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From Photos: Mourning and Anguish After the Devastating Attacks in Sri Lanka, one of 21 photos. Officials inspect the damaged St. Sebastian's Church, after multiple explosions targeted people in churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019 in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Chamila Karunarathne / Anadolu Agency / Getty)

From A Tripped Syrian Refugee Finds a Home in Spain, one of 14 photos. Left: On September 8, 2015, a Syrian refugee, Osama Abdul Mohsen, carrying his youngest son Zaid falls after being tripped by TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo while trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary. Right: Less than a year later, Osama Abdul Mohsen poses for a photograph after a training session with his junior team in Villaverde, a neighborhood in Madrid, Spain, on April 14, 2016. Mohsen's story went viral after he was filmed being tripped up as he fled police. He was carrying his youngest son Zaid in his arms at the time, and the two fell sprawling on the ground. Footage of the incident helped bring him to the attention of a soccer training school in Getafe on the outskirts of Madrid, which found him work as a liaison officer. (Marko Djurica / Reuters - Sergio Perez / Reuters) #Syria #refugee

From Robots at Work and Play, one of 32 photos. Bipedal humanoid robot "Atlas", primarily developed by the American robotics company Boston Dynamics, is presented to the media during a news conference at the University of Hong Kong, on October 17, 2013. The 6-foot (1.83 m) tall, 330-pound (149.7 kg) robot is made of graded aluminum and titanium and costs HK$ 15 million ($1.93 million). It is capable of a variety of natural movements, including dynamic walking, calisthenics and user programmed behaviors, according to the University of Hong Kong's press release. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)

Day 2 of the 2012 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar, one of 25 photos (eventually). The star HD 44179 is surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle. It acquired its moniker because of its shape and its apparent color when seen in early images from Earth. This strikingly detailed Hubble image reveals how, when seen from space, the nebula, rather than being rectangular, is shaped like an X with additional complex structures of spaced lines of glowing gas, a little like the rungs of a ladder. The star at the center is similar to the Sun, but at the end of its lifetime, pumping out gas and other material to make the nebula, and giving it the distinctive shape. It also appears that the star is a close binary that is surrounded by a dense torus of dust -- both of which may help to explain the very curious shape. The Red Rectangle is an unusual example of what is known as a proto-planetary nebula. These are old stars, on their way to becoming planetary nebulae. Once the expulsion of mass is complete a very hot white dwarf star will remain and its brilliant ultraviolet radiation will cause the surrounding gas to glow. The Red Rectangle is found about 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn). (ESA/Hubble and NASA)

From , one of 31 photos. Amelia Hempleman-Adams poses with the Olympic Flame on top of a London Eye pod on the Torch Relay leg through London, on July 22, 2012. (AP Photo/LOCOG, Lewis Whyld)

From Olympic Portraits, Part II: Londoners, one of 23 photos in a two-part series. Paddy Fox, a 79 year-old Chelsea Pensioner who has lived in London for more than ten years, poses for a picture in Chelsea, London, on May 17, 2012. When asked what he felt about London hosting the Olympics, Fox said: "I think it's fantastic. Let the world see what we are really like." (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)

From 30 Years Since the Falklands War, one of 41 photos. The British frigate HMS Antelope burning and pouring smoke, sinks in the chilly waters of Ajax Bay in Falkland Sound, May 24, 1982. Four Argentine A-4B Skyhawks attacked the day before, one of them launching a bomb that did not explode, but lodged inside the frigate's hull. While bomb disposal technicians were attempting to defuse the bomb, it detonated, tearing the ship apart and starting massive fires. All but two crew members survived, the ship sank hours later. (AP Photo/Tom Smith)

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