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Britain's Hannah Miley swims her way to a gold medal in the Women's 400m Individual medley at the European swimming championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday.
Pakistanis affected by recent flooding take shelter on higher ground in Jaffarabad, Pakistan, on Monday. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million – more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said.
A firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire in Bouca, near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, on Monday. More than 700 firefighters and soldiers are trying to extinguish dozens of forest fires in Portugal after temperatures rose up to 104 degrees F. in several areas in the country.
A devotee takes part in the annual Hindu religious festival of Bonalu in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Monday. The word 'Bonalu' is derived from the Telugu word 'Bhojanalu,' which refers to the food offered to the goddess Kali, the Hindu goddess of power. The main ritual in the month-long festival consists of offering cooked rice, jaggery, curd, water, and other dishes brought by women in earthen pots to Kali. Devotees believe that the offerings will ward off evil and epidemics during the monsoon period.
A Rwandan holding his voter card has had his finger inked to prove he has cast his presidential ballot on Monday, in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwandans are choosing a new leader in the country's second presidential vote since the 1994 genocide. Incumbent candidate Paul Kagame is widely expected to win Monday's vote as his economic and social development record has earned him many supporters in this landlocked country.
People surf the Internet at a free Wi-Fi spot at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda as results begin to trickle in from general elections. Incumbent President Paul Kagame has brought stability, development, foreign investment, broadband Internet, and national health insurance, but critics accuse the former rebel fighter of autocratic tendencies and repression.
Flood victims wade through waist-deep waters while awaiting rescue by an Army helicopter in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab Province on Monday. Soldiers and aid workers struggled on Monday to reach at least a million people cut off by landslides that have complicated relief efforts after the worst floods in Pakistan for 80 years. The floods have killed more than 1,600 people.
Masha Terentieva, an acrobat from 'Soap, The Show,' poses for photographers in a bathtub during a photo call for their performances in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland on Monday.
An Israeli Arab youth jumps into the water in the port of the old city of Akko in northern Israel, on Monday.
Lead vocalist Davey Havok of the band AFI performs at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago on Saturday.
A clown jumps into the pool during a show event at the diving venue of the European swimming championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday.
State highway workers carry a sign before a news conference in Colchester, Vt., on Monday. The Vermont State Police and transportation officials are reminding motorists the law requires them to move over on four-lane highways when passing emergency vehicles with their emergency lights on. Officials are planning to post several dozen 'Move Over' signs on Vermont's interstates.
Actress Mia Farrow is seen on a screen in the pressroom of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Monday. Farrow has told the Charles Taylor war crimes trial that fashion model Naomi Campbell confided she had been sent a 'huge diamond' by the former Liberian ruler in 1997. Farrow appears to contradict Campbell's evidence last week. Campbell told the court on Friday she was given several small stones by unknown men. If Farrow's Monday account is true, it would dent Taylor's denials of any involvement with illicit diamonds.
President Obama gives the 'hook 'em horns' sign as he starts a speech in the Gregory Gym at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, on Monday.
Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets fly alongside a civilian airplane playing the role of a hijacked airliner, on Sunday, en route from Alaska to an undisclosed location in the Far East. The exercise is a first-of-its-kind joint exercise between the US and Russia to test their coordinated response to a potential international hijacking. Earlier in the flight, US-built NORAD fighter jets also intercepted the flight as it passed through American airspace.
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: The Israeli separation barrier: A West Bank wall
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
Russia's new tone of leadership on Syria is driven by momentum on the battlefield for Bashir al-Assad's forces.
Russia believes that its long-held vision of how to achieve peace in civil war-torn Syria has at last become possible due to a shifting balance of forces in the war and changing perceptions in the West, experts say.
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