Papuan tribesmen show off their culture at annual Lake Sentani festival

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Papuan tribesmen ride a ceremonial boat during the Lake Sentani festival located in Indonesia's eastern Papua province on June 20. For decades, the only foreign visitors to venture into Papua were gold-diggers, anthropologists, missionaries and soldiers fighting imperial wars. But the vast, western half of New Guinea is slowly opening its doors to tourists as a "hidden paradise", a land of ancient tribal cultures, glittering reefs, soaring glaciers and teeming wildlife. The annual festival brings together thousands of people from 24 communities scattered around the huge lake.

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A Puffin returns to its nest with a beak full of sand eels on June 25, on Inner Farne, England.

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Hindu devotees perform a stunt during a rehearsal for the 134th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on June 28. The annual religious procession, which will be held on July 3, commemorates a journey by Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in specially made chariots.

A BIT PARCHED? A dog stole a drink from the udder of a cow that was drinking from a pond amid hot weather Friday in Marlow, England. (Rob Bourne/LNP)

BULL POWER: Bulls pulled their driver during a race in the village of None on the outskirts of Islamabad Friday. Thousands of people had gathered to enjoy an annual festival. (Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images)

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A woman wearing an fish mask dances during the celebrations of the Catholic Corpus Christi in Naiguata, Venezuela, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Spanish conquerors and Catholic priests presented dancing devils ceremonies to Latin America's African slave population 200 years ago, who adopted them incorporating drums.

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A man shears a sheep at a farm in the village of Konukhovo some 150 kms southwest of Minsk on Thursday, June 23. The farm keeps some 2500 sheep and is the largest in Belarus.

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Street signs peeled due to the heat at the corner of Lewis Street and Delaware Avenue in the east side of Flint, Mich., Tuesday, June 21, where an abandoned house burned during a rash of 11 suspicious fires that occurred overnight that left Flint Firefighters needing to call in mutual aid from surrounding communities to help.

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Ducklings rest on pieces of floating debris from a house damaged by the floods in Sanjiangkou village, Zhejiang province, on June 18, 2011. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) #