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Homes in the Wupatki Estates subdivision are bathed in light from the Schultz fire as it consumes the forest on the slopes of the SanFrancisco Peaks during a 30 second time exposure. The fire just north of Flagstaff, Ariz. has consumed more than 10,000 acres and was 10% contained Monday night. --PHOTO: AP
Yoga practitioners perform moves in Central Park in New York. Organizers were hoping to set a world record for the largest gathering in yoga history. --PHOTO: AFP
Spain's soccer coach Vicente del Bosque is seen back lighted during a team training session in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Spain play on the Group H of the soccer World Cup. --PHOTO: AP
Indian Muslim children from The Madrasa-E-Ishaqiyah gather to offer prayers for rains at Haibat Khan Masjid in Ahmedabad on June 23, 2010. The western Indian state of Gujarat together with many parts of the country are facing severe temperatures and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains. -- PHOTO: AFP
Kyrgyzs unload Russian humanitarian aid from the Siberian city of Krasoyarsk at a refugee camp housing over four hundred ethnic Kyrgyz refugees outside the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. -- PHOTO: AP
Counterfeit designer bags are destroyed during a ceremonial destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods to mark the anniversary of the intellectual property code at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila June 23, 2010. The cost of goods seized for the first half of 2010 amounts to 913 million pesos ($20 million), according to a press statement from the National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Michael Jackson fan gathers around the late pop icon's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Jackson's notoriously loyal fan based has re-emerged in the year since Jackson's death. -- PHOTO: AP
A martian looks out over an major exhibition, presented as part of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010, which explores the full career of artist and film maker Tim Burton, as a director, concept artist illustrator and photographer, through hundreds of artworks that spectacularly illuminate the creative vision behind the movies Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, in Melbourne on June 23, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP
A local flood victim rides on his ox along a flooded street in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, June 23, 2010. The Changkai Dyke in southern China's Jiangxi province suffered a fresh breach as the Fu River punched through the embankment again on Wednesday, after an earlier break in its wall on Monday forced nearly 100,000 residents to flee as heavy rains swelled rivers and dams across the region. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An inmate (C) hugs a replica of South Africa's 2010 World Cup mascot
Costa Rican artist Guadalupe Alvarez paints part of
Protestors opposed to the government's political reform package demonstrate outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on June 23, 2010. Hong Kong beefed up security as rival demonstrators staged protests ahead of a vote on a controversial plan that promises limited political reforms for the former British colony. -- PHOTO: AFP
Revelers hold torches as they take part in 'Correfoc' (Run with fire) party in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday. The San Juan night coincides with the Summer solstice and it's the welcome to Summer. This celebration takes place during the shortest night of the year in almost all cities and towns of Spain.
-- PHOTO: AP
Lightning streams across the sky towards downtown Chicago, on Wednesday. Tornado sirens were heard in the Chicago Loop
as a severe weather system moved through central Cook County. -- PHOTO: AP
Local residents walk over severely damaged tracks at an area devastated by the overflowing of the Mandau river,
in Branquinho, Alagoas state, northeastern Brazil. -- PHOTO: AFP
A youth jumps over a bonfire early, during the traditional San Juan's (Saint John) night in a beach of Malaga, southern Spain. Fires are lit throughout Spain on the eve of Saint John where people burn objects they no longer want and make wishes as they jump through the flames. -- PHOTO: AFP
Venezuelan sailing ship Simon Bolivar is pictured during her arrival at the port of Veracruz, Veracruz state, Mexico on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Chinese farmer rides a water buffalo through the flooded streets of Fuzhou in China's Jiangxi province. -- PHOTO: AP
Rashel Cooke (left) and Stephanie Bernas play a piano in Tompkins Square Park as part of the 'Play Me, I'm Yours' public art installation by British artist Luke Jerram on Wednesday in New York City. The two-week project started June 21 and places 60 pianos open for public play in various parts of the city. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Iraqi youth leaps into the Tigris river to escape the summer heat in Baghdad, Iraq,
as summertime temperatures reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).
-- PHOTO: AP
A police handout photo dated February 20, 1993 shows Jon Venables one of the killers of toddler James Bulger. Venables was convicted of murdering Bulger in 1993, when he himself was 10 years old. The 27-year-old Jon Venables is now charged with downloading and distributing indecent photographs of children. -- PHOTO: AP
Devotees hold a statue of St. John the Baptist on a boat during a fluvial parade on the occasion of the feast of Saint John in the coastal town of Pola, Oriental Mindoro south of Manila. Filipinos celebrated the religious festival by dousing of water onto residents, commuters and motorists in keeping with the tradition of the sacrament of baptism as performed by Saint John. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Subaru, a 4 year old toy poodle from South Korea, is groomed during Thailand's 9th International Dog Show in Bangkok on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AP
Prison cells are seen inside the historic Pudu Prison in downtown Kuala Lumpur.
The 394 metre long wall of Pudu Prison fronting will be demolished after having served its purpose for the past 100 years. -- PHOTO: AP
A Hindu holy man smears holy powder on the face of another at the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. Hundreds of tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple during the annual Ambubasi festival that began on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AP
Marina Bay Sands will be holding a press briefing to talk about the world championship climb to the Sands Skypark, where 21 climbers from all over the world will be climbing it in a bid to the first team to scale all three towers during the opening celebrations of MBS. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM
Participants take part in a mass yoga session in Times Square in New York on Monday. The day-long event which attracted hundreds of yoga students over five free public sessions was organized to mark the summer solstice. -- PHOTO: AFP
This picture provided by the National Archives and taken on September 20 1950 shows United Nations troops fighting in the streets of Seoul, Korea. On the sixtieth anniversary after the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, the peninsula remains divided and North and South Korean troops are still on alert. The armistice signed on July 27, 1953, was never followed by a peace treaty, leaving the two sides technically still at war. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man walks his dogs on a beach against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in Mumbai on Thursday. India's annual monsoon rains, vital to the trillion-dollar economy's farm output and economic growth, were 11.1 percent below normal for June 1-23, sources at the weather office told Reuters on Thursday.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A cashier from a convenience store shows a commemorative cup with a picture of President-elect Benigno Aquino, son of democracy icon Corazon Aquino, in Manila. President-elect Benigno Aquino takes office as leader of the Philippines amid great hopes for change in a nation groaning from poverty and disgusted by corruption. Massive challenges, which also include festering communist and Muslim insurgencies and rampant human rights violations await him over the next six years, knowing fully he may not have the funds, or the time, to make an impact. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Chinese worker sits in front of a huge billboard advertising the opening of a fast food restaurant in Shanghai. The effects of globalization and China?s increasing economic integration into the rest of the world has seen a dramatic rise in Western-style fast food with some reports warning that, without drastic measures, the number of obese and overweight in China was set to double by 2028. -- PHOTO: AFP
Los Angeles Dodgers' James Loney is hit by a pitch from Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Scott Kazmir in the fourth inning of a baseball game,
Thursday, in Anaheim, Calif. -- PHOTO: AP
A fan places a bouquet in front of a big portraint of late Michael Jackson at the foot of the Tokyo Tower, which has a time limitation event to display Michael Jackson collection, in Tokyo. Some special events are scheduled for the first anniversary of the king of pop's death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. -- PHOTO: AFP
A fluorescent angelfishes, pterophyllum, swims in a tank during a press conference organized by government's Fisheries Agency of Council of Agriculture in Taipei. The organizer said this transgenic technology is the world first time to use on the middle size's cichlid can enhance resistance to infection and causes variations in immune-related genes after infection by different bacterial species. -- PHOTO: AFP
Train accident victims Benito Murillo, 39, (L) and Jose Hernandez, 24, pose for photographers in El Progreso. Murillo was ran over by a train in 2005 and Hernandez in 2004. According to a local migrants organization, thousands of Central Americans-predominantly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala- cross Mexico's southern border to the U.S. every year on a train.
The floodwaters cover most of the farmers' fields in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi province. Heavy rains lashed south China as the government set up emergency response headquarters to combat floods and landslides that have killed over 200 people and forced millions to evacuate. -- PHOTO: AFP
South Korean conservative activists with defaced North Korean flags stage a rally to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea. The two Koreas commemorated the anniversary Friday of the outbreak of the war, promoting vastly different views of the origins of the conflict that still divides their peninsula a full six decades later. -- PHOTO: AP
Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik (L) is watched by a couple as he gives the finishing touches to a sand sculpture in tribute to US singer Michael Jackson on a beach at Puri, some 65kms east of Bhubaneswar to mark the first anniversary of the musicians death. Michael Jackson fans around the world were preparing for the one-year anniversary of the music icon's death Friday, planning candlelight vigils and slumber parties to honor the tragic superstar.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A defaced picture of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang is left outside Hong Kong's legislative Hong Kong's Legislative Council. Hong Kong on Friday passed a controversial political reform package, winning over sceptical opposition lawmakers to back electoral changes that could pave the way for universal suffrage in 2017 as promised by Beijing. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman walks out of a shopping mall where a sulpture is displayed as part of an art exhibition in Shanghai.
Special Operations Task Group Members and guests attending a memorial service in Tarin Kowt for Pte Benjamin Adam Chuck, Pte Timothy James Aplin and Pte Scott Travis Palmer, prior to them being flown home for burial. Mourners gathered to farewell the soldiers at a Ramp Ceremony to repatriate their remains to Australia. The service, held in Camp Russell, was celebrated by Chaplin Maumau Monu and was attended by Special Forces personnel and invited guests. -- PHOTO: AFP
Oxfam activists pose as G8 leaders ahead of the G8/G20 summits in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. Oxfam is a confederation of 14 organisations working with over 3,000 partners in around 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. From left are: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Frrench President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan. -- PHOTO: AFP
Workers clear away the rubbish during Glastonbury music festival in England. The Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. -- PHOTO: AP
A pod of sperm whales are seen stranded on a sand bar off Perkins Island, Australia's Tasmania state. Levels of cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and titanium together are the highest ever found in marine mammals, scientists who spent five years shooting nearly 1,000 sperm whales with tissue-sampling darts say, warning that the health of both ocean life and the people who consume seafood could be at risk. -- PHOTO: AP
Priests sit in utensils filled with water as they perform rituals for the arrival of monsoon rains in Ahmadabad, India. Northern India has been experiencing above normal temperatures in recent weeks, and many residents eagerly await the annual monsoon rains, which bring along with them cooler temperatures and are vital for the farm-dependent economy.
Photographers gather around Gen. David Petraeus as he gives a thumbs-up, on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to his testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee to be confirmed as President Obama's choice to take control of forces in Afghanistan.
A man looks at sketches, parts of the Vollard collection that will be sold at auction in Paris. Late legendary art dealer Ambroise Vollard was at the heart of all the radical developments that were happening in Paris in the early 20th century. The collection includes 140 oils, watercolors, drawings, books and prints by artists with whom Vollard worked.
4,000 yellow balloons are seen in the air after they were released in the port city of Haifa during a rally calling for the release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured fours years ago by Gaza Strip militants on Friday. -- PHOTO: AFP
A firefighter holds a bucket as he cleans the water of Trevi Fountain in Rome, where unknown vandals poured red dye in the water on Friday.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Visitors walk through an exhibition of hand painted life-sized baby elephant statues in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea as part of the Elephant Parade London 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Mexicans dressed in Aztec costumes take part in the lighting of the flame ceremony for the Pan-American games, at the Teotihuacan archaeological site, a monument of the Aztecs, about 60 km (37 miles) north of Mexico City. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A festival-goer walks through tents on a camping site at dawn at the Glastonbury Festival 2010 in south west England. One of the largest open-air music festivals, Glastonbury celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Demonstrators clown around while protesting the G8/G20 summits in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The protest was one of several planned in the city to coincide with the gathering of world leaders for the G-20 and G-8 summits being held in Toronto and nearby Muskoka. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Chinese girl poses with flowers and photographs of Michael Jackson at the Wold Expo in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
A flash mob dances to 'Thriller', by the late pop star Michael Jackson, outside Madame Tussauds on the first anniversary of his death in Hollywood,
California on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Protesters from Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) march with banners and placards during an anti-ECFA (Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) demonstration in Taipei. Thousands of people took to the streets of Taipei to protest just days before Taiwan was set to seal a major trade deal with China.-- PHOTO: AFP
A local villager cleans m&d left by the floods in Mangdang Town of Nanping, Fujian province. Flood-battered parts of south China battled fresh downpours on Thursday after at least 365 people died as rivers broke their banks and landslides cut road and rail links in a week of torrential rain. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Lanterns are reflected in a pool at the Glastonbury festival near Pilton, Somerset. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year,
the festival showcases some of the world's best artists from all areas of music and performance. -- PHOTO: AFP
A North America Indian takes part in a pow wow with a traditional clothing.
