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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina on Thursday announced their divorce.
Heavy rainfalls have caused flooding along rivers and lakes in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The Rose Festival was held in Kazanluk on Sunday, with activities including rose picking, dance performances and parade after the election of the Rose Queen.
Turkish police continued to clash with thousands of demonstrators protesting against government's plan to demolish a park in Istanbul on Saturday, local media reported.
Firefighters keep watch at Green Valley as the fire has burned more than 1,400 acres (566.56 hectares) since Thursday in the Angeles National Forest in California.
Forty-two contestants advanced on Wednesday to the semifinals of the top US spelling contest, the first to also ask competitors to know what the words mean.
"Manhattanhenge", coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, occurs when the setting sun aligns itself with the east-west grid of streets in Manhattan, allowing the sun to shine down all streets at the same time.
Two men married each other in the southern French city of Montpellier on Wednesday, in the first same-sex wedding in a country rocked by protests for and against the reform.
Commemorating man's 60 year conquest of Qomolangma.
Sukhothai, capital of the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th-14th century, was inscripted in UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage list in 1991.
A CSX Corp derailed train car carrying chemicals burns after being struck by a truck in Rosedale, Maryland May 28, 2013 in this photo courtesy of the Baltimore Sun.
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome May 29, 2013.
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