August 13, 2014
![A massive, dramatic dust storm moves toward a barn near Harrington, Washington, USA, Aug. 12, 2014. The dust storm usually arrives before thunderstorms, rain and lightning.](https://gdb.voanews.com/757acdd0-1e4c-4887-aa35-aef87f25f3b4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A massive, dramatic dust storm moves toward a barn near Harrington, Washington, USA, Aug. 12, 2014. The dust storm usually arrives before thunderstorms, rain and lightning.
![Police and rescue workers help after a passenger train derailed in southeastern Switzerland after encountering a mudslide on the tracks. Several passengers were injured in the derailment near the ski resort St. Moritz.](https://gdb.voanews.com/774cd68c-9636-4cb2-bc47-ee8d2dc19835_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Police and rescue workers help after a passenger train derailed in southeastern Switzerland after encountering a mudslide on the tracks. Several passengers were injured in the derailment near the ski resort St. Moritz.
![NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) capturs an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.](https://gdb.voanews.com/625e17c6-2f04-4e38-ab92-4e9b09fe287d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) capturs an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.
![Visitors play video games at the Gamescom 2014 fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from Aug. 13 to 17.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3311dc3c-9512-43d0-8dd5-aa5ef8abbeb7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Visitors play video games at the Gamescom 2014 fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from Aug. 13 to 17.