July 8, 2013

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A firefighter stands close to the remains of a train wreckage in Lac-Megantic, Canada. A driverless, runaway fuel train that exploded in a deadly ball of flames in the center of a small Quebec town started rumbling down an empty track just minutes after a fire crew had extinguished a blaze in one of its parked locomotives, an eyewitness said.

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A reflection of St. Basil's Cathedral is seen as a security guard opens a gate near a mirrored pavilion being built on Red Square in Moscow.

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A woman looks at the Amorphophallus Titanum, also known as the Titan Arum or Corpse flower, because of it's smell, one of the world's largest flowers, at the National Botanic Garden in Meise near Brussels, Belgium. The rare phallus-like flower that springs from the plant only survives about 72 hours.

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Barn Owl chicks (chouette-effraie) are pictured at the zoo of the French eastern city of Amneville.