Reuters' Pictures of the year 2006: Two young men play football on the dried up ground on West Common in Gerrard's Cross, southern England, July 26, 2006. Britain experienced a summer heatwave with record temperatures for July recently set and many water-use restrictions in place. [Reuters]

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