday July 11, 2010.


The sun is covered by the moon on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 11, 2010. A total solar eclipse began its 11,000 kilometer (6,800 mile) arc over the Pacific Sunday, plunging remote islands into darkness in a heavenly display set to climax on Easter Island.


A woman swings her hair in a swimming pool in the village Velka Mana southern Slovakia on July 11, 2010. Temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius and more in many parts of Slovakia.


Spain's goalkeeper Iker Casillas holds the trophy during the award ceremony following the 2010 FIFA football World Cup between the Netherlands and Spain on July 11, 2010 at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg.


Workers remove the giant banner of former Cleveland Cavaliers NBA basketball star LeBron James in downtown Cleveland on Sunday, July 11, 2010. On Thursday night, James announced in a televised special that he would be signing a contract for the upcoming season to join the Miami Heat.


A controlled oil burn is seen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Sunday, July 11, 2010.


Police walk among boots and debris thrown by milk producers during a milk producer's demonstration on July 12, 2010 beside an EU Agriculture and Fisheries council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels. Milk producers from around Europe have been protesting to the EU about the fall in the price of milk and are asking for help.


A tanker drops retardant on the fire burning in Swakane Canyon early Saturday evening, July 11, 2010, just west of Highway 97A, three miles south of Entiat, Wash.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, July 13, 2010


A large storm cell moves over farmland between the towns of Ross and Stanley, N.D. Rough weather was reported in the western part of North Dakota through Tuesday morning.


Women walk next to the Qalai Khater cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday.


A young Chinese boy plays snooker in an alley in Beijing, China on Tuesday.


Hannah Lyons, of Portland, Ore., smells the roses Tuesday in the International Rose Test Garden. The Portland garden was founded in 1917 and is the oldest official and continuously operated public rose test garden in the United States.


A vessel monitors an oil burn in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday.


The nectar of a flowering plant along the Rock River in Watertown, Wis. attracts a moth.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, July 16, 2010


People salvage what they can from a capsized fishing vessel in Mariveles, Bataan, Thursday. Troops today scoured jagged coastlines on the Philippines' eastern seaboard in search of dozens of fishermen who went missing after a ferocious typhoon battered the country, killing 23 people. Using rubber boats and small fishing vessels, hundreds of soldiers raced against time to look for the 59 missing fishermen amid fears those still alive could succumb to hypothermia, regional military spokesman Major Harold Cabunoc said.


Indian schoolchildren sit in formation to create the shape of the new symbol for The Indian Rupee at a school in Chennai on July 16, 2010. India unveiled a symbol for its rupee currency that it hopes will become as globally recognised as signs for the dollar, the yen, the pound and the euro. Ministers made their final decision at a cabinet meeting after examining a shortlist of five designs inspired by the letter "R" in the Roman alphabet and "Ra" from the ancient Devanagari script used in Hindi.


A field of corn, hemp and sunflowers displays the map of the United States and a portrait of an Indian near Utting Am Ammersee, southern Germany. Farmers Corinne and Uli Ernst created the 12,000 square meter labyrinth with straw paths of a totaling of 2.3 kilometers in length. Visitors are invited to come to the "Wild West Calling" venue from July 22 to September 26, 2010.


A tourist cools off his head in a fountain in Rome's People square, Friday, July 16, 2010, as temperatures are expected to reach 38 Celsius degrees (100.4 Fahrenheit) in central and northern Italy.


A woman stands under a car that a man tried to drive off the 12th floor of the parking garage Friday morning in Houston. The Houston Chronicle reports that a man jumped to his death from the downtown parking garage after he tried but failed to drive his car off the 12th floor according to Patrick Trahan, spokesman for the Houston Fire Department.

RIP!!!