A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 19, 2018
![The engineers wave from the deck of the Airbus BelugaXL after successfully completing its first flight, at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, in Toulouse, France.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e62fb1d2-c8a6-4e47-b7af-26ef03acfbbb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The engineers wave from the deck of the Airbus BelugaXL after successfully completing its first flight, at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, in Toulouse, France.
![A thick cloud of steam billows on New York's Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. A steam pipe exploded beneath the street, sending chunks of asphalt flying, and a geyser of white steam stories into the air, which forced pedestrians to take cover.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7f0e6389-a7ea-420a-b29f-4b90bb11cf76_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A thick cloud of steam billows on New York's Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. A steam pipe exploded beneath the street, sending chunks of asphalt flying, and a geyser of white steam stories into the air, which forced pedestrians to take cover.
![Ring-tailed lemurs eat a slice of watermelon on ice during the hot weather, at a zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China, July 18, 2018.](https://gdb.voanews.com/099142eb-61b6-435b-a3a8-df11d0d9eaba_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ring-tailed lemurs eat a slice of watermelon on ice during the hot weather, at a zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China, July 18, 2018.
![Toyota Hilux Quatar's driver Nasser Al Attiya steers his car with French co-driver Mathieu Baumel in southern Russia, on the eve of the start of Silk Way Rally 2018, between Astrakhan and Moscow.](https://gdb.voanews.com/911e918e-21c5-49a3-93c6-ffc28aa58b95_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Toyota Hilux Quatar's driver Nasser Al Attiya steers his car with French co-driver Mathieu Baumel in southern Russia, on the eve of the start of Silk Way Rally 2018, between Astrakhan and Moscow.