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A newborn kitten, known as Two Face, is held at the Kanawha Charleston Humane Association in Charleston, W.V. The kitten is being given a 50 percent chance of survival by an area veterinarian. Dr. Erica Drake says the kitten was born with a rare condition called diprosopus, which means the kitten literally has two faces. Two Face has four eyes, two noses and two mouths. --PHOTO: AP
A member of a US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team stands at the entrance to a container wearing a bomb disposal suit prior to an excercise at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City. --PHOTO: AFP
A visitor walks inside a polytunnel during the press day on the of the opening of Basel's Art 41 fair. --PHOTO: AFP
A black-tailed prairie dog enjoys a meal in his enclosure at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin. The animals are native to western Texas and Kansas. --PHOTO: AFP
Chinese journalist Yan Wenwen watches an Argentina soccer training session in Pretoria. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A pair of shoes, champagne bottles and ice lay scattered over the ground at the end of the first day of racing at Royal Ascot in southern England.
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A Labrador sits in a window over looking the main square of the town of Jablonne v Podjestedi, Czech Republic. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Two supporters of Brazil kiss as they arrive at Ellis Park stadium to watch the 2010 Football World Cup match between Brazil and North Korea in Johannesburg. --PHOTO: AFP
People sit in wicker beach chairs on the beach near the northern German city of Travemuende. With temperatures reaching only 16 degrees Celsius not to many visitors made their way to the beaches. --PHOTO: AFP
A view of the Nelspruit, South Africa, FIFA Fan Fest tent. The 2010 World Cup hosted by South Africa continues through July 11. -- PHOTO: AFP
Visitors to Pathfinder Reservoir, west of Alcova, Wyo., walk around the spillway where the North Platte River just recently overflowed on Tuesday afternoon. Residents battled record flooding Tuesday in southern Wyoming, where area reservoirs were full to the brim, while the central part of the state braced for more flooding that could rival last week's levels. -- PHOTO: AP
A Pakistani girl reacts to the photographer from the window of a m&d house in a slum area in Islamabad on Tuesday. Pakistan approached the International Monetary Fund in 2008 and has secured a 11.3 billion USD standby loan in an effort to contain inflation and cope with a rapid depletion of reserves that were barely enough to cover nine weeks of import bills. -- PHOTO: AP
Chinese workers perform maintenance works on high voltage electricity lines in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. -- PHOTO: A
Acrobats of Australia?s internationally acclaimed circus company, Circus Oz, perform during a rehearsal of their new production in the lead up to the opening night, in Melbourne. One of the very first 'new' or 'contemporary' circuses without animals, it predates most other nouveau cirque troupes and predates Cirque du Soleil by about six years. Circus Oz has performed in 26 different countries, across five continents to over two million people. -- PHOTO: AFP
People are reflected as they wait for outgoing German President Host Koehler to be honoured by a military parade in the courtyard of Bellevue Palace in Berlin late on Tuesday. Koehler, 67, resigned on May 31, 2010, 67, following criticism of comments he had made about Germany's mission in Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indonesian school children from the State Elementary School Menteng One, formerly attended by US President Barack Obama, observe paintings by Indonesian artist Damien Dematra that depict Obama when he was young, in Jakarta. -- PHOTO: AFP
Tour guide Henrik Miko, dressed like the Swedish 18th century poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman, sings and plays his guitar in front of the Stockholm cathedral, Storkyrkan and the Royal Palace. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Bangladeshi residents look on after fire services ended a rescue operation at a four-storey collapsed building in Dhaka. A toxic blaze that killed more than 120 people in the Bangladeshi capital this month was started by cooking for a wedding feast. -- PHOTO: AFP
Members of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti (RSS) or National Women Volunteers Committee participate in a procession in Allahabad, India. -- AP
A view of the Maracana stadium with the colours of the Brazilian soccer team to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
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An activist dressed as death holds an oil covered globe during a demonstration in Washington, DC against BP for their role in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -- PHOTO: AFP
Two newborn Sumatran tiger cubs crawl around in hay at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. The male cub(foreground) and female will be named by a public vote at www.pdza.org. -- PHOTO: AP
A massive stone sculpture of the Aztec goddess Tlaltecuhtli is displayed for the first time prior to the opening of the exposition 'Moctezuma II, Times and Destiny of a Ruler' at Mexico City's Templo Mayor museum. -- PHOTO: AP
Children play with a ball in the township of Atteridgeville, near Pretoria. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
General view of damage in the town centre after floods by Le Real River in Les Arcs sur Argens, south eastern France, the day after unusually heavy rains that hit the region and caused the river to overflow. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A railroad bridge is down over the Elkhorn River near Norfolk, Nebraska. The swollen Elkhorn River crested two inches short of a levee protecting Norfolk, preventing further disaster as emergency workers Wednesday continued their search for a man who fell into the raging river after the bridge collapsed outside of town a day earlier. -- PHOTO: AP
Jars of water mixed with oil that were collected from the Gulf Coast waters of Louisiana and Alabama are stacked during a news conference on Capitol Hill. -- PHOTO: AFP
A group of programmable humanoid Nao robots, developed by a French company Aldebaran Robotics, perform dance inside the France Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo in Shanghai. --PHOTO: AP
Drivers ride their cars along a highway during sunset in Johannesburg during the South Africa 2010 World Cup. --PHOTO: AFP
A hippopotamus rests in the water in its pond at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin. The animals are mostly herbivorous and live in the wild in the rivers and lakes of Southern Africa. --PHOTO: AFP
Palestinian boys shout slogans during a summer camp organised by the Hamas movement in Gaza City. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Supporters of the Communist Party walk past a mime in Lisboa. Hundreds of communist party members protested against the government's economic policy on Thursday. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A visitor walks past the artwork called 'Impenetrable' by Palestinian British artist Mona Hatoum at a gallery in Beirut. 'Impenetrable' is made of suspended barbed wire that takes the shape of a cube. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Oil is seen in the deep recesses of marshland in the northern reaches of Barataria Bay, La. --PHOTO: AP
Dancers perform the ballet 'Die Bajadere' choreographed by Vladimir Malakhov after Marius Petipa, at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin. --PHOTO: AP
The Screening Room has come up with a country-themed menu for the World Cup season, with mini sliders such as miso cod for Japan, goat cheese and onion marmalade for France and a proscuitto ham slider for Italy. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
A visitor walks past the artwork called 'Witness' by Palestinian British artist Mona Hatoum, at a gallery in Beirut. 'Witness' is a reproduction of Beirut's Martyrs square monument. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Kobe Bryant (#24) of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots over Rasheed Wallace (#30) of the Boston Celtics in Game Seven of the 2010 NBA Finals at Staples Centre. -- PHOTO: AFP
A damaged car, lifted in the m&d, is seen on a supermarket parking in the French southeastern city of Le Muy in the aftermath of floods that struck the region. Rescuers dug through m&d-filled cars and wreckage for bodies in France's Cote d'Azur today after the worst floods in two centuries killed 22 people. -- PHOTO: AFP
Israeli police and border police officers (front) push back ultra-Orthodox Jews during a rally in Jerusalem. Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Israel on Thursday against the court order to desegregate a religious school and force Jewish girls of European and Middle Eastern descent to study together. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Firefighters spray water on a car which was set on fire during celebrations after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals basketball series in Los Angeles on Thursday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A tourist looks at memorobilia of Charles de Gaulle in a shop in the eastern French town of Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises, before the celebration of the 70th anniversary of De Gaulle stirring appeal to resist Nazism from London on June 18, 1940. -- PHOTO: AFP
A drilling camp is seen on a glacier near the summit of the 4,884-metre (16,000-foot) Puncak Jaya mountain in the Indonesian part of New Guinea island in this June 2010 handout photo. Scientists in a team led by alpine glaciologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University have begun drilling ice cores at a shrinking tropical glacier in Indonesia to collect data on climate change, and hope their findings could lead to better predictions about crucial monsoon rains. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Kung Fu, a 10-month-old Old English Sheepdog gets dyed to look like the lead Panda character in the animation 'Kung Fu Panda'. -- PHOTO: AP
Thousands of people line up Friday for the grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla.
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Artist Mike Starn (right) works on his Big Bambu structure on the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The work in progress by Mike and twin brother Doug Starn will eventually consist of 5,000 interlocking 30 and 40-foot-long bamboo poles with an elevated pathway allowing visitors to explore the structure. Big Bambu will eventually take the shape of a cresting wave. -- PHOTO: AFP
A worker contracted by British Petroleum scrapes oil from a beach after it was inundated by the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
In this picture provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, water flows over the spillway at the Pathfinder Dam about 45 miles southwest of Casper, Wyoming. -- PHOTO: AP
'Spiderwoman' (left), a 4-year-old female Bichon dyed to look like the Spiderman, plays with 'Bikini', a 6-year-old female poodle dyed to look like she is wearing bikinis and 'Son', a 1-year-old male Bichon dyed to look like a tortoise at the Ruowen Pet Spa in Beijing. -- PHOTO: AP
Thais and others gather to offer prayers on the one month anniversary of the military crackdown on anti-government demonstrators at Wat Prathum Wanaram in Bangkok, Thailand. -- PHOTO: AP
Troy Kirsch pulls a few tangled fishing rods from a destroyed mobile home Friday in Wadena, Minnesota. Tornadoes that were part of a turbulent system that fuelled twisters across the state, ripped through Wadena on Thursday night. -- PHOTO: AP
The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison is seen after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a firing squad in Draper. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Indian Congress supporters prepare to be photographed with a 40 kilogramme birthday cake in celebration of the 40th birthday of Congress Party General Secretary and leader of the Congress Party's youth wing Rahul Gandhi in front of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi's residence in New Delhi. Indian Youth Congress supporters organised birthday celebrations for Rahul Gandhi, Congress Party member of parliament (MP) and son of the Congress-led UPA government chairperson Sonia Gandhi. -- PHOTO: AFP
Badges carry portriats of detained Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi lie at a reception during a ceremony to mark her 65th birthday in Kuala Lumpur. Suu Kyi is spending her 65th birthday under house arrest as activists hold protests around the globe and world leaders call for the junta to free her. -- PHOTO: AFP
Scores of sheep flock together and head in the same direction after they are spooked by a nearby crop-dusting helicopter at a farm on Sauvies Island in Portland, Ore. -- PHOTO: AP
Michael Goulian of USA in action on the Hudson River during the Red Bull Air Race New York Training Day in New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
Candles are burning in commemoration of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczynska outside the presidential palace. Poland will choose a new president on June 20 in an election brought forward from the autumn after the death of conservative incumbent Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A young Tibetan-in-exile takes part in a protest against China at Boudhanath Stupa on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Every year, hundreds of Tibetans make the difficult and dangerous journey across the border into neighbouring Nepal, fleeing alleged political and religious repression in Chinese-controlled Tibet.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Members of the Oversea National Students Organization of Burma light candles on a birthday cake in Bangkok, Thailand, as they celebrate 65th birthday of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi marked her 65th birthday Saturday locked in her dilapidated lakeside compound as calls for her freedom erupted around the world. -- PHOTO: AP
