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Contestants chase a replica Double Gloucester Cheese down the steep gradient of Cooper's Hill during the annual Bank Holiday tradition of cheese-rolling on May 27 in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England.Terraced fields of rice paddies are farmed on June 4 in Jinping County, Guizhou Province of China.The swollen Danube river (right) and the Inn river (left) flood parts of the historical city of Passau on June 6 in Germany. Eastern and southern Germany suffered floods that, in some cases, are the worst in 400 years. At least four people died and tens of thousands evacuated their homes.Gabrielle Ortiz smokes an electronic cigarette at Vape New York, an electronic cigarette store on June 10 in New York City. Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are battery-powered devices that vaporize a nicotine-laced liquid solution into an aerosol mist, which simulates the act of tobacco smoking.Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in downtown Chicago, Ill., on June 12.
A man jumps over burning tires set on fire by people who also block access to Brasilia's Mane Garrincha, one of the six host stadiums for the upcoming Confederations Cup, to protest in part against the government's policy of the expenditure for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, on June 14. A police spokesman said the protest was organized by the Homeless Workers Movement which is campaigning to reduce Brazil's housing shortage by staging squatters' occupations in abandoned government buildings.Students invade a subway station during a protest calling for a public transport free pass in the Federal District, on June 19 in Brasilia, Brazil. Protests initially sparked by a hike in bus fares in Sao Paulo the week prior quickly spiraled into nationwide marches against corruption, fueled by anger that -- in a country with a wide rich-poor divide -- billions of dollars were being spent on the Confederations Cup and upcoming World Cup 2014, and far too little was earmarked for social programs. Unlike other cities, this protest was completely peaceful and ended without incidents.American University students Sharon Burk and Mollie Wagoner embrace after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional at the Supreme Court on June 26 in Washington, DC.Bijlee, the 58-year-old ailing elephant rescued by individuals and NGOs sometime back, died at Mulund on June 30 in Mumbai, India.Activists of the organization Campact demonstrate in front of the German Chancellery in support of U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, on July 4 in Berlin, Germany.
A Toro del Fuego (flaming bull) is run through the streets of Pamplona on the fourth day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival, on July 9 in Pamplona, Spain.Rescuers work on the site of a train accident in the railway station of Bretigny-sur-Orge on July 12 near Paris. At least seven people died and dozens injured after a speeding train split in two and derailed at a station in the southern suburbs of Paris.Kat Crowe and Melinda O'Neal comfort each other in front of the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center after learning George Zimmerman had been found not guilty in the Murder of Trayvon Martin on July 13 in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Martin after an altercation in February 2012.About 25,000 people attend the boat procession of the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of fishermen, on July 16 at Puerto de la Cruz on Spain's Canary island of Tenerife.Children dance and celebrate as people wave a banner of Nelson Mandela to celebrate his 95th birthday outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital, where he was being treated on July 18 in Pretoria, South Africa.