June 10, 2014

Pakistani youth crowd a water fall in a park to beat the heat in Lahore. Severe heat wave conditions continue over most plains of the Punjab province.

Hillary Clinton speaks during a book signing of her new book "Hard Choices" in New York.

A family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul waits at a checkpoint in Kurdistan region.  Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of most of Mosul, the country's second largest city.

This image shows a solar flare captured at 8:55 a.m EDT, just after the flare peaked.  Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation.  Fortunately, radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground.
 

This new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish).

Spanish Princess Letizia and Spanish Crown Prince Felipe attend a welcome ceremony for Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, at the Royal Palace, near Madrid, June 9, 2014.

A Kashmiri man fishes from a traditional boat during sunset at the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India.

Stefanie Dolson (left) of the UConn basketball team falls off the stage as U.S. President Barack Obama hugs coach Geno Auriemma in the White House.  The team attended a ceremony honoring the NCAA basketball champion University of Connecticut Huskies men's and  women's basketball teams.  Dolson was not hurt in the fall.

Lightning over Algermissen, Germany.  Violent storms killed at least six people in western Germany.

Indian motorcyclists cover their heads in the heat in Amritsar with temperatures hovering between 45-47°C (113-116°F.)