A field of blooming flowers in Italy, a “space-capsule camp” in China, flooded rivers in the American Midwest, Olympic track-and-field trials in Oregon, a haute couture fashion show in Paris, a camel traffic light in a Chinese desert, and much more
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A wooden statue of a bull, the symbol of the city of Turin, burns atop a bonfire during the San Giovanni ("Saint John") festival in Turin, Italy, on June 23, 2024. #
Kenyan police officers use a water cannon to spray colored water at demonstrators during a protest against tax hikes in the planned Finance Bill 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 25, 2024. #
Kenyan police officers and security personnel take positions outside the Kenyan Parliament as protesters try to storm the building during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. #
Tourists, riding on camels, pass a camel traffic light, set up to alleviate congestion at the popular Mingsha Mountain and Yueya Spring scenic area in Dunhuang, Gansu province, China. #
A member of the creative team holds a gazelle puppet outside the Wimbledon College of Arts, southwest London, England, on June 27, 2024, to launch "The Herds," a new art project from The Walk Productions, which will showcase large groups of life-size wild puppet animals fleeing climate disaster. #
A model presents a creation by Charles de Vilmorin during the Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2024 show, as part of Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, on June 25, 2024. #
A model presents a creation by Viktor & Rolf during the Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2024 show in Paris on June 26, 2024. #
An unusual and artistic bus-stop shelter, photographed in Chongqing, China, on June 22, 2024 #
Janja Garnbret of Slovenia competes during the women's boulder qualification of the IFSC World Cup Innsbruck 2024 on June 26, 2024, in Innsbruck, Austria. #
Jacob Fatu flies through the air as he goes off the top rope toward Cody Rhodes on the announcer table during WWE SmackDown at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, on June 21, 2024. #
A visitor wears an Animal costume on the first day of Comic Con Yorkshire at the Yorkshire Events Center, in Harrogate, England, on June 22, 2024. #
A performer in a Green Man costume entertains festival-goers during day two of the Glastonbury Festival 2024 at Worthy Farm in Glastonbury, England, on June 27, 2024. #
An aerial view of a person swimming along Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 21, 2024 #
Debris from flooding is caught in a collapsed railroad bridge over the Big Sioux River on June 24, 2024, near North Sioux City, South Dakota. #
Heavy rains caused high water levels at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minnesota, on June 24, 2024. Officials said the dam was threatened with “imminent failure.” Days of heavy rains caused flooding in parts of the midwestern U.S., forcing hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued from rising waters. #
A lightning bolt strikes One World Trade Center during a thunderstorm in New York City on June 22, 2024, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. #
A C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Polish Air Force fires off chaff during the Antidotum Airshow in Leszno, Poland, on June 22, 2024. #
Embers glow at night as the Basin Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest, in Fresno County, California, on June 26, 2024. #
A view of the Rocinha favela at sunrise, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 23, 2024. #
An aerial view of part of the Kayenta Solar Plant, seen on June 23, 2024, in Kayenta, Arizona #
An aerial view shows houses and Yurts in a neighborhood of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on June 25, 2024. #
People and cattle walk on a "water highway" formed by flooding along a rural road in Chongzuo city, in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on June 23, 2024. #
Rim Nakamura of Japan competes during the men's BMX freestyle park qualification on June 21, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary. #
Ruslana Danilkina, who works at the rehabilitation Superhumans Center, learns to swim with a prosthesis in Lviv, Ukraine, on June 21, 2024. #
Children catch some waves on their boogie boards at Good Harbor Beach, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on June 25, 2024. #
Zhang Ziyu, China's 7-foot-3 center, reaches for the ball during the FIBA Under-18 Women's Asia Cup 2024 basketball match between China and Japan on June 26, 2024, in Shenzhen, China. #
Competitors run in the women's 5,000-meter final on day four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field on June 24, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon. #
People ride on the Mamba roller coaster at the Worlds of Fun theme park as storm clouds build in the distance on the first full day of summer, June 21, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. #
A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France, dubbed the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), lifts off from a space base in Xichang, in China's Sichuan province, on June 22, 2024. #
People in costume march during the 42nd annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on June 22, 2024. #
Flocks of egrets breed and forage among branches in Jinhu County, Jiangsu province, China, on June 22, 2024. #
Tourists visit a "space-capsule camp" in Ganjing village, Guyuan city, in China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on June 23, 2024. #
A woman stands holding a child, surrounded by the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 23, 2024. #
A man takes pictures of lentil fields and poppies blooming near Castelluccio, a small village in central Italy's Umbria region, on June 27, 2024. #
Didi Senft, a cycling enthusiast better known as "El Diablo," reacts in a crowd of spectators during the team presentation for the 111th edition of the Tour de France, in Florence, Italy, on June 27, 2024. #
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