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Players participated in Gamescom, a gaming industry fair in Cologne, Germany.
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Players participated in Gamescom, a gaming industry fair in Cologne, Germany.
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A girl prepared to slide down a water slide Friday at ‘CabrioSol’ pool in Pegnitz, Germany. CabrioSol is an open-air swimming pool that closes its roof when it rains.
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The new ‘Slinky Springs to Fame’ bridge was illuminated Thursday night in the western German city of Oberhausen.
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A young boy walked over rocks near the Baltic Sea at Niendorf village near Timmendorfer Beach, Germany, during sunny spring weather.
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A combination photo shows six of the finalists of the men’s 10-meter platform diving competing at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) August 24, 2010. The finalists shown are (top row l-r) Canada’s Marc Sabourin-Germain, Venezuela’s Robert Paez and Ukraine’s Oleksandr Bondar and (bottom row l-r) China’s Qiu Bo, Malaysia’s Ooi Tze Liang and Germany’s Tim Pyritz.
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Two hippopotamuses played in their enclosure at the Hippodrom in Cologne, Germany, Friday.
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A makeshift memorial in a tunnel where a mass panic and stampede killed 19 people and injured at least 340 on Saturday during the Love Parade, a techno music festival in Duisberg, Germany. The deaths occurred as crowds surged into the tunnel, which led to the festival grounds.
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German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, right, talked to a German soldier, center, as an Armenian soldier took part in a drill during his visit to the air force training center at the “General Sponeck” Barracks in Germersheim, Germany, Thursday.
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Manya, bottom, a giraffe calf born two weeks ago, started mingling with family members and inspecting her surroundings at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, where she has become a star attraction.
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A man poses as he celebrates during the Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin, on Saturday, June 19, 2010. Christopher Street Day (CSD) Parade is an enormous outdoor gay and lesbian party that has taken place every summer in Berlin since 1979. The festival is named after the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York that happened after police raided a gay bar on Christopher Street.
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Crew members of the United States Navy frigate saluted as the ship entered port at Kiel, Germany. A total of 14 Navy ships from five nations arrived for Kiel Week, which begins Friday.
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A resident paddles by flooded garden fences in a rowboat on May 27, 2010 in Brieskow-Finkenherd near Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
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The flooded river Danube in Passau, southern Germany on June 3, 2010. After heavy rainfalls, many streets were flooded near the banks of the rivers Danube and Inn, which join in Passau.
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Beachgoers crowded a lake near Berlin. Temperatures in the German capital reached almost 90 degrees (32C)
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A military plane of the type Airbus A400M is reflected in the heart-shaped sunglasses of a spectator at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) on June 9, 2010 at the Schoenefeld airport in Berlin. Running until June 13, the biannual Berlin Air Show (ILA) is expected to attract some 1,150 exhibitors from nearly 50 countries presenting all manner of planes, helicopters, rotors, motors and other technology to around 200,000 visitors.
