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• June 28: Fireworks explode over a medieval castle and are reflected in a lake during the Festival of Fire in the small town of Mir, 60 miles west of Minsk, Belarus.
• June 28: The sailing school ship of the German Navy, Gorch Fock, second right, leads the parade of some 100 tall ships, old-timers and other sailing ships on the Kiel Bay near Kiel, northern Germany. The windjammer parade is one of the highlights of the sailing event of Kiel Week that ends on Sunday.
• June 28: Indonesian soldiers search for victims of a plane crash in Salak mountain in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Rescuers spotted the wreckage of the Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain with 18 people onboard.
• June 28: 'Encierros,' a Spanish expression describing the revelers who run along the streets in front of the bulls at the San Fermin festival, run with a car from the Motor Racing F1 Red Bull Team as it drives down the street in Pamplona, northern Spain. Next weekend begins the famous San Fermin Fiestas.
• June 27: This image from television shows the demolition of the 60-foot-tall cooling tower at its main reactor complex in Yongbyon, North Korea. The nation destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs.
• June 27: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wave as they step off the plane in Manchester, N.H., before a joint event.
• June 27: Pakistani Taliban in the tribal area of Bajour, near the Afghan border, prepare to execute two Afghans for their alleged spying for U.S. forces and helping orchestrate a suspected American missile strike that killed 14 people last month.
• June 27: A police officer looks at balloons placed at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. Demonstrators released around 4,000 red balloons during the event to remember the city's victims of violence over the last six months.
• June 27: In this photo provided by Microsoft, Chairman Bill Gates, right, speaks to employees on his last day as a full-time employee as CEO Steve Ballmer looks on at company headquarters in Redmond, Wash., during a farewell event celebrating Gates' years at Microsoft.
• June 27: Supporters of Australia's Casey Dellacqua sit with an inflatable kangaroo as they watch her third-round match against Nicole Vaidisova of the Czech Republic at Wimbledon.
• June 27: Japanese avionic engineer Keiji Koga listens to music through a leaf as he demonstrates in Tokyo his invention 'Ikebana (floral art) Speaker' that turns the leaves into audio speakers, making them tremble with vibrations. The speaker consists of a magnet and coil at the base of a vase that hooks up to a CD player. The magnet and coil relay the sound vibrations up the stems.
• June 26: Chris Fleischman of Phoenix, Ariz., holds a sign outside the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Phoenix to illustrate his objection to crime sweeps by the department. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department conducted a 'crime suppression' sweep in Mesa on Thursday. Critics charge the sheriff's deputies use racial profiling to target Hispanics who might be illegal immigrants.
• June 26: High winds from a fast-moving storm system that swept through the Detroit area knocked over the canopy of this BP gas station on the corner of Greenfield and Joy Road in Detroit, hitting two cars. The drivers escaped in time and no injuries were reported.
• June 26: Lightning illuminates the sky over downtown Jacksonville, Fla.
• June 26: Christian rock band Pillar plays on the main stage during Creation Festival 2008 in Mt. Union, Pa. This is the 30th year the Christian music festival has been held.
• June 26: Francie Rehwald, left, tosses her hat into the air while posing for friends in Malibu, Calif., as she realizes her dream of turning an old 747 aircraft into a home is about to come true.
• June 26: One of two dogs is lifted out of a storm drain after apparently chasing a raccoon and getting stuck inside the sewer at Westview Middle School in Longmont, Colo. From left are Longmont Public Works and Water Utilities techs Bill Smith and Jay Nelson, Longmont Police Officer Robert Dixon and Longmont Animal Control Officer Robin Breffle, shown hoisting the dog, which was unhurt. 'They were real friendly, nice dogs. Not hurt, but soaking wet, dirty, filthy,' Breffle said. 'We've rescued dogs, cats, kids, toys, car keys, wallets, cell phones, you name it,' Smith said.
• June 26: A manmade waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge cascades into the East River in New York. The public art display, an exhibition of four large-scale waterfalls by artist Olafur Eliasson called 'The New York City Waterfalls,' will be on view on the shores of the city's waterfront through Oct. 13.
• June 26: Acting Capt. Dave Craddock of the Salinas Rural Fire Department surveys a fire-ravaged forest in Big Sur, Calif. Hundreds of firefighters worked to protect the scenic community of Big Sur from a lightning-sparked wildfire that inched closer to historic structures after burning at least 16 homes and threatening another 500 houses.
• June 26: A Kashmiri protester jumps into a river as policemen chase him during a demonstration in Srinagar, India. Police said thousands of Kashmiris chanted anti-India slogans and hurled rocks at police as protests against the transfer of land to a Hindu shrine in this Muslim-majority region continued for a fourth day. Three people had died and dozens had been wounded in the protests.
• June 26: Investigators examine the wreckage of a private training plane after it crashed into the yard of a house, injuring both people on board, in Ipoh, north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Police say the two-seater Eagle 150B aircraft believed to be from an aviation academy in Perak state, was conducting routine pilot training courses when it crashed.
• June 25: Supporters listen as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses an election rally at Mahuwe business center, in Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe plunged deeper into international isolation just two days before a presidential runoff widely dismissed as a farce, as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II stripped Mugabe of his knighthood in the most high-profile rebuke to date of his regime of terror.
• June 25: Dr. Keith Leonard, left, Andrea Izester and Shelli Churchill lead the staff of a dental office on horseback down Smokey Point Boulevard in Arlington, Wash. Since more than half of the dental assistants and office staff own horses, the crew saddled up and rode in to work. 'We decided that when gas got to $4 a gallon, we would all ride in,' Leonard said.
• June 25: In this photo released by the British Royal Air Force, the British Royal Air Force 'Red Arrows' aerobatic team performs a flyby over the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The flyby was part of an air show in the skies above the harbor as the team made its first visit to New York City.
• June 25: From left to right, Megan Viars, who was working Wednesday at Atlantis Plastics, is comforted by Tina Green, David Green, 10, and Rosie Nally at a prayer vigil held at the Henderson County Courthouse for the six deaths from the Atlantis Plastic's shooting that morning.
• June 25: An alleged brothel-on-wheels that authorities said they busted over the weekend is shown in Miami Beach, Fla. Miami Beach undercover detectives who paid a $40 entry fee and boarded a stretch limousine bus Sunday found women onboard allegedly offering oral sex and lap dances for money, authorities said.
• June 25: A Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member climbs out of a tree on the Schleicher County Courthouse lawn in Eldorado, Texas. A grand jury opened its investigation Wednesday into a polygamist sect accused of forcing underage girls into marriage and motherhood.
• June 25: Israeli Jews watch fireworks during the celebration for the inauguration of the light rail bridge in Jerusalem. The bridge, which curves across Jerusalem's western entrance and eventually will carry the light rail line, is suspended from 66 white cables attached to a spire 387 feet high that towers over the surrounding rooftops and is visible for miles.
• June 25: Riot police detain demonstrators protesting a government-sponsored education bill called General Law of Education in Santiago. Police used tear gas and water cannons to scatter hundreds of protesters who want greater national control over education.
• This painting by Edouard Leon Cortes and entitled 'Marche aux Fleurs,' or 'Flower Market,' supplied by Sotheby's auction house, sold for $40,600 at a Sotheby's auction a few weeks ago after being dropped off at a rural Maryland Goodwill store. Thanks to the sharp eye of a store employee, the charitable organization is $40,600 richer, it was reported on Wednesday.
• June 25: Ten women are led out of Action Rags USA into a Homeland Security van as federal immigration agents raid and inspect the second-hand clothing warehouse on Port Houston Street in Houston. The agents detained at least 120 workers in the major raid to investigate allegations that the company is employing illegal immigrants.
• June 25: Firemen and fire trucks stand by the landmark James A. Farley U.S. Post Office on 8th Avenue and 33rd Street in Manhattan. A fire official says insulation on a 'gigantic' electrical cable caught fire, leading to the evacuation of the historic building.
• June 24: Cinnamon, a 3-week-old Barbados blackbelly sheep, and J2, a 170-pound Rottweiler, are seen together in their Dalton Gardens, Idaho, yard. The two have been inseparable since Cinnamon was rejected by her mother.
• June 24: Fire rages through a car burnt by student protesters on a street in the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia. About 1,000 Indonesian protesters angered by a student demonstrator's death after his arrest following a protest against fuel price hikes burned tires and hurled stones at police officers.
• June 24: Cyclists make a turn as they compete on a 1.2-mile course through Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, the 30-mile stage of the Tour of Pennsylvania. The six-day, 450-mile stage race features 20 teams of six riders each, ages 18 to 24, from around the world.
• June 24: In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, an ornate gold chalice with etched scrollwork is displayed after it was located by shipwreck salvagers searching for the wreckage of the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita about 30 miles west of Key West, Fla. The Margarita sank during a 1622 hurricane and its wreckage has been the focus of a search by Blue Water Ventures in a joint-venture partnership with Mel Fisher's Treasures. The chalice is estimated at $1 million or more.
• June 24: Cal Fire engines, mostly from Southern California, pour into the Camelot subdivision for structure protection as the Empire fire grows in Butte County, Calif. In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California, a rare example of 'dry lightning' that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands.
• June 24: Serena Williams, left, and Venus Williams of the United States play Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus and Australia's Anastasia Rodionova on the Centre Court at Wimbledon during the first-round double match.
• June 24: A section of the new I-35 bridge is raised from a barge in the foaming Mississippi River at Minneapolis. The section is No. 60 out of 120 needed to complete the span, which is on course for completion months ahead of schedule and barely a year after the old Mississippi River crossing collapsed during rush hour.
• June 24: Firefighters evacuate people from a burning building of the department for architecture and city planning in Kiev, Ukraine. The fire was promptly extinguished and no one was hurt.
• June 24: A Palestinian security force officer holds his rifle next to a painting, allegedly by British artist Banksy, depicting a peace dove wearing a flak jacket, before the arrival of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Later during a departure ceremony for Sarkozy in Tel Aviv, Israeli security guards took him and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert away. Reports later surfaced that an Israeli police officer had killed himself at the farewell ceremony on the same day a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza militants was declared broken after rockets ripped through southern Israel.
• In this undated photo, Ram Singh Munda, 35, rides a bicycle with his pet sloth bear, Rani, that became part of his family in Gahatagaon village, about 125 miles north of Bhubaneswar, India. When wildlife officials learned of Munda, who brought home the orphaned bear cub from the forests of eastern India to console his daughter after her mother died, he was arrested and jailed for violating wildlife laws. The bear was sent to a zoo where it was refusing to eat and his 6-year-old daughter was shipped off to a state-run boarding school, it was reported on Tuesday.
• June 24: Philippine Coast Guard rescuers search for victims near the sunken passenger ferry the MV Princess of the Stars off the Sibuyan Sea in central Philippines. Still hoping for a miracle, divers wriggled into the upside-down ferry on Tuesday but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 850 people aboard, officials said.
• June 23: Tucker the dog, foreground, watches a bear with a McDonald's bag in its mouth wandering in a yard off Deermount Street in Ketchikan, Alaska. The bear had raided a neighbor's garbage can.
• June 23: Pyper and Sadie Vance protest high gas prices on the corner of Main Street and 200 South. The girls decided to protest after their mother was unable to pay the cable bill for their cartoons due to high gas prices.
• June 23: Balloons start up as they take part in the International Balloon Fiesta, Rise Above the Clouds, in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia.
• This undated file photo originally released by HBO shows George Carlin in a promotion shot for his HBO special 'It’s Bad for Ya.' A publicist for Carlin said the legendary comedian died of heart failure at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sunday.
• June 23: A pall of smoke billows from the city during clashes between Sunni Muslim government supporters and Alawite opposition supporters in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Heavy overnight fighting between pro- and anti-government supporters in Tripoli led to the deaths of four more people, security officials said Monday.
• June 23: Residents transporting their belongings pass the rubble of collapsed buildings in quake-hit Beichuan county, southwest of China's Sichuan province. A month after the May 12 earthquake, officials gave residents approval to return to their homes in the devastated Beichuan to search for their belongings.
• June 23: A South Korean protester walks by a fountain to participate in a candlelight rally against U.S. beef imports in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's trade minister reassured Monday that his country would not import U.S. beef from older cattle in a bid to quell continuing health concerns, despite its new import deal with Washington.
• June 23: Accompanied by Israel's President Shimon Peres, left, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, left, leave the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem. Sarkozy on Monday told Israel's parliament that a nuclear-armed Iran is ‘unacceptable’ to his country.
• June 23: President Bush, center, participates in a photo opportunity with the 2008 Presidential Scholars on the South Portico of the White House in Washington.
• June 23: Law enforcement officers survey flooding over Highway 79 in Winfield, Mo. Along one of the last stretches of Mississippi River where the river was still rising, around-the-clock efforts continued Monday to keep floodwaters at bay.
• June 23: Mike Davis, left, and Adam Booker of East Stroudsburg, Pa., take a run down a green-tinted Brodhead Creek in East Stroudsburg. The creek water was dyed as part of a tracing test by the Brodhead Creek Regional Authority to better understand how surface water and groundwater flow near treatment facilities and determine how long it would take an upstream pollution event to spread. The two tubers were originally unaware of the test, but once they determined what the source of the unnatural color was they were eager to float on through.
• June 23: Mohammed Momin Khawaja, center, rides in a police vehicle from the courthouse back to the detention center following his court appearance in Ottawa. More than four years after Khawaja's arrest, the trial for his alleged role in an international plot by Islamic extremists to bomb targets in Britain started Monday. The 29-year-old Canadian-born software developer is the first man to be charged under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act following a highly publicized RCMP raid on his family's home in March 2004.
• June 23: A reveler carries a woman on his back while he walks on burning embers during the night of San Juan in San Pedro Manrique, Spain. The celebrations of San Juan are of pagan origin and celebrate the arrival of the summer solstice during the shortest night of the year.
• June 23: Fireworks light up downtown Detroit from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, at the annual fireworks display held on the Detroit River during the 50th anniversary of the fireworks.