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A man competes in the Bailgada Sharyat, an annual bullock-cart racing event in Pedgaon, western India

A man competes in the Bailgada Sharyat, an annual bullock-cart racing event in Pedgaon, western India (Image credit: Punit Paranjpe / AFP / Getty Images)

Democratic Republic of Congo supporter Michel Nkuka Mboladinga poses as a statue of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba ahead of the FIFA World Cup match between Colombia and DR Congo in Zapopan, Mexico (Image credit: Natacha Pisarenko / AP Photo)

A pollen-coated honeybee collects nectar from a field of sunflowers near Kirklareli in Turkey (Image credit: Ozgun Tiran / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Shiite Muslim women gather during a mourning ceremony as part of the Ashura day of commemoration in Tehran, Iran (Image credit: Vahid Salemi / AP Photo)

A man dives into the Canal Saint-Martin as temperatures rise during a heatwave in Paris, France (Image credit: Abdul Saboor / Reuters)

Women wear floral wreaths during Ivana Kupala, an ancient Slavic folk festival associated with the summer solstice, at the Mamayeva Sloboda outdoor museum in Kyiv, Ukraine (Image credit: Thomas Peter / Reuters)

Workers cultivate Gracilaria seaweed on an aquaculture farm near Rongcheng City, China (Image credit: Xinhua / Shutterstock)

People sunbathe during a record-breaking heatwave at Viking Bay in Broadstairs, United Kingdom (Image credit: Tolga Akmen / EPA / Shutterstock)

Rolling fields of lavender bushes bloom in Valensole, France (Image credit: Miguel Medina / AFP / Getty Images)

Catholic devotees covered in mud and leaves gather outside a church during the Taong Putik festival in Bibiclat, northern Philippines (Image credit: Rolex Dela Pena / EPA / Shutterstock)

People search through the rubble following a twin earthquake in Caraballeda near Caracas, Venezuela (Image credit: Federico Parra / AFP / Getty Images)

Mangrove trees and people are silhouetted against the sunset at Walakiri Beach in East Sumba, Indonesia (Image credit: Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty Images)

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