This week's edition covers the past two weeks (I skipped the July 4th Weekend), featuring Typhoon Neoguri, a red panda rescue, the running of the bulls in Spain, a five-meter tall toilet one can slide into, and a military-style boot camp to treat internet addiction in China, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 6/28-7/11
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Read moreA flaming fake bull "Toro de fuego" runs after revelers during the 2014 San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain on July 9, 2014. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight days of the running of the bulls. #
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Read moreAn employee of the Russian Space Training Center hangs space suits of Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, NASA's U.S. flight engineer Kathleen Rubins, and Japanese space agency's flight engineer Takuya Onishi, out to dry after training near Noginsk, 60 km (38 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, on July 2, 2014. The training was intended to simulate the capsule landing on water. #
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Read moreTourists look at effects of water and sediment regulation at Xiaolangdi Dam on July 5, 2014 in Zhengzhou, Henan province of China. Large volumes of mudflow and the clear water flow combine together just like two dragons dance at Xiaolangdi Dam which has attracted a lot of visitors. #
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Read moreSpain's Alberto Contador crosses the finish line with a delay of more than two minutes on his main rivals during the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 155 kilometers (96.3 miles) with start in Ypres, Belgium, and finish in Arenberg, France, on July 9, 2014. #
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Read moreIndian policemen use batons to disperse youth wing workers of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a protest outside the state assembly in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, on June 30, 2014. Hundreds of workers protested against the state government over what they say is a deteriorating law and order situation in the Uttar Pradesh state, local media reported. #
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Read moreA marine rescue worker from Sea World works in a joint attempt with his colleagues to help a juvenile humpback whale stranded at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast, in Queensland, on July 9, 2014. #
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Read moreLotus F1 team driver Pastor Maldonado goes off the track after colliding with Sauber driver Esteban Guitiererrez during the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race Circuit, central England, on July 6, 2014. #
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Read moreRevelers run with Torrestrella's fighting bulls along the Calle Estafeta during the second day of the San Fermin Running Of The Bulls festival on July 7, 2014 in Pamplona, Spain. #
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Read moreDamaged cars and buildings are seen after a landslide caused by heavy rains due to Typhoon Neoguri in Nagiso town, Nagano prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on July 10, 2014. A landslide pummeled the town of Nagiso in central Japan late on Wednesday, sending a cascade of mud and boulders through the streets and killing a 12-year-old boy, bringing the death toll from the storm to three. #
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Read moreTakeru Kobayashi poses for a photo following his victory in a bunless hot dog eating competition in Manhattan, on July 4, 2014. Kobayashi ate 113 hotdogs in what organizers claim is the world's first official bunless hotdog eating competition. The competition was a counter event to Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest at Coney Island. #
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Read moreSwiss acrobat Freddy Nock balances on a cableway over a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Park in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China, on June 28, 2014. Nock attempted to walk along the 743 meter long cableway without protection but gave up after 420 meters, for fear of skidding due to the mountain's steep inclination, according to local media. #
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Read moreA boy dives into a crater filled with water in Aleppo's al-Shaar district, on July 10, 2014. Activists said the crater was caused by barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. #
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Read moreThe Verruckt waterslide at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas, on July 8, 2014, before its scheduled opening on July 10. The slide, at 168 feet 7 inches (51.38 meters), is the world?s tallest waterslide according to the Guinness World Records. #
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Read moreDivers deploy a huge American flag on the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a former military troop transport and missile-tracking ship scuttled more than five years ago off Key West, Florida, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary as an artificial reef, on July 4, 2014. The 30- by 40-foot flag, formerly flew at a Morris, Illinois, memorial park for Sept. 11, 2001, New York City terrorists' attack victims. The flag was scheduled for retirement after being badly tattered by weather, but Morris attorney Scott Belt conceived the idea of mending the flag and unfurling it on the Vandenberg. #
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Read moreSmoke and flames follow what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 9, 2014. At least 23 people were killed across Gaza, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday, by a bombardment Israel said may be just the start of a lengthy offensive against Islamist militants whose rockets struck deeper than ever before into Israel. #
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Read moreA firefighter holds a red panda from its tail while removing it from a tree at a residential area in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, on July 3, 2014. The animal was spotted in the residential area and was brought down from the tree after residents reported its sighting to the police, local media reported. #
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Read moreMembers of a Chinese People's Liberation Army honor guard line up behind a string, which is used to make sure that they are standing in a straight line, before a welcoming ceremony for German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside the Great Hall of the People on July 7, 2014 in Beijing, China. #
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Read moreCars sit in rubble in a collapsed open-air parking lot after heavy rainfall hit Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, on July 9, 2014. Four cars fell into the pit and one was left stuck on the edge of a railing as the ground sunk. #
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Read moreTwo horses fight during the "Rapa Das Bestas" traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo, on July 6, 2014. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. #
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Read moreThe heads of two Gallimimus dinosaur skeletons are on display during a repatriation ceremony at the United States Attorney's Office of Southern District in New York, on July 10, 2014. U.S. authorities on Thursday agreed to ship the remains of 18 dinosaurs back to Mongolia after finding the smuggled fossils during a criminal investigation. The dinosaur remains, all between 68 million and 80 million years old, were looted from sites in the Gobi desert. #
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Read moreA girl wearing a feces-shaped hat prepares to slide down into a five-meter toilet at an exhibition titled "Toilet !? Human Waste and Earth's Future" at the Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan, on July 3, 2014. The exhibition, which opened at the museum on Wednesday, explores the world of toilets, with the main exhibit centering around a massive toilet into which visitors are allowed to slide, simulating the journey of human waste matter into the sewers. #
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Read moreBeekeeper David Hackenberg, 65, rests by the side of his truck at the end of the evening after transferring bee hives from a blueberry field near Columbia Falls, Maine, on June 22, 2014. Over recent years, bees have been dying at a rate the U.S. government says is economically unsustainable. Honey bees pollinate plants that produce about a quarter of the food consumed by Americans, including apples, watermelons and beans. A lawsuit has now been filed by environmental groups in the United States seeking an injunction restricting the approval of a controversial class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or 'neonics'. These pesticides have become a subject of scrutiny in Europe and the United States as concern has mounted that they harm honeybees and other pollinators. #
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Read moreRescue workers conduct a search operation for survivors at the site of a collapsed 11-story building that was under construction on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Chennai, on June 29, 2014. Two building collapses in New Delhi and Tamil Nadu states killed at least 11 people on Saturday and left dozens trapped, highlighting the need for increased monitoring of construction across India where such incidents are common. #
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Read moreSmall forest fires are pictured between pine trees at night at Sierra de Tejeda nature park, on a burnt mountain from El Collado mountain pass, near the town of Competa, near Malaga, Spain early June 30, 2014. A wildfire forced the evacuation of 600 people from their homes, most of the evacuated were resident tourists, as two houses were razed, according to local media. #
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Read moreA music class, part of the education program at the Qide Education Center in Beijing, on February 26, 2014. The Qide Education Center is a military-style boot camp which offers treatment for internet addiction. As growing numbers of young people in China immerse themselves in the cyber world, spending hours playing games online, worried parents are increasingly turning to boot camps to crush addiction. Military-style boot camps, designed to wean young people off their addiction to the internet, number as many as 250 in China alone. #
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Read moreWorkers carefully unload 21-foot crocodile robot "Longlong" from the roof of a van, after it reaches Crocodile Park in Pasay city, metro Manila, on July 5, 2014. The robot, inspired by Lolong, the largest saltwater crocodile to have been in captivity, contains thousands of mechanisms costing around 80,000 pesos ($1,818) and took three months to build by robot experts. #
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