World News in Pictures

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Seoul, South Korea: Soldiers clear up after one of many landslides brought on by the heaviest rains in a century



Cape Haitian, Haiti: Voodoo practitioners make take part in a ritual at the Plaine du Nord festival

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London, UK: Members of a synchronised swimming team mark the one year countdown to the start of the 2012 Olympics



Medellí­n, Colombia: Models present creations by Leonisa at the Colombiamoda fashion show

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Rescuers scramble as a Westfall, Pa. Fire Department rescue boat sinks in the Delaware River during a search for 18-year-old Daniel Rak of New York on July 28, near the Ten Mile River Scout Camps in Narrowsburg, N.Y. All six emergency personnel were rescued. Divers recovered the body of Rak, who was trying to swim across the river in an area with strong currents when he went missing Wednesday.

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Sebastien Roubinet of France makes tests with his catamaran-ice boat hybrid capable of sailing on both water and ice in July on the Saint-Louis Lake in Quebec, Canada.



Sebastien Roubinet, along with and Rodolphe Andre will cross the Arctic Ocean as part of the expedition "La voie du Pôle" (The way of the Pole) from Alaska to Spitsbergen, an island north of Norway – a journey of more than 2,000 miles.

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A girl rides the Looff Carousel at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, Calif., June 29. The carousel made its debut in August 1911, built by Charles I.D. Looff, a master woodcarver from Denmark. Looff had already made his name with his first complete carousel placed at Coney Island in New York. Back then, rides cost a nickel. Today, the carousel, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark, costs $3.00 a spin.



A girl talks with the 2011 World Cup U-20 mascot in Cali, Colombia, Thursday July 28. The tournament will be held in Colombia from July 29 - Aug. 20 and will host 24 teams.

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A combination photo shows 20 of the 76 victims killed in the July 22 bomb attack in central Oslo and shooting rampage in Utoya island. First row from left are: Silje Merete Fjellbu (17) from Tinn, Birgitte Smetbak (15) from Noetteroey, Margrethe Boeyum Kloeven (16) from Baerum, Bano Abobakar Rashid (18) from Nesodden, Hanne Fjalestad (43) from Lunner, Diderik Aamodt Olsen (19) from Nesodden and Kjersti Berg Sand (26) from Nord-Oda. Second row from left are: Sharidyn Meegan Ngahiwi Svebakk-Boehn, Guro Vartdal Haavoll (18) from Oersta, Syvert Knudsen (17) from Lyngdal, Simon Saeboe (18) from Salangen, Haakon Oedegaard (17) from Trondheim, Johannes Buoe (14) from Mandal and Eivind Hovden (15) from Tokke. Third row from left are: Sondre Furseth Dale (17) from Haugesund, Sverre Flaate Bjoerkavaag (28) from Sula, Gizem Dogan (17) from Trondheim, Dupe Ellen Awoyemi (15) from Drammen, Silje Stamneshagen (18) from Askoey, Tove Aashill Knutsen (56) from Oslo.

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Timber rafts, a method in which logs are tied together into rafts, are seen as they are transported along the Angara River near the town of Kodinsk northeast from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on Thursday, July 28.

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Hot air balloons float in the sky at Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on Wednesday, July 27, during an attempt to set a world record for collective takeoff during the event

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Last October, New York Times photojournalist Joao Silva stepped on a land mine while covering the war in Afghanistan. Silva lost both legs, and was taken to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for treatment



Soldiers and guests watch a parachute demonstration by the Golden Knights after the Casing of the Colors ceremony at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Army held a closing ceremony Wednesday, as authorities prepared to move hundreds of patients and vast amounts of equipment to new and refurbished facilities in Maryland and Virginia.



In this Feb. 2009 photo New York Times photographer Joao Silva is seen while on assignment in Madagascar. Silva was seriously wounded when stepping on a mine while covering US troops in southern Afghanistan it was reported Saturday Oct 23 2010. Silva was evacuated to Kandahar Air Field where he was receiving treatment, the newspaper said in a statement. Silva, who has received several awards for his work, has photographed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, southern Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. He is the author, with Greg Marinovich, of "The Bang-Bang Club," a chronicle of a group of four photographers covering the violence in South Africa in the 1990s.

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Republican Representative from Arkansas Tim Griffin, right, followed by reporters and other freshman Republicans, walks to a press conference where he threw his support to Speaker Boehner's budget bill outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 28. The House is expected to vote today on Boehner's budget plan.

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Firemen try to extinguish a forest fire which started this morning in a forest near Nelas, Portugal, on Thursday, July 28.



A cow walks among a group of crocodiles in Brazil in July.

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Spectators gather by the water near the Congress Street bridge in downtown Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, July 27, to watch the bats make their nightly flight for food. The largest urban bat colony in the world lives below a bridge in Austin. The drought has killed off crops in Texas, and that in turn has killed off those delicious pests the Mexican free-tailed bats consider dinner.

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Libya's rebel women

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The kitchen, that's more like it girls

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Lovely pair of come to bed eyes.

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Former Yankee Pitcher Irabu Found Dead
Hideki Irabu, a former Japanese baseball star who pitched for two World Series-winning New York Yankee teams, was found dead of an apparent suicide. He was 42. Pictured: Irabu in 1999.

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Soaking the Students
Protesting students are hit by a blast from a water cannon during a rally to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago, Chile.



They've Got the Look
Trevor Niblock, Barry O'Mahony, and Dave Niblock from Cork dress to impress during the Galway Festival at Galway Racecourse in Galway, Ireland.

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From Japanimation to High Art
A man looks at Amano Yoshitaka's "Universe/Final Fantasy" at the Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, Germany, which is housing the exhibition "Anime! High Art - Pop Culture."



South Korea Still Struggling with Flooding
South Korean soldiers remove tons of mud after a flood caused by heavy rains hit the area around an apartment complex in Seoul. The record-breaking rainfall killed at least 39 people.



Hillary Clinton Honors Murdered Norwegians
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs a book of condolence at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Clinton made the visit to pay tribute to those killed during the rampage on July 22, 2011.

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Anders Behring Breivik, partially visible at center, is transported in a police vehicle from prison to police headquarters for a second session of questioning, in Oslo, Norway, on July 29.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dances with his granddaughter Gabriela on a balcony as he celebrates his 57th birthday in Caracas on July 28.

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Secret Garden Party 2011

From mud-wrestling to a bouncing Blondie performance, this year's Secret Garden Party was the place to be over the weekend. Here are the pictures to prove it ...




Festivalgoers take part in a hopping race

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Self-expression from the madding crowd

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Blondie takes the stage



A few people dancing to Bassnectar

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Keren Ann on the Where the Wild Things Are stage






In the Never-Ever-Land theatre

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