Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
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Editor's pick
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Palestinian artist Walid Ayyoub poses with a drawing of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in his studio in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 22, 2008. Obama pledged on Tuesday to work to reach a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians from his first day in office but said it would be difficult.
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Hot off the wire
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The Chinese national flag is raised in a dawn ceremony in Tiananmen Square in Beijing Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. The 2008 Olympic Games open later Friday in Beijing.
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An officer from the Department of Public Safety stands next to a crushed sport utility vehicle at the impound area at the Department of Public Safety headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona August 7, 2008. Nine people were killed and nine injured when the SUV packed with 18 suspected illegal immigrants rolled on a desert highway south of Phoenix, police said on Thursday.
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Members of the road cycling team from the Netherlands take part in an official training session near the Great Wall of China in Badaling, 78 km north of Beijing on August 7, 2008 on the eve of the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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Recently starred
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Italian photographer Rino Barillari, who calls himself "The King of Paparazzi", smiles at the opening of his street exhibition in Moscow August 7, 2008.
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A velo taxi, a cycle-powered people mover, is seen on the streets of Sapporo in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 4, 2008. How to get high oil prices down will top the agenda as leaders from the Group of Eight rich countries meet for a summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, from July 7-9.
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Lawyers take a part in a protest rally in Lahore July 17, 2008. July 17, 2008. Lawyers and civil society members gathered to demand the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf and the reinstatement of 60 judges who were dismissed by Musharraf during his emergency rule in November 2007.
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Yoav Ziv (14) of Beitar Jerusalem fights for the ball with Wisla Krakow's Pawel Brozek during their Champions League second qualifying round, second leg soccer match in Krakow August 6, 2008.
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