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  • June 21: People watch from a boat on the Tisa River as millions of endemic insects Palingenia Longicauda, Europe's largest mayflies, mature and begin to fly from the river near the town of Kanjiza, some 100 miles north of Belgrade. The phenomenon that attracts many scientists, tourists and nature lovers is called Tisa Blossoming and lasts only a few hours every year.
  • June 21: Nepalese police detain Tibetan exiles shouting slogans against Chinese government, the alleged rule in their home land, and Olympic torch passing through the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, in front of Chinese embassy in Katmandu, Nepal
  • June 21: Supporters of slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto mourn beside her grave in Naudero, near Larkana, Pakistan. Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party celebrated the 55th birthday anniversary of Bhutto, who was assassinated last year during an election rally in Rawalpindi.
  • June 21: Villagers try to lift a tilted hut in Sabang, about 93 miles west of Calcutta, India. Air force helicopters and rescue workers in boats struggled to provide relief Friday to nearly 3 million people affected by monsoon floods that have ravaged eastern India, killing at least 54 people.
  • June 21: Rescue workers search for trapped victims after a steel structure that was under construction on the Wenzhou-Fuzhou Railway collapsed and hit nearby houses, burying more than 10 people in Wenzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province. Local media reported six people were killed and another two severely injured.
  • June 21: Druids, pagans and partygoers celebrate the summer solstice at the Stonehenge monument in England. Tens of thousands crammed into the mystic stone circle to cheer, bang drums and shake tambourines in an effort to greet the sun on the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice. Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plain about 90 miles southwest of London, was built over three phases between 3,000 B.C. and 1,600 B.C. It is one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions; more than 750,000 people visit every year.
  • This Oct. 22, 2003, photo supplied by Queensland Police shows novice diver Christina Watson of the United States lying motionless on the sea floor, rear at right, as an unidentified diver poses for the photo, center, while a dive leader, left, partially hidden, hurries to Watson. An Australian coroner on Friday ruled that Watson's husband, Daniel Gabriel Watson, should face a murder trial in the death of his wife, who drowned while on a reef dive during their honeymoon in 2003.
  • June 20: Gus, a pedigree Chinese Crested from St. Petersburg, Fla., competes in the 2008 World's Ugliest Dog Contest held at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. Gus won top pedigree and beat out the past 'Ring of Champions' to take home the grand prize.
  • June 20: This photo released by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows a Delta II rocket as it is launched from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force base in California. The rocket carried the Ocean Surface Topography Mission-Jason 2 Satellite into an 830-mile near-circular orbit. The satellite will use a radar altimeter to precisely measure the height of the ocean surface, which changes depending on temperature.
  • June 20: A girl with her face covered in mud helps her brother rehabilitate their house in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Some thousands of Afghan families who fled their country due to war and fighting among war lords have been forgotten by the international community. World Refugee Day was observed on Friday.
  • June 20: Berlin police employees dressed in clothing similar to police uniforms protest in support of a salary increase in Berlin, Germany. The motto of the action, which took place at a public swimming pool, was 'the water is up to our neck.'
  • June 20: Lebanese students fly their kites during a festival at Ramlet al-Baida beach in Beirut, Lebanon.
  • June 20: Passengers are shown after being stranded on the National Highway 60 connecting the states of Orissa and West Bengal, after a bridge was damaged by floods in the Balasore district of the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Soldiers and rescue workers rushed to provide relief to hundreds of thousands stranded in eastern India by monsoon floods that have killed at least 38 people in the past week, officials said Thursday.
  • June 20: Rescue workers use an excavator to search for victims of a landslide in Kurihara, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan. Another body was recovered Friday afternoon from this landslide triggered by a powerful earthquake last weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 12, police said.
  • June 19: President Bush flies aboard Marine One above flood-damaged areas during a tour of the Midwest.
  • June 19: A crowd listens to performers on the opening day of the 35th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colo.
  • June 19: Chinese diners enjoy their food at a restaurant with a toilet theme in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang province.
  • June 19: Israeli children attempt to climb a hill during a bike ride near Beeri, southern Israel, near the border with the Gaza Strip. Guns went quiet as a six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect early Thursday, marred only by widespread skepticism about its ability to hold. The cease-fire, which Egypt labored for months to conclude, aims to bring an end to a year of fighting that has killed seven Israelis and more than 400 Palestinians, many of them civilians, since the Islamic militant group Hamas wrested control of Gaza a year ago.
  • June 19: Federal agents exit 26 Federal Plaza with handcuffed former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi in New York. Indictments will be handed down on Cioffi and ex-manager Matthew Tannin, both accused of securities fraud in the wake of the collapse of the subprime mortgage market that foreshadowed Bear Stearns' own demise.
  • June 19: A promotion staffer of Bandai Co. plays with the toymaker's 'Bohgame,' or 'stick game' at the Tokyo Toy Show 2008 in Tokyo. The game is simple: Put the 15.7-inch-long stick on your palm and keep it standing up as long as possible, balancing yourself. The stick talks to you, either in a male voice or female voice, saying 'how's it going?' 'oops,' 'good for 6 seconds,' etc.
  • June 18: Divers transplant corals at a spot that was damaged by 2004's earthquake and tsunami, near Weh island, in Aceh province, Indonesia. The earthquake that caused the tsunami reshaped the landscape of some Indonesian and Indian islands, lifting reefs out of the water, eroding beaches and submerging coconut groves.
  • June 18: Abby Flantz, center, is reunited with her parents, Kathy and Jim Flantz, at the Denali Park airstrip in Alaska. Abby and Erica Nelson were found Wednesday, six days after heading off on a planned overnight hike in Denali National Park in Alaska.
  • June 18: Johnny Nelson of Las Vegas hugs his daughters Erica, left, and Alecia at the Denali Park airstrip in Alaska. Erica and Abby Flantz were found Wednesday, six days after heading off on a planned overnight hike in Denali National Park in Alaska.
  • June 18: Maureen Orth, widow of the late Tim Russert, and their son Luke Russert, watch as the casket of the 'Meet the Press' host is carried into Holy Trinity Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington.
  • June 18: Pilgrims ride on ponies on their way to the Amarnath cave near Dumail, 85 miles northeast of Srinagar, India. Hundreds of pilgrims annually go to the remote Himalayan shrine of Amarnath at 14,500 feet to worship an icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.
  • June 18: Weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City are on display at the 9th Iraqi Army Division headquarters in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq.
  • June 18: Belgian farmers' tractors are parked in the Cinquantenaire Park in the center of Brussels. Hundreds of farmers, truckers and taxi drivers blocked roads into the center of the city on the eve of an EU summit to push leaders for help coping with skyrocketing fuel prices.
  • June 18: Decorated elephants line up for a religious procession ahead of the Rath Yatra in Ahmadabad, India. The annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, which displays idols of the Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, will be held July 4.
  • June 18: A man rows a boat in a flooded area near the Xijiang (West River) at the Fengkiu county of Zhaoqing in China's southern Guangdong province. Floodwater started to recede in parts of southern China after killing at least 63 people, swamping millions of acres of farmland and causing billions of dollars in damage, the government said.
  • June 18: A bus that skidded off a road is seen on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Two people were killed and 27 others injured in the accident.
  • June 18: Earthquake survivor Zhang Xiaoyan kisses her newborn baby girl at a hospital in Urumqi, in China's western Xinjiang region. Zhang, who was rescued on May 14 after being trapped for more than two days in a collapsed building in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, gave birth to a 7.3-pound girl on Wednesday. The baby was named Ai, or love, in honor of the rescue workers and strangers who showered Zhang with kindness and gifts in the month since she was pulled out of the debris.
  • June 18: Members of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity gesture as they run naked inside the campus to mark the 100th year of University of the Philippines in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila.
  • June 18: Racegoers enjoy food and drink on the second day of Royal Ascot in Ascot, England. The annual horse race meeting spread over five days is one of the highlights of the English social season. The Royal Enclosure, the most sought-after part of the course, has strict dress codes for men and women, with morning suits top hats for men and conservative dresses and hats to be worn by women, though interpretation by top designers leads to some interesting and colorful creations.
  • June 17: Members of El Salvador's Army attend a ceremony at the Ilopango military base in San Salvador.
  • June 17: Belgium's Princess Eleonore sits on the lap of her grandmother Queen Paola during an official portrait at the Royal Palace in Laeken, Belgium.
  • June 17: Afghans carry their belongings on a tractor as they leave the Arghandab district, which is partly controlled by the Taliban, for the city of Kandarhar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • June 17: President Bush makes a statement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington after meeting with officials about the Midwest flooding.
  • June 17: Jon Van Sciver, center, slips a wedding ring onto the finger of his partner, Craig Morgan, right, while officiant Aron Miller, left, reads them their vows after they obtained a marriage license at the San Diego County Administration Building in San Diego.
  • June 17: A Soviet Army veteran in Kiev, Ukraine, protests NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer's visit and Ukraine's efforts to join NATO.
  • June 17: Bryan Schulte watches over a sandbag levee holding back floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa.
  • June 17: Sen. John McCain waves to the crew of his campaign charter as he boards at Love Field in Dallas.
  • June 17: A resident stands on the rubble of collapsed houses while watching the demolition of a building in Hongbai, southwest China's Sichuan province.
  • June 17: A man takes attendance of women at a work site in Bharha village, around 26 miles south of Allahabad, India.
  • June 17: South Korean dairy farmers burn a traditional coffin symbolizing U.S. beef and the South Korean government during a rally against U.S. beef imports near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea.
  • June 17: Office workers walk past a giant foot of a diabetic patient in Singapore's financial district.
  • June 17: Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art look at artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled Novecento, a taxidermic horse suspended from the ceiling by leather slings, on the opening day of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
  • June 17: A torchbearer runs during the Olympic torch relay in Urumqi, the capital of China's Muslim Xinjiang region.
  • June 16: Nate Guyer, 6, screeches as the water is turned on a hose toy at a summer party in Bowling Green, Ky.
  • June 16: Orren Carmen of Grass Valley, Calif., walks his horse Kilt in front of a full moon during the second day of the Reno Rodeo Cattle Drive.
  • June 16: High winds blow the large American flag flying over Steve Shannon Tire warehouse along Millville Road in Bloomsburg, Pa., as storm clouds float over it.
  • June 16: Sen. Barack Obama waves with former Vice President Al Gore in Detroit.
  • June 16: A flooded home along 3rd Avenue is seen in Coralville, Iowa.
  • June 16: Stephen Heckenberg of Sperry, Iowa, stomps a sandbag into place on a sandbag wall reinforcing a levy holding the Mississippi River from Iowa cornfields near Kingston, Iowa.
  • June 16: The nearly full moon rises in the background as a horse eats grass in a field in Bloomsburg, Pa., after the sunset following a thunderstorm that moved across the region.
  • June 16: A soldier from the Camp Bowie National Guard Training Facility monitors the spread of a grass fire in Brown County, Texas.
  • June 16: Georgia left fielder Lyle Allen misses a fly ball hit by Stanford's Zach Jones for a triple in the third inning of an NCAA College World Series baseball game in Omaha, Neb.
  • June 16: A double rainbow and the two towers to St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in downtown Green Bay, Wis., are seen.
  • June 16: This aerial shows flooding from the Rock River submerging Sportscore One, a soccer and softball facility run by the Rockford Park District in Rockford, Ill.
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