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June 02, 2013
1 A street vendor sells umbrellas in front of destroyed police cars at the Taskim square in Istanbul, Turkey. Protests in Istanbul and several other Turkish cities appear to have subsided, after days of fierce clashes following a police crackdown on a peaceful gathering as protesters denounced what they see as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian style.
2 Ducks waddle past the statue of world harmony leader Sri Chinmoy, partially submerged by the water from the rising Vltava river, in Prague, Czech Republic.
3 People look at floating portraits of "We Drift" by Belgian artist Wim Tellier on the Scheldt river in Antwerp, Belgium.
4 Firefighters battle the Powerhouse wildfire at the Angeles National Forest in California, June 1, 2013. The fire ravaged over 600 acres of the forest and destroyed several homes near the Lake Hughes area.
5 Thierry Neuville with his co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul competes with their Ford Fiesta RS WRC at the Loutraki special stage for the World Rally Championship, some 80km southwest of Athens, Greece.
6 U.S. actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at The World Premiere of 'World War Z' at the Empire Cinema in London.
7 Children take part in a mock military parade at an amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea, to mark International Children's Day, in this photo taken by Kyodo, June 1, 2013.
8 Participants operate a homemade flying machine during the Red Bull Flugtag (Flight Day) event in Kyiv, Ukraine.
9 A woman cleans the floor of her house decorated with flowers and branches as she waits for a Corpus Christi procession in Zahara de la Sierra village, in Cadiz province, Spain.
10 Milky Way over Gem Island, east coast of Malaysia, June 1, 2013
June 03, 2013
1 An Indian woman and two boys watch a trailer of the upcoming Bollywood film “Yamla Pagla Deewana 2” on a traditional biscope in Mumbai, India.
2 Elementary pupils cross a river on a raft to attend the opening of classes for the school year 2013-2014, at a remote village in Rodriguez township, Rizal province, about 50 kilometers (33 miles) east of Manila, Philippines.
3 Girls react to a street performer in Kyiv, Ukraine.
4 Members of the Red Cross make their way by boats in the flooded street in the center of Passau, southern Germany. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe.
5 Divers participate in a rescue operation after a coach sank in Lake Geneva off the coast of Vevey, western Switzerland. The empty bus was parked on the market square in Vevey but rolled away by itself and ended up in Lake Geneva. No one was injured.
6 Firefighters attempt to extinguish a burning petrol tanker at a military-run petrol station in Hanoi, Vietnam.
7 A fisherman rows a boat in Chaohu Lake, filled with blue-green algae, in Hefei, Anhui province, China.
8 A man walks past a painting by German artist Anke Doberauer at the Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) in Marseille, France.
9 Revelers play with tomato pulp during the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in Sutamarchan province in Boyaca, Colombia, June 2, 2013.
10 A giant British and Irish Lions team jersey is unveiled on Perth's Cottesloe Beach, Australia.
June 04, 2013
1 People gather at Victoria Park in Hong Kong during a candlelight vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square in China.
2 Britain's Queen Elizabeth leaves Westminster Abbey after celebrating the 60th anniversary of her coronation in London.
3 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies - a spiral galaxy is in the process of colliding with a lenticular galaxy. (European Space Agency/NASA Hubble)
4 A Japanese soccer fan dives into Doton-bori river in Osaka to celebrate the country's qualification for the World Cup finals in Brazil, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
5 The British and Irish Lions rugby team player Richard Hibbard practices his throwing during the captain's run at the NIB Stadium in Perth, Australia.
7 Shi'ite pilgrims gather at Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine to mark his death anniversary in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district, Iraq. Every year, thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims gather at the shrine to commemorate the death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, one of the 12 imams of Shi'ite.
8 A broadcast journalist stands inside the Serpentine Gallery 2013 Pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, in central London's Kensington Gardens. Fujimoto's structure of 20mm steel poles features a cafe and visitors will be encouraged to enter and interact with the piece in different ways.
9 People cry after their relative died in a fire at a poultry slaughterhouse in Dehui, Jilin province, China.
10 Scavengers search for recyclable materials to be sold to recycling centers, at the Nam Son garbage dump, north of Hanoi, Vietnam.
11 A firefighting plane drops fire retardant on a wildfire in Lancaster, California, June 3, 2013. Firefighters working in darkness doubled containment of a massive wildfire north of Los Angeles to 40 percent overnight, as cool, moist air moved in to replace torrid weather.
June 05, 2013
1 A baby orphaned elephant is fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, at an event to commemorate World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.
2 A woman takes a photograph of a tree decorated with national flags at the national cemetery in Seoul on the eve of South Korea's Memorial Day to commemorate fallen patriots.
3 A man rides a motorbike loaded with coconuts with his pig-tailed macaque in Sawah Lunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
4 Cows rest in garbage as an Indian man rides his horse away at a dump in New Delhi, India.
5 People try to watch television inside their flooded home in Mexico's resort city Cancun, June 4, 2013.
6 Shi'ite pilgrims gather at Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine to mark his death anniversary in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district.
7 A couple wearing gas masks walk at a street between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul during a demonstration against the demolition of the park, June 4, 2013.
8 An Afghan laborer arranges pots at an aluminum factory, on Surkh Rod district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
10 Two light installations shaped as fish hoover over Jerusalem's old city ancient walls during the Jerusalem Festival of Lights, June 4, 2013.
11 A man walks past graffiti on a wall in Lisbon.
12 Mothers and children display painted baby tubs which they themselves designed during a protest on World Environment Day at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines.
13 Gallery employee Alex Bradley poses behind artist Ron Arad's sculpture, "Blame the Tools", during a media preview of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in central London.
June 06, 2013
1 An Indian bicycle rickshaw walla uses a scarf to rest his head while sleeping on his rickshaw in New Delhi.
2 A woman stands on a wall of sandbags in front of a house in Dresden, eastern Germany. Heavy rainfalls have caused flooding along rivers and lakes in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
3 In this picture taken from the Israeli side along the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights shows smoke billowing from a fire caused by clashes between Syrian rebels and forces loyal to the regime near the Quneitra crossing.
4 USS Constitution is escorted by a Massport Fire Rescue boat during her first turnaround cruise of 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.
5 Opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk (top R) holds the tie of a deputy from the pro-presidential Party of the Regions (C), as opposition deputies attempt to disrupt a parliament session in Kyiv, Ukraine.
6 People perform a Gangnam style dance during a flash mob before the arrival of South Korean rapper Psy at the Olympiyskiy (Olympic) sports and entertainment complex in Moscow, Russia.
7 Sonyanga Olengais (C), captain of the Maasai Cricket Warriors, and his teammate Thomas Takare run between the wickets during their Twenty20 cricket match against the Ambassadors of Cricket from India, in Ol Pejeta conservancy in Laikipia National Park, Kenya.
8 A man stands beside a sculpture of the group 'Vier Grosse Geister' (Four Big Ghosts') from 2003 by German artist Thomas Schuette on the shore of Lake Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
9 A man with his family travel on a home boat in the Egyptian Nile River in Cairo. Egypt will demand Ethiopia to stop building a dam on one of the main tributaries of the Nile, a senior government aide said.
10 A man walks past a group of art works by Chinese artist Yue Minjun on display outside the Today Art Museum in Beijing.
11 A NASA Black Brant XII suborbital rocket streaks into the night sky following its launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on June 5, 2013 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket carried the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) to an altitude of approximately 358 miles above the Atlantic Ocean by the four-stage rocket.
June 07, 2013
1 Aerial view of a flooded farm house near the river Danube in Deggendorf, southern Germany. Heavy rainfalls in the past days caused flooding along rivers and lakes in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
2 Worshippers attend joint Sunni-Shiite Friday prayers in a Sunni mosque amid tight security measures in Baghdad, Iraq.
3 A young Indian girl holds a flower-shaped pinwheel, with each petal representing a child death caused by malnutrition, during a Global Day of Action against Global Hunger event in New Delhi.
4 Ukrainian Interior Ministry officers and a security guard chase an activist from the women's rights group FEMEN, as she stages a demonstration outside the Russian embassy in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement of his separation from his wife Lyudmila, in Kiev. The words on the woman's back read, "Push Russia forward!"
5 People walk past a poster depicting Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, put up by demonstrators, at Taksim Square in Istanbul. Erdogan flew back to a Turkey rocked by days of anti-government unrest on Friday and declared before a sea of flag-waving supporters at Istanbul airport: "These protests must end immediately."
6 Pope Francis greets youths during an audience with students of Jesuit schools and institutions in Italy and Albania, at the Vatican. Francis got very personal as he met with thousands of children from Jesuit schools and answered their questions one by one.
7 A man with an umbrella walks past an art installation called "Climbing Up" on the streets of Manhattan, New York. The art installation, which was unveiled on June 6, is inspired by the aluminium body of the 2013 Range Rover.
8 Kashmiri Muslim women pray as a head priest, unseen, displays a holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed, on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, at the Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
9 Students from University College Oxford gets "trashed" after finishing their exams in Oxford, southern England. Trashing is a practice at Oxford University where students have messy items thrown at them by their contemporaries after finishing their exams.
10 People touch a shark in the exhibition "Requins" (Sharks) in the Oceanography museum in Monaco. The exhibition opens on June 8 on the eve of World Oceans Day.
11 People take part at the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv. Thousands of revelers paraded on the streets of Israel's free-wheeling city, which has become a Mediterranean hotspot for gay tourism.
12 A woman takes pictures of her son as he lies down on top of 'Test Pattern', an installation by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, during its opening exhibition as part of Vivid Sydney, a creative festival of light, music and ideas, that runs until June 10.
June 09, 2013
1 Liu Xia, wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, cries in a car outside Huairou Detention Center where her brother Liu Hui has been jailed in Huairou district, on the outskirts of Beijing, China.
2 Presidential guards parade during the weekly change of guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens.
3 Lebanese Army soldiers remove barricades after months of clashes between Sunni Muslims and the small Alawite community, in Tripoli.
4 A man flips his personal watercraft during a demonstration on the Sumida river in Tokyo, Japan.
5 The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often named for flowers or insects. Though its wingspan covers over 3 light years, NGC 6302 is no exception. With an estimated surface temperature of about 250,000 degrees C, the dying central star of this particular planetary nebula has become exceptionally hot, shining brightly in ultraviolet light but hidden from direct view by a dense torus of dust. (NASA/ESA/Hubble)
6 Sweden's Princess Madeleine kisses U.S.-British banker Christopher O'Neill outside the royal church after their wedding ceremony in the royal castle in Stockholm. June 8, 2013.
7 A horsewoman leads thousands of sheep at the Old Port during a simulation of a transhumance, the seasonal migration when herds are moved to grazing grounds, as part of festivities to mark Marseille-Provence being named the 2013 European Capital of Culture in Marseille, France.
8 Rochelle Campbell of Washington places human bones, crafted by students, artists and activists, in place on the lawn of the National Mall in Washington, June 8, 2013, during a massive installation called One Million Bones, symbolic of a mass grave and a visible petition for bold action towards an end to genocide and mass atrocities.
9 A security guard removes a demonstrator who ran onto center court as Spain's Rafael Nadal plays against compatriot David Ferrer in the final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France.
10 A Hindu priest arranges mangoes to be offered to Hindu God Lord Krishna inside a temple during a mango festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
11 A competitor awaits the judges after he took snuff at the German Snuff Championships in Freihung near Nuremberg, southern Germany, June 8, 2013. The competition's aim is to snuff as much as possible from a five gram snuff package.
June 10, 2013
1 A police officer stands among caged animals during a raid on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. Thai police said they confiscated more than 1,000 wild animals, including almost 1,000 sugar gliders, 14 white lions, 12 peacocks, 17 marmosets and many other wild animals.
2 The wreckage of a Chinese-made Xian MA60 twin turboprop aircraft operated by state-run Merpati Nusantara Airlines lies on the runway after it landed hard, slamming both engines onto the runway at El Tari airport in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
3 Police use colored water from a water cannon to disperse state government workers during a protest in Srinagar, India. The workers demanded regularization of contractual jobs and hike in salary.
4 Britain's James Ward collides into the net during his tennis match against Croatia's Ivan Dodig at the Queen's Club Championships in west London.
5 A butterfly sits on a flower in California, USA. (Photo by Joseph Vu/USA/VOA reader)
6 Sunny afternoon in Da Nang city, one of th major port cities in Vitenam (Photo by Lê Van Tài/Vietnam/VOA reader)
7 Employees try to push a scaled replica of the rubber duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman away from lakeside at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. The 13-meter-tall and 15-meter-long replica was set up for the Dragon Boat Festival, local media reported.
8 Inside the Cupola, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, an Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a 400mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph a target of opportunity on Earth some 250 miles below the International Space Station.
9 A brand new Jaguar F-Type stands in a showroom covered with a thin film of mud after the floods of the nearby Danube river subsided in Fischerdorf, a suburb of the eastern Bavarian city of Deggendorf, Germany, June 9, 2013.
10 Billy Porter accepts his award for best actor in a musical at the 67th Annual Tony Awards in New York, June 9, 2013.
June 11, 2013
1 China's astronauts from left, Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang and Nie Haisheng wave as they leave the Jiuquan satellite launch center near Jiuquan in western China's Gansu province. Three astronauts took flight aboard the spacecraft to the dock with China's Tiangong 1 space lab.
2 Protesters react after an explosion on a barricade during clashes in Istanbul's Taksim square, Turkey.
3 French Army soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of dragoons help a fellow soldier who fainted during a ceremony to pay tribute to late former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris.
4 Afghans rush a wounded man to receive treatment after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan. The suicide car bomber killed more than a dozen and wounded tens of people, police and health officials said.
5 John Wargo, lead technician at NASA Glenn's Propulsion System Laboratory (PSL), performs an inspection on the inlet ducting, upstream of the Honeywell ALF 502 engine that was recently used for the NASA Engine Icing Validation test.
6 Youths kick a gay rights activist during a protest against a proposed new law termed by the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, as "against advocating the rejection of traditional family values" in central Moscow, Russia.
7 A Free Syrian Army fighter shoots his weapon near Kindi hospital, which is under the control of forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad, as both sides fight to take control of the hospital in Aleppo.
8 Amphibious assault vehicles approach Hat Yao beach in preparation for a joint amphibious assault exercise with the Royal Thai Navy as a part of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Thailand 2013. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Amanda S. Kitchner)
9 A protester demonstrating against the upcoming G8 summit tries to evade a police officer in central London, June 11, 2013. Police in riot gear moved in on a building in London's Soho district where activists had planned an anti-G8 protest through the British capital, before next week's summit of world leaders in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
10 A flying sushi service tray known as the "itray", created using miniature remote-controlled helicopter rotor blades, is demonstrated at a "Yo! Sushi" restaurant in London, June 10, 2013.
11 India's Ishant Sharma bowls during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and West Indies at The Oval in London.
12 Kite boarders sail on Howe Sound in Squamish, British Columbia north of Vancouver, June 10, 2013.
13 A Brazilian Munduruku native attends a rally in front of the headquarters of the National Indian Foundation in Brasilia. About 150 Mundurukus natives occupied the headquarters to demand to be consulted on the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric.
June 12, 2013
1 Full bloom of epiphyllum oxypetalum (queen of the night) (Photo taken in Richmond, Texas, USA by Bevan Nguyen/VOA reader)
2 Journalists attend a presentation of a flying bicycle, carrying a dummy, at Letnany's fair hall in Prague, Czech Republic. The flying bicycle, which was created by Czech designers, is kept aloft by six electrically-powered propellers.
3 Participants paddle a dragon boat to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on a wetland in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. The festival, which falls on June 12 this year, commemorates the memory of Chinese patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 277 BC to protest against the corrupt government of his time.
4 A North Korean soldier uses binoculars inside a guard tower as a woman works on a grassland on the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.
5 A man uses his mobile phone in front of an artwork at a park in Tokyo, Japan.
6 A giant chrome brushed aluminium skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur, made by French sculptor and painter Philippe Pasqua, stands at the pier of riverboat company Bateaux-Mouches in Paris, France.
7 Snowboarder Sebastien Jam jumps above a man on the road of the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass. Connecting Switzerland and Italy, the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass is due to reopen for the summer season with a two week delay on June 14, 2013.
8 An illustration shows a projection of text on the face of a woman in Berlin, Germany. The European Union's chief justice official has written to the U.S. attorney general demanding an explanation for the collection of foreign nationals' data following disclosures about the "PRISM" spy program.
9 The sun sets over Citi Field during the fifth inning of a baseball game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals in New York, June 11, 2013.
June 13, 2013
1 Protesters supporting Edward Snowden, a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked details of the U.S. government's secret monitoring program, march to U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong.
2 A Medevac helicopter lands at a triage center set up on highway LA 3115 near the Williams Olefins chemical plant, after an explosion and fire there, in Geismar, Louisiana, USA, June 13, 2013. An explosion and fire tore through the chemical plant, injuring 33 people and leading authorities to order people within two miles (3 km) to remain indoors.
3 Pilots and crewmembers of the 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, go into the thick smoke to release water onto the burning fires during their bambi bucket mission at Black Forest, Colorado, USA, June 12, 2013. (Photo by Sgt. Jonathan C. Thibault, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs Office, 4th Infantry Division)
4 Buddhist monks attend a conference about the religious violence that has shaken the country, at a monastery on the outskirts of Rangoon, Burma.
5 Cacique Raoni Metuktire (R), chief of the Kayapo Indian tribe from south of the Amazon Basin, meets with Munduruku Indians who are occupying for the second day the headquarters of Brazil's Indian affairs agency, known as FUNAI, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 12, 2013.
6 Stunt rider Chris Pfeiffer performs on his BMW motorcycle during an road show in Jerusalem.
7 Poultry farmers hurl rotten eggs at police during a protest in front of the Ministry of Agriculture in Taipei, Taiwan. Over 1,000 poultry farmers took to the streets to protest the closing of live poultry markets last month, part of measures taken to prevent the outbreak of the H7N9 strain of bird flu.
8 A man and his passenger ride a motorcycle near salt pans, believed to have been used for harvesting sea salt since Roman times, outside the village of Marsalforn, on the northern coast of the Maltese island of Gozo, June 12, 2013.
9 Wellwisher Daniel Sello cries out his thanks to former South African President Nelson Mandela in front of the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where he is being treated.
10 A herdsman riding a horse directs a large herd of cattle, sheep and goats as they migrate to the summer pasturing areas at a mountainous region in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.
11 A South Korean soldier breaks stone plates during an anti-terror drills ahead of the 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, which starts from the end of June, in Incheon, west of Seoul.
12 Local villagers fall onto the ground from an oxen cart as they take part in a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits and pray for rain amid the rice planting season at Pring Ka-ek village, about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
13 An Afghan family travels in the trunk of a car on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
June 14, 2013
1 Bishop Abraham Sibiya, 3rd right, and other representatives of churches pray for the health of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa.
2 Protesters hold hands to isolate an area for others to attend prayers in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey. Protests over past two weeks and occupation of a central Istanbul park have become a flashpoint for the largest political crisis of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year rule.
3 Iranian women wait in line at a polling station to vote during presidential elections in Qom, 125 kilometers (78 miles) south of the capital Tehran, Iran.
4 Members of the Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST) protest against the Confederations Cup being held in Brazil, amidst burning tires in front of the National Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia. Japan will play the opening match of the tournament against Brazil on June 15.
5 A dam made of sandbags is flooded at a road between Wulkau and Kamern, Germany. The Elbe, the Danube and other rivers overflowed their banks following persistent heavy rain, causing extensive damage over the past two weeks in southern and northeastern Germany.
6 A young resident holds a placard while observing the six-month anniversary of the Newtown massacre outside the town hall in Newtown, Connecticut.
7 Indian men cover themselves with a plastic sheet as it rains in New Delhi, India. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.
8 A woman sits next to a large plastic shrimp at a cafe on Brighton Beach in Brighton, southern England.
9 Fans react during the Download music festival in Castle Donington, central England.
10 South Korean Taekwondo experts perform martial arts during an event for tourists at Gwanghwamoon square in Seoul.
11 An artist works on a tattoo during a local tattoo festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
12 Plant-growing lights shine on the lawn of the Maracana stadium ahead of the soccer Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
June 15, 2013
1 Rope access technicians work to complete a huge portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela on the windows of the Civic Center building in Cape Town. Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection which has kept him in a serious condition in a hospital for a week.
2 Protesters are attacked by a police water cannon at the entrance to Gezi Park near Istanbul's Taksim Square. Turkish riot police stormed the park firing tear gas and water cannon to evict hundreds of of anti-government protesters.
3 Protesters wave placards and flags during an anti-G8 demonstration ahead of the summit, at Belfast City Center. Leaders of the G8 countries will meet at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland for the summit on June 17-18.
4 Britain's Prince William attends the Trooping the Color ceremony on Horse Guards Parade in central London. Trooping the Color is a ceremony to honor the sovereign's official birthday.
5 A Bahraini anti-government protester reacts to tear gas fired by riot police during clashes in Bilad al-Qadeem village, Bahrain.
6 Children arrive to pay their respects at the Lidice Memorial during a remembrance ceremony honoring the 71st anniversary of the destruction of Lidice village by Germans forces, in the Czech Republic. In 1942, German troops destroyed the village in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, by Czech resistance fighters.
7 A participant jumps in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral during a festival of youth street culture in St.Petersburg, Russia.
8 Performers participate in the Confederations Cup opening ceremony before the Group A soccer match between Brazil and Japan at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia.
9 Mayoral candidate Morris the Cat is held by his owner at his home in Xalapa, capital of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Morris is running for mayor in the upcoming July elections with the slogan "Tired of voting for rats?" Morris' candidacy has already garnered over 110,000 Facebook likes, more than his human competitors.
10 Models present a creation by Belarusian designer Olga Kiselevich during the Festival of vanguard art "Mammoth-2013" in Minsk.
11 A man leaves the water after a surf session at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
12 Fans cheer before the Confederations Cup Group A soccer match between Japan and Brazil at Estadio Nacional in Brasilia.
June 16, 2013
1 A woman is attacked by water cannon during protests in Kizilay square in central Ankara, Turkey.
2 Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen kisses a portrait of one of the two 10th-century stone statues, which were returned to Cambodia from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Arts, during the opening ceremony of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh.
3 A local train moves through a flooded railway track after heavy rains in Mumbai, India.
4 U.S. Marines from 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit hide behind a sand hill in a demolition military act during Eager Lion exercises in Quweira, 186 miles (300 kilometers) south of Amman, Jordan.
5 Artists perform during the annual "Kiev Fire Fest" in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 15, 2013.
6 People dressed as the leaders of the G8 countries take part in a photocall to raise awareness about the global hunger crisis in front of the Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland, ahead of the G8 Summit. The leaders they are dressed as are (L-R) U.S. President Barack Obama, Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, France's President Francois Hollande, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
7 A Bangladeshi woman works at a recycling center in Dhaka, June 15, 2013.
8 A member of the Samaritan sect holds a Torah scroll during their traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Shavuot, atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism.
9 This handout photo received from Google shows a Project Loon high altitude ballon sailing over Tekapo in Southern New Zealand after its launch. Google revealed top-secret plans to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access.
June 17, 2013
1 A boy jumps from a 10-meter-high platform into a swimming pool during a hot summer day in Hall in Tirol, Australia.
2 A policewoman, right bottom, directs traffic in the middle of a road while a military officer, top, walks with a traffic baton along the roadside in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 17, 2013.
3 A woman throws salt and chillies at police officers blocking a street during a protest in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The residents of Boeung Kak Lake have been embroiled in a long-running land dispute with a real estate development firm in the capital.
4 Dark clouds gather in the eastern Paris, France, skyline and city rooftops during a heavy rainstorm.
5 The Singapore Flyer is seen on a hazy day in Singapore. The haze worsened with the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hitting 111 at 4 pm, according to local media.
6 Riot police fire tear gas to disperse student demonstrators protesting against the government's plans to raise fuel prices in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
7 Iranian newly elected President Hasan Rowhani listens during a press conference in Tehran.
8 A Qantas Boeing 737 airplane flies through a rainbow above the central business district of Sydney, Australia.
9 Italy players relax in the breakers of the Atlantic ocean at the soccer Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
10 A Bonhams employee poses with a bronze and ivory sculpture 'Tanara' by Demetre Chiparus on display at the auction house in London, June 17, 2013. The sculpture is to be auctioned in 20th Century Decorative Arts sale on June 19 with an estimated price of 25,000 to 30,000 pounds (US$ 39,302 to 47,151 or 29,460 to 35,345 euro).
11 A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible in the top left foreground is a Russian Soyuz crew capsule. A solar array panel can be seen in the lower right corner.
12 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Royal Family leave St George's Chapel after attending the annual Garter Ceremony at Windsor Castle, England.
13 Fast moving water flows over a Hindu statue during a heavy monsoon rain in Rishikesh town in the Indian state of Uttrakhand.
14 Miss Connecticut Erin Brady reacts as she is crowned by Miss USA 2012 Nana Meriwether during the Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 16, 2013.
15 City of Bern fire fighters collect a colony of honeybees from the ledge of a window outside the Media Center in Bern, Switzerland. The swarm of bees will be given to a local beekeeper.
June 18, 2013
1 A NATO soldier walks with an artificial limb to board a Chinook helicopter after a security handover ceremony at a military academy outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
2 A Bangladeshi boy tosses a goat off of a boat on the Buriganga River in Dhaka.
3 A girl arranges a reanimation doll in Lingen, eastern Germany, ahead of an attempt to set a new record on reanimating simultaneously with around 600 pupils.
4 A military police peper sprays a protester during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 17, 2013. Protesters massed in at least seven Brazilian cities for another round of demonstrations voicing disgruntlement about life in the country, raising questions about security during big events like the current Confederations Cup and a papal visit next month.
5 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd L) touches hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they walk with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, after a G8 summit group photograph was taken at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
6 A man reads a newspaper in the Royal Enclosure on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival at Ascot, southern England.
7 An aerial view of the 50th Paris Air Show, at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, France.
8 Artists of Eoloh circus perform during a rehearsal for medias at the Nuevo Teatro Alcala in Madrid, Spain.
June 19, 2013
1 U.S. President Barack Obama reviews an honor guard with German President Joachim Gauck at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany.
2 A priest baptizes a child at Novopyatigorsk lake near the Russian southern town of Pyatigorsk.
3 Members of an honor guard stand in line as they prepare for a welcoming ceremony for visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.
4 A man takes a break as he sits with his dog on a scooter in Istanbul, Turkey.
5 Larisa Katz poses for the media with a hat made from chocolate packaging on the second day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting in Ascot, England.
6 Iraqi anti-terrorism special forces in camouflage gear prepare for a simulated hijacking of a plane, during a training exercise in Baghdad airport.
7 A giant globe of 35 tons of garbage in the center of Geneva, Switzerland. The city has launched a campaign against litter by exhibiting a giant ball that represents the rubbish collected off bins in three days, on Plainpalais place.
June 20, 2013
1 A student looks at his iPad at a primary school in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, China, as his class watches a live broadcast of a lecture given by Shenzhou-10 spacecraft astronauts on the Tiangong-1 space module.
2 A protester is tackled to the ground after running onto the field holding a sign protesting against Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the ICC Champions Trophy semi-final match between Sri Lanka and India at Cardiff Wales Stadium in Wales, Britain.
3 Thabiso Boya adds his get-well message on a poster for former South African President Nelson Mandela, at the Education Expo in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela remains in the hospital for the 13th day for a recurring lung infection.
4 Former England captain David Beckham (obscured) arrives at Tongji University surrounded by his fans in Shanghai, China. Beckham cancelled his event at the university after an accidental stampede happened upon his arrival injuring at least five people, local media reported.
5 A section of the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm in Tehachapi, California, USA, June 19, 2013
6 Firemen spray water on a mud-covered street in Saint-Beat as part of clean-up operations two days after the village was submerged by flash floods.
7 An airplane is seen agains the moon in its waxing gibbous phase in the sky over Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, June 19, 2013. On Sunday, June 23, a perigee moon will coincide with a full moon when it will pass by the earth at its closest point.
8 Construction workers wear face masks to protect them from a heavy smoke haze as they perform morning exercises at the start of their shift in Singapore. Singapore's air quality deteriorated to "hazardous" levels as smoke from slash-and-burn land clearing in Indonesia enveloped the city-state, inflaming tensions between the Southeast Asian neighbors.
9 A "Ger", a traditional Mongolian tent, is seen near Ulan Bator. Mongolia will hold its presidential election on June 26.
10 Children displaced by the rising waters of the river Yamuna wait to receive free food distributed by volunteers outside makeshift tents at a roadside camp in New Delhi, India.
11 The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is seen in a clean room at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Sunnyvale, California facility. (NASA/Lockheed Martin)
12 Lurleen, the nursing mother, and Noland the puppy snuggling up in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 19, 2013. Lurleen already is caring for four newborn kittens and now is nursing the orphaned week-old pit bull puppy. (Photo released by the Cleveland Animal Protective League)
June 21, 2013
1 A man jogs along the deserted Marina Promenade as the skyline of Singapore's central business district is covered in haze. Haze from fires in Indonesia could persist for weeks or longer. The smoke has driven air quality to "hazardous" levels.
2 A man walks near the entrance of a commercial building that was damaged during protests in Rio de Janeiro. Police and protesters fought in the streets into the early hours Friday as Brazilians swarmed through cities in the biggest demonstrations yet against a government viewed as corrupt at all levels.
3 People look at the horizon soon after sunrise from the rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory of Kokino, Macedonia, during the summer solstice. The ancient astronomic observatory, located about 100 kms northeast of Skopje, dates back more than 4,000 years.
4 A displaced girl sleeps outside her makeshift tent at a camp by the roadside after a rise in the waters of the river Yamuna folowing heavy rains in New Delhi. India's monsoon rains could ease soon after hitting 89 percent over averages in the past week.
5 A road roller crushes smuggled elephant tusks that had been confiscated, at the Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City, Metro Manila. The government destroyed at least five tons of smuggled tusks, making the Philippines the first country in Asia to conduct physical destruction of massive ivory stockpiles in support of efforts to stamp out illegal wildlife trade.
6 People take part in a group yoga practice on the morning of the summer solstice in New York's Times Square. The "Solstice in Times Square" event brought out thousands of participants to celebrate the year's longest day.
7 A tourist records video of people in their underwear before they enter a clothing store in Madrid. A Spanish retail clothing chain said they would give clothes to people who came in their underwear as part of a promotional publicity stunt.
8 Revellers celebrate the summer solstice at the ancient Stonehenge monument on Salisbury Plain in southern England. Druids, a pagan religious order dating back to Celtic Britain, believe Stonehenge was a center of spiritualism more than 2,000 years ago.
9 Activists of the PAH mortgage victims platform occupy a branch of the BBVA bank to demand the renegotiation of the mortgages of 232 families, in Sabadell, near Barcelona, Spain.
10 A window washer uses a squeegee to clean windows on the morning of the summer solstice in New York's Times Square.
11 Models present creations designed by Ya Jameel at the Islamic Fashion Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
12 A dog wearing sunglasses sits on a scooter near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey.
June 23, 2013
1 A man is pulled across to safety on a rope during a rescue operation in Govindghat in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand as damaged buildings and the Alaknanda river are seen in the background. Flash floods and landslides unleashed by early monsoon rains have killed at least 560 people in Uttarakhand and left tens of thousands missing, officials said.
2 Satellite dishes are seen at Britain's spy agency GCHQ's outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fiber-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England, June 23, 2013.
3 Medics transport an injured Lebanese soldier after clashes between followers of a radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and Shi'ite gunmen in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.
4 A French farmer marches with his sheep as he attends a demonstration in Paris. French farmers brought tractors and livestock to the capital as part of protests calling for the re-balancing of trade negotiations.
5 North Korean women perform synchronized swimming at a dolphin show facility in Pyongyang.
6 A protester throws leaflets with a question reading "Do you want a public and universal healthcare system? yes or not" during a demonstration against government-imposed austerity measures and labor reforms in the public healthcare sector in Madrid, Spain.
7 Youths throw flour at each other during the "Battle with Flour" on the banks of the Dnipro River in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 22, 2013.
8 Tourists look at the rising "super moon" from the elevated skywalk of the Supertrees Grove at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. The largest full moon of the year, called the "super moon," will light up the night sky this weekend.
9 David Colturi of the USA dives from the 28-meter platform on the roof of the Copenhagen Opera House during the second stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 22, 2013. Artem SIlchenko of Russia won the event, followed by Gary Hunt of the UK and third Orlando Duque of Colombia.
10 Belarussian women wearing traditional clothes and holding flowers sing in the village of Plastok, some 175 kms south of Minsk as part of festivities surrounding the Orthodox "Trinity's Day" holiday.
June 24, 2013
1 An illustration shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw, Poland.
2 A workman deflates a 12-meter high replica of the Henri Delaunay Trophy near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, ahead of this week's brand and logo presentation of the UEFA EURO 2016.
3 A family rides on a motorcycle in the haze which hit Duri on Indonesia's Riau province. Indonesian police arrested two farmers for illegally starting fires to clear land in Sumatra - the first detentions linked to blazes that have blanketed neighboring Singapore and Malaysia with thick smog for days.
4 A supermoon rises behind the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, some 65 kilometers south of Athens, Greece, June 23, 2013.
5 A researcher holds a newborn giant panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province, China, June 23, 2013. Giant panda Hai Zi gave birth to the world's first twin pandas this year in the reserve.
6 A miniature reproduction of Saint Mark's Church of Zagreb is inaugurated at Mini-Europe park in Brussels, Belgium.
7 Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks on a two-inch (5-cm) diameter steel cable rigged 1,400 feet (426.7 meters) across more than a quarter-mile deep remote section of the Grand Canyon near Little Colorado River, Arizona, June 23, 2013.
8 An Indian rickshaw puller bikes through the rain in Allahabad.
9 A rider rears up on his horse while surrounded by a cheering crowd during the traditional Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) in downtown Ciutadella, on the Spanish Balearic Island of Menorca, June 23, 2013. The riders of the horses are representatives of the ancient Ciutadella society - nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers.
10 A boy, covered with mud and dried banana leaves, walks around the village to ask for candles before attending a mass celebrating the feast day of the Catholic patron Saint John the Baptist in the village of Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija, north of Manila, Philippines.
11 Long-tailed mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) mate on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszainoka, 135km (84 miles) southeast of Budapest, Hungary, June 23, 2013. Millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours during "Tiszaviragzas" or Tisza blooming season from late spring to early summer every year.
June 25, 2013
1 A police officer walks past a graffiti during a police operation in the Nova Holanda slum, part of the Complexo da Mare, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2 People protect themselves with umbrellas during high tide in Mumbai, India.
3 Opposition Democratic Progressive Party legislators (in green vests) scuffle with ruling Nationalist Party legislators (in black vests) at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan.
4 Guests playing with illusion on Leandro Erlich's installation Dalston House at the Beyond Barbican summer party in London, June 24, 2013.
5 A security guard tackles a Femen activist to the ground as she tried, along with two other feminist activists, to stop the car of Tunisian Prime Minister from leaving the EU commission building after his working session with European Commission President at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
6 A paddle board surfer dives under a large wave at a place known by locals as 'Winkie Pop', located near Manly Beach in Sydney, Australia.
7 A Lebanese man breaks the glass of his damaged vehicle near the Bilal bin Rabbah mosque in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.
8 A Danish Guard hussar snatches a drink seated on a galloping horse during the opening ceremony of the CHIO Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany.
9 Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs at Staples Center during his Believe Tour in Los Angeles, California, USA, June 24, 2013.
June 26, 2013
1 A student is hit by a jet of water sprayed by riot police during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public state education system, in Santiago, Chile.
2 A shepherd boy is silhouetted in Qunu, a rural village where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up.
3 Lisa Dazols (R) and Jenny Chang celebrate after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, outside the city hall in San Francisco, California. The U.S. Supreme Court handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by recognizing that married gay men and women are eligible for federal benefits and paving the way for same-sex marriage in California.
4 Members of the gallery cheer and chant as the Texas Senate tries to bring an abortion bill to a vote as time expires in Austin, Texas, USA. Amid the deafening roar of abortion rights supporters, Texas Republicans huddled around the Senate podium to pass new abortion restrictions, but whether the vote was cast before or after midnight deadline is in dispute.
5 Soccer balls representing the Brazilian lawmakers sit in rows in front of Congress as a protest against spending on the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in Brasilia.
6 Chinese astronauts, from left, Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping celebrate after getting out of the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou 10 spacecraft following its successful landing at the main landing site in Siziwang Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
7 Captivity in Giza zoo in Cairo, Egypt (Photo taken by Dr.Salem Serag/Egypt/VOA reader)
8 A worker pours water to extinguish a fire that is burning through his pineapple plantation in the haze-affected district of Tanah Putih in Rokan Hilir, Indonesia's Riau province. Indonesia's president apologized for the raging forest that have blanketed its neighbors, Singapore and Malaysia, with thick smog in Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in 16 years.
9 A girl helps her mother wash a large piece of fabric, outside Sana'a, Yemen.
10 Maria Sharapova of Russia slips during her women's singles tennis match against Michelle Larcher De Brito of Portugal at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London.
11 Humanoid communication robot Kirobo talks with Fuminori Kataoka, project general manager from Toyota Motor Corp., during a press unveiling in Tokyo, Japan. The world’s first space conversation experiment between a robot and humans is ready to be launched.
June 27, 2013
1 Cambodian supporters of Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) wave during the general election campaign in Phnom Penh.
2 People sit onboard an Aeroflot Airbus A330 heading to the Cuban capital Havana at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Russia. A Russian passenger plane left Moscow for Havana without any sign of former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden on board, witnesses said.
3 A girl symbolizing the Ukrainian Constitution is "crucified on the cross by the acting power" during a performance called by Guy Fawkes' activists in front of the Constitutional Court building in Kyiv. The activists call on Ukrainians to take action to defend the Constitution ahead of Constitution Day held on June 28.
4 One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles above Earth, used a 50mm lens to record this oblique nighttime image of a large part of Texas, the nation’s second largest state in area, including the four largest metropolitan areas in population.
5 A Hamleys toy store assistant holds up a Zelf, a new series of collectables, as part of the Christmas in June media event in London. The Zelf is one of ten toys which Hamleys' staff thinks will be the top choices by children for Christmas presents.
6 A boy pushes a rickshaw used to carry garbage at the dumping site along the banks of Bishnumati River in Kathmandu, Nepal.
7 The new 25 Kunas coin with European Union stars is seen during presentation in Croatian National Bank in Zagreb. On July 1, Croatia will become the 28th member of the EU.
8 Burning vehicles are seen at the site of a fire in Almaty, Kazakhastan. A 16-ton tanker rolled over after an accident and set ablaze parked cars and a nearby apartment building, Emergency Ministry reported.
9 Insects and birds fly in a dump yard as a rag picker collects scraps in New Delhi, India.
10 Bride-to-be Lizzie Chapman drinks cider through a funnel on arriving at Glastonbury, where she celebrates her hen night, on the second day of Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Britain.
11 An atmospheric phenomenon known as a "sun dog" is seen in La Paz, El Salvador, June 26, 2013. The rare halo around the sun is caused by the refraction of sunlight by small ice crystal in the atmosphere.
12 A Filipino stands beside the Philippine flag as colorful umbrellas adorn a village hall in suburban San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines.
June 28, 2013
1 Chinese paramilitary police block photos as they man a checkpoint on the road to the riot-affected Uighur town of Lukqun, Xinjiang province. Fresh violence erupted in the restive province, two days after 35 died in what the government called a "terrorist attack" and a week before the anniversary of major 2009 clashes.
2 Two-year-old Precious Mali holds a picture of former South African President Nelson Mandela as well-wishers gather outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital where Mandela is being treated in Pretoria.
3 Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers and commercial buildings are reflected after haze clears in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia stepped up pressure on Indonesia to do more to stop outbreaks of smog after fires on Sumatra island sparked Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in years.
4 Supporter of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi attends a rally in Cairo. Thousands of backers and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president held competing rallies in the capital Friday.
5 A man walks amidst cardboard displays that are part of an installation by One.org in Berlin. One.org set up 140 pictures with pairs of eyes trained at the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's lower house of parliament, to draw attention to the plight of the world's poor and symbolize the close attention people pay to the government's international development policies.
6 Indian security officers carry coffins containing victims of a helicopter that crashed during a rescue mission in flood-ravaged northern India, in Dehradun, India. The air force helicopter hit the side of a mountain and fell into a river on Tuesday, killing five crew members and three civilians on board.
7 Women sit in Kugulu Park where dozens of Turkish youths continue their protest, in Ankara. Daily life is partly back to normal in Istanbul and the Turkish capital, after nearly three weeks of protests that were sparked by a violent police crackdown on peaceful activists on May 31.
8 A worker cleans algae off a fence near the coastline in Qingdao, Shandong province, June 28, 2013.
9 A Hindu holy man smokes as he waits to register for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu, India. Thousands of pilgrims annually visit the remote Himalayan shrine at 3,888 meters above sea level to worship an icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.
10 Firemen work to extinguish a fire that broke out in the city hall, in La Rochelle, western France. The fire swept through the roof destroying part of the historic 15th-century building.
11 A spectator watches play on an outside court at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London.
12 A fisherman casts his net into the River Mahanadi on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India.
13 Festival-goers wait for singer Rita Ora to perform on the third day of the Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Britain.
June 30, 2013
1 A barber shaves a customer in his temporary shop alongside a water-logged street in Kolkata, India.
2 People's Liberation Army soldiers jump through rings of fire during a war game performance for the public on an open day at the Shek Kong Barracks in Hong Kong.
3 U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama tour the cell block on Robben Island where former South African President Nelson Mandela was held captive near Cape Town.
4 Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shout slogans against him and Muslim Brotherhood members during a protest at Tahrir Square in Cairo.
5 A man stands on a beach before the rain during the monsoon season in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
6 A suicide attacker lies on the ground after his vest was defused in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan. Security forces captured a would-be suicide attacker before he blew himself up.
7 South Africa's Cecil Afrika (R) is hit by Fiji's Vereniki Goneva (L) during the quarter final match at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens Championships in Moscow, Russia.
8 A view of the Iguazu waterfalls from the Brazilian side in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, June 29, 2013. Heavy rains have led authorities to temporarily restrict tourists from accessing certain parts of the Igazu waterfalls.
9 Win Zaw Oo, 36, has his height measured during a medical check-up at a clinic in Rangoon. Win Zaw Oo, who stands at 7 feet 5 inches tall, is Burma's tallest man, according to the medical team.
10 Gary Wright and Jon Williams wear light costumes in Shangri La field at Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Britain, June 29, 2013.
11 Xhosa boys covered with blankets and smeared with chalky mud sit in a field as others undergo a traditional male circumcision ceremony in Qunu, South Africa.
12 Chinese visitors take pictures of a wishing tree at a lavender farm shrouded with haze on the outskirts of Beijing, China.
13 Royal Airforce Red Arrows perform prior to the British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone circuit, Silverstone, England.
14 Some 5,390 participants play a song with Anklungs, Indonesian traditional bamboo musical instruments, during a performance in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people playing Angklung at the Workers Gymnasium in Beiji, China.
15 A man performs at the opening ceremony of a yacht club, which is part of the Avaza resort, on the Caspian Sea in western Turkmenistan, June 29, 2013.
16 Runners cheer after they finished 'The Color Run' in Munich, Germany.
