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A man creates large bubbles for the entertainment of passers-by on the popular King street in the Newtown precinct near Sydney.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A runner is knocked down by a Cebada Gago fighting bull at Estafeta Corner during the second running of the bulls on the third day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. The runner was among six people who were hospitalized following a run that lasted three minutes and thirty seconds according to local news sources. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Pamphlets are hurled by healthcare workers toward congressmen during a protest regarding massive layoffs by health sector employees during a session of the Chilean congress in Valparaiso City, 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Santiago. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Lawrence Oliver, left, along with Aidan Green, 2, Zachi Summers, 3, center, and Aniya Johnson, 8, right cool off from the midday heat in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia. The eastern U.S. cooked for another day Wednesday as unrelenting heat promised to push thermometers past 100 degrees.
Ruling and opposition lawmakers brawl as discussions start on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) planned with China on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan. Pro-and anti-government lawmakers exchanged punches and threw garbage bins at each other Thursday in another raucous session in Taiwan's legislature, after the speaker rejected an opposition bid to conduct a detailed debate on a contentious trade pact with China. -- PHOTO: AP
Smoke rises from an illegal crude oil refinery site in an Ogoni community in Nigeria's Niger Delta. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Curator John Harris gives a tour of the 'Age of Mammals' exhibition during the press preview of the exhibition and the newly restored 1913 building of the National History Museum of Los Angeles County. -- PHOTO: AFP
A taxidermy mount of a modern cheetah is on during the press preview of the 'Age of Mammals' exhibition. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dancers from Pernambuco, Brazil, look on during an African-Cuban religious Santeria ceremony in honor of slaves rebelliousness, as part of the 30th Caribbean Festival in Loma del Cimarron, El Cobre, Cuba on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP
A parking garage was rendered into rubble when the two-story structure collapsed,
sending one man to the hospital and crushing several vehicles below, Windsor, Ont., Canada. -- PHOTO: AP
Cleveland Cavaliers fans Josh Hall, Rob Hose, and Mike Adams set fire to LeBron James jerseys
after James announced he is leaving the Cavaliers to join the Miami Heat. -- PHOTO: AP
Greenpeace activists hold a large Mexican flag as they protest deforestation in Mexico City on Friday.
Activists removed the green stripe from the left side of the flag and replaced it with an image of a cow,
symbolizing the disappearance of Mexico's forests. -- PHOTO: AP
Runners lead Fuente Ymbro fighting bulls at the Estafeta curve during the third running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Three people needed hospital treatment following a run that lasted six minutes and 23 seconds, according to local news sources. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Sri Lanka's National Freedom Front activists wave national flags as they walk towards the Russian Embassy during a rally in Colombo, to thank Russia for expressing concern in support of Sri Lanka on the decision made by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a war crimes panel. Weerawansa vowed to continue his anti-UN hunger strike outside its base in Colombo despite Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recalling his top envoy and shutting the offices. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian farmers throw paddy to pass on to the farmers on the other end at Ashdhan village,
about 143 kilometers (89 miles) west of Allahabad, India. -- PHOTO: AP
A man walks past a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene. -- PHOTO: AFP
Drivers pass through a flooded street as children play in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Police in both sides of the border were evacuating people in low-lying areas as the rain-swollen Rio Grande rose to more than 30 feet above flood stage and forced closure of two bridges linking Mexico and the U.S. -- PHOTO: AP
Kirsty Carrington wipes a tear from her eye as she grieves over the body of a dolphin believed to be the one nicknamed 'Moko' on a beach near Gisborne, New Zealand. The playful solitary dolphin, described as a teenage by officials, became a familiar sight around the beaches of the east coast city of Gisborne, where he swam among beach-goers and stole balls and surfboards. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Alan Gibson)
A chocolate replica of Incan citadel Machu Picchu, made out of 250 pounds of Peruvian cocoa, during a chocolate convention in Lima. The three-day exhibition, which drew distributors from Latin America and chocolate sommeliers from Europe, featured organic dark chocolate candy bars, chocolate sushi and Machu Picchu sculptures carved out of the sweet stuff. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People participate in the 'Dinner in the Sky' event, in Monaco. During five days, the organisation accomodates for each of the fifteen sessions,
twenty-two people around a table suspended at a height of 25 meters. -- PHOTO: AFP
Renee Cole checks her make-up after crossing the street on her way to a Lady Gaga look-a-like contest in Union Square in New York on Friday. The event sponsored by Pizza Packet is giving the winner tickets to see Lady Gaga at Madison Square Garden. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man looks the at the landscape garden called 'Sorginen dantza' (The witches' dance) by Basque artist Lur Paisajistak,
during the Urban Garden show in Medellin, Antioquia deparment, Colombia on Friday. -- PHOTO: AFP
Visitors view walls of photographs by Dennis Hopper during the press preview of 'Dennis Hopper: Double Standard,' the first US comprehensive museum survey of the works of the actor/artist/director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dave Zerbst with his daughter Katie reach out to a beached gray whale south of Harborview Park in Everett, Wash. on Friday morning. The gray whale that was stranded off the shores of Washington state and managed to get back to open waters on Thursday has beached itself again Friday. -- PHOTO: AP
The 1963 Pontiac Bonneville parade car of movie cowboy Roy Rogers is displayed at Christies auction house in New York.
Christie's held a preview Friday of an upcoming auction of items from the now-closed Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Mo. -- PHOTO: AP
A man tosses water from his flooded home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. A tropical depression that came ashore just north of the mouth of the Rio Grande was expected to add 6 inches to 8 inches of rain to rivers and reservoirs in south Texas and northern Mexico already swollen from the heavy rains dropped by Hurricane Alex. -- PHOTO: AP
Models from the pornography industry pose for fans as they attend the three-day Exxxotica Expo at the Convention Center in Los Angeles. Nearly 90 percent of all pornographic films made in the United States are either filmed in or produced by studios based in Los Angeles and the industry is estimated to generate between USD 10-14 billion in annual sales. -- PHOTO: AFP
A group of tourists visit Moais (backgorund) -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of scientists, tourists and locals expect to see from the Easter Island the almost five-minute total eclipse. -- PHOTO: AFP
NOAA staff and volunteers work to keep a beached gray whale wet south of Harborview Park in Everett, Wash. The gray whale that was stranded off the shores of Washington state and managed to get back to open waters on Thursday has beached itself again Friday. -- PHOTO: AP
Argentina's 'Campeonas de la Empanada' (Champions of the Pasty) take part in a parade,
during celebrations for the 194th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. -- PHOTO: AFP
Tyler Thomson hits the ground after being bucked off by Town Tough in the Bull Riding event during the first day of the rodeo at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A model wears a creation by fashion students of Berlin's 'Universitae der Kuenste' (University of Arts) presented at the Berlin Fashion Week.
-- PHOTO: AP
Fans of Karrie Webb of Australia walk to the second hole during the second round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. -- PHOTO: AP
Officers set fire to destroy a pile of firearms during Firearms Destruction day in Lusaka. Two thousand firearms were destroyed at the police headquarters in Lusaka on Friday. The firearms include those received by the Zambia Police through the Firearm Amnesty programme where participants are paid $200 for giving up their arms, arms acquired under the police's arms buyback programme and those confiscated in police raids. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
The beach of Warnemuende, north, is crowded with sun bathers as the temperatures grow up to 35 degrees,
water temperatures at 22 degrees in this Baltic Sea resort. -- PHOTO: AFP
A young man jumps from a 10 metre-high platform into Lake Zurich during hot summer weather in Zurich.
In the background is seen the tower of the Fraumuenster church. --PHOTO: REUTERS
An employee works on a mannequin at a Top Mannequin factory in Kuala Lumpur. The company, comprising of more than 100 workers,
supplies 3,000 to 5,000 mannequins a year to the domestic market and for export to Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Young boys jump in the water of the lake Ammersee near the village Herrsching, southern Germany, during hot weather.
Temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius and more in many parts of Germany. --PHOTO: AFP
Revellers take part in a lesbian and gay pride parade in Marseille. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A worker walks through a prickly pear farm in the Khanka area, about 30 km (18 mi) northeast of Cairo. --PHOTO: REUTERS
The crowded Baltic Sea beach of Warnemuende, northern Germany, is seen on an aerial photo. --PHOTO: AP
Night picture of a Moais - stone statue of the Rapa Nui culture - on Easter Island, 3,700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean.
Hundreds of scientists, tourists and locals expect to see from the Easter Island the almost five-minute total eclipse. --PHOTO: AFP
Pizza chefs cut pieces from a large pizza in Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo's Tourism Office celebrated World Pizza Day on Saturday. --PHOTO: AP
A man dressed as the 'Flying Dutchman' is seen in front of the tall ships in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium.
The tall ships sail out to the North Sea and on their way to Aalborg, Denmark on Tuesday. --PHOTO: AP
People stand behind a hot air balloon during an international balloon festival in Logoisk, some 40 km northeast of Minsk. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Bosnian woman mourns over coffins of a newly identified victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during preparation for mass burial at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on Saturday. More than 775 bodies found in mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia will be reburied on 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. The victims were shot and interred in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly later in more than 70 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence. -- PHOTO: AFP
In this photo provided by P.J. Hahn, dead fish are seen on the waterways at North of Point a la Hache Marina, La.
It is unclear what killed the fish and Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries are investigating. -- PHOTO: AP
A reveller runs in a water ball during the Pohoda music festival at Trencin airport, 130 km north of Bratislava.
Pohoda, the largest Slovak open-air music festival, is attended by around 30,000 of visitors. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Thousands of runners using headlights participate in the 'Energizer night race' in Mandaue, Cebu City, Central Philippines.
The event was held as part of a run-for-a-cause for the benefit of hearing-impaired children in the province of Cebu. -- PHOTO: AFP
A participant enjoys a cigar after diving into a m&d pit used for the annual m&d Pit Belly Flop contest during the 14th Annual Summer Redneck Games in East Dublin, Georgia. Open to everyone after the contest, the m&d pit is a favorite place for people to take part in the festivities of the games. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man rows a boat over the polluted water of the Guarapiranga Reservoir in the southern area of Sao Paulo. The aquatic green plants have grown rapidly in the reservoir after water from a neighbouring reservoir was diverted into the water body in the late 1990s. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
