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1. This red-eye tree frog was photographed by Shikhei Goh. He spotted the frog on a tree near his home in Batam Island, Indonesia, and bent down to take a picture. But just as Shikhei pressed the trigger on his camera, the frog threw its right arm in the air and struck a pose that looked like it was smiling and waving for the camera.Picture: Shikhei Goh/Caters
2. A grizzly bear cub appears to wave to the camera while mother digs for food in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Photographer Nate Chappell said: Every so often the cub would stand on its hind legs and appear to wave to people taking photographs.Picture: Nate Chappell / Rex Features
3. Dale Kay displays possibly the biggest burger on sale in Europe. It is on the menu of Walsall burger restaurant, Smokeys. It contains more than three pounds of minced beef, 12 rashers of bacon, a dozen slices of cheese and 12 onion rings.Picture: STEVE LEATH/newsteam.co.uk
4. A flock of Caribbean flamingos in Yucatan, Mexico, form the shape of a heart while feeding on a lakePicture: Klaus Nigge/Caters
5. A visitor extends her hand to touch a high-resolution digital movie (4000 x 2000) of a whale shark during a press preview at the Sony showroom in TokyoPicture: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images
6. Artists burn a 10 metre high straw art installation of a phoenix during the 7th Straw – Land Art Festival in Osijek, east CroatiaPicture: REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
7. Lighting strikes over a barn surrounded by a soybean crop in Donnellson, Iowa, USPicture: REUTERS/Adrees Latif
8. A double rainbow appears after a storm over Nipton Road in Searchlight, Nevada, USPicture: REUTERS/Gene Blevins
9. Northern Lights illuminate the sky over Lake Elora in northern MinnesotaPicture: AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Brian Peterson
10. People play in the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong, about 190 km (118 miles) southwest of SeoulPicture: REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
11. Competitors work to pull a woman up an obstacle where competitors must jump to the top of a half pipe during the Tough Mudder at Mt. Snow in West Dover, VermontPicture: REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
12. A participant feels the cold as she jumps into the Arctic Enema 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.Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA
13. A competitor reacts after being zapped by an electrified wire during the Tough Mudder at Mt. Snow in West Dover, VermontPicture: REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
14. Kaycee Feild of Elk Ridge, Utah dives into the mud after he won the Bareback event on the horse Nelly Kelly to win $100,000 during the finals at the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta, CanadaPicture: REUTERS/Todd Korol
15. The horse Tar Baby falls back onto rider Dusty La Valley of Bezanson, Alberta in the Bareback event during the finals at the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, AlbertaPicture: REUTERS/Todd Korol
16. A worker cares for the younger of a pair of twin giant panda cubs born at the panda research centre in Wolong in southwest China’s Sichuan provincePicture: AP
17. Jan Hannaford photographed a gull stealing fish from the beak of a puffin on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.Picture: Jan Hannaford/Solent News
18. A trio of Russian, Japanese and U.S. astronauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spaceship for a four-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) that Moscow hopes will help restore confidence in its space programmePicture: REUTERS/NASA/Carla Cioffi
19. People take photos of a replica of a BT phone box customised to look like Big Ben, with the actual clock tower in the backgroundPicture: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/GettyImages
20. Dancers perform on the London Eye in London as part of London 2012 Olympic Festival. The performances Surprises : Streb choreographed by New Yorker Elizabeth Streb took place on various London landmarks.Picture: AP Photo/Sang Tan
21. Surprises: Streb dancers perform Waterfall on the Millennium Bridge across the River ThamesPicture: Julian Andrews
22. Pedestrians walk in the rain past Tower Bridge displaying the Olympic rings as London prepares for the 2012 Summer OlympicsPicture: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
23. Artists perform during a rehearsal for the Team Welcome Ceremony at the Olympic Park in LondonPicture: Tom Dulat/LOCOG/PA
24. Soldiers do a Usain Bolt impression as they wait to enter the Olympic ParkPicture: Frances Leader
25. The elite men dive into Tiszaujvaros lake to begin the 2012 Tiszaujvaros ITU Triathlon World Cup in HungaryPicture: AP Photo/ITU, Janos Schmidt
26. Athletes at the start of the swimming leg of the 16th Ironman long distance triathlon in Zurich, SwitzerlandPicture: EPA/ALESSANDRO DELLA BELLA
27. A man jumps into a pool to cool off during a heatwave in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Temperatures in the Balkan coutry have reached 40 degrees Celsius.Picture: DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images
28. A man walks past dead fish floating along the banks of the South Lake in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. Local media reported that the summer heat and rich nutrients in the water caused an algae bloom that deprived the fish of oxygen.Picture: AP
29. Two members of the Free Syrian Army fire their weapons through holes in the wall of a house in El Moalimin neighborhood in HomsPicture: REUTERS/Yazen Homsy
30. People look at a bus, which was carrying Hindu pilgrims, after it fell into an irrigation canal near the pilgrimage site of Triveni, 100 km (62 miles) southwest of Kathmandu. At least 35 pilgrims, most of them from India, were killed in the bus accident.Picture: REUTERS/KB Rana
