A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 19, 2018

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The engineers wave from the deck of the Airbus BelugaXL after successfully completing its first flight, at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, in Toulouse, France.

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A thick cloud of steam billows on New York's Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. A steam pipe exploded beneath the street, sending chunks of asphalt flying, and a geyser of white steam stories into the air, which forced pedestrians to take cover.

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Ring-tailed lemurs eat a slice of watermelon on ice during the hot weather, at a zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China, July 18, 2018.

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Toyota Hilux Quatar's driver Nasser Al Attiya steers his car with French co-driver Mathieu Baumel in southern Russia, on the eve of the start of Silk Way Rally 2018, between Astrakhan and Moscow.