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  • Frank Franklin II / AP

    Demonstrators gather outside of the Bank of America Tower to protest against the banks foreclosure policies Thursday, June 17, 2010, in New York City.

    Economy of vision

    Frank Franklin II did a good job of organizing his frame when he made this picture. Everything that needs to be there is there, and he didn’t include any unnecessary elements. If only banking was so clean.

    MSNBC.com story: Bank profits rise, but so do bad loans

  • Adam Lau / AP

    Anthony Le, left, rides an escalator in his homemade "War Machine" costume outside of the E3 Expo, the premier North American trade show for the video game industry, Monday, June 14, 2010, in Los Angeles. Although he doesn't have a pass to the industry-only show, the fan drove 20 hours from Colorado to "be here in the spirit of video games."

    He's got game

    MIT Professor Henry Jenkins has an interesting article on some common myths about video games. In his introduction Jenkins writes, “A large gap exists between the public's perception of video games and what the research actually shows. The following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction.”

  • Win McNamee / Getty Images

    BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, center, arrives before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for a hearing on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill on June 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. BP agreed the day before to place $20 billion into an escrow account managed by a third party to pay out claims resulting from the oil spill and also said it will not pay out additional dividends to shareholders for the remainder of the year.

    Facing the wrath

  • Christian Hartmann / Reuters

    Lampre's team rider Alessandro Petacchi , left, cycles to win the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse from Schwarzenburg to Wettingen as riders of the pack including HTC Columbia's team rider Mark Cavendish, center, and Cervelo Test Team's rider Heinrich Haussler crash during their sprint next to the finish line on June 15, 2010.

    Finish line sprint

  • Nick Graham / The Journal via AP, file

    The "King of King's" statue of Jesus Christ outside of Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio in March of 2008.

    Nick Graham / The Dayton Daily News via AP Photo

    Just the frame remains of the six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ on Tuesday, June 15 after it was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground.

    Holy smoke!

    Jesus struck by lightning. Read the story.

  • Charles Dharapak / AP

    President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, as he visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spil

    Where's the oil?

    Wondering why Obama never seems to visit an oil covered beach when he goes to the gulf. Would you like to see him get his hands dirty?

  • Astrid Riecken / EPA

    U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus (2-R), commander of the United States Central Command, collapses while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan, Washington, DC, on June 15, 2010.

    Evan Vucci / AP

    Petraeus is surrounded by staff after appearing to pass out.

    Evan Vucci / AP

    The general rises out of his chair, under his own power.

    Alex Wong / Getty Images

    Petraeus shakes hands with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (L) as Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) (2nd L) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) (R) look on as Petraeus returns to the room after he collapsed.

    Alex Wong / Getty Images

    Back in the chair.

    Gen. Petraeus collapses in Capitol Hill hearing

    See the video of the incident here. The general returned to the briefing room, and even cracked a joke about the incident, according to the AP:

    Petraeus himself returned to the room briefly and told the senators he "was feeling a little bit light-headed there."

    "It wasn't Sen. McCain's question," the general added.

    Read the rest of the story here.

  • Liu Tao / EPA

    A rescuer swims to a bus devoured by the flash floods in Nanping in southeast China's Fujian province on June 15, 2010. At least 24 people are missing after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed two vehicles in Fujian, according to state media.

    Liu Tao / EPA

    A woman mourns a family member killed by the flash floods in Nanping in southeast China's Fujian province on June 15.

    A deluge of tragic proportions in China

    Read more of the news on the floods and landslide in China in this story.

  • Lu Xin / EPA

    Workers labor at the construction site of Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, the starting point of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway in Shanghai, 15 June 2010. China will invest some 700 billion yuan (102 billion dollars) on high-speed railways this year.

    Massive passenger rail investment in China

    Rachel Maddow has some thoughts on the difference between rail investment in China and the U.S. in this video.

  • Barbara Sax / AFP - Getty Images

    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.

    Barbara Sax / AFP - Getty Images

    A pelican rests at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin on June 15, 2010. Pelicans are large birds with large pouched bills whose diet is mainly made up of fish.

    Two birds at the zoo in Berlin

    Both pictures are nicely seen. You can see thousands of great animal pictures in our archive of the weekly Animal Tracks slideshow.

  • Radu Sigheti / Reuters

    A rare white lion bites the door handle of a vehicle at the Lions Park near Johannesburg, South Africa on June 10, 2010.

    Lock your doors

    I've heard of baboons trying to climb into vehicles before, but this is definitely something you DO NOT want to see happening in your rear view mirror.

  • Karim Jaafar / AFP-Getty Imges

    Italy's defender Giorgio Chiellini (R) challenges Paraguay's defender Aureliano Torres during their 2010 World Cup group F first round football match on June 14, 2010 at Green Point stadium in Cape Town.

    Italy vs. Paraguay

    I don't know that much about soccer, but I bet this is a foul...

  • Channi Anand / AP

    An Indian laborer fills a box of mangoes at a wholesale fruit market in Jammu, India on Monday, June 14, 2010. India's headline inflation accelerated faster than expected to 10.2 percent in May over last year, as inflation spreads from food and fuel to core manufacturing prices, government data showed Monday.

    Indian inflation

  • Michael Reynolds / EPA

    A soldier of the 3rd US Infantry, The Old Guard, watches over the Tomb of the Unknowns following a ceremony to observe the 235th birthday of the US Army at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on June 14, 2010. The Continental Army was formed on June 14, 1775, to fight the English during the Revolutionary War. The Old Guard is the oldest active-duty infantry unit in the Army, serving the US since 1784.

    Standing guard

    Click here to learn more about The Old Guard.

  • Petty Officer 3rd Class John Walker / US Coast Guard via Reuters

    One of two, one-ton masses of tarball material, that was recovered June 11, 2010, south of Perdido Pass, Florida, is seen on the deck of the liftboat Sailfish, a Vessel of Opportunity working in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history, June 11, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama and top BP executives are set for a showdown over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill this week, as the likely damages bill piles more pressure on the oil giant's shares. Picture taken June 11, 2010.

    One-ton "mass of tarball material" recovered from Gulf

    Updated at 2:18 p.m. ET: Lisa Novak, a civilian employee of the Coast Guard, returned our call to clarify that the one ton of "tarball material" was not, in fact, "found" as the first version of this post's headline said. Instead, it is an aggregation of material collected from the Gulf of Mexico by Vessels of Opportunity, private boats contracted by BP to assist in the cleanup effort. A press release from the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command, "Innovation Improves Tar Ball Removal Capability," describes the process:

    "The crew of one of the thousands of Vessels of Opportunity (VOO) working in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill recently recovered approximately two tons of tarball material in the Gulf of Mexico.

    The recovery was the result of the kind of creative thought and innovation at work among the more than 27,000 people working around the clock in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history.

    Designed by Gerry Matherne, a BP contractor and nearshore task force leader, the idea is simple. A shrimp boat with outriggers on each side drags mesh oil-collection bags made of perforated webbing near the ocean surface. As the boat trawls to collect oil patches, the bags, attached to an aluminum frame, collect oil. When filled, the bags are disconnected from the frame by crew on support vessels, and then towed to a lift barge for hoisting into a collection barge."

    Updated at 1:01 p.m. ET: While we have calls out to the Coast Guard, there is still some uncertainty about exactly how this was recovered. It appears it might have been "collected" by the Sailfish rather than "found," given information about the Vessel of Opportunity program on the Web. Again, we'll update you here as we learn more.

    Original post: The caption doesn't directly say this tarball consists of oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, so we have called and emailed the Coast Guard to see what else they can tell us. They have promised to update us. When they do, we'll update you here.

  • Sean Gardner / Reuters

    Three oil-coated white ibis sit in marsh grass on a small island in Bay Barataria near Grand Isle, Louisiana June 13, 2010. These birds are being rescued and transported to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center by well-trained and knowledgeable wildlife responders, veterinarians, biologists and wildlife rehabilitators. Oil from BP's out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said, as public anger surged over the nation's worst environmental disaster.

    Not-so-white ibis in Louisiana

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  • Oleg Nekrasov / AFP - Getty Images

    Ethnic Uzbeks crossing the border from southern Kyrgyzstan into Uzbekistan in the vicinity of Osh. Tens of thousands of Uzbek refugees fled raging violence in Kyrgyzstan as the interim government struggled to stem the country's worst ethnic clashes since the end of the Soviet Union.

    Fleeing Kyrgyzstan

    I wonder if these people will be able to return to their homes, or if this crossing is the end of their time in Kyrgyzstan.

  • Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

    Georgia Baker, a member of the Four States Search and Rescue team, follows her cadaver search dog "Stryker" on the banks of the Little Missouri River in Langley, Ark., on Sunday, June 13. Search crews recovered 18 bodies and were hunting for others on Sunday along a 10-mile stretch of the river after a flash flood swept through a popular Arkansas campground on June 11.

    Still searching

    See more images from the tragedy HERE

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