A lunar eclipse observed from Brazil, keeping cool in Europe’s heatwave, wildfires tear through parts of California, a controversial election takes place in Zimbabwe, cliffside movie viewing in Norway, a fridge filled with felt sodas in California, an armored personnel carrier dropped into the sea near Lebanon, a “flying motorcycle” in China, and much more.
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A student takes part in a demonstration by students from different universities from across Nicaragua demanding that President Daniel Ortega and his powerful vice president, wife Rosario Murillo, resign and for the government to keep the 6% budget for universities, in Managua, on August 2, 2018. #
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Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas of Great Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates finishing stage 20 of the Tour de France, a 31km individual time trial between Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle and Espelette, on July 28, 2018. #
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Environmental activists drop an old mechanized armored personnel carrier provided by the Lebanese Armed Forces into the Mediterranean Sea, about three kilometers off the coast of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, on July 28, 2018, to create new habitat for marine life. #
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A devotee emerges holding plastic bottles filled with water, considered to be holy, from the Bagmati River during the "Bol Bom" (Say Shiva) pilgrimage in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 30, 2018. Faithful, chanting the name of Lord Shiva, trek about 15 km towards Pashupatinath temple seeking good health, wealth and happiness. #
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A man takes a photograph of a new piece of street art by the artist Inkie on the final day of UpFest, The Urban Paint Festival, 2018, on July 30, 2018, in Bristol, England. #
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Thai government officials stand in the rain during celebrations for Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn's 66th birthday near the Grand Palace in Bangkok on July 28, 2018. #
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People gather in the mountains near Preikestolen (The Pullpit Rock) in Forsand, near Stavanger, western Norway, on August 1, 2018, to see the movie "Mission: Impossible Fallout". Some of the scenes in the movie were filmed at the Norwegian landmark last November. #
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In this photograph taken on July 31, 2018, visitors walk along the 150-meter long Cau Vang "Golden Bridge" in the Ba Na Hills near Danang, Vietnam. Nestled in the forested hills of central Vietnam two giant concrete hands emerge from the trees, holding up a glimmering golden bridge crowded with gleeful visitors taking selfies at the country's latest eccentric tourist draw. #
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A man named Zhao Deli from Dongguan manipulates a self-developed "flying motorcycle" above grassland on July 23, 2018, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China. After over a thousand test flights, the flying motorcycle is able to fly at heights of seven to eight meters. #
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A DC-10 air tanker drops fire retardant along the crest of a hill to protect the two bulldozers below that were cutting fire lines at the River Fire (Mendocino Complex) near Lakeport, California, on August 2, 2018. #
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Climbers maneuver on a huge 80x80 meter (262x262 foot) Swiss national flag after fixing it on the western face of the landmark Mount Saentis in Switzerland on July 31, 2018. #
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Vice President Mike Pence, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Phil Davidson (center) and Rear Adm. Jon Kreitz, deputy director of the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, look at transfer cases at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of American service members who fell in the Korean War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on August 1, 2018. North Korea handed over the remains last week. #
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Thomas Musolino wears a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump while holding his daughter Gianna Musolino, age 10, during a Trump campaign rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on August 2, 2018. #
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Crowds gather as MDC-Alliance (Movement for Democratic Change) leader and opposition presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa speaks during a rally in Harare, Zimbabwe, on July 28, 2018. Zimbabweans were preparing to go to the polls on July 30 to vote for a new president, the first, other than Robert Mugabe who led the country for 37 years. #
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A Zimbabwean soldier beats a man in a street of Harare on August 1, 2018 as protests erupted over alleged fraud in the country's election. One man was shot dead, AFP witnessed, after the Zimbabwean army opened fire in central Harare on Wednesday as protests erupted over alleged fraud in the country's election. President Emmerson Mnangagwa on August 1 called for peace as police fired water cannon and teargas at opposition supporters in Harare over alleged fraud in Zimbabwe's elections. #
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Veronika Nikulshina, one of four members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group who were jailed for 15 days for staging a pitch invasion during the football World Cup final and were detained again after their release on July 30, gestures outside a court building in Moscow, Russia, on July 31, 2018. #
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Eva Furman, 8, surfaces through a wall of bubbles after jumping from a small cliff into Lake Wood at Acadia National Park, on July 30, 2018, near Bar Harbor, Maine. Furman, of Boca Raton, Florida, was spending the warm summer day cooling off at a popular swimming hole while on a family vacation. #
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This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures a high-altitude cloud formation surrounded by swirling patterns in the atmosphere of Jupiter's North North Temperate Belt region. The North North Temperate Belt is one of Jupiter’s many colorful, swirling cloud bands. Scientists have wondered for decades how deep these bands extend. Gravity measurements collected by Juno during its close flybys of the planet have now provided an answer. Juno discovered that these bands of flowing atmosphere actually penetrate deep into the planet, to a depth of about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers). #
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