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Nature's Best Backyards

  Sometimes the best photograph is right in your own backyard. 'Nature's Best Photography' magazine presents this year's winners of the Nature's Best Backyards photo competition.

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British Open moments

  Scenes from golf’s third major, taking place at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.

A woman in a wheat field cheers on riders as they cycle during the fourteenth stage of the 95th Tour de France cycling race between Nimes and Digne-Les-Bains
Thierry Roge / Reuters
Tour time

  See images from the 2008 Tour de France.

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News photos

U.S., world, and environment
Steven A. Gold
Nature's Best Backyards

  Sometimes the best photograph is right in your own backyard. 'Nature's Best Photography' magazine presents this year's winners of the Nature's Best Backyards photo competition.

46664 Concert: In Celebration Of Nelson Mandela's Life - Performance
Gareth Davies / Getty Images
Image: Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama
AP, Getty Images
Image: Bee on flower
Astrid Riecken / Zuma Press
Image: Taj Mahal
Prakash Singh / AFP/Getty Images
Image: A fallen runner gets trampled by a bull
Susana Vera / Reuters
Image: Jesse Helms
Alan Marler / AP
U.S. contractors Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes listen to U.S. ambassador to Colombia Brownfield in an aircraft in Colombia after being rescued by army forces
Ho / Reuters
Brian Hendler / AFP - Getty Images

Entertainment photos

Celebrity, music, movie, TV and fashion
Image: 30 Rock
Nicole Rivelli / NBC
2008 Emmy nominees

  ‘Mad Men,’’30 Rock’ and the series stars were among the nominees for TV’s annual prime-time programming awards.

Jessica And Tony Fans of Heart
Dane Andrew / Zuma Press
CARLIN
Gregory Bull / AP
Image: Amy Winehouse
Carl De Souza / AFP - Getty Images
Eddie Vedder
Mark Humphrey / AP
Torn Curtain
Archive Photos / Getty Images
Image: Jon Stewart
Splashnews
Image: Ellen Page
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Image: Everett Collection
Everett Collection
June 01 2008
John Mccoy / Zuma Press
Image: Sydney Pollack
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Image: David Cook, Paula Abdul, David Archuleta
Chris Pizzello / AP
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI, MARK BALLAS
Kelsey Mcneal / ABC
E! Entertainment

Sports photos

Big matchups, sports stars and history
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Peter Muhly / AFP - Getty Images
British Open moments

  Scenes from golf’s third major, taking place at Royal Birkdale Golf Club.

Yankee Stadium is host to final All-Star game as MLB All-Star game opening ceremonies take place in New York
Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters
Image: The Week in Sports Pictures
Tony Gutierrez / AP
A woman in a wheat field cheers on riders as they cycle during the fourteenth stage of the 95th Tour de France cycling race between Nimes and Digne-Les-Bains
Thierry Roge / Reuters
Image: Tiger Woods & Rocco Mediate
Charlie Riedel / AP
Exercise rider Michelle Nevin and a groom walk Triple Crown hopeful Big Brown in the paddock before the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Image: Doc Rivers
Elise Amendola / AP
Big Brown, with jockey Desormeaux, crosses finish line to win 133rd running of Preakness Stakes in Maryland
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Image: Wings' Lidstrom lifts the Stanley Cup after his team defeated the Penguins in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey final in Pittsburgh
Shaun Best / Reuters
Danica Patrick
Tom Strickland / AP
Jockey Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown rides to a win on the134th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville
John Gress / Reuters
Image: Trevor Immelman
Andrew Redington / Getty Images
Darrell Arthur, Robert Dozier
Mark Humphrey / AP
Shawn Taggart, Joey Dorsey, James Keefe
Mark Humphrey / AP

Travel photos

U.S. and worldwide destinations
Image: Taj Mahal
Prakash Singh / AFP/Getty Images
Celebrating world heritage

  UNESCO inscribed dozens of new sites to its World Heritage List, bringing the total number of sites to nearly 900. Click through the slide show to see some of the world’s best-known World Heritage List locations.

Image: Socotra, Yemen
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Tim Thompson
Geisha in the Gion District
Corbis
David Lefranc / Paris Tourist Office
Vancouver Skyline and Harbor in Morning Light
Richard T. Nowitz / Corbis
Climber Abseiling Down Table Mountain
Henrik Trygg / Corbis
AP
Couple Tango Dancing
Sergio Pitamitz / © Sergio Pitamitz/CORBIS
Lounge Chairs on Beach at Club Med
Macduff Everton / © Macduff Everton/CORBIS
2008 Beijing Olympics - Construction
Michael Reynolds / Corbis
Memphis Convention Visitors Bu

Technology and science photos

Space, technology, gadgets and science
NASA/ESA/CXC
Month in Space: Liftoffs and landings

  See highlights from the shuttle Discovery’s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June’s roundup of cosmic pictures.

Image: Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe
Reuters
Image: Stonehenge
Ken Geiger / National Geographic
Image: Nebula
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USGS / NASA
Image: Limestone sequence
John "Doug" Powell
Image: A humanoid robot, designed to make human-like facial expressions in response to English and Japanese words.
David Guttenfelder / AP
Nasa Photo / AFP - Getty Images
Image: "Doomsday" vault in Norway
John Mcconnico / AP
Image: SpaceShipTwo
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Image: Sanyo's Xacti E1
Robyn Beck / AFP - Getty Images
NASA / JPL / Space Science Insti

  SLIDE SHOW

Best of Cassini
Image: Antarctica
NASA
Image: Earth and moon
LPI/NASA, Lunar Orbiter

More photos

Pets, health and business slide shows
Steven A. Gold
Nature's Best Backyards

  Sometimes the best photograph is right in your own backyard. 'Nature's Best Photography' magazine presents this year's winners of the Nature's Best Backyards photo competition.

Steffen Schmidt / AP
Image: Bill Gates
Andrew Gombert / EPA
Image: Jingle Luis
Richard Drew / AP
Image: Priscilla Presley 1968; 2008
AP; Michael Desmond / ABC
Image: A 1964 Chevrolet Impala "Gypsy Rose" lowrider
Ric Francis / AP
Image: City dogs herding
Bernadette Tuazon / AP
Image: Todd Zaki Warfel stands in front of broken and boarded up windows in an unoccupied unit.
Matt Rourke / AP
Image: BMW concept CS
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
An Iranian technician works at the Balal
Behrouz Mehri / AFP/Getty Images
Image: Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Coupe
Image: Mitsubishi's Concept-RA
Image: Nissan Forum concept vehicle
Bernd Weissbrrod / EPA
Pakistan World AIDS day
Mk Chaudhry / EPA
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