Indigenous protesters march through the decades-old Vila Autodromo squatter settlement before demonstrating outside the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilPhotograph: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesA mourner kisses Joseph Briggs during his funeral service at New Zion Grove Missionary Baptist church in Chicago. Briggs, who was 16 in April, was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting while he was sitting on his front porch with his sister this monthPhotograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesAn underground parking lot? A car sits in a giant sinkhole in Duluth, Minnesota. Residents evacuated their homes and animals escaped from pens at a zoo as floods fed by a steady torrential downpour struck north-eastern MinnesotaPhotograph: Brian Peterson/AP
As another wet day dawns over Stonehenge, solstice revellers celebrate the arrival of the longest day at the megalithic monument near Salisbury, England. Sunglasses were optionalPhotograph: Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesA bigger splash: people watch as water gushes out of the Xiaolangdi reservoir on the Yellow river in Luoyang, China. The sand-washing operation, which started on 19 June and will last for about 20 days, is clearing out the silt deposits at the damPhotograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty ImagesYes, I'm unfortunately with him! A man playing an accordion beneath a costume of torn fabrics and a child leave Stonehenge during the summer solstice, which dawned at 4.52amPhotograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/APA drier, luckier group of people look at the horizon on a rocky crest covered with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory Kokino in Macedonia soon after sunrisePhotograph: Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty ImagesA swiss-made solar-powered aircraft, the Solar Impulse, piloted by Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland, takes off from Rabat for a voyage across the Moroccan desert to OuarzazatePhotograph: Abdelhak Senna/AFP/Getty ImagesLiam Holden with family members outside the court of appeal in Belfast after he had his conviction for murder quashedPhotograph: Paul Faith/PAYes, it's still there. A couple sunbathe in front of the wreckage of the capsized Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto, Italy. Salvage crews began preliminary work this week on preparations to refloat the half-submerged cruise liner in the biggest ever operation of its kindPhotograph: Max Rossi/ReutersDavid Cameron and Aung San Suu Kyi leave Downing Street en route to the Houses of Parliament. Aung San Suu Kyi addressed both houses – a rare honour bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since the second world warPhotograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty ImagesDrama in Mumbai as the burning Maharashtra state government building is evacuated. Hundreds of employees fled the seven-storey building as more than two dozen fire engines battled the fire Photograph: APMeanwhile, Hindu devotees pull the chariot of Lord Jagannath during the 135th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The procession commemorates a journey by the Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in specially made chariotsPhotograph: Amit Dave/Reuters
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