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Our best photos from the last 24 hours.

Comic-Con characters unite
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Sci-fi, fantasy and anime characters turn up in droves for the annual Comic-Con convention in San Diego.

Photos of the week
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Our top photos from the past week.

Running of the bulls
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Highlights from the San Fermin festival.

Afghanistan: Lucas Jackson
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Scenes from an embed in Afghanistan.

The surreal shipwreck
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Views of the stricken Costa Concordia.

Barcelona risque fashion
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Highlights from the Pasarela 080 Barcelona Fashion Show.

The truckers' jamboree
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Drivers and their families gather at Iowa 80 Truckstop's 33rd Annual Truckers Jamboree.

Best of Tour de France
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Highlights from the 99th Tour de France.

Escape from Congo
Fri, Jul 13 2012

Recent fighting has displaced more than 100,000 Congolese.

Top-earning celebs under 30
Fri, Jul 13 2012

The ten highest-paid celebrities under 30.

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Photographer vs. wild cow

13 Jul 2012

Looking back on it, I think the cow had spotted me from the start and didn't like the look of what she saw.

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The Faces of Merkel

13 Jul 2012

As the story of the crisis in Europe continues with twists and turns, there is one lady who everyone looks to to put a calm face on events, and Reuters photographers are there to catch the expression of the moment.

Weekly Slideshow Showcase

Doreen Mylin, owner of the Magic Manatee Marina, pauses to inspect the damage as the water associated with Tropical Storm Debby rises and floods her business in Homosassa, Florida, June 26, 2012. Tropical Storm Debby drifted slowly eastward over Florida's Gulf Coast on Tuesday, threatening to dump more rain on areas already beset by flooding. After stalling in the Gulf of Mexico, the storm was finally moving but was expected to take two more days to finish its wet slog across Florida. REUTERS/Brian Blanco  (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)

Debby slams Florida

Florida declares a state of emergency due to flooding.  Slideshow 

Visitors at the Peak view Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour September 25, 2003. The harbour is one of the world's best deep-water harbours and is Hong Kong's most valuable natural asset. The Society for Protection of the Harbour Ltd is seeking a judiciary review on the government's decision to reclaim land from the city's harbour. [After decades of reclamation, the harbour is now only half of its original width and further reclamation will reduce it to a "river", according to Winston Chu, chairman of the group.]

Hong Kong: 15 years later

A look at the last 15 years since Hong Kong's handover back to China.  Slideshow 

A boy enjoys lying down on mud while celebrating Asar Pandhra festival in Pokhara valley, west of Nepal's capital Kathmandu June 29, 2012. Farmers in Nepal celebrate the festival to mark the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)

Festival of mud

People frolic in mud while celebrating the Asar Pandhra festival, marking the commencement of rice crop planting in Nepal's paddy fields.  Slideshow 

A sign shows the direction to Utoeya island in Tyrifjorden lake, northwest of Oslo April 15, 2012. Anti-Islam militant Anders Behring Breivik appears bent on turning a Norwegian court into a "circus" show for his views when he goes on trial on Monday for killing 77 people, reopening wounds in the traditionally tolerant and tranquil nation. Breivik has proudly admitted bombing the government's headquarters in Oslo in July 2011, killing eight people, before gunning down 69, mostly teenagers, at a summer camp of the ruling Labour Party on Utoeya island. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (NORWAY - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Norway's tragedy

A look at the Norway massacre last July and the outpouring of emotion, as the trial for confessed mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik wraps up.  Slideshow