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The Flaming Lips perform during the 2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., on Friday, June 11.
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A boy floats in an inflatable sphere at a lake in a park in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sunday, June 13.
Two unrelated photos with a similar theme. Where would you rather be?
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A gasoline storage tank burns in Greensboro, N.C., early Sunday, June 13, after a lightning strike ignited the tank. The facility runs along Interstate-40, which has been closed in both directions until officials can control the blaze.
Read more on this story HERE
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A young bearded vulture is reintroduced to the wild above Alp Malans, near Vaettis, South Eastern Switzerland, on Sunday, June 13. The reintroduction of the bearded eagle in the Alps is a long-term project started 20 years ago
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A man jumps into the cool water of the Dnipro river in Kiev, June 11, where temperatures reached 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Got a clever caption for this picture?
Nathan Weber
Fans line Michigan Ave. downtown Chicago during the ticker tape parade for the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday, June 11.
Nathan Weber
Tens of thousands of fans turned out for the parade, standing on any structure available to see the parade as it passed. Here, fans stand atop the parking structure entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center.
Nathan Weber
The Stanley Cup rests on Michigan Ave. as the Chicago Blackhawks wait to be introduced at the victory rally.
Chicago resident and trusted friend, Nathan Weber, shot the ticker tape parade Friday, June 11, following the Blackhawks victory in the Stanley Cup Finals.
At one point, he was so close to the team he touched the Stanley Cup. Having covered both the parade and the celebration following the victory, he likened the parade to a family event.
"It was peaceful, everyone was civil," Weber said, which is a stark contrast "compared to Wednesday night when there were mobs of drunk and disorderly fans lobbing bottles, raising hell... not quite flipping over cars, but close. It was borderline out of control."
I'm sure most would agree.
Now if we could just get those Cubbies some of the luck the Blackhawks had this season...
Feel free to check out Nathan's slideshow HERE
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the first general session of the Republican Party of Texas convention in Dallas on Friday, June 11, 2010.
Dallas Morning News: Rick Perry accepts nomination at the Texas Republican convention.
"Electing my opponent will accelerate the Washington takeover of our state," Perry said, as delegates at the state Republican convention roared with approval at the Dallas Convention Center. "We're engaged in a struggle for the very heart of the state."
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Chicago Blackhawks' Patrick Kane hoists The Stanley Cup while celebrating with fans during a parade on Washington Street honoring the Blackhawks winning The Stanley Cup in Chicago, Friday, June 11.
A sign of the times for hockey in the U.S?
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Aerial view of a sinuous track of a belvíz withdrawing inland waters near Harsany, about 97 miles northeast of Budapest, Hungary on June 10. After days of flooding due to torrential rains rivers and streams are slowly withdrawing in the region where 3,730 people have been forced to escape their homes due to floods and inland waters.
Sometimes even natural 'disasters' leave beauty in their wake. See another picture from the receding floods the most recent edition of The Week in Pictures.
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Hooters Girls show how to get a "leg up" on the Gulf oil spill.
Hooters Girls from all over the country will be voluntarily donating their torn pantyhose in an effort to help absorb the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Read all about it in this PR Newswire release.
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Palestinian boys play soccer in a playground in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Thursday, June 10, 2010. The 2010 Soccer World Cup kicks off on June 11 in South Africa.
Will professional soccer ever make it big in the US?
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A tourist slides across Managua's Tiscapa Lagoon in Nicaragua on Friday, June 10.
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A new kind of death squad is roaming the streets of Baghdad, killers packing hunting rifles and poisoned meat. Their prey: the estimated 1 million stray dogs that multiplied in the Iraqi capital as violence paralyzed public services following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
The law of unintended consequences is an adage that says intervention in a complex system invariably creates unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes. It is commonly used as a warning against the belief that humans can fully control the world around them.
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Chelsea Pensioners attend their Founder's Day Parade at The Royal Hospital Chelsea on June 10, 2010 in London, England.
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Italy's soccer players Fabio Quagliarella and Fabio Cannavaro head balls with teammates during a training session in Irene June 9, 2010. The 2010 Soccer World Cup kicks off on June 11.
I love how they are able to all head the ball in unison. It will be interesting to see how the American sports audience responds to 64 matches broadcast live on major networks.
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U.S. and Canadian soldiers lounge and swim at a pool at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar city on Wednesday, June 9. NATO, US and Afghan soldiers are preparing their biggest offensive yet against the Taliban in Kandahar province, with total foreign troop numbers set to peak at 150,000 by August..
We saw a lot of these images from Saddam's palaces that U.S. troops took over following the fall of Baghdad. But this is my first chance to see soldiers getting a fun pool break in Afghanistan.
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A combo photograph showing a collapsing building in the village of Jaslo, south-eastern Poland, Monday ,June 7, as a result of a landslide following extremely heavy rains. Media reports say that hundreds of Poles were evacuated as heavy rains swelled the country’s rivers for the second time in two months, breaking through levees that were saturated in May 2010.
We usually see the "after" images from landslides, but this sequence of images shows the whole event. Heavy rains hit central and eastern Europe causing flooding in recent days.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Corwin Jett after he received his diploma from Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., Monday, June 7. President Obama delivered the commencement address.
I bet this ranks up there as a pretty great day for this student. I like the joy captured here by photographer Paul Sancya.
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An Airbus A400M is reflected in the heart-shaped sunglasses of a spectator at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) on June 9, 2010 at the Schoenefeld airport in Berlin. Running until June 13, the biannual Berlin Air Show (ILA) is expected to attract some 1,150 exhibitors from nearly 50 countries presenting all manner of planes, helicopters, rotors, motors and other technology to around 200,000 visitors.
This is a fairly cliche technique, but the color the photographer captured and seeing the plane in the reflection are pretty cool.
This is incredible video...
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Kevin Costner, actor and partner of Ocean Therapy Solutions, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 9, 2010, to testify before the House Science and Technology subcommittee hearing on the effectiveness of oil spill cleanups.
Costner’s interest in and involvement with oil spill crises is not new. In 1989, he was motivated by the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster to help fund research to develop oil spill mitigation technology.
That same ship, the Exxon Valdez, also appeared in Costner’s post-apocalyptic movie, “Waterworld” in which his character infiltrates the ship to rescue a child who holds the key to the future.
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In this Monday, June 7, photo, APTN photographer Rich Matthews takes a closer look at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La..
This is commitment. Read about Matthews' swim here: http://bit.ly/bm5VJP and check out a video of his adventure here: http://bit.ly/aVvpRD
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Baltit Fort in the Hunza Valley, Pakistan
An image from a series titled, 'Along the Karakoram Highway' that I put together for the MSNBC.com Travel section. I had the opportunity to travel from Kashgar, China to Delhi, India, much of it along the Karakoram Highway winding through Pakistan. Up until then, my knowledge of Pakistan was primarily through my job. It seems the only time Pakistan is in the news is when something horrible happens. While it's undeniable the country faces many challenges, the vast majority of the country is at peace and remains to this day one of the most striking places I've been lucky enough to visit.
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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg warms up before his major league debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday, June 8, 2010.
Is Stephen Strasburg the player who can turn the Nationals ball club around, or is it all hype?
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A man works inside a cotton factory in Mumbai June 4, 2010. India is the second biggest producer, consumer and exporter of cotton and about sixty percent of the current season shipments went to China, the biggest consumer.
Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
Laundrymen work at the Dhobi Ghat open air laundry in Mumbai June 5, 2010.Termed as the world's largest outdoor laundry, Dhobi Ghat is where Mumbai's traditional laundrymen work in the open to wash clothes from different parts of the city. The open air laundry has about 700 washing platforms made of stones where about 200 washer-men families have been washing clothes as their family business for decades.
Two strong pictures of men at work by Danish Siddiqui. I came across the first picture early this morning on the Guardian's 'Eyewitness' iPad app, which is a neat tablet display of photojournalism "from the Guardian's centre page Eyewitness spread."
BP handout via AFP - Getty Images
This BP handout image shows tar balls that washed ashore in Gulf Shores, Alabama on 07 June, 2010 as beach goers continue on enjoying the hot summer weather. BP engineers seeking to contain the worst oil spill in US history captured more than 14,800 barrels of crude from a blown-out well in the past 24 hours, the top US disaster official Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said June 8.
This is an excellent photograph. What's most surprising to me is that it's a handout photo from BP. How's that for transparency?
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