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AP Photo/Hallstatt.net, Werner Krauss1 of 10
Floodwater rushes down a street in the village of Hallstatt, Austria, Wednesday, June 19. A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the village, which has special status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by the United Nations because of its unique beauty. Wednesday's storm turned the placid village creek into a raging torrent that flooded the village square, tearing up cobble stones in its wake. Houses and a hotel are partially under water.
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AP Photo/Nelson Antoine2 of 10Protestors burn a Sao Paulo state flag in front of City Hall, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broken out across the country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden.
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AstroKarenN/Twitter3 of 10
Astronaut Karen L Nyberg tweeted this photo of clouds from the International Space Station on June 18. She wrote, "To me, these clouds look like bacteria growth... pic.twitter.com/kXULTiSo52"
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AP Photo/Manish Swarup4 of 10Indian people use a boat to cross a Tibetan refugee market along the banks of the river Yamuna, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 19. With heavy rainfall in northern India water has flooded the banks of the Yamuna. At least 102 people died and 63,000 people remain stranded in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand following torrential monsoon rains, landslides and cloud bursts.
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Interior/Twitter5 of 10
The US Department of Interior tweeted this photo of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on June 18 and wrote, "The #Moon rising over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in #Utah. @BLMNational pic.twitter.com/0fZAMwHJ4Z"
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AP Photo /Ilnar Salakhiev6 of 10Zita, a liger - half-lioness, half-tiger - walks with her month-old liliger cubs in the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
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Interior/Twitter7 of 10
The US Department of Interior tweeted this photo of kayakers in Kenai Fjords National Park on June 18 and wrote, "June is the perfect time to go #kayaking @KenaiFjordsNPS. Where is your favorite place to kayak? #Alaska pic.twitter.com/w25icfXCS0"
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AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan8 of 10Commuters ride on a subway train at Yonggwang station, or "glory station," in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, June 18. Foreign visitors are usually allowed to take only one stop, from Puhung station to Yonggwang station, on Pyongyang's north-south Chollima subway line.
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Cmdr_Hadfield/Twitter9 of 10
On June 18 retired astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted this photo of lava taken while aboard the International Space Station. He wrote, "Hawaiian lava, like Japanese ink. pic.twitter.com/jOasEWc7Ce"
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NASA Earth Observatory10 of 10Next: Today's 10 Must-See Photos: 6-18-2013
On most days, relentless rivers of clouds wash over Alaska, obscuring most of the state's 6,640 miles of coastline and 586,000 square miles of land. The south coast of Alaska even has the dubious distinction of being the cloudiest region of the United States. That was certainly not the case on June 17, 2013, the date that the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this rare, nearly cloud-free view of the state. The absence of clouds exposed a striking tapestry of water, ice, land, forests, and even wildfires. NASA released the image on June 19, 2013.