1Patrick Gonzalez looks over a fallen tree that is blocking a residential street in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. A severe storm late Friday knocked out power to approximately one million residents, traffic signals and businesses in the Washington region. (AP)
2Support and medical personnel carry Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, foreground, and Flight Engineers Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency, center, and Don Pettit of NASA, background, to the medical tent shortly after they landed in their Soyuz TMA-03M capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
3Flashes of lightning light the sky during a heavy thunderstorm near the city of Annaberg-Buchholz, eastern Germany. (AP)
4A woman casts her vote at a polling station at San Bartolome Quialana, outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. (Reuters)
5A house is surrounded by fire in Carlet, near Valencia, Spain. The regional government said wildfire has burned almost 40,000 hectares (96,000 acres) of forest. (AP)
6Child performers dressed in Chinese opera costumes watch members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army march during a variety show celebrating the 15th anniversary of the handover in Hong Kong Stadium. (AFP)
7Spectators watch the pack pass during the start of the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 198 kilometers (123 miles) with start in Liege and finish in Seraing, Belgium. (AP)
8A metering rule is placed beside hailstones after a hail storm hit the city of Zurich, Switzerland. (Reuters)
9Models wear creations by French fashion designer Pierre Cardin at the end of his Men’s Spring-Summer 2013 collection, for the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris. (AP)
1An aerial view of a flooded area of Jorhat in Assam state, India. (AP)
2Presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) celebrates with supporters in Mexico City, Mexico. Results of an official preliminary count indicate that Enrique Pena Nieto holds a substantial lead over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. (AFP)
3Afghan women sit in a handcart as a worker pushes it in the Torkham border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Reuters)
4Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates after defeating Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan during their women’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London. (Reuters)
5Oil tankers, which were used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, are parked, in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP)
6South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak delivers his speech during the inaugural session of the 19th National Assembly in Seoul. (Reuters)
7A letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service leaves after delivering mail to a residence in Washington, DC, damaged by the powerful storm that swept through the region on June 29, 2012. (AP)
8Britain’s Queen Elizabeth walks past soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland, during the Ceremony Of The Keys at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Reuters)
9A view of a burnt house and trees which survived the passage of a wildfire, surrounded by burnt trees and ash, in Alcublas, near Castellon, Spain. (AFP)
10Actors play before the presentation of the creations designed by American Thom Browne during the men’s spring-summer 2013 fashion collection show in Paris, France, July 1, 2012. (AFP)
1Queen Sofia of Spain, second from left, toasts with Philippine Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile during a dinner hosted by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, second from right, at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines. (AP)
2Vandenberg Air Force Base Hot Shot fire fighter Chris Loung wipes sweat from his face while cutting a fire line in the Mount Saint Francois area of Colorado Springs, Colorado while helping to battle several fires in Waldo Canyon. (AFP/US Air Force)
3German honor guards line up during the welcoming ceremony for the President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev at Germany’s President Joachim Gauck’s residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin. (AP)
4Smoke billows from a building after a gas explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)
5Belarussian athletes perform during celebrations marking Independence Day in Minsk. (Reuters)
6A model wears a creation of Chanel by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld during his Women’s Fall Winter 2013 haute couture fashion collection in Paris, France. (AP)
7Javier Fernandez, left, and Deanna Wetmore hold a rope as they help a crew flying a hot air balloon draped with the colors of the U.S. flag at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AP)
8Stuntman Nick Macomber carries the Olympic Flame through the air using a jet pack at the National Space Center, on the Torch Relay leg through Leicester, England. (AP/LOCOG)
9Spain’s national team soccer players celebrate on top of a bus with their supporters a day after their victory at the Euro 2012 in central Madrid, July 2, 2012. Spaniards seized on their Euro 2012 triumph as a source of restored national pride after months of economic anxieties. (Reuters)
1Cooks prepare ‘Stars and Stripes’ desserts for a buffet before a ceremony for the July 4th Independence Day celebrations at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France. (AFP)
2Construction workers on scaffolding, building a commercial building in Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines (Reuters)
3An opposition supporter climbs over the heads of riot police during a rally to protest against a Russian language bill passed by parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
4A diver returns with a catch of octopuses at Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 6 will see celebrations of the 120th anniversary of the beginning of the urbanization of the Copacabana neighborhood, which started with the opening of the Old Tunnel and the arrival of the railway. (AFP)
5A miner kicks a gas canister fired by the Spanish national riot police during the clashes between police and miners inside the ‘El Soton’ coal mine in El Entrego, near Oviedo, northern Spain. The coal miners are protesting against the government’s proposal to decrease funding for coal production. (Reuters)
6An Indian farmer plows the field as monsoon clouds gather in the sky in Delhpur village, outskirts of Allahabad. (AP)
7A beached humpback whale lies on the shore near Puerto Eten, 23 km (14 miles) south of Chiclayo, Peru, July 3, 2012. Government specialists collected samples from the seven-meter (23 feet), three-ton cetacean to determine the cause that led it to be stranded on the shore, according to local media. (Reuters)
8People admire a giant kinetic structure at the Changi International Airport in Singapore. Claiming to be the world’s largest kinetic art installation, ‘Kinetic Rain’ designed and built by a German team is made up of 1, 216 bronze droplets that transform into multiple shapes through slow fluid movements. (AP)
9Fireworks streak across the sky against a full moon during a Fourth of July celebration in Kansas City, Kansas, July 3, 2012. (AP)
10A model presents a creation by French designer Franck Sorbier as part of his Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2012/2013 fashion show in Paris, France. (Reuters)
1The pack passes a church in Rouen during the start of the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 196.5 kilometers (122 miles) with start in Rouen and finish in Saint-Quentin, France. (AP)
2A Mongolian man takes a rest in between the Yolyn Am ice canyon in the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains, located 45km south of Dalanzadgad. (AP)
3Police officers stand next to passengers from a coach after it stopped and was surrounded by armed police on the M6 motorway near Litchfield in central England. Bomb disposal teams, fire engines, armed police and ambulances were called to the scene and the motorway was closed in both directions. (Reuters)
4A helicopter drops water on the north flank of the Fontenelle Fire outside Big Piney, Wyoming, July 4, 2012. Over 800 firefighters are working 15 hour shifts battling the fire that has exceeded 56,000 acres, according to fire information services. (Reuters)
5A man holds up a burnt ballot paper as Libyan firemen extinguish a fire at a warehouse that was used by the election committee for storing materials for the upcoming General National Congress elections in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. (AFP)
6The #26 AT – HUI 01, Gasoline Prototype, from Ho Chi Minh University of Industry in Vietnam, runs a lap on day two of the Shell Eco-marathon Challenge Asia at Sepang International Circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Students from Asia and the Middle East have come together to compete in the four-day event. (AP)
7Performers of the British group Lords of Lightning entertain the audience at Rock for People music festival held in Hradec Kralove, some 100 kilometers east of Prague, Czech Republic. (AP)
8A torchbearer carries the Olympic Flame in front of the beach huts at Southwold, southeast England during Day 48 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. (AP/LOCOG)
9Fireworks illuminate the night sky over the Washington Monument during Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, DC, July 4, 2012. (AFP)
1An exile Tibetan in traditional costume waits to perform a dance at Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India. The Dalai Lama celebrated his 77th birthday with festivities held for the entire day at the temple complex. (AP)
2People walk inside Khazret Sultan Mosque in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. On Friday Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev unveiled the mosque, the largest Muslim worship facility in Central Asia. (AFP)
3Spanish miners burn tires to cut a road during a demonstration in Caborana, near Oviedo, in northern Spain. The miners are staging a nationwide strike organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions from 301 million euros to 111 million euros. (AFP)
4Gymnasts from the Nanjing children’s gymnastic team stretch during a training session at a sports center in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. The team with about 30 young gymnasts, ages 4-8, is representing the city in the provincial gymnastic games. (Reuters)
5A Syrian girl holds placard during a protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in front the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan. (AP)
6Revelers hold up their red scarves during the start of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain. The annual festival, best known for its daily running of the bulls, kicked off Friday with the traditional ‘Chupinazo’ rocket launch and will run until July 14. (Reuters)
7A Jordanian groom covers his face from foam spray during a mass wedding of 46 brides and 46 grooms in Amman, Jordan. The wedding was organized by an Islamic association, Al-Afaf (which means chastity in Arabic), to encourage young adults to remain virtuous until marriage. (AP)
8A sun bear reacts to triple-digit temperatures at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. The temperature reached 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.5 Celsius) Friday. (AP)
9Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, rides in the pack during the sixth stage of the Tour de France over 207.5 kilometers (129 miles) which started in Epernay and finished in Metz, France. (AP)
10Laborers work on a topiary tree sculpture of a dragon at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China. (Reuters)
11Women, wearing nylon masks, rest on the shore during their visit to a beach in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. The mask, invented by a woman about seven years ago, is used to block the sun’s rays. It is under mass production and on sale at local swimwear stores. (Reuters)
1Libyan women celebrate the elections by waving a Libyan flag and flashing the victory sign as they drive in Tripoli, Libya. (AP)
2De-Ashia Buchanan, 7, of Washington, D.C., leans back in an inflated pool during a block party on Newton Street, during record heat with temperatures in the triple digits. (AP)
3Workers prepare Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo ahead of the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England. (Reuters)
4A young woman falls down as others run in the Glamour high heels race in Moscow, Russia. Participants in the run were challenged to race 50 meters in stilettos of heights at least 9 cm (2.54 inches). (AP)
5An ice cream truck stands on a foggy beach in Whitby, northern England. (Reuters)
6Spanish bullfighter Jose Miguel Perez ‘Joselillo’ holds his hat before a bullfight at San Fermin Fiestas, in Pamplona, Spain. (AP)
7A child walks on the backs of cattle in a river in the eastern suburb of Fadaliayah, outside of Baghdad, Iraq. The animals are bathed daily to help keep them free of diseases and to protect them from the heat. (AP)
8An emergency service worker (L) stands near an overturned car in the southern Russian town of Krymsk. At least 99 people were killed in floods and landslides in southern Russia after two months’ average rainfall fell in a few hours overnight. (Reuters)
9Bobby Mote of Culver, Oregon rides the bucking horse Licorice Baby in the bareback event during the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta. (Reuters)
10The hip hop collective from Philadelphia, The Roots, performed at the Roskilde Festival in Roskilde, Denmark. (AP)
1Delegates pose at a photo session at the Tokyo Conference on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan, in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
2Egyptian guards try to close the gate of presidential palace to the people willing to give their demands personally to President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo. (AFP)
3Congolese refugees queue for porridge at the Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town, 521 km (324 miles) southwest of Uganda’s capital Kampala. (Reuters)
4A fighting bull from Miura ranch passes over revelers as they go on the way during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas, in Pamplona, northern Spain. (AP)
5A man looks at a public telephone booth painted by Brazilian artist Juarez Fagundes during the Call Parade art exhibition in Sao Paulo, July 7, 2012. The Call Parade is a street art exhibition involving 100 artists who decorated and painted 100 public telephone booths around Sao Paulo, according to the organizers. (Reuters)
6German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande deliver a speech in front of the cathedral of Reims, eastern France. Leaders meet to mark 50 years of an important step toward cooperation after two world wars, amid today’s tensions over Europe’s financial crisis.(AP)
7Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star’s latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star. (ESA/NASA)
8Supporters of the Defense Council of Pakistan sit on the top of vehicles with party flags as they take part in a rally, in Lahore, Pakistan. Prominent hardline Islamists led thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan’s decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. (AP)
9Triathletes swim during the Ironman at the ‘Langener Waldsee’ in Frankfurt, western Germany. Thousand triathletes attend the Ironman tournament which includes 3,8 kilometer roughwater swim, 180 km bike race and 42,2 km marathon. (AFP)
10A woman dressed in flower costumes participate in the11th Jember Fashion Carnival in Jember, Indonesia’s East Java province. The carnival procession that had a 3.6 km ( 2.2 mile) route was made up of 700 participants. (Reuters)
1An F-18 fighter jet flies in display during Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough, England. (AP)
2Traditional dancers perform during celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the Republic of South Sudan’s independence in the capital Juba. (Reuters)
3Children view a car partially buried in mud on the bank of the river after flooding in the town of Nizhnebakansky, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow, Russia. (AP)
4U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia at the President’s yurt in Ulan Bator. (AP)
5River beds slice through a mountain range in Afghanistan’s Paktiya Province. (Reuters)
6A woman rides a bicycle past uncompleted villas at a new urban zone in Hanoi. Vietnam’s real estate market has hit its bottom but positive signs have emerged with transactions rising recently, according to Construction Minister Trinh Dinh Dunge. (Reuters)
7‘Locks of love’ are displayed on top of Mt. Nam or Namsan in central Seoul, South Korea. Young couples come to the top of the mountain to hang their locks of love and throw the key away in the hope for eternal love. (Reuters)
8‘Aloitadores’ (fighters) struggle with a wild horse during the 400-year-old horse festival called ‘Rapa das bestas’ (Shearing of the Beasts) in Sabucedo, some 40 kms from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (AFP)
1Using observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. (NASA/CXC/Royal Military College of Canada/P.Chandra et al)
2An ethnic member of parliament leaves parliament after the parliament session in Naypyidaw, Burma on July 10, 2012. (AFP)
3A Yemeni girl walks past a pile of rubbish on a main street in the capital, Sana’a, after garbage collectors ended their second five-day strike, protesting against their salaries. (AFP)
4Torchbearer Alan Corbishley carrying the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg down Long Walk after leaving Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. (AP Photo/LOCOG)
5A house, with its foundation washed away, hangs over a rain-swollen creek at Nyhammar in Dalarna, central Sweden. Areas in Sweden hit by floods are bracing themselves for further downpours and thunderstorms as a low pressure system moves across the region. (Reuters)
6French President Francois Hollande inspects the honor guard, 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. (AP)
7A man dressed as a giant holds a young girl during the giants and big heads parade of the San Fermin festival in the Northern Spanish city of Pamplona. (AFP)
8A child stands on a massive stack of wood in the Shankill Estate in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Thousands of bonfires have been built in Protestant areas across Northern Ireland for the annual July 11 bonfire night. (AP)
1Indian farmers plow a field in preparation for sowing cotton in Nani Kisol village, around 70 km from Ahmedabad. (AFP)
2Mongolian artists in traditional costumes perform dance during the Naadam Festival opening ceremony at a stadium in Ulan Bator. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan’s march to the world conquest with the annual sporting festival. (AP)
3People watch the flames shoot up from a derailed freight train that derailed which burst into flames in Columbus Ohio, USA. (AP)
4A vegetable and fruit vendor empties a crate containing apples along a street in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon as some 160 market sellers protested against the new location that the municipality allocated to them to sell their goods. (AFP)
5Visitors to the National Gallery of Art pass between the East and West Buildings via Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, in Washington, D.C., July 10, 2012. The work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED nodes. (Reuters)
6Three women mourn beside the coffin of their relative at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, some 160 kilometers east of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thousands gathered at the Potocari memorial complex for the mass burial of 520 bodies, marking the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. (AP)
7Japan’s Mizuho Sakaguchi (L) and Australia’s Kathryn Gill (R) fight for the ball during their friendly soccer match at the National Stadium in Tokyo. (AFP)
8A lit spherical structure at the World Heritage site Stonehenge during an elemental Fire Garden display, which is part of the London 2012 Festival, in Salisbury, southern England, July 10, 2012 (Reuters)
1The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is ready to be lifted on its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. An International Space Station crew of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams is due to travel on the spacecraft to the space station on July 15. (Reuters)
2A tribesman, loyal to the al-Houthi Shi’ite rebel group, performs a traditional dance at the conclusion of a two-day tribal gathering in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada, on the border with Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)
3Filipino workers install light-emitting diode, LED, lights on a post at Manila’s Rizal Park, Philippines. The switch from regular bulb to LED on the park’s 800 lampposts is part of the Department of Tourism’s project to reduce the park’s electric consumption by 50 percent and make it environment-friendly. (AP)
4U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses the NAACP annual convention, in Houston, Texas. (AP)
5A car burns after Nationalist rioters clashed with Police Service of Ireland in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, Northern Ireland. Trouble broke out after an Orange Order march passed the area. (AP)
6Afghan security officials stand near a truck carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, as it crosses into Afghanistan from Pakistan at Torkham. (Reuters)
7Reuters photographer Joseba Etxaburu is knocked down by a wild bull during festivities in the bullring following the sixth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. (Reuters)
8A three-year-old boy plays near a banana-shaped meeting point for lost children on the beach of Oostduinkerke, Belgium, July 11, 2012. (Reuters)
9Model cars of German luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz are displayed for an anniversary event of the company’s showroom in Tokyo, Japan. (AFP)
10Ring-tailed lemurs enjoy a frozen treat on a summer’s day at Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Reuters)
1A baby is baptized during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Reuters)
2Pakistani Dawlat Gul, 7, third left, enjoys playing on a swing along with other children on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP)
3A woman walks behind the installation TCB (Taking Care of Business) by Dutch artist Mitsy Groenendijk during a press preview at the international exhibition of contemporary arts OSTRALE in Dresden, eastern Germany. (AP)
4Hassan El Far, 27, performs his fire show at the Badium Sinai Arabic concert in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, July 12, 2012. (Reuters)
5An aerial view of a British military missile battery on Blackheath common in south London, which is part of the defenses for the London 2012 Olympics. (AP)
6Indonesian men watch cock fight in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP)
7A Kanwaria, worshipper of Hindu God Shiva, walks as it rains in New Delhi, India. (AP)
8Characters pose photos on first day of Comic-Con convention held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, July 12, 2012. (AP)
9Costume players prepare to dress before entering the venue of China International Comics and Games Expo in Shanghai, China. (AP)
10An Indian man sucks on a hose to pull water as a crowd gathers around a government tanker delivering drinking water because of short supply of running water in New Delhi, India, July 13, 2012. (AP)
11Best sprinter’s green jersey, Slovakia’s Peter Sagan (R) shouts at Australia’s Matthew Harley Goss (2ndR) at the end of the 226 km and twelfth stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and finishing in Annonay Davezieux, southeastern France. (AFP)
12Runners sprint alongside Juan Pedro Domecq fighting bulls at the entrance to the bullring during the seventh running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. (Reuters)
13Members of different Scottish clans stand in the fog during the opening ceremony of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, North Carolina, July 12, 2012. (AP)
1A model participates in a Muslim fantasy fashion show at the Tsunami Museum, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (AFP)
2Andre Greipel of Germany crosses the finish line to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Le Cap D’Agde, France. (AP)
3Anti-riot police execute an umbrella formation as a protection against stone throwing protesters during a crowd dispersal management exercise in Manila, Philippines. (AP)
4Smoke rises from burning tires next to a police vehicle as Kurdish demonstrators clash with Turkish police during a rally outlawed by state authorities to demand the release of jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Diyarbakir, Turkey. (AFP)
5Italy’s Michele Pirro of San Carlo Honda Team falls off his bike during a practice session for the Italian Grand Prix on the Mugello Circuit near Scarperia, Italy. (AFP)
6South Korean band 4minute performs during a concert to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in Beijing, China. (AP)
7Balinese men watch a traditional kite competition during kite festival in Padang Galak, island of Bali, Indonesia. (AP)
8Alphajet planes from the Patrouille de France fly past the Eiffel Tower in Paris on the eve of the traditional Bastille Day military parade, July 13, 2012. (Reuters)
9A Taiwanese woman and her dog, inspired by the Super Mario Brothers video game series, pose during the Creative Pet Style Show at Pets Taipei 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP)
10A couple dressed up as zombies kisses during a zombie walk in the Gaslamp Quarter during the Comic Con International convention in San Diego, California, July 13, 2012. (Reuters)
11Lighting strikes over Saint Joseph Cathedral during a storm in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Reuters)
12Tourists play in the mud during the opening day of the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong, South Korea. (Reuters)
1The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide to the International Space Station. (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
2Japan’s Self-Defense Force soldiers search for missing people at an area devastated by heavy rains in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture. (Reuters)
3Revelers hold candles and red scarves during the closing ceremony of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. Thousands of people gathered in front of the city’s town hall to sing the traditional farewell song ‘Pobre de mi’ (Poor me) to show their sadness at the end of the festival. (Reuters)
4Rescue workers look for survivors buried under debris of damaged buildings following the collapse of an 11-story building under construction onto three adjacent buildings that killed at least 10 people in the Gomrouk neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt. (AP)
5An airplane flies in the sky over Rome, Italy, July 14, 2012. (AFP)
6Somali women receive food aid at a distribution station in the Howlwadaag district of Mogadishu. (AFP)
7Extreme dancers perform hanging from the Millennium Bridge in London as part of London 2012 Olympic Festival. The performances ‘Surprises: Streb’ choreographed by New Yorker Elizabeth Streb take place on various London’s landmarks. (AP)
8The Ferrari Formula One car piloted by Giancarlo Fisichella of Italy drives past St. Basil’s during the Moscow City Racing event in Moscow, Russia. (Reuters)
9Fans react during the concert of British folk rock band Mumford & Sons at the Optimus Alive music festival in Lisbon, Portugal, July 14, 2012. (AP)
10Participants of the Duhnen tideland race speed on their sulkies through the mud in Duhnen near Cuxhaven, northern Germany. (AP)
1A visitor touches a high-resolution digital movie of pigmy sweepers during a press preview at the Sony showroom in Tokyo, Japan on Marine Day. (AFP)
2Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung throws a defaced mask with long nose towards Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. (Reuters)
3Boats sit on the dry, cracked bottom in a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Indiana, USA. The reservoir is down nearly six feet from normal levels and being lowered one foot every five days to provide water for Indianapolis. (AP)
4The entrance to a cave, shaped in the form of an aeroplane, under a mountain that was once the headquarters of former Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao located on the outskirts of Beijing. The cave has been turned into a ‘Military Bar’ using old military ordnance as furniture including sandbags, artillery shells and land mines. (Reuters)
5Competitors pull a woman up an obstacle where they must jump to the top of a half pipe during the Tough Mudder at Mt. Snow in West Dover, Vermont, USA, July 15, 2012. (Reuters)
6A man walks through the infinity room at the Team GB Preparation Camp in Loughborough, central England. (Reuters)
7Spectators in classic French Citroen 2CV cars cheer as the pack passes during the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 158.5 kilometers (98.5 miles) with start in Samatan and finish in Pau, France. (AP)
1An Afghan man grinds wheat at a traditional mill in Nahr-e Shahi district of Balkh province. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (AFP)
2Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives a gift from Foreign minister of Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg during their meeting at Thingaha hotel in Naypyitaw, Burma. The visiting foreign minister handed over the posthumous gift from the late Vaclav Havel to fellow Nobel peace laureate. (AP)
3Soldiers perform during a medal ceremony for graduates at the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo. (Reuters)
4Participants throw water at one another during a promotional event for water festival in Seoul, South Korea. The event was held as a part of local county office’s promotion to encourage people to spend for summer vacation at their county. (AP)
5Two Grey Crowned cranes look at each other in their enclosure at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. (AP)
6Smoke billows from a wildfire over the town of Tijoco Bajo, on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife. (AFP)
7Nasa Indians drag off a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia. Dozens of Indians attacked half a dozen soldiers guarding communication towers on the outskirts of the town. Indians have demanded that security forces and leftist rebels stay off their land. (AP)
8Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of Paper Windmill Fantasia in Taipei, Taiwan, before setting out for performances in Beijing, China. (AP)
9A man poses for a photograph near a 3D painting at the 2012 Magic Art Special Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, July 16, 2012. (Reuters)
1A house is surrounded by flames during a wildfire near Patras, Greece. Regional authorities declared an emergency in southwestern Greece as wildfires threatened village homes outside the city of Patras. (AP)
2Civil servants shout slogans during a protest against government austerity measures as they block Madrid’s main street Paseo de la Castellana, Spain. (Reuters)
3Oscar Pistorius of South Africa trains before the men’s 400 meters event at the 23rd International Athletics Meeting in Lignano Sabbiadoro. (Reuters)
4Black smoke rises from burning NATO supply trucks in Samangan, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan officials say a magnetic bomb placed on a truck exploded and destroyed 22 NATO supply vehicles. (AP)
5People hold portraits of victims of the terrorist bombing attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) institute that killed 85 people and injured 300, during the commemoration of its 18th anniversary, in Buenos Aires. (AFP)
6Shinto priests pray as Japan’s Emperor Akihito, unseen, visits Meiji Shrine where his great-grandfather Emperor Mutsuhito’s spirit is dedicated, in Tokyo. (AP)
7Smoke is seen after a blast at Bulgaria’s Burgas airport. Three people were killed and over 20 were injured by an explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists outside the airport of the coastal city of Burgas, authorities said. (Reuters)
8A motor tricycle loaded with recyclable plastic bottles drives along a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China. (Reuters)
9A visitor walks through a sculpture ‘OUR BABAS 7+2' (cane images) by Ukrainian artist Zinayida Likhachova in the museum of Ukrainian traditional architecture in Pyrogovo in Kyiv. (Reuters)
1A Syrian living in Egypt sleeps in a tent gallery of pictures and caricatures of the Syrian uprising near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.
2A Jewish man reads prayers during a mourning ceremony at a synagogue in Sofia, a day after a brazen daytime bombing that killed seven people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria.
3An aircraft prepares to fill its tanks with water in the western Greek port city of Patras to fight huge fires in some of the country’s pine forests.
4Fans hold a photograph of Bollywood’s first superstar Rajesh Khanna during his funeral in Mumbai, India. Khanna, 69, died Wednesday after a brief illness.
5A Pakistani shopper selects a cap for the upcoming holy fasting month of Ramadan at a roadside shop in Karachi.
6Sailboats parade in western France’s Crozon Bay during the 2012 Tonnerres de Brest maritime festival, which features thousands of traditional sailboats from 13-19 July 2012.
7A young Chinese girl plays with a sculpture in the 798 art district, previously the site of various electronics factories, in Beijing.
8A photo provided by the National Park Service shows a newly hatched piping plover chick resting at Breezy Point, part of Gateway National Recreation Area in New York. Park police are investigating the vandalism of two piping plover nests in the protected nesting area on New York’s Far Rockaway peninsula.
1A Palestinian reads from the Quran during the dawn prayer on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin. (AP)
2A broken picture of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad is seen at the Bab Al-Hawa border gate after clashes between Syrian rebels and the Syrian army. Syrian rebels seized control of the border post with Turkey after a fierce battle with Syrian troops. (AFP)
3People walk next to wrecked rail cars in Kasara, India. A fast-moving express train collided with some derailed coaches of a commuter train that were lying on the tracks. (AP)
4A Hyundai Motor worker sits in front of a wall where workers have stuck-on stickers that list their demands during a strike at the automaker factory in Asan, south of Seoul. (Reuters)
5High school students shout during a summer military camp for students at the Cheongryong Self-denial Training Camp on Daebu Island in Ansan, South Korea. About 80 students took part in the three-day camp to strengthen their bodies and mind. (AP)
6Australian street artist James Cochran spray paints a portrait of Usain Bolt, Jamaica’s world record-holder in the 100- and 200-meter sprints, on the wall of a building beside a car park in east London. (AP)
7Schoolchildren walk in the rain in Hyderabad, India. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people. (AP)
8The pack of cyclists with Bradley Wiggins of Britain, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, passes a field of sunflowers during the 18th stage of the Tour de France. (AP)
9A diver trains at the Aquatics Center at the Olympic Park in London. Opening ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics will be held Friday, July 27. (AP)
1Illegal squatters throw a tear gas canister back at riot police during clashes at a shanty town in Ventanilla, in the outskirts of Callao, Peru, July 20, 2012. (Reuters)
2A man carries a sheep to the abattoir for slaughter during the holy month of Ramadan in Benghazi, Libya. (Reuters)
3Children play in the rain during a sudden downpour brought by a low pressure area in Quezon City, Metro Manila, July 20, 2012. (Reuters)
4Inmates take part in a tug of war competition in an open-air enclosure at a strict-security camp in Ariysk village outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters)
5A Panama Special Force Border Police officer reacts as a helicopter takes off during a patrol in the area of Bonga, some 20 km (12 miles) from the Panama-Colombia border in the region of Kuna Yala, July 20, 2012. (Reuters)
6Muslim youths wait for the time to break their fast near plates of porridge provided free of charge by a mosque during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, July 21, 2012.
7Aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori, the demonstration team of the Italian Air Force, perform during an air show in Bucharest, Romania, July 21, 2012. (AP)
8Great Britain’s Christopher Froome starts competing in the 53.5 km individual time-trial and 19th stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Bonneval and finishing in Chartres, France. (AFP)
9Passenger buses ply their routes amidst flooding spawned by a tropical depression, local name “Ferdie” in Manila, Philippines. (AP)
10Edmonton Eskimos running back Hugh Charles does a back flip after scoring a touchdown against the BC Lions during the second half of their CFL football game in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 20, 2012. (Reuters)
1A young man kneels on the sidewalk next to a makeshift memorial to the victims of the shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, USA. (AFP)
2A resident walks past debris and a taxi damaged by a flood after heavy rainfalls hit Mentougou District in Beijing, China. (Reuters)
3Brides participate in a race in central Belgrade, Serbia. The winner and two runners-up of the Bridal Race, organized by a local magazine, receive numerous awards, including the wedding gown they had chosen to race in. (AP)
4Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain (R) is showered with champagne by second placed Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany during the victory ceremony of the German F1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring in Hockenheim. (Reuters)
5Belgium’s Prince Nicolas takes the cap of his father Prince Laurent while watching the traditional military parade on National Day in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels, July 21, 2012. (Reuters)
6Children from the Jain community raise their hands to offer prayers to Lord Mahavir on the death anniversary of Jain saint Chandrasekhar Maharaj in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters)
7Amelia Hempleman-Adams with the Olympic Flame on top of a London Eye pod on the Torch Relay leg through London (AP/LOCOG)
8Pink Floyd co-founder and musician Roger Waters performs during the last show of his ‘The Wall’ tour on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Canada. (Reuters)
1Syrian men line up to buy bread at the only bakery still open in the city of Al-Bueda. (AFP)
2An office worker walks past an Australian Securities Exchange window showing the main losses for the day in central Sydney. Australian shares slumped 1.7 percent, the biggest one-day fall in seven weeks. (Reuters)
3A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire after a bus veered out of control on the Greek island of Chios. Greek police say three people were died and nine were injured when a bus crashed into a gully and caught fire on the eastern Aegean Sea island. (AP)
4A Pakistani boy, center, listens to his teacher on how to read verses of the Quran in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad. (AP)
5Santas from all parts of the world take part in the traditional foot bath at Bellevue Beach north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The bath marks the beginning of the annual World Santa Claus Congress, which runs till July 26, 2012. (AFP)
6Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Ller near La Junquera (Girona), close to the Spanish-French border. Winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in northeastern Spain, forcing thousands of people to take refuge indoors, officials said. (AFP)
7Newly graduated policemen take part in a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s national police day in Algiers. (Reuters)
8A worker rows a boat in Chaohu Lake, filled with blue-green algae, in Hefei, Anhui province, China. The local environment protection department implemented machines to pump algae from the lake to a treatment reservoir where it would be decontaminated and recycled. (Reuters)
9A protester clenches his fist in between the tarpaulin portrait of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally near the Philippine Congress in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, to protest Aquino’s third State of the Nation address. (AP)
10A publicity vehicle for French betting authority on horse races – PMU (Paris Mutuel Urbain) - in the Tour de France caravan drives past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris before the arrival of the final 20th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Rambouillet and Paris, July 22, 2012. (Reuters)
1Manchester United fans take photographs at a training session at the Shanghai Stadium, China. Manchester United will play a pre-season friendly match against Shanghai Shenhua on July 25. (Reuters)
2An Indian farmer walks through a dry, cracked paddy field on the outskirts of Jammu. Indians have grown increasingly desperate waiting for the long-delayed monsoon, the annual rains that replenish rivers and quench crops to keep this agricultural nation of 1.2 billion fed through the year. (AP)
3Demonstrators participating in an AIDS rally fill the street in downtown Washington, D.C. as the International AIDS Conference continues. (AP)
4Heba Seraj, left, and Mohy Abozeid, right, film a segment of a Ramadan program at the Maria Channel’s studio in Cairo, Egypt, July 23, 2012. The first Egyptian satellite channel operated by women wearing the niqab, or face veil, launched on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP)
5U.S. President Barack Obama gestures at a campaign stop in Oakland, California, July 23, 2012. (AP)
6Families fleeing fighting between Congolese army and M23 rebels walk toward the eastern Congolese city of Goma, July 23, 2012. More than 200,000 civilians have had to leave their homes and several hundred fighters have been killed in the recent North Kivu clashes. (Reuters)
7Thai Muslim women pray in a mosque in the southern province of Pattani, Thailand, during the holy month of Ramadan, July 23, 2012. (AP)
1Dancers perform to welcome athletes from Italy and Azerbaijan for the 2012 Summer Olympics at Olympic village in London. (AP)
2A suburban train arrives at Central station in Sydney, Australian. (Reuters)
3Burma’s Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi asks a question during a regular session of the parliament at Burma Lower House in Naypyitaw. (AP)
4People walk under umbrellas displayed over a street in a sales promotion of a store in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)
5American Actor Christian Bale and his wife Sibi Blazic view a cross and large display of flowers and stuffed animals dedicated to Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, the youngest of the 12 victims of mass shooting at a memorial in Aurora, Colorado, July 24, 2012. Twelve people were killed when a gunman opened fire during a late night showing of the movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ which stars Bale as Batman. (AP)
6Catalonia’s Economy Minister Andreu Mas-Colell reacts during a extraordinary parliamentary session on the fiscal pact at the Parliament of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. (AP)
7Water is released from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze river, in Yichang, central China’s Hubei province, after heavy downpours, July 24, 2012. (AFP)
8A Syrian civilian inspects a destroyed army tank in front of the wreckage of a mosque in Azaz, north of Syria. (Reuters)
9Indian artist Ranjit Dahiya works on a mural of Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna as part of Bollywood Art Project (BAP) in Mumbai. One of the country’s first superstars, Khanna died last week of undisclosed causes at age 69. (AP)
10A Roma child scavenges a field after a fire broke out in the refugee camp Vrela Ribnicka in Podgorica, Montenegro. According to local media, more than 30 shanties were burned down as a blaze swept through the refugee camp, leaving around 800 refugees from Kosovo without shelter and belongings. (Reuters)
11A horse walks past a fire ravaged forest in Darnius, Spain, after wild fires swept through the region. (AFP)
12Robbie Brady (R) of Manchester United fights for the ball against Wang Lin of Shanghai Shenhua during their friendly soccer match at the Shanghai Stadium, China. (Reuters)
13German Chancellor Angela Merkel signs autographs as she arrives for the opening of the Bayreuth Wagner opera festival outside the Gruener Huegel (Green Hill) opera house in Bayreuth. (Reuters)
14Clowns watch colleagues perform during the inauguration of the fourth annual Latin American Clown Congress in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 24, 2012. Clowns from Central America, South America and the Caribbean have gathered for three days in the capital city to exchange ideas and attend workshops. (AP)
1Congolese army tanks retreat through the village of Rugari, around 37km from Goma, following an alleged ambush by M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s restive North Kivu province. (AFP)
2Security guards detain an activist from women’s rights group Femen as she protests against the visit of the head of the dominant Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill (R), to Ukraine, at Borispol airport, near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. (Reuters)
3Many hands join in to help as an anaconda snake at the Oklahoma City Zoo has dental floss taped to it’s head and along it’s body as it is measured at the zoo in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. The anaconda weighed 152 lbs. and measured 16 feet. (AP)
4Austrian athlete Felix Baumgartner descend to the desert after successfully completing the second manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, USA, July 25, 2012. Baumgartner reached an altitude of 29.455 meters with a space capsule on a huge balloon during a successful second test jump. (AFP)
5Hamid, 59, uses a hammer to break an engine outside a scrapyard at an industrial area in Mumbai, India. (Reuters)
6Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner unveils a large scale bill of the new 100 pesos bank note with a portrait of former First Lady Eva Peron to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Eva’s death, during a ceremony at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires. (Reuters)
7A man uses plastic bottles to help him and his daughter swim, near the banks of the Ravi river, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters)
8British actresses and torchbearers Joanna Lumley, center right, and Jennifer Saunders, center left, carry the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Lambeth and Kensington and Chelsea, in London. (AP/LOCOG)
9A small boat passes along the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. In a switch of extremes, the river has dropped to very low levels this summer, unlike last year when the river was flooding much of the Delta due to record high levels. The drop in water level now exposes the river bottom, forcing river traffic to a trickle. (AP)
10Indonesian students at the Ar Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan city in Sumatra island hold prayers during Ramadan. (AFP)
1A Palestinian boy stands near the reflection of a shrine on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Ramadan. (Reuters)
2The Flame Nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the northern hemisphere during winter evenings. The nebula is the brightest and largest in the image. This view was taken by WISE, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA)
3A cross dedicated to Aurora, Colorado shooting victim Alex Sullivan is shown at sunrise at a memorial. It was a week ago that a gunman opened fire during a late-night showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” Batman movie, killing 12 and injuring dozens of others. (AP)
4Bodo people who fled riots in India’s remote northeast rest at the Kambari Beel relief camp in Kokrajhar. A top official has appealed for an end to ethnic violence that has killed at least 45 people and left nearly 400,000 homeless in the past week. (AP)
5Members of the New Zealand cycling team train ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (AP)
6In this photo taken Wednesday, July 25, 2012 and released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right in the middle, reacts on a ride of an amusement attraction as he attends the completion ceremony of the Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP)
7People are reflected in mirrors at an entrance of a shopping complex in Tokyo. Japan’s core consumer prices fell 0.2 percent in June from a year earlier, in a sign the country is still far from achieving the central bank’s target of 1 percent inflation. (Reuters)
8Participants wearing their outfits featuring animation characters perform at the annual Comics Festival and Game Fair in Hong Kong. The fair is expected to attract more than 170 local and international exhibitors displaying their latest comics, video games and accessories. (AP)
9A young Yemeni soldier, center, stands guard as protestors demanding that the relatives of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh be fired from army and police posts demonstrate in Sanaa. (AP)
10A competitor dives during a practice session at the Aquatics Center in the Olympic Park ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (AP)
11The Olympic rings light up the stadium during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (AP)
1Samuel Mikulak of the U.S. competes in the horizontal bar at the men’s gymnastics qualification in the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
2The Moroccan faithful pray on the esplanade of the Hassan II mosque during the Tarawih prayers, as part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Casablanca, July 27, 2012. (Reuters)
3Employees welcome customers during the official opening of the largest Apple Store in southern Europe, at Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona. (Reuters)
4Balinese man walks between burning animal statues during a mass cremation ceremony in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (AP)
5Ukraine’s Georgii Zantaraia fights with Italy’s Elio Verde (blue) during their men’s 60kg judo match at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
6An Indian participant forces down a hot dog during a hot dog eating competition organized by The All American Diner in New Delhi, India. (AP)
7Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers jump through rings of fire in a war game as part of the show for the public during an open day at the Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base on Hong Kong’s Stonecutters Island. (Reuters)
8A resident dives as others swim in Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei Province, July 27, 2012. (Reuters)
1A Turkish military convoy stops for a moment while traveling to the border between Turkey and Syria, near the southeastern Turkish city of Kilis. (Reuters)
2Muslim girls study in the light of candles at a madrasa or religious school during a blackout in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. (Reuters)
3Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tours the North Africa American Cemetery where US Soldiers killed in WWII are buried, Tunis, Tunisia. (AP)
4German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (L) speaks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (R) in the house where Schaeuble is vacationing, in Westerland on the German North Sea island of Sylt. (AP)
5A man collects plastic and other recyclable materials from debris in the waters of Manila Bay after tropical storm Saola hit the Philippine capital. (Reuters)
6Road posts are submerged in a flooded street in Anju City, South Phyongan Province, North Korea. (AP)
7Cook Islands’ Ella Nicholas competes in the women’s kayak (K1) heats at Lee Valley White Water Center during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
8A young fan takes a nap during the women’s handball Preliminaries Group A match between Russia and Britain during the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
9The statue of Admiral Lord Nelson is decorated with a hat and an Olympic torch designed by Sylvia Fletcher of Locke & Co., famed for making Nelson’s original bicorn hat, as part of an art event in central London’s Trafalgar square, during the 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP)
1A young boy watches from a window of a stalled train as he waits for service to resume following a power outage in New Delhi. India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without electricity. (AP)
2Chen Ruolin and Wang Hao of China compete during the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform diving final at the Summer Olympics in London. China won the gold medal in the event. (AP)
3Policemen take part in a riot prevention drill during a visit by delegations from Vietnam’s Police Force Building Department at the Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)
4A woman relaxes in a roofed wicker chair on the beach in the German Baltic Sea resort of Sellin on the island of Ruegen. Hot weather conditions reached a peak of 32 degrees Celsius in northeast Germany Tuesday. (Reuters)
5A participant shouts as he is detained by police during a protest to defend Article 31 of the Russian constitution in St. Petersburg. Activists gather on the 31st day of the month to support Article 31 – the right to free assembly. (Reuters)
6Fans, dressed in U.S. flag bodysuits, cheer at the Aquatics Center during the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay swimming heats at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
7A customer gets a haircut from a barber holding a candle at a barber shop in Kolkata, India. Over 600 million people were without electricity for several hours across the country Tuesday in, by far, the world’s biggest blackout. (AP)
8A security officer walks past artwork at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in Tokyo, Japan. (AP)
9Filipino performer Alvin Lopez performs palm spinning during a contact juggling workshop in Manila’s Makati financial district. Contact juggling is a type of object manipulation, in which the artist focuses on the ball’s interaction with the body, rather than it being thrown in the air. (Reuters)
10A cloud passes over the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in the Pudong financial district, Shanghai, China. (Reuters)
