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Navy jet demonstration, Macedonia wedding, rowing race

12 July

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Stylists trim the hair of a poodle at a pet dogs service shop in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday. (AP Photo)

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A line of thunderstorms moves over the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The storm forced NASA to postpone the planned liftoff of the space shuttle Endeavour. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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The Junior City Eights start during the Rowing World Cup event on the Rotsee lake in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sunday. (AP Photo/Keystone/Sigi Tischler)

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A Navy jet from the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia passes an apartment building during tactical demonstration flyover as part of the 2009 Chrysler Jeep Superstores APBA Detroit Gold Cup race, Sunday along the Detroit River in Detroit. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Steve Perez)

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Bulgarian Karakachani's wearing the traditional dress are seen during the annual Karakachani's festival near the town of Sliven, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Sunday. The Karakachani, a minority ethnic group in Bulgaria and Greece, gather annually to celebrate their traditional culture. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)

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A U.S. Marine with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. says hello to children during a patrol on Sunday in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan . (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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People with torches participate in a wedding procession a night before the Galicnik Wedding, in Macedonia's western village of Galicnik on Saturday. By tradition, the two-day Galicnik Wedding is held every year on Orthodox St. Peter's day. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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A reveler is gored by the bull ''Ermitano'' during the sixth run of the Miura fighting bulls at San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain on Sunday. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attract tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

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A partially built bridge, part of the city's new metro rail system, collapsed in New Delhi, India on Sunday. Pole reported three people were killed and 16 wounded. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

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Actor Ernest Borgnine, 92, and his wife, Tova, in back, greet fans as they participate during the Great Circus Parade on Sunday, in Milwaukee, Wis. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rick Wood)

 
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