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Jeannine Garside of Canada celebrates after defeating Ina Menzer of Germany in their WBC-/WBO-/WIBF featherweight world championship
boxing fight in Stuttgart. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Bass guitarist Gato con Zorras of 'Cuentos de los hermanos Grind' performs during the 'Rock al Parque' annual music festival in Bogota.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Edward Park, an entrant in the annual Friends of the Lake District Dry Stone Walling Competition, works on his section of wall, in Little Asby Common, northern England. The event is aimed at preserving the traditional craft of constructing the walls, made without mortar, that are a distinctive part of Britain's rural landscape. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Kayo Mbuanji, an Mbuti pygmy, carries his hunting net, spear, and a burning ember as he sets out to trap bushmeat with other men from his family group, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo. The pygmies traditional practice of hunting bushmeat has devolved into an all-out commercial endeavor, staged not for subsistence, but to feed growing regional markets. The result: the forests, those that remain, are growing emptier by the day.
-- PHOTO: AP
A reveler in costume parades through a London street, during the Gay Pride Parade. -- PHOTO: AP
A model presents a creation from South African fashion label Kluk & CGDT during Africa Fashion week in Johannesburg.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Alison Mosshart from rock band The Dead Weather performs during the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Dwight Phillips of USA jumps in the long jump during the IAAF Diamond League Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Chinese soldiers and Pakistani soldiers take part in a tug-of-war competition during a joint anti-terrorism drill in Qingtongxia,
Ningxia Hui antonomous region. China and Pakistan kicked off the drill, code-named 'Friendship-2010'. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
NASCAR driver Mark Martin drives down pit road engulfed in flames after he was involved in a crash in the Coke Zero 400 auto race at
Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach. -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian shepherd rests in the dry lakebed of Osman Sagar Lake, commonly known as Gandipet, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. No one is saying the words 'bad monsoon' yet, but the slow advance of India's crucial rainy season is being followed anxiously after a dry 2009 wiped out crops and fuelled food price rises. -- PHOTO: AFP
Aircrafts type T-34 'Mentor' of the Colombian Air Force overfly a military parade, in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia,
as part of the celebrations for the Bicentenary of the Independence of Colombia. -- PHOTO: AFP
People visit an exhibition of photographs devoted to the 66-year-old Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, during the 41st annual Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in south of France. The festival, which runs until September 19, presents 60 exhibitions organized by 20 auctioneers around several themes: rock, silver films, Luma's Foundation friends, transmission, a look on the incarceration condition in France. -- PHOTO: AFP
'Aloitador' (fighters) struggle with wild horses during the 400-year-old horse festival 'Rapa das bestas' (Shearing of the Beasts) in the village of Sabucedo, some 40 kilometres from Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain. -- PHOTO: AFP
New York artist Scott LoBaido and his assistants paint an American flag on top of Lamons Gasket Company in Houston.
The giant flag covers 150,000 square feet and will take 900 gallons of paint to complete. -- PHOTO: AP
US Lance Armstrong competes in the 8.9 km prologue and individual time-trial run around Rotterdam during the 2010 Tour de France cycling race.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A statue of George Washington is seen as fireworks explode during an Independence Day celebration in Philadelphia. -- PHOTO: AP
Anime fans pose for photos as they arrive at the Anime Expo 2010, which attracts thousands of American anime and manga fans to the four day event at the Convention Center in Los Angeles. Anime which began in Japan, grew as a major cultural export during the 1980's and 1990's and the anime market for the United States alone is 'worth approximately US$4.35 billion, according to the Japan External Trade Organization'. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dancers from the US dance company Momix perform during their new show Remix at the Ostia Antica Theatre in the Roman seaside resort town of Ostia. Momix, a company of dancer-illusionists, was formed in the early eighties under the direction of US choreographer and artistic director Moses Pendleton.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Revellers take part in the 30th Annual Gay Pride Parade in Toronto. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Ecuadorean police officers stand over a submarine designed to carry drugs toward the United States, in San Lorenzo, northern Province of Esmeraldas. Authorities discovered the 30-metre-long submarine being built near the country's Pacific Coast. For years, US and South American law enforcement officials have battled semi-submersible craft that travel just below the surface to avoid detection and take cocaine to Central America for trans-shipment to the United States. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton gets out of his car after performing a wheelspin in front of fans at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England. -- PHOTO: AFP
African penguins, also known as Black-footed Penguin, are pictured at Table Mountain National Park between Simon's Town and Cape Point, near Cape Town, in South Africa. The park is frequently visited by tourists wanting to see the thriving colonies of African penguins. -- PHOTO: AFP
The sunken USS Oriskany's radar boom is shown the coast of Pensacola, Fla. The Navy sank the aircraft carrier in May 2006 to create an artificial reef. Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill: So too is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks. -- PHOTO: AP
Renowned artist Cai Guo Qiang, who choreographed the fireworks display for the Beijing Olympics,
showcases three of his installations at the national museum. -- ST PHOTO: BENJAMIN NG
Adili Wuxor lies on a tightrope during the last day of his two-month tightrope walking performance on top of China's National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing on Friday. Adili Wuxor, an Uighur ethnic Dawaz tightrope walking performer, has been walking the tightrope five hours a day on the top of the Bird's Nest over the past 60 days, setting a new Guinness World Record. -- PHOTO: AP
Workers remove algae from the Jinshatan beach on the Yellow Island in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on Saturday.
-- PHOTO: AP
A worker checks a panel at a high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar energy power plant in Lujhu Township of Kaohsiung County, southern Taiwan. Taiwan's top technology firms are looking to leverage their expertise in chip and LCD manufacturing to push into the US$35 billion global solar energy market, spying an opportunity for new growth beyond maturing chip and panel businesses. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
The Philippine Air Force's Sniper Squad carries their weapons as they march during the Air Force's 63rd anniversary celebration at Villamor airbase in Pasay, Metro Manila on Monday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Authorities respond after a twin Cessna 421 crashed shortly after taking off from Alpine, Texas Airport, killing all five people onboard on Sunday.
-- PHOTO: AP
The 18th century Hungarian mummy of Veronica Orlovits, a miller's wife, is displayed during the media preview for the world premiere of the Mummies of the World exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Residents crowd in a swimming pool to escape the summer heat during a hot weather spell in Daying county of Suining, Sichuan province. China is experiencing temperatures over 35 deg C in at least 13 provinces and regions, according to the National Meteorological Center on Sunday.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Jockey Eurico Da Silva celebrates on Big Red Mike after winning the 151st running of the Queen's Plate horse race in Toronto on Sunday.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A worker passes behind a dead Japanese White-eye (Zosterops Japonicus) in Hsintien, Taipei county. A heat wave has hit Taiwan in recent days, with temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius in Taipei. -- PHOTO: AFP
A campaign girl displays lottery tickets for the 300 million yen (3.4 million USD) Summer Jumbo Lottery at a Tokyo ticket booth. Thousands of punters queued up for tickets in the hope of becoming a millionaire in what has become an annual event. -- PHOTO: AFP
Tourists cool off at a fountain in Sochi. -- PHOTO: AFP
The Chilean merchant ship Cerro Alegre is hit by waves after it ran aground in Valparaiso, Chile. Bad weather in south central Chile has left at least 2 dead people and wreaked havoc in some of the camps for people displaced by the Feb. 27 earthquake. -- PHOTO: AP
Belarussian perform a traditional dance next to a river while celebrating Ivan Kupala Night, a traditional Slavic holiday, 270km south of Minsk in Turov.
During the celebration, originating in pagan times, people plait wreaths, jump over fires, and swim. -- PHOTO: AFP
Children get some relief from the heat by playing in a gigantic lake of m&d at the annual m&d Day event in Westland, Michigan. The lake was created by mixing approximately 20,000 gallons of water with 200 tons of topsoil. The event, which is sponsored by the Wayne County Parks Department, draws about 1,000 children each year. -- PHOTO: AFP
The Richardson family of Brooklyn play in an inflatable pool near their apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for parts of the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and parts of Michigan and Kentucky with temperatures in some areas predicted to reach 100 degrees. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Afghan child who fixes potholes in a road between Kabul and Bagram and depends on tips from passing motorists waits for business in Afghanistan.
-- PHOTO: AP
A Supporter attends the 75th birthday celebration of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the Foundation of House of Tibet in Barcelona, Spain. -- PHOTO: AP
Jose Garcia cools off in spraying water from a fire hydrant in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The East Coast broiled under an unforgiving sun Tuesday as the temperature soared above 100 degrees in several cities, utility companies cranked out power to cool the sweating masses and the unlucky sought any oasis they could find. -- PHOTO: AP
A life-size bronze figure of British author Arthur Conan Doyle's character, the detective Sherlock Holmes created by artist John Doubleday 1988 is pictured on the main square in the town of Meiringen, some 100 km south east of the Swiss capital Bern. Meiringen was the location of 'The Adventure of the Final Problem' in which, writing in 1893, Conan Doyle killed the detective off - only to be forced by public pressure to resurrect him 10 years later.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Youngsters enjoy a ride on a circular moving swing in an Athens amusement park at sunset. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A bee searches for nectar in a pink coneflower at Miss Nellie's Pretty Place in Cameron Park in Waco, Texas. -- PHOTO: AP
Women practice wrestling in the m&d at a traditional Indian wrestling centre called 'Akhaara' in New Delhi. m&d wrestling is generally popular in India. Young athletes also take up mat wrestling to gain access to top international competitions like the Commonwealth Games. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A group of Chinese men jump into the Yangtze river in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province.
Cambodian government officials, soldiers and people release balloons at the Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, some 500 kilometers north of Phnom Penh. Cambodians celebrated the second anniversary of the United Nation's (UN) world heritage listing of the ancient Preah Vihear temple which has stoked nationalist tensions with neighbouring Thailand. -- PHOTO: AFP
Belarussian girls wearing homemade grass-skirts dance in a river while celebrating Ivan Kupala Night, a traditional Slavic holiday, 270km south of Minsk in Turov. During the celebration, originating in pagan times, people plait wreaths, jump over fires, and swim. -- PHOTO: AFP
A dancer of the group 'The Heliosphere' hangs on a balloon over a fountain in Hanover.
Visitors check out a 30-foot tall eyeball sculpture by artist Tony Tasset following its unveiling in Prtizker Park on Wednesday.
-- PHOTO: AFP
The Roman marble bust 'Head of a Noble or Official,' (right) dating from A.D. 150-175,
appears with other Roman busts at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland. -- PHOTO: AP
Homeless children play in snow that was trucked in during a Christmas in July celebration
organized by the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row, Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Panda are fed with apples at the Panda Base in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province. -- PHOTO: AFP
Zack Lash, right, and Rich O'Connor haul on a halyard on the HMS Bounty on Lake Erie off Cleveland. The sailing ship, built for the 1961 movie
'Mutiny on the Bounty,' is one of 11 tall ships that will be in the city for a weekend festival. -- PHOTO: AP
Tristan Hooten, 4, washes his toy car in the 700 block of East Cassilly Street in Springfield, Ohio.
Weather forecasters predicted temperatures in the mid-90s this week, with a heat index near 100 by Thursday. -- PHOTO: AP
Shiite Muslim pilgrims self-flagellate as they gather at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim Mosque in the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad on Wednesday,
to mark the death of the eighth century Imam. -- PHOTO: AFP
Boat slips are seen along a water lane on Caddo Lake near Uncertain, Texas. Visitors to this lake tucked away in Texas' forested northeast corner find a mysterious labyrinth of swamps, sloughs, and bayous that are home to a vast array of wildlife, anything from owls to eagles to alligators. -- PHOTO: AP
Bao Zhengbing, a 56-year-old Chinese man, begins a bid to swim 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) down the polluted Yangtze River to visit the Shanghai World Expo, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province to fulfil his childhood dream. Bao's friends travelling in a boat and by car will follow him during his 35-day journey, during which he plans to swim 40 kilometres a day, while experts have warned the river is considered
