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An Indian woman labourer places brick on her head at a brick factory on the outskirts of Allahabad on the eve of World Environment Day. The World Environment Day, commemorated each year on June 5, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. -- PHOTO: AFP




A member of El Salvador's environmental organisations participates in a march through the main streets of San Salvador.
The march is to commemorate World Environment Day. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A dead dolphin marked with spray paint is seen as clean-up workers pick up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. -- PHOTO: AP

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A South Korean dance troupe rehearses for the opening ceremony of the Busan Haeundae Sand Festival on Saturday. -- PHOTO: AP




A West African dwarf crocodile rests under a heat lamp in a pool at the zoo on Friday.
Three crocodiles and one turtle are being housed indefinitely at the zoo but will not be on exhibit.
They are among hundreds of other reptiles that were discovered in a building on Milwaukee's south side on May 13. -- PHOTO: AP




Canadian soldiers with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, walk on top of their armored personal carrier, which they call 'the boat',
as they get ready for a late night patrol in the Panjwayi district, south-west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AP

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An exhausted oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of oil along Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery. Wildlife experts are working to rescue birds from the rookery which has been affected by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and transporting them to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Waves travel towards the seafront in Muscat. Cyclone Phet killed a total of 16 people in Oman and wounded dozens more. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Participants of the Athens Gay Pride parade wave a giant rainbow flag during their annual march in the city's center. Three thousand Greeks gays and lesbians marched through the centre of Athens on today to demonstrate gay pride and protest against discrimination. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A damaged home partially stands after a tornado hit the area. -- AFP




A zoo keeper feeds a crocodile during World Environment Day celebrations at the Malabon Zoo, metro Manila. -- REUTERS




Children discover a giant model globe, part of an art installation entitled 'Cool Globes' against global warming and climate change,
in Marseille, southern France on Thursday. -- AFP

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Revelers burn flares as they take part in a Patum in Berga, Spain on Sunday. The Patum de Berga, or simply 'La Patum' is a popular and traditional festival that is celebrated each year in the Catalan city of Berga during the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. It consists of several performances of mystical and symbolical figures that dance to the rhythm of a big drum and vivid music. The balls are marked for their solemnity and the use of fire and pyrotechnics. -- PHOTO: AP




Actor Ken Jeong poses with his award for Best WTF moment in 'The Hangover,' at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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An American flag flies nears a tornado damaged house in Lake Township, Ohio. Authorities say tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed a number of people in Ohio, destroyed 50 homes and damaged a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.
-- PHOTO: AP

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A football fan shows his haircut before the start of a training session of the Paraguayan national team at the Michaelhouse School in Balgowan ahead of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. -- PHOTO: AFP




A resident walks past a mural of Brazil's national soccer captain Lucio holding the World Cup in a suburb neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




An Omani man sits in front of a display of jambiyas (traditional daggers) in Mattrah Souq,
the oldest market in Oman, in the capital Muscat. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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The pack rides past a poppies field, in the 191 km second stage run between Evian-les-Bains and Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
of the 62th edition of the Criterium of Dauphine Libere cycling race. -- PHOTO: AFP




Children run near replicas of the Fifa WCup trophy and a tiger at the Engenho de Dentro neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Painting and decorating walls and streets with national colors and soccer stars is a tradition among Brazilians ahead of each World Cup. -- PHOTO: AP




Men on a raft pass by flooded houses in the village of Wilkow southern Poland.
A second wave of flooding in a matter of three weeks is hitting Poland after heavy rains in the south. -- PHOTO: AP

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg is covered in shaving cream after the Nationals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 in Strasburg's debut in the majors, in Washington. -- PHOTO: AP




A bee collects nectar from a flower at a lawn near the city of Probishtip. Honey, a traditional medicine in Macedonia is used to treat common ailments. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




The 'Gloriette' is seen above a stage set up in the park of Schoenbrunn castle as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 'Sommer Night Concert' in Vienna. The popular open-air concert with free admission takes place in the setting of Schoenbrunn Palace and its baroque gardens, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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A man wearing a mask of Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero protests during a demonstration by public sector workers in downtown Oviedo, northern Spanish region of Asturias. Spain's unions said 75 per cent of public sector workers went on strike to protest against an austerity package on Tuesday, although many hospitals, schools and government offices in Madrid reported few disruptions. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A Palestinian girl uses a small box as a bed, inside a tent in northern Gaza Strip.
Their house was destroyed during Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza during 2008-2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A young man surfs in the waves of the so-called Eisbach canal in the English garden in Munich as the temperatures in Bavaria rose up to 26 degrees celsius. The Eisbachkanal is a popular surfer's place, especially during nice warm weather conditions. -- PHOTO: AFP

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General views of Eldora Speedway during the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway, in Rossburg, Ohio. -- AFP




Lindsay McElhinney (left) dances with her husband Brandon at a prom organised by The Children's Hospital for cancer patients, in Denver. The couple, who have been married for a year, are cancer survivors and they met at a cancer camp organized by the hospital. -- REUTERS




Hutsul women dance in the village of Myzhgiria, some 150 kms from the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod, during a traditional festival, marking the parting with shepherds who leave the village for a few months as they take sheep to graze in the highlands. -- AFP

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Former North Korean defectors and anti-North Korea activists prepare to release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets towards the north at Imjingak pavilion, near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul on Friday. The activists denounced the North's attack on the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan. The letters on balloons read, 'Overthrow traitor Kim Jong-il!' -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Visitors to Beijing's Urban Planning Exhibition Center look at a scaled models of the the Chinese capital's urban development in Beijing. Property prices in China rose at a slower pace in May from the previous month, suggesting measures aimed at cooling the red-hot real estate market were working.
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Saudi special force units attached to the Ministry of Interior are seen training in al-Haytheiyah, 100 kms north of Riyadh, a week after the Al-Qaeda urged in an audio message for supporters in Saudi Arabia to kidnap Christians and Saudi princes to press for the release of a female militant the group says was nabbed north of Riyadh. -- PHOTO: AFP

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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a prayer vigil marking the end of the Year for Priests in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A statuette depicting the Holy Child of Miracles, dressed in the Mexican national soccer team uniform, is displayed at the Saint Gabriel Archangel Catholic Church in Mexico City. The statuette was dressed in the uniform ahead of the World Cup in South Africa which will kick off on June 11. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A clown demonstrates during a protest in San Salvador. The clowns were protesting against the crimes perpetrated by two men who had dressed as clowns and killed a man on a bus before robbing the other passengers on the vehicle. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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Zack de la Rocha, singer of the US rock band Rage against the Machine, performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Arganda del Rey on the outskirts of Madrid. -- PHOTO: AP




A fan cheers during the Group A first round 2010 World Cup football match South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg. The game ended in a 1-1 tie. -- PHOTO: AFP




A bird covered in oil is cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana. US government scientists today estimated that the flow rate of oil gushing out of a ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil may well be as high 40,000 barrels per day, doubling previous estimates. Environmentalists fear that thousands of birds and countless other wildlife are being affected by the spill. -- PHOTO: AFP