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A rainbow appears over the city in Beijing, China.Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

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About 20 people were injured in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn when two cranes working on a bridge upgrade toppled onto houses nearby.Bram van de-Biezen/AFP / Getty Images

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A migrant woman reacts aboard the Migrant Offshore Aid Station ship MV Phoenix after her rescue with 117 others from a rubber dinghy 32 kilometres off the coast of Libya.Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

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Herders work with reindeer at a camping ground in Nenets Autonomous Area, far northern Russia on Reindeer Day, a professional holiday of reindeer breeding workers.Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

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Gary Hunt of Britain dives in front of Kul Sharif Mosque (L) and Annunciation Cathedral during the men's 27m High Diving competition preliminary at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia.Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

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Travellers sit along the highway from Beijing to China's Hebei Province after in was closed due to low visibility on a heavy polluted morning.Damir Sagolj/Reuters

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, departs in a boat (c) after visiting a monastery where flood victims are sheltered in Bago, northeast of Yangon, Myanmar. More than 156,000 people had been affected by flooding.Khin Maung Win/The Associated Press

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A Christie's employee looks at a portrait of Barack Obama by artist Joe Black called 'Shoot to Kill' made from thousands of plastic toy soldiers. Estimated at $21,000-$28,000 it will be auctioned Sept. 10 in London.Kirsty Wigglesworth/The Associated Press

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A bus driver reacts in Amman as city employees spray him with water during a heatwave in Jordan.Muhammad Hamed/Reuters

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