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He is also tired.
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Some Russian wedding pictures.
A toilet made in the best traditions.
Fixing the car.
Weird pedestrian crossing.
What are they doing????
Parked in a wrong place.
Breakage is not a problem.
Russian bottle art.
Keep your PC clean.
Some more army.
Russian robocops.
Weird drivers.
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In today’s Photo Journal, the Taliban-Pakistan conflict creates more refugees, a house sits on a high perch, a former MLB star takes a beating and more. To see more images from the Pictures of the Day, click here to see the slideshow.
A boy, displaced from Pakistan’s Swat Valley, slept under a mosquito net at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said nearly 2.4 million people have been uprooted by the violence, with about 126,000 people being forced from their homes daily. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)
Miners carried sulphur at the Ijen volcano complex near Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia, Monday. Highly acidic water at the site can burn clothing and cause health problems. The average wage is $11 (USD) per day. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
A supporter of deceased former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun cried during a memorial service in Bonghwa, South Korea, Monday. Mr. Roh leapt from a cliff Saturday after being questioned in a corruption scandal. The liberal president was in office from 2003 to 2008. (Reuters)
At left, someone gripped a U.S. bomb casing displayed in Dandong, Liaoning province, China, Tuesday. The U.S. bombed the area in the 1950s to prevent China from sending aid to North Korea during the Korean War. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press)
A helicopter, unseen, lifted a Swedish cottage to the top of the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm Tuesday. Artist Mikael Genberg designed the red cottage, which will stand on the top of the globe during the summer months. He has lofty goals to place a similar cottage on the moon. (Janerik Henriksson/Associated Press)
A man swam among floating lanterns during the 10th anniversary of the Lantern Floating Hawaii Ceremony at Honolulu’s Ala Moana Beach Park, Monday. The lanterns represent deceased loved ones in the the traditional Buddhist ceremony. (Marco Garcia/Associated Press)
A worker hung a giant poster in Warsaw Monday ahead of the 20th anniversary in June of when Poland held semi-free elections that led to the fall of communism. The poster shows a cowboy resembling the sheriff from the film “High Noon” walking over the Communist Party headquarters. (Alik Keplicz/Associated Press)
Iraqi Army Maj. Jamal Shaqir comforted Capt. Amar Salih after he was wounded in a roadside blast in Kirkuk, Iraq, Tuesday. Near Fallujah, a bomb blast killed a U.S. State Department official, U.S. soldier and civilian contractor as their convoy left a construction site Monday. Two others were wounded. (Emad Matti/Associated Press)
In this picture, released Monday by the U.S. Navy, Somali migrants waited for assistance from the USS Lake Champlain. Fifty-two people who had been adrift for a week in the Gulf of Aden were rescued. (Daniel Barker/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
An art light display by Brian Eno was projected onto the Sydney Opera House Tuesday. (Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images)
Michael Johnson and others took a break in the middle of New York’s Times Square Monday after the street was closed off to cars in an effort to reduce traffic and pollution and curb pedestrian accidents. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
Protesters demonstrated outside the Icelandic Embassy in west London Tuesday, demanding the country end whaling. (Shaun Curry/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Maintenance workers covered the court as it rained during the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris Tuesday. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco left the ring with his girlfriend after losing his debut boxing match against South Korea’s Hong Man Choi in a mixed martial arts contest at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, Tuesday. Mr. Conseco was knocked out. (Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)
A man jumped into a public swimming pool in Duesseldorf, Germany, Monday as an airplane prepared to land. (Frank Augstein/Associated Press)
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