2015-07-01

A lot has happened around the world in the last month, some very tragic, others comic and some very strange. Here is a collection of pictures that tell all the stories.



Prayer at Charleston following the killings at the black church



Man weeps in prayer at Charleston.



Scene from an attack at a factory in France

Scene from a bomb attack at a Mosque in Kuwait

A girl wearing a traditional Kyrgyz dress sits on felt carpets at the 5th International Festival of Kyrgyz National Applied Arts in the village of At-Bashi, 400 km from Bishkek.

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A Syrian refugee reacts as he waits behind border fences to cross into Turkey at Akcakale border gate in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 15, 2015.

A woman dances in a cloud of bubbles while marching in a gay pride parade in San Francisco, California

A woman kisses a suspected gang member as he is arrested during an anti-gang search operation in San Salvador June 21, 2015. The Salvadoran Police and Army participated in a search operation in response of a deadly attack where two soldiers were killed by gang members reported.REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

An Egyptian woman chants pro-government slogans, during the funeral of Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, killed in a bomb attack a day earlier, outside the Hussein Tantawi Mosque in Cairo, Egypt

Anti-austerity protesters burn a euro note during a demonstration outside the European Union (EU) offices in Athens, Greece June 28, 2015.

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Simon Armitage, Oxfords’ professor of poetry pictured giving a talk and reciting his poetry at the Walter Henry’s bookshop in Bideford.

Boko Haram Attack At Ndjamena In Chad

Coast guard trailing the ill-fated float plane at Alaska

Trying to survive the heat wave in Pakistan

Dylan Roof charged for hate crime

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Ebola resurfaces in West Africa

Ebola still in West Africa

Terrorist attack in France that left one dead and two injured.

Crime scene in France

Investigating the French attack

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama outside the Elmau castle in Kruen near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 8, 2015.

Greek riot police officers take position in front of the Bank of Greece during demonstrations in Athens, Greece, June 30, 2015. The missed payment, the largest in the Fund’s history, is equivalent to a default, in that both imply a breach of Athens’ obligations.

Heat wave in Pakistan

Volunteer doctor in Pakistan

Pakistan Heat Wave victim being aided

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Homes destroyed by the Sleepy Hollow fire are pictured in Wenatchee, Washington June 29, 2015.

Indonesian military personnel search for victims at the site where an air force cargo plane crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The Hercules C-130 plane has crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country’s third-largest city Medan.

CRASH SITE

Military plane that crashed in Indonesia

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Jason Howe, 50, (2nd L) and his husband Adrian Perez-Boluda, 50, put their twin three-year-old daughters Olivia (L) and Clara to bed at their home in Los Angeles, California, United States, June 25, 2015. Howe and Perez-Boluda married in Spain and in California in 2008. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry in a historic triumph for the American gay rights movement.

KABUL ATTACK

Kelley O’Hara of the United States celebrates with teammates after scoring the second goal in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 semifinal match against Germany at Olympic Stadium on June 30, 2015 in Montreal, Canada.

Korean scientist and the Supreme leader of Korea at an inspection of the said cure for AIDS

Korea supreme leader supervising the alleged cure for AIDS

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Man looks on as fire engulfs a house in Massachusetts after a plane crashed into the house.

(Plainville, MA, 062815 )Firefighters investigate inside the house which an aircraft has crashed in Plainville, Mass., Sunday, June 28,2015.

Man pours wine on girl friend at a festival

firemen fighting fire at Massachusetts plane 2 crash site

Governor of South Carolina at the Church in Charleston where nine were shot dead

Pensioners waiting outside a closed National Bank branch and hoping to get their pensions, argue with a bank employee (L) in Iraklio on the island of Crete, Greece June 29, 2O15

People dressed as Albert Einstein gather to establish a Guinness world record for the largest Einstein gathering, to raise money for School on Wheels and homeless children’s education, in Los Angeles, California, USA

Pilot Bryan Krill is pictured standing by an aircraft. Whether this was the plane involved in the disaster is unknown.

Protesters are hit by a jet of water released from a riot police vehicle during a rally against a recent decision to increase the tariff on electricity, in Yerevan, Armenia, June 23, 2015.

Riot police use a water cannon to disperse LGBT rights activist before a Gay Pride Parade in central Istanbul, Turkey

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Relatives mourn the death of Lata Jadhav, 35, who died after consuming bootleg liquor at a slum in Mumbai, India, June 21, 2015

A home destroyed by the Sleepy Hollow fire is pictured in Wenatchee, Washington June 29, 2015

An insurance claims adjuster surveys damage in the Broadview neighborhood where homes were consumed by the Sleepy Hollow fire in Wenatchee, Washington June 30, 2015. At least 24 residences were destroyed or severely damaged by the so-called Sleepy Hollow fire that has scorched nearly 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of rolling grasslands and brush in and around the city of Wenatchee since it erupted on a parched hillside on Sunday.

Homes destroyed by the Sleepy Hollow fire are pictured in Wenatchee, Washington June 29, 2015.

Some 1000 coloured umbrellas decorate a main pedestrian street in Jerusalem, as the city’s municipality opens more attractions and cultural activities in an effort to bring tourists and locals to visit the city.

A family stands on the back of their pickup truck as they take part in the “Ride for Pride” impromptu event to show their support the Confederate flag in Brandon, Hillsborough County, June 26, 2015. Several hundred people took part in the event.

Police trailing a shooter at a tourist beach in Tunisia

Coast Guard Hovering Over Alaska, In Search Of A Sightseeing float plane that crashed

The eight passengers who died in the plane crash had been sailing on the Holland America Line ship MS Westerdam.

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Vigil held for the victims of the Tunisian terrorist attack

Tunisia- blood in the sand

Mourning in Tunisia

Two tourists pay respects to victims of IS attack on beach in Sousse, Tunisia

A suspected accomplice of the shooter in Tunisia, shielded by the police from a mob

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A Burundi woman casts her vote





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Volcanic Eruption

Marooned of the flood

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Woman with an umbrella with the gay pride colors

Prayers-Ramadan

Funeral

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The White House is illuminated in rainbow colors after today’s historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage in Washington June 26, 2015

A farm boy, with his face covered with sand, is pictured as he leaves the farm he works on, near Sanaa, Yemen, June 9, 2015.

A goat eats leaves inside a motor pump workshop in Mumbai, India, June 24, 2015.

A group of migrants protect themselves from the weather with emergency blankets as they huddle on the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimille, Italy and Menton, France, June 14, 2015. Some 200 migrants, principally from Eritrea and Sudan, who attempted to cross the border from Italy and were blocked by Italian police and French gendarmes.

A hippopotamus walks across flooded street in Tbilisi, Georgia, June 14, 2015

A Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighter carries a boy injured by what they said was a mine after they fled Maskana town in the Aleppo countryside and make their way towards the Turkish border in Tel Abyad town, Raqqa governorate, June 16, 2015.

A local resident carries bread in the village of Novotoshkivske near the frontline with pro-Russian separatists, eastern Ukraine, June 8, 2015.

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A man carrying butchered dogs drives past a pet dog at a dog meat market ahead of a local dog meat festival in Yulin, Guangxi Autonomous Region, June 21, 2015. Local residents in Yulin host small gatherings to consume dog meat and lychees in celebration of the summer solstice which marks the coming of the hottest days for the festival.

A man cools off from a public tap after filling bottles during intense hot weather in Karachi, Pakistan, June 23, 2015.

A migrant prays at sunrise on the rocks of the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimille, Italy and Menton, France, June 17, 2015.

A Salvadoran father (R) carries his son while running next to another immigrant as they try to board a train heading to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near of Mexico City, June 1, 2015. An increasing number of Central Americans are sneaking across Mexico’s border en route to the United States.

A security worker brings money to a National Bank branch in Athens, Greece June 28, 2015.

A stuntman flies through the air following an explosion during the filming of the Koldo Serra directed feature film Gernika in the Basque town of Guernica, northern Spain June 17, 2015. The film centres on an American journalist reporting the aerial bombing of the town during the Spanish Civil War by planes from Germany’s Condor Legion, in aid of the nationalist military rebellion led by General Francisco Franco.

A U.S. Marine Osprey sends up a big wash of rain as as it lands near the Bavarian town of Kruen, Germany, June 8, 2015. The Ospreys provided transport to Air Force One in Munich for members of U.S. President Barack Obama’s staff, Secret Service, White House Press Corps and other personnel at the conclusion of the G7 Summit.

A woman accompanies some students as they wade in the shallow part of a rocky beach to their school to attend the first day of classes in Sitio Kinabuksan, Kawag village, Subic, Zambales Province, north of Manila June 1, 2015. An estimated 24 million public school students in the primary and secondary levels attend the opening of classes nationwide, local media reported.

A woman walks through an alley as used pairs of jeans are hung to dry before they are sold in a second-hand clothes market in Kolkata, India, June 29, 2015.

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 28, 2015. The rocket exploded about two minutes after liftoff on Sunday, destroying a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station, NASA said.

Barcelona players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Champions League final against Juventus in Berlin June 6, 2015.

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Revellers stroll at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 27, 2015.

Buffalos escape a fire, which is spreading on a patch of land by the Yamuna river, on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, June 9, 2015.

Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof, 21, into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. Roof, a 21-year-old with a criminal record, is accused of killing nine people at a Bible-study meeting in a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in an attack U.S. officials are investigating as a hate crime.

Instructors from the Ujamaa self-defence programme train a group of women to protect themselves against rape at the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum in the capital Nairobi, Kenya, March 16, 2015. Across Nairobi, more than 200 elderly women, aged up to 105, are learning self defence to protect themselves against rape, which is widespread in Kenya, particularly in its slums. Research by the charity Ujamaa, which runs the self defense program, shows that one in four women in Korogocho experience sexual assault.

The identification number is seen written on a woman’s hand as she rests with more than 1,000 migrants after they disembarked from the British assault ship HMS Bulwark at the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, after being rescued at sea, June 8, 2015.

Song Xiyang (L) touches the face of his new husband Fu Zheng at a group wedding for seven same-sex couples from China, in West Hollywood, California, United States, June 9, 2015. The gay couples were selected as winners of a contest hosted by internet giant Alibaba. China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997, but does not recognize same-sex marriages.

Residents with faces covered in ash ride on a motorcycle as Mount Sinabung volcano erupts, in Sukandebi village in Karo Regency, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, June 13, 2015

An excavator removes a dead bear at the zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, June 17, 2015. Tigers, lions, bears and wolves were among more than 30 animals that escaped from a Georgian zoo and onto the streets of the capital Tbilisi during floods that killed at least 12 people.

The sun rises while workers use rotor blades to cut limestone at a quarry in the desert of Minya governorate, south of Cairo, Egypt May 28, 2015. In the limestone quarries of Minya province south of Cairo, laborers in sandals and makeshift masks use unsheathed rotor blades to gouge the white, fossil-rich rock into house bricks. The workers in the snow-white landscape – farmers and university graduates among them – plan to strike next month. They told Reuters they make between $10 and $16 a day and suffer from scant safety measures and a lack of social and medical insurance despite some having lost arms, legs or fingers in accidents.

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Supreme Leader of North Korea meets with North Korea’s first female fighter pilot

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Heat wave cooling techniqu

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Volcanic eruption

Michelle Obama in London

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Ramadan

Battle of waterloo



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Volcano erupting

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Waterloo relived

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world-in-pic-Covered in wine revellers enjoy during the Batalla del Vino (Battle of Wine) in Haro, Spain

Wounded people await treatment at a make-shift hospital in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, following reported air strikes by regime forces

It must have been observed that most of the pictures have vivid descriptions, while some are just blank, well the main drive is to have the pictures speak for themselves and have the viewer quest for more.

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