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US Marines with 1/3 Charlie Company treat Lance Corporal Kris Mottley (21) from Pensylvania as they wait for a MEDEVAC helicopter, after their MRAP vehicle was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Trikh Nawar on the north-eastern outskirts of Marjah. -- PHOTO: AFP
Swimmers warm up in the diving tank before racing in the 50 meter pool at the XLIII Santa Clara International Invitational, a USA Swimming Grand Prix event in Santa Clara, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man dressed as a drag queen takes part in a gay pride parade in Guadalajara. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A black-tailed prairie dog cub chews on some celery at Chiba Zoological park in Chiba, Japan. -- PHOTO: AP
Audience members watch performances at the 17th Advanced Music and Multimedia Art International Sonar Festival on the last day of the festival in Barcelona, Spain. Sonar is widely considered to be the essential meeting point for an alert public, cutting-edge artists and the most influential professionals from the sectors of music and modern arts. -- PHOTO: AP
Ondel-ondel, the traditional Indonesian giant puppet performs during a street parade in Jakarta on June 19, 2010. The Indonesian capital will mark its 483rd anniversary on June 22 with colourful month-long cultural festivities. -- PHOTO: AFP
An item of the 'Peasant da Vincis' exhibition on display at the Rockbund Art Gallery in Shanghai. The collection is a new exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, whose gunpowder on canvas designs won the Hiroshima Art Prize for peace and whose fireworks for the opening of the Beijing Olympics dazzled the world. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dutch women in orange mini-dresses cheer on their national team in front of the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg. As millions flow into FIFA's coffers from official World Cup sponsors, big name brands such as Nike have proven that an altogether better bet is to save the cash and simply 'ambush' the event. -- PHOTO: AFP
People watch a laser show surrounding a frigate floating on the Neva River during a celebration to honor graduating students, in St. Petersburg, Russia. This week graduation ceremonies and celebrations are being held all over Russia for students of elementary, high schools and military academies. At right are St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral. -- PHOTO: AP
Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland watches a shot on the 11th hole during the third round of the 110th US Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
Participants run into the ocean during the fourth Bali Triathlon in Jimbaran bay, Indonesia. Around 300 participants from 15 countries took part in the competition organized to promote tourism in the resort island. -- PHOTO: AP
Participants sit on the boardwalk at the end of the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Mermaid Parade began in 1983 and features participants dressed as mermaids and other sea creatures while paying homage to the former tradition of the Coney Island Mardi Gras which ran annually in the early fall from 1903-1954. -- PHOTO: AFP
A rig burns oil and gas near the Discoverer Enterprise, rear, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
-- PHOTO: AP
Canadian pilote Pete McLeod banks his plane over the Hudson River past Manhattan's skyline during the Red Bull Air Race New York qualifying day in New Jersey City in New Jersey. -- PHOTO: AFP
Bangladeshi children walk along a pipe over water in Dhaka. By some estimates, between 35 and 77 million people have been chronically exposed to arsenic-contaminated water as a result of a catastrophically misguided campaign in the 1970s. -- PHOTO: AFP
The 'Aliens' team competes during Red Bull Flugtag 2010 in Kiev. Some 39 teams are participating in the competition being held in the in the Ukrainian capital to fly the longest distance in home-built funny aircraft. -- PHOTO: AFP
An oil stained pelican sits on a dredging hose in Barataria Bay near Port Sulpher, Louisiana. The BP oil spill has been called one of the largest environmental disasters in American history. -- PHOTO: AFP
Workers put the finishing touches to an artwork by South African sculptor Marieke Prinsloo on Cape Town's Sea Point beachfront promenade.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Three technicians stand on and near the wreckage of a bus that veered off a road and overturned on Sunday in the eastern French Pyrenees mountains.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Three-year-old Shakhawan Mohammed lies in a hospital in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The child was injured and his sister killed in what local officials say were Turkish air raids in Kurdish. -- PHOTO: AFP
Building debris is scattered after a tornado touched down near the corner of Main Street and Lake Elmo Drive in Billings, Montana. -- PHOTO: AP
People cross the Tachira river into Colombia to vote in Cucuta, on Colombia's northeastern border with Venezuela. -- PHOTO: AP
Chalk artist Tarrus Parker puts the finishing touches on his chalk drawing of Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant during the 18th annual Pasadena Chalk Festival in Pasadena, California. -- PHOTO: AP
Firefighters work to put out a fire in a building in the Catete neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. According to residents the fire began during Brazil's soccer game with Ivory Coast at the South Africa 2010 World Cup, and no deaths or injuries were reported by local media. -- PHOTO: AP
A displaced Somali girl carries dishes as she walks past her makeshift shelter in Jabuti refugee camp in south Mogadishu. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Spain's Luis Salom riding a Stipa-Molenaar Racing GP 125 bike tumbles through the gravel after crashing at Woodcote corner during the 125 race at the Silverstone circuit, Silverstone, England. -- PHOTO: AP
Pelicans are released into the wild on Sunday, at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in to the Saint Charles Bay. Nearly 40 pelicans were brought from to the refuge from the Louisiana shores where they had been covered in oil. -- PHOTO: AP
A Hindu devotee worships a cow after bathing at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad, India. Hindus across the country are celebrating Ganga Dussehra, devoted to the worship of the River Ganges. -- PHOTO: AP
Luke Branquinho, of Los Alamos, California, wrestles his steer during the steer wrestling competition at the Reno Rodeo at the Reno Livestock Events Centre in Reno, Nevada. -- PHOTO: AP
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed about 120 more clay figures in their latest round of excavations at the terracotta army site that surrounds the tomb of the nation's first emperor in the northwestern Shaanxi Province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Planes perfom in an air show prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
A plane flies with a banner stating 'Tiger: are you my daddy?' during the final round of the 110th US Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
Members of the band KISS perform during the Hellfest music Festival in Clisson, western France. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Airboat pilot Michael Fabian displays oil on a glove near oiled marsh grass in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana. -- PHOTO: AP
A Poggy fish lie dead stuck in oil in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulpher, Louisiana. The BP oil spill has been called one of the largest environmental disasters in American history. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Local artist Makemba Kunle paints a picture during the theatrical production 'El Cerro del Aripo' (Celebrating the Aripo Hills) by local playwright and director Davlin Thomas at the National Academy for Performing Arts in Port of Spain. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Gracie Duson, 11, screams as she roars down the water drop-slide at the Colonial Park Pool in Houston. The pool was recently remodeled to cater towards families and young children. --PHOTO: AP
Participants take part in a mass yoga session in Times Square in New York. The day-long event which attracted hundreds of yoga students over five free public sessions was organized to mark the summer solstice. --PHOTO: AFP
A group of baby brown pelicans wait in a holding pen to be cleaned by volunteers at the Fort Jackson International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, Louisiana. Members of the Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research team work to clean birds covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.
--PHOTO: REUTERS
An Aymara 'yatiri' (priest) makes offers to the 'Pachamama' (Mother Earth) as part of the celebrations for the Aymara year 5518, during the winter solstice in Tiawanaku, 70 km from La Paz. --PHOTO: AFP
Carolyn Enger, from Englewood, N.J., plays a piano in Brooklyn Bridge Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The piano, one of 60, is part of an art installation touring the world that makes its first U.S. stop in New York. The concept has put more than 130 pianos in parks, squares and bus stations in cities from London to Sydney, Australia. --PHOTO: AP
Two sea lions perform a playful underwater dance for spectators at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. --PHOTO: AP
Dancers, Waangenga Blanco, left, and Leonard Mickelo, from the Bangarra Dance Theatre perform during a dress rehearsal for their show 'of earth and sky' in Sydney. The contemporary Aboriginal dance performance will run from July 23 to Aug. 28 at the Sydney Opera House. --PHOTO: AP
A Lebanese girl dances with her friend inside a Pre-civil war, sphere shaped movie theatre called the 'Dome' in Beirut's Martyr's Square, opened for Techno music fans to party inside of it on the occasion of International Music Day. --PHOTO: AFP
An elephant takes a bath at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. --PHOTO: AP
The 52nd annual Target Fireworks extravaganza along the Detroit river light the sky over Detroit to celebrate the start of summer. -- PHOTO: AP
A woman protects herself from the sun with a stole on a hot day in New Delhi. The maximum temperature recorded on Monday was approximately 44 degrees Celsius in New Delhi, according to India's metrological department. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Members of the Flagstaff Hot Shots mop up along the fire line of the Schultz Fire in Flagstaff, Arizona. More than 300 firefighters are battling the Northern Arizona blaze. -- PHOTO: AP
A washed-out bridge on the Trans-Canada Highway is nearly submerged, in this aerial view near Medicine Hat, Alberta. Parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are recovering from severe flooding that has left farmland submerged, homes flooded, and roads and rail lines washed out. -- PHOTO: AP
Mexican army soldiers fire salves as they honor the first flags used during the war of independence against Spain, in Mexico City. As part of Mexico's celebrations of the bicentennial anniversary of Mexico's independence. -- PHOTO: AP
A Palestinian woman holds a candle during a rally to support two Lebanese ships planning to sail from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip on a trip that aims to break Israel's blockade and to deliver aid, in Gaza City's port. -- PHOTO: AFP
Chilean fans celebrate at the end of their 2010 World Cup Group H soccer match against Switzerland, in Santiago. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
South African children play football in a township in Bloemfontein. South Africa will face France in their final Group A, 2010 World Cup, first round football match on June 22. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian Hindu priests rotate traditional lamps in circular movements as they perform evening prayers at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad, India. Hindus across the country are celebrating Ganga Dussehra, devoted to the worship of the River Ganges.
-- PHOTO: AP
A woman wearing a mask resembling the face of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper dances in the streets ahead of the G20 summit in Toronto. As the number of police multiply on Toronto streets ahead of the G20 summit this week, gay rights protesters marched through the downtown shopping district in carnival gear to demand global leaders address minority issues. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Rain clouds are seen over the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where England will play Slovenia in a soccer World Cup, Group C match Wednesday. --PHOTO: AP
A prairie dog hugs its one-month-old pup in the Zoo of Salzburg, Austria. It is the first time that in the Salzburg Zoo prairie dog pups are born. --PHOTO: AP
A flamingo cleans his plumes in the Zoo of Salzburg , Austria. --PHOTO: AP
The Quadriga statue on top of Berlin's landmark the Brandenburg Gate is pictured as the sun moves behind clouds. The Brandenburg Gate was built from 1788 to 1791 by Carl Gotthard Langhans by order of Prussian King Frederick William II. The Quadriga consists of a chariot drawn by four horses led by the Goddess Victory. --PHOTO: AFP
Owners and their dogs work out during the Thank Dog! Bootcamp fitness class in Burbank, California. With obesity rates on the rise among Americans and their pets, two Californian women have come up with an all-in-one solution -- a doggy bootcamp where dog owners and their canine friends work out together. --PHOTO: REUTERS
