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Image: The first drive-in movie theatre amid the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Bangkok
Thailand
Viewers enjoy a movie from inside their vehicles at a new drive-in cinema in Bangkok on July 2, part of a four-day offering for moviegoers who want to avoid indoor theaters.
To beat the tropical heat, organizers created a network of plastic pipes in the parking lot connected to dozens of smaller, flexible tubes, to channel cool air into cars through gaps in the windows.
— Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
New York City
Firefighters stand near a building that collapsed suddenly on July 1, in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The building, which housed a health club, had been shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic.
Three weeks ago, building inspectors ordered a halt to some construction work at the location because of structural problems.
— Kathy Willens / AP
Germany
Maximilian Krauss of SpVgg Unterhaching makes a run while a massive shelf cloud rolls in during the match against FC Carl Zeiss Jena at Alpenbauer Sportpark on July 1 in Unterhaching, Germany.
— Adam Pretty / Getty Images
France
A field of lavender in Puimoisson, southern France, on July 1.
— Christophe Simon / AFP - Getty Images
Pakistan
Farmers try to scare away a swarm of locusts from a field on the outskirts of Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 1.
Farmers are struggling as the worst locust plague in 25 years wipes out entire harvests in Pakistan's agricultural heartlands, leaving people scrambling for income.
— Shahid Ali / AFP - Getty Images
New York City
Protesters and police clash for the second morning in a row on July 1 as they continue to demand that the New York City Police Department be defunded.
Similar to the Occupy Wall Street movement that took over Zuccotti Park for months, the group is now making food, medical and information stations available to assist those protesters that want to stay.
— David Dee Delgado / Getty Images
China
A boy wearing a face mask swims with a rubber ring in a flooded Jiangtan park caused by heavy rains along the Yangtze river on June 30 in Wuhan.
— Getty Images
Czech Republic
Residents dine at a 1,640-foot long table on Prague's Charles Bridge on June 30 after lockdown restrictions were eased.
Some 2,000 seats were available for people who brought their own food and drinks to welcome summer.
— Gabriel Kuchta / Getty Images
China
Yan Anyu, or Miss Cream, rides in a taxi in Shanghai on June 13 as she makes her way to a bar to make her first presentation as a drag queen.
Attitudes toward alternative lifestyles are slowly softening in China, and members of a small but growing drag community have begun to step into the spotlight.
Image made available on June 29.
— Hector Retamal / AFP - Getty Images
Hong Kong
A man is arrested by riot police during a demonstration against the new national security law on July 1 in Hong Kong.
For months, demonstrators have been pushing for concessions from the government, including full democracy, a declaration of amnesty for protesters who have been arrested and an independent investigation into police actions.
— Anthony Kwan / Getty Images
Texas
A medical staff member rests in front of a fan in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on June 30 in Houston.
— Go Nakamura / Getty Images
West Bank
A Palestinian shepherd herds his flock next to Tomer, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, on June 30.
— Oded Balilty / AP
Nepal
A boy plays in a rice paddy field during "National Paddy Day," which marks the start of the annual rice planting season, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 29.
— Prakash Mathema / AFP - Getty Images
Syria
A man smokes in front of buildings destroyed by prior bombardments in Ariha, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, as the Milky Way shines in the night sky on June 27.
— Omar Haj Kadour / AFP - Getty Images
Ireland
Barber Alan Kelly attends to customer Anthony Remedy as his Bishon Frise dog Teddy Bear sits on his lap at the Regents Barbers shop on June 29 in Dublin.
Restaurants, pubs, cafes and hairdressers were among the businesses that can open across Ireland provided they can observe social distancing rules to reduce transmission of the coronavirus.
— Charles McQuillan / Getty Images |