Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: the statue of Christ the Redeemer, atop Corcovado Hill, is lit in green on the last day of Rio+20 summitPhotograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty ImagesBerlin, Germany: fans celebrate at a public viewing event after Germany beat Greece 4-2 in the Euro 2012 quarter-finalsPhotograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty ImagesMieres Figaredo, Spain: a coal miner fires handmade rockets at riot police during clashes with authorities in northern Spain as they protest against cuts in subsidiesPhotograph: Jose Colon/AP
New York, US: a visitor walks on a footbridge in a replica of French painter Claude Monet's garden in an exhibition, at the New York Botanical GardensPhotograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty ImagesPunjab, India: a labourer empties a sack of rotten rice in Khamano village. India hiked the base price it will pay farmers for rice this year well above current domestic levels, raising the prospects for a bumper harvest and exports from the world's second-biggest producerPhotograph: Ajay Verma/ReutersAscot, England: a racegoer's hat flies off in strong winds on the fourth day of racing at Royal AscotPhotograph: Stefan Wermuth/ReutersSrinagar, India: Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Mohammed to heavenPhotograph: Dar Yasin/APRio de Janeiro, Brazil: environmental activists, one portraying a shrinking planet, left, another dressed as a butcher carrying a hatchet and donning a red-stained apron with corporate logos of fast food restaurants, attend a protest on the final day of the United Nations conference on sustainable developmentPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APManagua, Nicaragua: Hayel Pineda, 31, walks to the room where her husband tried to kill her by cutting her throat with a knife. A new law called integral law against violence against women has been introduced that recognises all forms of violence against women as criminal acts and makes them punishable up to a 30-year term in jailPhotograph: Nicolas Garcia/AFP/Getty ImagesGeorgia, US: the Chattooga river seen here from Clayton, Georgia, was featured in the film Deliverance. Though many in the region still bristle at the movie's portrayal of locals as uneducated hillbillies, the film helped create the $20m rafting and outdoor sports industry along the riverPhotograph: David Goldman/APHarare, Zimbabwe: Tonderai Kanyere waits for his results after he was tested for HIV and Aids. In Zimbabwe's parliament, politicians belonging to a panel on health issues are setting up an HIV/Aids testing and male circumcision centrePhotograph: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/APTokyo, Japan: rainwater is seen at the centre of a lotus leaf at Shinobazu pond after a heavy shower hit the capital Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPALake Lucerne, Switzerland: Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, dropped from a helicopter and deployed a carbon-kevlar jetwing to perform the flightPhotograph: Samuel Truempy/AP ImagesNew Delhi, India: youngsters survey the damage after a fire in a shanty town swept through a slum, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resalePhotograph: Kevin Frayer/APDuisburg, Germany: an emu is pictured in its enclosure at the zooPhotograph: Ina Fassbender/ReutersCairo, Egypt: supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, protest against Egypt's military rulers in Tahrir SquarePhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
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