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Cupertino kids swim in 'World's Largest Swimming Lesson'

Cupertino kids swim in 'World's Largest Swimming Lesson'

On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, tens of thousands of kids and adults at aquatic facilities around the world united for the fourth year in a row to set a new Guinness World Record for the ‘World's Largest Swimming Lesson’.

Images from the weekend

Images from the weekend

Browse some of the most interesting photos shot from around the world over the weekend.

Massive Colorado wildfire burns out of control

Massive Colorado wildfire burns out of control

Little more than 36 hours after it started in the Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs, the blaze surpassed last June's Waldo Canyon fire as the most destructive in state history. That blaze burned 347 homes and killed two people.

 
  • Zen, a Shar Pei puppy, is carried by her owner on a chilly day in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • Hindu holy men of the Juna Akhara sect participate in a ritual that is believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God as a
  • A Burkina Faso soccer fan waits for the start of the African Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match at Mbombela Stadium against Ghana in Nelspruit, South Africa, Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
  • Shirtless South Korean Marines and their U.S. counterparts from 3-Marine Expeditionary Force 1st Battalion from Kaneho Bay, Hawaii, run on a snow covered field during their Feb. 4-22 joint military winter exercise in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. More than 400 marines from the two countries participated in the joint winter exercise held for the first time in South Koreas. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
  • An Afghan man walks in the Karte Sakhi cemetery, during a snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Kabul has been experiencing below freezing weather and snow for several days. (AP photo/ Ali Hamed Haghdoust)
  • United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted after crashing during the women's super-G course, at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday, Feb.5, 2013. Lindsey Vonn has been helicoptered to hospital from the Alpine skiing world championships after crashing and apparently hurting her right knee in the super-G race. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
  • Slovenia's Tina Maze reacts as she see United States' Lindsey Vonn crashing during the women's super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday, Feb.5,2013. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
  • In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, samba dancer Diana Prado, right, is with her costume as she prepares for a carnival parade at central station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Though samba dancers, or
  • CIA Director nominee John Brennan, flanked by security, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Anaplastologist Hernan Baron displays a prosthetic eye at his studio in Bogota, Colombia. Baron has been making silicone prosthetic body parts for over 15 years for patients with disfigurements and specializes in the reconstruction of ears, noses, eyes and hands. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
  • Undated photo made available by the University of Leicester, England, Monday Feb. 4 2013 of the remains found underneath a car park last September at the Grey Friars excavation in Leicester, which have been declared Monday
  • Two girls offer prayers to Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Sihanouk's body had been lying in state at the Royal Palace after being flown from Beijing where he died Oct. 15 of a heart attack at the age of 89. The cremation, the climax of seven days of mourning, will take place Monday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, center, adjusts the flag pin on fellow committee member Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., right, as they share a laugh with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, prior to the committee's hearing on America's Immigration System: Opportunities for Legal Immigration and Enforcement of Laws against Illegal Immigration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
  • French daredevil Alain Robert reaches into his chalk bag as he scales the Habana Libre hotel without using ropes or a safety net, in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Once the city's Hilton, Robert was able to reach the top of the 27-story building in 30 minutes. Robert has scaled much taller buildings in his career. He says his main concern is that the hotel is in disrepair like other Havana landmarks. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, Pool)
  • Models are schooled on the runway before the Tadashi Shoji Fall 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
  • In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, 62-year-old Cheng Man Wai lays in his cage, measuring 1.5 square meters (16 square feet), which he calls home, in Hong Kong. For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, home is a metal cage. Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
  • Crawford County, Ind., Sheriff Tim Wilkerson, left, and Deputy Debra Young, back to camera. comfort Rose Turben, center, as they stand in front of a mobile home where five of Turben's family members died in a mobile home fire Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 in Sulpher, Ind. Wilkerson said it took firefighters two hours to extinguish the fire that gutted the home, according to the The Courier Journal. (AP Photo/The Courier Journal, Aaron Borton)
  • Herring worth billions in exports are seen floating dead Tuesday Feb. 5 2013 in Kolgrafafjordur, a small fjord on the northern part of Snaefellsnes peninsula, west Iceland, for the second time in two months. Between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of herring died in December and more now, due to lack of oxygen in the fjord thought to have been caused by a landfill and bridge constructed across the fjord in December 2004. The current export value of the estimated 10,000 tons of herring amounts to ISK 1.25 billion ($ 9.8 million, euro 7.2 million), according to Morgunbladid newspaper. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)
  • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, and former New York City Mayors Rudolph Giuliani, center, and David Dinkins put their hands over their hearts as a casket containing the body of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch leaves Temple Emanu-El synagogue in New York after his funeral Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Koch was remembered as the quintessential New Yorker during a funeral that frequently elicited laughter, recalling his famous one-liners and amusing antics in the public eye. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • A Malian man dressed in green walks between green doors of closed shops in Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013. Troops from France and Chad moved into Kidal in an effort to secure the strategic north Malian city, a French official said Tuesday, as the international force put further pressure on the Islamic extremists to push them out of their last major bastion of control in the north.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
  • Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, attends a press conference with Egyptian Sunni clerics at Al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Egypt's most prominent Muslim cleric, the sheik of al-Azhar, has warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against interfering in Arab Gulf countries or trying to spread Shiite influence. Ahmadinejad, on a landmark visit to Egypt on Tuesday, received an uneasy reception from Ahmed el-Tayeb at al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's foremost Islamic institution.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
  • Egypt's Pope Tawadros II speaks to an Associated press reporter during a visit to the historic al-Muharraq Monastery, a centuries-old site, some 180 miles (300 kilometers) south of Cairo in the province of Assiut, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Egypt's Coptic Christian pope sharply criticized the country's Islamist leadership in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, saying the new constitution is discriminatory and Christians should not be treated as a minority. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
  • The newest Monopoly token, a cat, rests on a Boardwalk deed next to a die and houses at Hasbro Inc. headquarters, in Pawtucket, R.I., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Voting on Facebook determined that the cat would replace the iron token. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
  • President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The president Barack Obama said he hopes they maintain the morning's bipartisan spirit a little longer. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
  • Family members of Rosa Parks stand next to an image of the new Rosa Parks' 100th birthday commemorative postage stamp that was unveiled at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The U.S. Postal Service has issued a Rosa Parks stamp on what would have been the late civil rights icon's 100th birthday. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
  • Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP drives during a test at the Jerez racetrack in southern Spain, Thursday Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti)
  • People are seen holding banners reading 'NO' through the smoke made by beekeepers as they take part in a protest called by the Union of Small Farmers and Stockbreeders against cuts in the agricultural sector, near the European Union headquarters in Madrid, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
  • Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, right, and safety Ed Redd dance during a championship celebration at the team's stadium in Baltimore, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers in NFL football's Super Bowl XLVII 34-31 on Sunday. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
  • A relative of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid cries over his coffin at his parents' home near Tunis, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of Belaid, a prominent leftist politician, is far from over. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)
  • A demonstrator holds a computer keyboard during a demonstration in Tunis, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of a prominent leftist politician is far from over. (AP Photo)
 
 

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