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The week in photos: High Summer

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The week in photos: High Summer
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  • Hot air

    A participant tackles the Firewalker obstacle during the 2012 Tough Mudder Extreme Endurance Challenge held in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate in Dumfriesshire. (Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/Press Association Images)

  • Stick-in-the-mud

    Tourists play with the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The 15th annual mud festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and a mud king contest. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

  • Sunset years

    A shepherd directs his sheep and goats on a dirt road at sunset outside Bucharest, Romania. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

  • Swamp thing

    A competitor celebrates after winning a swamp football match played in a pool of man-made mud in Beijing, China. The sport, which originated in England, is usually played in a bog or swamp and in the Beijing games, the rules require at least one female competitor in each team. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

  • Chick magnet

    A spoon-billed sandpiper chick walks past a soft toy at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) centre in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. (PA)

  • The sun also rises

    The sun rises in Pleasant Plains, Illinois. Corn stalks are struggling in the heat and continuing drought that has overcome most of the country: all of Illinois is officially in a drought, and Governor Pat Quinn plans a trip to southern Illinois to discuss the state's plans for responding to dry conditions. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

  • Summer in the city

    Revelers hold torches as they take part in 'Correfoc' party in Barcelona, Spain,. Correfocs or "fire-runs" are among the most striking features present in Catalan festivals; a group of people will dress as devils, light fireworks and - while dancing to the drums of a traditional gralla - they will set off their fireworks among crowds of spectators. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

  • Wild Life

    Storks stand on their nest as the sun rises in the foggy morning, near the village of Chereshlya, 150 kilometres west of Minsk, Belarus. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

  • High spirits

    Players scuffle in the mud at a match of swamp soccer during the Swamp Soccer China 2012, held outside the National Stadium, better known as the Birds Nest in Beijing, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress)

  • Birds of a feather

    A flock of Flamingos is seen at the Nal Sarovar bird sanctuary, about 75 kms from Ahmadabad, India,. Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, consisting primarily of a huge lake and ambient marshes, is situated near Sanand town, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

  • Summer celebration

    A pilgrim bathes in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers in Saut d' Eau, Haiti. The annual pilgrimage is made in honor of Haiti's most celebrated patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Legend has it that she appeared on a palm tree in 1847 in the Palms Grove in Saut d'Eau and was integrated into Haiti's voodoo culture as the goddess of love, Ezili Danto. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

  • High and dry

    A dry field of corn is seen near Fremont, Nebraska. The drought gripping the United States has been the widest since 1956, according to new data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

  • Fair-weather friend

    A mud covered three-month old male African Southern Rhino named Jumaane, looks at a Minor bird at the Singapore Zoo. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

  • Make a splash

    Participants sprinkle water each others during a promotional event for water festival in Seoul, South Korea. The event was held as a part of local county office's promote to encourage people to spend for summer vacation at their county. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

  • Summer lovin'

    Two Grey Crowned Cranes look at each other in their enclosure at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

  • Eye of the storm

    The eye of a Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman is reflected in the water of the terrarium at Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

  • Clear as mud

    A participant tackles the Mud Mile obstacle on the final day of the 2012 Tough Mudder Extreme Endurance Challenge held in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate in Dumfriesshire. (PA)
  • A participant tackles the Firewalker obstacle during the 2012 Tough Mudder Extreme Endurance Challenge held in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate in Dumfriesshire. (Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/Press Association Images)
  • Tourists play with the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The 15th annual mud festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and a mud king contest. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
  • A shepherd directs his sheep and goats on a dirt road at sunset outside Bucharest, Romania. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • A competitor celebrates after winning a swamp football match played in a pool of man-made mud in Beijing, China. The sport, which originated in England, is usually played in a bog or swamp and in the Beijing games, the rules require at least one female competitor in each team. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
  • A spoon-billed sandpiper chick walks past a soft toy at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) centre in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. (PA)
  • The sun rises in Pleasant Plains, Illinois. Corn stalks are struggling in the heat and continuing drought that has overcome most of the country: all of Illinois is officially in a drought, and Governor Pat Quinn plans a trip to southern Illinois to discuss the state's plans for responding to dry conditions. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
  • Revelers hold torches as they take part in 'Correfoc' party in Barcelona, Spain,. Correfocs or
  • Storks stand on their nest as the sun rises in the foggy morning, near the village of Chereshlya, 150 kilometres west of Minsk, Belarus. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
  • Players scuffle in the mud at a match of swamp soccer during the Swamp Soccer China 2012, held outside the National Stadium, better known as the Birds Nest in Beijing, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress)
  • A flock of Flamingos is seen at the Nal Sarovar bird sanctuary, about 75 kms from Ahmadabad, India,. Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, consisting primarily of a huge lake and ambient marshes, is situated near Sanand town, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
  • A pilgrim bathes in a waterfall believed to have purifying powers in Saut d' Eau, Haiti. The annual pilgrimage is made in honor of Haiti's most celebrated patron saint, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Legend has it that she appeared on a palm tree in 1847 in the Palms Grove in Saut d'Eau and was integrated into Haiti's voodoo culture as the goddess of love, Ezili Danto. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
  • A dry field of corn is seen near Fremont, Nebraska. The drought gripping the United States has been the widest since 1956, according to new data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
  • A mud covered three-month old male African Southern Rhino named Jumaane, looks at a Minor bird at the Singapore Zoo. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • Participants sprinkle water each others during a promotional event for water festival in Seoul, South Korea. The event was held as a part of local county office's promote to encourage people to spend for summer vacation at their county. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
  • Two Grey Crowned Cranes look at each other in their enclosure at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
  • The eye of a Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman is reflected in the water of the terrarium at Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
  • A participant tackles the Mud Mile obstacle on the final day of the 2012 Tough Mudder Extreme Endurance Challenge held in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate in Dumfriesshire. (PA)

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