A dog that enjoys daily scooter rides in Turkey, Olympic skateboarding qualifiers in Hungary, a deadly train collision in India, a solstice wedding at Stonehenge, forest fires in California, coastal flooding in Texas, Eid al-Adha prayers in Iran, a performance by Post Malone in Tennessee, and much more
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Firefighter Chris Fritz works to keep the Aero Fire from spreading through the Copperopolis community of Calaveras County, California, on June 17, 2024. #
French fencer Yannick Borel poses with an épée inside the Opéra Garnier in Paris on March 15, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. Photo released on June 16. #
Confetti falls after the Boston Celtics' win against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 17, 2024. #
Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics reacts after a play during the second quarter of Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks, on June 17, 2024, in Boston. #
Post Malone performs during the 2024 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 14, 2024. #
Team Greece competes during the Acrobatic Routine Final at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships on June 13, 2024, in Belgrade, Serbia. #
A humpback whale breaches off the coast of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, June 20, 2024. #
Fans arrive at Odeonsplatz subway station, passing by an advertisement featuring footballer Manuel Neuer of Germany, prior to the UEFA EURO 2024 group-stage match between Germany and Scotland at Munich Football Arena on June 14, 2024, in Munich, Germany. #
A Muslim pilgrim prays at dawn on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat during the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024. #
A giant statue of mythical Emperors Yan and Huang stands in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, seen on June 16, 2024. The 348-foot-tall structure was completed in 2007. #
Muslims perform Eid al-Adha prayers on the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, on June 17, 2024. #
An aerial view shows people visiting the graves of loved ones at the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Iraq's shrine city of Najaf on June 17, 2024, on the second day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice. #
An aerial view of flamingos in flight at Sayfe Lake and Bird Sanctuary in Kırşehir, Turkey. #
A person stands on their balcony, looking out over floodwater covering a stretch of Surfside Beach, Texas, on June 19, 2024. Storm Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the hurricane season, produced heavy winds and rainfall, flooding various communities along the Texas coastline. #
A section of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan bridge, a 24-kilometer-long bridge-island-tunnel project, photographed on June 16, 2024, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China #
Yoga lovers practice yoga at the Fengfeng Health cultural theme park in Handan, Hebei province, China, on June 20, 2024. #
Catherine Cisneros performs across the lighted squares of Christopher Janey's "Passing Light" solar sculpture at San Antonio International Airport in San Antonio, Texas, on June 20, 2024. The sculpture incorporates large plexiglass squares embedded in the ceiling that project a grid of colors that align with a painted grid for less than a minute each summer solstice. #
Angelina Chebotareva Rockefeller arrives wearing an ornate hat featuring an owl on the third day of the Royal Ascot horse races, in Ascot, England, on June 20, 2024. #
Thousands of racing pigeons are released in an Up North Combine liberation in Grantham, England, on June 16, 2024. About 6,000 birds were released in three sections. Depending on the distance of their lofts from the liberation site, some homing pigeons will fly for more than 200 miles. Founded in 1905, the Up North Combine is an amalgamation of 23 pigeon-racing federations in the north of England. #
A view of the Cilo Mountains, seen near Yüksekova, in Turkey's Hakkâri province, on June 19, 2024. #
Julie Amschler of Springfield, Missouri, walks along Oregon's Cannon Beach on June 13, 2024, with Haystack Rock in the background. #
Clouds hover over the Andes Mountains in Santiago, Chile, on June 19, 2024. #
A Cal Fire helicopter drops water on a hot spot while battling the Post Fire near Gorman, California, on June 15, 2024. #
People cool off in the fountain at Polk Brothers Park at Navy Pier as temperatures climbed above 90 degrees Fahrenheit on June 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. #
Walter Ross marries Laura Cummings as the sun sets at Stonehenge, on June 20, 2024, in Wiltshire, England. #
People gather near containers that tumbled from a freight train after it collided with a passenger train in Nirmaljote, near Rangapani station, in India's West Bengal state, on June 17, 2024. #
A woman walks her dogs early in the morning, before the heat of the day sets in, on June 14, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. #
Mizuho Hasegawa of Japan competes during the women's park preliminaries at the Olympic Qualifier Series on June 20, 2024 in Budapest, Hungary. #
A surfer rides an artificial wave in the river Eisbach at the Englischer Garten, in downtown Munich, Germany, on June 18, 2024. #
A shelf cloud passes over downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 16, 2024. #
Muharrem Yilmaz takes his dog Toprak for his daily scooter ride in Aydın, Turkey, on June 14, 2024. #
An Iberian lynx, seen in Sierra de Andujar Natural Park in Andalusia, Spain, on June 20, 2024. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lowered the level of threat to Iberian lynx from "endangered" to "vulnerable," after verifying that the population has climbed from 94 in 2001 to more than 2,000 today. #
A fan of Albania is pictured prior the UEFA Euro 2024 Group B football match between Italy and Albania at BVB Stadion in Dortmund, Germany, on June 15, 2024. #
Girls pose for pictures at a mural after visiting the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, South Africa, on June 16, 2024. The Soweto Uprising began on June 16, 1976, as a peaceful student protest against the enforcement of Afrikaans in schools. The police and army's response with tear gas and bullets led to violent clashes, resulting in the deaths of 400 to 700 people, many of them children. The event galvanized international opposition to apartheid and is commemorated annually in South Africa as Youth Day. #
A farmer reacts with her Hereford as it is judged at the Royal Highland Show on June 20, 2024, in Edinburgh, Scotland. #
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