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Greek coast, Tall ships, Churchill dentures (17 images)
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Bathers relax on inflatable water mattresses near the beach at Porto Katsiki, on the island of Lefkada, Greece. Lefkada's west coastline has among Europe's most beautiful beaches. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
A female Amur leopard cub (Panthera pardus orientalis), also known as the Manchurian leopard, looks out of a bucket while it is weighed, in the zoo in Leipzig, Eastern Germany on Thursday. The leopard born on June 24, 2010 has no name yet. (AP Photo/ddp/ Sebastian Willnow)
Jack Schwesing, 5, salutes as the funeral procession of Cpl. Matthew Edwards drives by the Taylor, Mich., police department on Thursday. Family and friends gathered Thursday to say a final goodbye to Cpl. Edwards, the first Taylor police officer killed in the line of duty. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Soldiers of China's counter-terrorism special forces practice their skills at a training field in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong Province. Some 150 soldiers attended the six-month anti-terrorism training for the upcoming 16th Asian Games which will be held in Guangzhou of Guangdong Province in November. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Fan)
A Chinese soldier jumps through a fire obstacle during psychological training at an army training field before the upcoming 83rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which will be celebrated on Aug. 1, in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang)
Richard Carter of Houston works on his Sashimi Tabernacle Choir car at Maker Faire at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan on Thursday. The two-day festival this weekend will showcase the creations of more than 260 inventors and other creative people from across the country. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Thousands of Palestinian children fly kites in an attempt to break the world record for the number of kites fly, in town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. More than 7,200 kites were raised in the air on Thursday, setting a new world record in an event sponsored by the United Nations.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Brad Rudolf, of Battle Mountain, Nev., is tossed by Shady Cat as rain pours onto the rodeo grounds during the saddle bronc competition at the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede on Thursday, in Medicine Hat, Alberta. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Emma Bennett, Medicine Hat News)
Cooper Peter Grassny works on old barrels in Munich, southern Germany, on Thursday. The factory is the last traditional barrel making factory in Munich. They also will supply barrels for this year's 200th anniversary of the world largest beer festival Oktoberfest that will open from Sept. 18, 2010 to Oct. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
An aerial view of the Duluth Harbor, in Duluth Minn., on Thursday, as the parade eight Tall Ships enter the port for a weekend of festivities. In the foreground is US Brig Niagara, of Erie, Pa., a reconstruction of the brig that Oliver Hazard Perry led the battle of Lake Erie in 1813, just behind the Niagara is The Roseway, a Grand Banks Fishing Schooner, from Essex Mass., and coming under the bridge is Bark Europa, from Amsterdam, Netherlands. The ships were greeted by scores of small boats, and large crowds of spectators. (AP Photo/The Country Today, Paul M. Walsh)
US Lieutenant John Ritchie from Florida sleeps in a self-built room made from fortification wall cages while serving with the 1-320 Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Arusha, a female black and white colobus monkey, looks over her shoulder as her new baby peeks out from her arms while in their enclosure at Chehaw Park, in Albany, Gerogia on Wednesday. The baby was found during a routine check on July 5 and is the third birth for this species at the park. The gender of the baby is still uncertain at this stage of development. (AP Photo/The Albany Herald, Joe Bellacomo)
A US border patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Yuma, Arizona, as seen from the outskirts of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
With the Statue of Liberty behind them, a coalition of immigrant groups and their supporters march in the hundreds across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday, in New York. Protesters are calling for the full repeal of Arizona's immigration law, saying it fuels a climate of racism. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Pakistani villagers move to a safe place from a flood hit village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
Moscow's St. bazil's cathedral , background, is slightly seen through a smog covering Moscow on Thursday. A heat wave hit central Russia breaking temperature records by going higher than 86 F for four weeks, which broke all records for the last 130 years. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
Sarah Prior holds a partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill, described as the teeth that saved the world, after they were sold at auction in Aylesdham, England, Thursday for $23,723. The upper dentures, one of several sets specially made for the wartime prime minister, were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts. The dentures were bought by a British collector of Churchill memorabilia, at three times the estimated price. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
