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Image: Northern California fires
Andreas Fuhrmann / Record Searchlight via Zuma Press

The Week in Pictures

  June 26 - July 3: Everyday people living everyday lives despite heat and storms

Image: A woman with a child on her bicycle navigates through snarled traffic in Beijing
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
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View and discuss the pictures and issues that caught our eyes.

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U.S., world, and environment
Image: Jesse Helms
Alan Marler / AP
Jesse Helms: 30 years of Senate power

  The former North Carolina senator, who died on Independence Day, wielded influence in Washington for decades.

U.S. contractors Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes listen to U.S. ambassador to Colombia Brownfield in an aircraft in Colombia after being rescued by army forces
Ho / Reuters
Brian Hendler / AFP - Getty Images
Image: Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama
AP, Getty Images
Piute Wildfire Burns In The Sequoia National Forest
David Mcnew / Getty Images
A Zimbabwean woman shows her dyed finger after voting in the country's run-off presidential election in the the capital Harare
Philimon Bulawayo / Reuters
A stall holder selling pig masks stands at his stall at the annual Glastonbuury Festival 2008 in Somerset in southwest England
Luke Macgregor / Reuters
Jes Aznar / AFP - Getty Images
Image: Mississippi River flood in Clarksville
John Brecher / msnbc.com
John Brecher / msnbc.com
Midwest Flooding Continues To Threaten Towns Along The Mississippi
Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
People walk past a parking area during a transport strike in Carregado
Jose Manuel Ribeiro / Reuters

Entertainment photos

Celebrity, music, movie, TV and fashion
BRITAIN-NEWS-FESTIVAL-GLASTONBUR
Ben Stansall / AFP - Getty Images
The week in celebrity sightings

  Jay-Z courts controversy, Kim Cattrall finds puppy love, Motley Crue rocks out, and more.

CARLIN
Gregory Bull / AP
Image: Amy Winehouse
Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty Images
Eddie Vedder
Mark Humphrey / AP
Torn Curtain
Archive Photos / Getty Images
Image: Jon Stewart
Splashnews
Image: Ellen Page
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Image: Everett Collection
Everett Collection
June 01 2008
John Mccoy / Zuma Press
Image: Sydney Pollack
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Image: David Cook, Paula Abdul, David Archuleta
Chris Pizzello / AP
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI, MARK BALLAS
Kelsey Mcneal / ABC
E! Entertainment
The 43rd Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards - Arrivals
Charley Gallay / Getty Images

Sports photos

Big matchups, sports stars and history
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Joel Saget / AFP - Getty Images
Tour time

    See images from the 2008 Tour de France.

New York Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina confers with catcher Jose Molina in Pittsburgh
David Denoma / Reuters
Image: Tiger Woods & Rocco Mediate
Charlie Riedel / AP
Exercise rider Michelle Nevin and a groom walk Triple Crown hopeful Big Brown in the paddock before the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Image: Doc Rivers
Elise Amendola / AP
Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Image: Wings' Lidstrom lifts the Stanley Cup after his team defeated the Penguins in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey final in Pittsburgh
Shaun Best / Reuters
Danica Patrick
Tom Strickland / AP
Jockey Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown rides to a win on the134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville
John Gress / Reuters
Image: Trevor Immelman
Andrew Redington / Getty Images
Darrell Arthur, Robert Dozier
Mark Humphrey / AP
Shawn Taggart, Joey Dorsey, James Keefe
Mark Humphrey / AP
Royals Tigers Baseball
Paul Sancya / AP
Memphis forward Taggart and Texas guard Mason battle for loose ball in NCAA men's South Regional finals basketball game in Houston
Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters

Travel photos

U.S. and worldwide destinations
Image: Socotra, Yemen
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Socotra's treasures

  The Socotra islands face the challenge of how to conserve its unique species of plants and animals while opening up to tourism and improving life for its 50,000 human inhabitants.

Cherry Blossoms Usher In Spring In Washington
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Grand Canyon
Peter Essick
File photo of a visitor taking a picture near the Taj Mahal in the northern Indian city of Agra
Ahmad Masood / Reuters
2008 Beijing Olympics - Construction
Michael Reynolds / Corbis
HALF DOME YOSEMITE
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Jim Mcknight / AP
Opera House and Harbour Bridge - Sydney, Australia
Sergio Pitamitz / © Sergio Pitamitz/CORBIS
www.newzealand.com
USA - New Orleans - Mardi Gras 2006
Lucas Jackson / © LUCAS JACKSON/Reuters/Corbis
Point of Arches at Shi-Shi Beach
Kevin Schafer / Corbis
Green Sea Turtle Swimming
Ralph A. Clevenger / Corbis
Climber Abseiling Down Table Mountain
Henrik Trygg / Corbis
Image: American Airlines passengers
Carlos Barria / Reuters

Technology and science photos

Space, technology, gadgets and science
NASA/ESA/CXC
Month in Space: Liftoffs and landings

  See highlights from the shuttle Discovery’s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June’s roundup of cosmic pictures.

Image: Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe
Reuters
Image: Stonehenge
Ken Geiger / National Geographic
Image: Nebula
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USGS / NASA
Image: Limestone sequence
John "Doug" Powell
Image: A humanoid robot, designed to make human-like facial expressions in response to English and Japanese words.
David Guttenfelder / AP
Nasa Photo / AFP - Getty Images
Image: "Doomsday" vault in Norway
John Mcconnico / AP
Image: SpaceShipTwo
Virgingalactic.com
Image: Sanyo's Xacti E1
Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images
NASA / JPL / Space Science Insti

  SLIDE SHOW

Best of Cassini
Image: Antarctica
NASA
Image: Earth and moon
LPI/NASA, Lunar Orbiter

More photos

Pets, health and business slide shows
Valentina Petrova / AP
Animal Tracks

  Find a laid-back black bear, a surfing dog and more eye candy for animal lovers.

Image: Bill Gates
Andrew Gombert / EPA
Obama Holds Final Primary Night Event In St. Paul
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Image: Jingle Luis
Richard Drew / AP
Image: Priscilla Presley 1968; 2008
AP; Michael Desmond / ABC
Image: A 1964 Chevrolet Impala "Gypsy Rose" lowrider
Ric Francis / AP
Image: City dogs herding
Bernadette Tuazon / AP
Image: Todd Zaki Warfel stands in front of broken and boarded up windows in an unoccupied unit.
Matt Rourke / AP
Image: BMW concept CS
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Image: D-REX Dinosaur from Mattel.
Mark Lennihan / AP
An Iranian technician works at the Balal
Behrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images
Image: Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Coupe
Image: Mitsubishi's Concept-RA
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