A look at the best news photos from around the world.
July 16, 2015
![Players, officials and caddies look for Ernie Els's ball in the gorse bushes during the first round of the 2015 British Open Golf Championship on The Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland.](https://gdb.voanews.com/9f5ab0e0-6e84-4165-8021-66bd90d1f420_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Players, officials and caddies look for Ernie Els's ball in the gorse bushes during the first round of the 2015 British Open Golf Championship on The Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland.
![A boy carrying a dog stands still after Peruvian police destroyed illegal gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios.](https://gdb.voanews.com/b2755e69-db3e-45f1-aac4-f600b35aa6a3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy carrying a dog stands still after Peruvian police destroyed illegal gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios.
![Switzerland's performance "Let's Move Together" is seen at the Gymnaestrada's Midnight Sun Special at the Olympic stadium in Helsinki, Finland, July 15, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4a017e16-3a5e-40d0-bf7a-3793263dd749_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Switzerland's performance "Let's Move Together" is seen at the Gymnaestrada's Midnight Sun Special at the Olympic stadium in Helsinki, Finland, July 15, 2015.
![Newly-born Asiatic lion cubs sit near their den in the Khutani area of the sanctuary in the Junagadh region of Gujarat. (Image Credit: Gir National Park and Sanctuary Indian Deputy Conservator of Forests Sandeep Kumar)](https://gdb.voanews.com/481337a0-fb6e-4b88-8278-21e253d7d2bd_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Newly-born Asiatic lion cubs sit near their den in the Khutani area of the sanctuary in the Junagadh region of Gujarat. (Image Credit: Gir National Park and Sanctuary Indian Deputy Conservator of Forests Sandeep Kumar)