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Music and mud: Glastonbury Festival 2011 – by boston.com

Rain clouds gather over the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival June 24. Music fans had to brave more rain today at the five-day festival which opened June 22. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Снимки от тазгодишното издание на фестивала Гластънбъри, в Англия тук: www.boston.com Около 175 000 души са присъствали на фестивала през 5-те дена, през които се провежда.

Festival-goers dance to Jarvis Cocker and his band Pulp as the sunsets during the third day of the Glastonbury Festival June 25, 2011. This year's festival featured headline acts U2, Coldplay and Beyonce. Now in its fifth decade, the event has grown from a humble gathering of 1,500 people on Michael Eavis's Worthy dairy farm in 1970, each paying 1 pound and receiving free milk, to a giant five-day celebration of music costing 195 pounds for a basic ticket. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images))

Is weather becoming more extreme? – by boston.com

Flames are seen over homes in Sierra Vista, Ariz. June 16. The biggest wildfire in state history is closing in on a half million acres burned. (Greg Bryan/Arizona Daily Star/AP)

Всички 42 снимки от интересните аномалии на времето по света тук: www.boston.com

Wendi Lehman of Jacksonville headed for cover after visiting the Midtown Beach in Palm Beach, Fla., on April 5 as a strong storm front moved through the area. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post/AP)

Japan: three months after the quake – by boston.com

In this combo of two photos, a ship swept away by tsunami lies among other debris March 12, 2011, left, while a man on a bicycle pedals past a pedestrian on the same road June 4, 2011 in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)

Япония три месеца след земетресението. Всички снимки тук: www.boston.com

In this combo of two photos, a shinto torii, or gateway, leading to Kozuchi shrine stands among the debris in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 14, 2011, days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area, top, and the same area, bottom, with the debris almost cleared as photographed on June 3. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)

Volcano erupts in Chile – by boston.com

A cloud of ash billowing from Puyehue volcano near Osorno in southern Chile, 870 km south of Santiago June 5. Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in half a century on June 4 prompting evacuations for 3,500 people as it sent a cloud of ash that reached Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining said the explosion that sparked the eruption also produced a column of gas 10 kilometers (six miles) high, hours after warning of strong seismic activity in the area. (Claudio Santana/AFP/Getty Images)

Уникални снимки от изригването на вулкана Пуйеуе в Чили. Хиляди хора са евакуирани , заради огромната маса пепел изхвърлена в атмосферата на височина от около 10 километра. Всичките 32 снимки тук: www.boston.com

Lightning flashes around the ash plume at above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos June 5. The volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain, dormant for decades, erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday, belching ash over 6 miles (10 km) into the sky, as winds fanned it toward neighboring Argentina, and prompted the government to evacuate several thousand residents. (Carlos Gutierrez/Reuters)

 

 

Another Icelandic eruption: Grimsvotn volcano – by boston.com

A plane flies past a smoke plume resulting from the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano, under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, May 21, 2011. Airlines began canceling flights to Britain because of the ash cloud from the volcano reaching its airspace, although experts expected no repeat of travel chaos from the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull a year ago. (Olafur Sigurjonsson/Reuters)

Снимки от изригналия на 21.05.2011 г. вулкан Гримсвьотн в Исландия. Отново отменени полети над европа. Снимки тук: www.boston.com

A cloud of smoke and ash is seen over the Grimsvoetn volcano in Iceland, May 21, 2011. The cloud rising up from Grimsvoetn as a result of the eruption was seen for the first time around 1900 GMT and in less than an hour it had reached an altitude of 11 kilometres (6.8 miles), according to the Icelandic Meteorological Institute. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Deadly tornadoes strike again – by boston.com

Rescue workers search for bodies and survivors inside St. John's hospital in Joplin, Mo. May 23. The hospital was damaged by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the city on Sunday afternoon. (Adam Wisneski/Tulsa World/AP)

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Storm clouds dwarf a farm near Lamar, Mo. as the sun sets May 22. The storm earlier produced a large tornado that moved through much of Joplin, Mo. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

Vesak Day 2011 – by boston.com

Buddhists carry candles while encircling a large Buddha statue during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at a temple in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok May 17. This year marks 2600th anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment. The image was taken using a long exposure. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)

Снимки от Весак – ден на раждане, посветление, паранирвана и смъртта на Буда. Този ден е променлив, според пълнолунието той се пада в Май или Юни. Снимките тук: www.boston.com

A full moon is seen at Borobudur temple during Vesak Day, commonly known as 'Buddha's birthday', at the Borobudur Mahayana Buddhist monument on May 17 in Magelang, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

Mississippi River flooding – by boston.com

The Quad Cities River Bandits and the Peoria Chiefs play a baseball game April 20 inside Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa. The rising flood waters of the Mississippi River surround the stadium which is protected by a flood wall. (Paul Colletti/The Dispatch/AP)

Снимки от наводненията причинени от река Мисисипи: www.boston.com

Floodwater engulfs a home after engineers blew a hole in a levee to divert water from the town of Cairo, Ill. May 3 near Wyatt, Mo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

May Day 2011 – by boston.com

A demonstrator holds up a hammer and sickle as Iraqis gather in central Baghdad to mark the workers' May Day celebrations on May 1, 2011. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

Снимки от деня на труда – 1-ви май от различни места по света. Има и снимка от България, чийто текст гласи: Supporters of the Bulgarian Socialist Party shout antigovernment slogans during a rally marking May Day in central Sofia on May 1, 2011. Hundreds of Bulgarians urged the government to resign over its failure to cope with the economic crisis in the European Union’s poorest country. Всички снимки тук: www.boston.com

A street vendor pushes a trolley of bottled water past a giant May Day banner in central Istanbul on May 1, 2011. The banner reads, "We celebrate all laborers and workers on May Day." (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

Tornadoes kill over 200 – by boston.com

Concrete steps lead to nothing after a tornado demolished a mobile home in Preston, Miss. April 27. The home and one next to it were blown about 100 feet away into a cow pasture. Three related women died at the site. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)

Снимки от пораженията на над 100 отделни торнада връхлетяли юзните части на САЩ. Жертвите са над 200: www.boston.com

A large tornado sweeps through Limestone County, south of Athens, Ala., April 27. (Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Daily/AP)

Ramping up to the royal wedding – by boston.com

Face masks of Prince William and Kate Middleton are loaded into boxes for shipping at a production plant in Southam, England, on April 22. Over 120,000 of the masks have been sold worldwide with Mask-arade company staff working around the clock to complete orders before the wedding. (Martin Cleaver/Associated Press)

Снимки около лудницата с Кралската сватба на Кейт Мидълтън и принц Уилям: www.boston.com

Union Jacks are hung along Regent Street in London in celebration of the forthcoming royal wedding. (Carl Court/Associated Press)

Chernobyl disaster 25th anniversary – by boston.com

A cancer patient leans against the window of a special treatment chamber in a hospital in Donetsk, Ukraine on April 25, 2006. (Alexander Khudotioply/Reuters)

 Снимки от Чернобил, призрачния град Припят и околностите тук: www.boston.com

Graffiti adorns a wall April 4 in the ghost city of Pripyat near the fourth nuclear reactor (background) at the former Chernobyl Nuclear power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

Всички от нашето поколение и това преди нас са отгледани с радиационни храни без нашите родители да са разбирали какво се случва. Над 7 милиона са засегнатите хора от тази трагедия.

Cuba looks back – and forward – by boston.com

Cuban leader Fidel Castro (lower right) sits inside a tank near Playa Giron, Cuba, during the Bay of Pigs invasion, April 17, 1961. (Raul Corrales/Granma/CP/AP)

Куба – минало и настояще: www.boston.com

People walk in front of a mural with the image of revolutionary leader Che Guevara in San Jose de las Lajas, on the outskirts of Havana September 22, 2010. (Enrique De La Osa/Reuters)

Japan’s crisis: one month later – by boston.com

A volunteer cleaned a family photo that was washed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as baby photos were placed to dry at a volunteer center in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

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The sun set on April 13, 2011, over debris still piled up nearly five weeks after the earthquake and tsunami disaster devastated the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture. The impact of Japan's earthquake and nuclear crisis rippled through the economy as the government downgraded its outlook and Toyota announced more temporary plant shutdowns overseas. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

Mexico’s drug war – by boston.com

A man digs the grave for the funeral of a Mexican policeman murdered in Juarez by members of a drug cartel, December 18, 2008. (©Nadav Neuhaus)

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Students take pictures of themselves as marijuana and other drugs are incinerated at a military base in Ciudad Juarez March 2. According to local media, the students were invited to see how 1500 kg of drugs, seized in several operations throughout the last months, were destroyed. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)

Flower power – by boston.com

A lone flower is propped up by a boot at a shoe installation marking International Day for Landmine Awareness at Simon Bolivar Square in Bogota, Colombia April 4. On each of the more than 9,000 shoes is the name of a land mine victim representing those injured in Colombia. Colombia is second to Afghanistan as the nation with the largest number of victims. (Fernando Vergara/Associated Press)

Всички цветни снимки от света тук: www.boston.com

A woman takes pictures of cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin March 29 in Washington, DC. As many as one million people are expected to stream through the Mall esplanade area during the Cherry Blossom Festival from March 26 through April 10. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

Cricket passion – by boston.com

Sri Lankan cricket fans watch the Cricket World Cup final match between Sri Lanka and India on a giant screen in Colombo on April 2, 2011. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images)

Всички снимки от световното по крикет в Бангладеш тук: www.boston.com

A woman with her children walk past a poster with national team captain Shakib Al Hasan, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Monday Feb. 14, 2011. (Themba Hadebe/AP)

Afghanistan, March 2011 – by boston.com

Women attend a gathering to celebrate the Afghan New Year in Kabul, March 21. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

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Afghans carry balloons to sell, as they walk toward the Sakhi Shrine for new year's ceremonies in Kabul on March 21. (Ahmad Nazar/Associated Press)

Earth Hour 2011 – by boston.com

ON. The Las Vegas Strip seen before and during Earth Hour from the House of Blues Foundation Room inside the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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OFF. The Las Vegas Strip seen before and during Earth Hour from the House of Blues Foundation Room inside the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)