Gallery: The best photos from around the world
10 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
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A visitor tries to orientate through a room full of fog called 'Your blind passenger' as part of the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: 'In real life' at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.Credit:AP
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A solar field is seen from the air, in Dettenhofen, west of the Ammersee lake, Germany.Credit:dpa
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Nathan Jamerson, 10, wallows in the mud during Mud Day at the Nankin Mills Park, in Westland, Michigan. Credit:AP
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As others tend to two adult mountain goats on a flatbed truck in front of him, Derrick Halsey, a wildlife capture specialist known as a "mugger," carries a kid mountain goat from a helicopter, on Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park near Port Angeles, Washington.Credit:AP
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Julia Doss, foreground, helps unload a truck load of food at the Christian Fellowship of Trona, California. Desert Manna, and Darrin Fikstad, far right, offered a large truck full of food along with several other High Desert charities for the town ravaged by earthquakes and aftershocks. It could be several more days before water service is restored to the tiny town of Trona, where officials trucked in portable toilets and showers.Credit:James Quigg/The Daily Press
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Prosthetic technician Wilfrid Macena cradles his son Wilensky while sitting on their front porch in Carrefour, Haiti. Macena was a welder who built gas station tanks for a living when the devastating 2010 earthquake toppled a wall at the garage where he worked and crushed his right leg.Credit:AP
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A resident walks by a shop store damaged after heavy rains in in Tafalla, northern Spain. Credit:AP
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A man walks past a development site for a Chinese Investment bank in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. China is pouring billions of dollars in aid and low-interest loans into the South Pacific, and even in the far-flung kingdom of Tonga there are signs that a battle for power and influence among much larger nations is heating up and could exact a toll.Credit:AP
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Horses and cows stand together in a paddock in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises.Credit:AP
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The pack rides during the fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 214 kilometers with start in Reims and finish in Nancy, France.Credit:AP