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A worker sorts plastic bottles at a recycling center in China. Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

British cave-diver John Volanthen walks out of the flooded Tham Luang cave on Thursday. Rescue teams in Thailand have been working around the clock to save 12 boys and their soccer coach who went missing Saturday evening. Linh Pham/Getty Images hide caption

The portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il are displayed in Kim Il Sung square in central Pyongyang. A succession of rulers have held talks with U.S. officials. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Ball State linebacker Wendell Brown (left) and cornerback Trey Buice react near the end of an NCAA college football game in Muncie, Ind., in 2008. Brown, who was arrested two years ago in China, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison. Darron Cummings/AP hide caption

Asteroid Ryugu, photographed on June 26 by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, was the Japanese mission's destination. The craft will travel alongside the asteroid for 18 months. JAXA, University of Tokyo and collaborators hide caption

Rescue teams in Thailand gather in a cave where a group of boys and their soccer coach went missing on Saturday afternoon. Despite heavy rains that have obstructed searches, officials believe they are still alive. Krit Promsakla Na Sakolnakorn/AP hide caption

The northern white-cheeked gibbon is a critically endangered ape native to China, Vietnam and Laos. Scientists have discovered a new species of gibbon, now extinct, that lived in China as recently as 2,200 years ago. Joachim S. Müller/Flickr hide caption