Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:52:24 GMT | By Antony Bennison
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Lightnings strike over buildings during a thunderstorm in Berlin. (© Reuters)
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  • Lightnings strike over buildings during a thunderstorm in Berlin. (© Reuters)
  • People throw confetti from their windows during the Gay Pride parade in Toronto. (© Reuters)
  • Hava Hershkovitz, 79, (2nd right), a Holocaust survivor and winner of a beauty contest for survivors of the Nazi genocide, stands with other contestants during a contest in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The beauty contest for Holocaust survivors stirred deep emotions in Israeli on Friday, with organisers hailing it an affirmation of life and detractors calling it a macabre spectacle. (© Reuters)
  • An ethnic Roma man carries his child after being rehoused at Cuprom offices in Romania's northern town of Baia Mare. Roma is a term for various groups who have migrated across Europe for centuries and are now the biggest ethnic minority in the European Union, most of them from countries like Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. There are an estimated 10 million across Europe and one in five lives in Romania. (© Reuters)
  • A helicopter drops water on the north flank of the Fontenelle Fire outside Big Piney, Wyoming. Over 800 firefighters are working 15 hour shifts battling the fire that has exceeded 56,000 acres, according to fire information services. (© Reuters)
  • Joey Chestnut competes in the 2012 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Chestnut ate a record-tying 68 hot dogs to take the crown. (© Reuters)
  • Children eat in a makeshift shelter where they are taking refuge at from the floods in Kurigram . At least 100 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people are marooned as floods triggered by heavy rains spread across Bangladesh. (© Reuters)
  • A clown checks his mobile phone during an international clown festival in San Salvador. Every year clowns from Mexico, Colombia and the US meet in San Salvador to exchange make-up tips and the latest tricks and jokes. (© Reuters)
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Lightning strikes over buildings during a thunderstorm in Berlin.

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