Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week.
1. A woman enters the sea at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro at sunrise on June 27, 2014, during the 2014 FIFA World Cup football tournament in Brazil.
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2. Palestinian boys, one wearing an Algerian flag, look at graffiti artist Belal Khaled painting a portrait of Italian football player Andrea Pirlo on June 23, 2014 in Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
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3. U.S. President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett (L) watch the 2014 World Cup match between the U.S. and Germany while en route to Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 26, 2014.
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4. A cyclist attempts to travel along a waterlogged avenue in Recife, Brazil on June 26, 2014, ahead of the U.S.-Germany World Cup match.
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5. A newly born giraffe stays close to her mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Brono, Czech Republic on June 26, 2014. 
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6. Russian Navy officers and other officials attend a ceremony launching the Rostov-on-Don Russian diesel-electric torpedo submarine at the Admiralteiskiye verfy shipyard in St. Petersburg, on June 26, 2014.
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7. Festival-goers gather to watch the sunset ahead of the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm in Somerset, southwest England, on June 25, 2014.
(LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)8. Residents of the self-proclaimed 'Lugansk People's Republic' and the 'Donetsk People's Republic' cross into Russia at the Russian-Ukrainian border crossing of Izvarino on June 22, 2014.
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9. Tourists visit the Bell caves located at the Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park in central Israel, on June 24 2014.
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10. Members of the Al-Abbas brigades, who volunteered to protect the Shiite Muslim holy sites in Karbala against Sunni militants, parade in the streets of the shrine city on June 26, 2014.
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