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People stop their cars next to a road to enjoy one of the first snowfalls of the Argentinian winter in Villa Ciudad America, Cordoba province.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A Cambodian soldier parachutist prepares to land with a Thai flag during the multi-national exercise Angkor sentinel 2010 at Kampong Speu province, some 60 kilometers west of Phnom Penh. More then 1,000 military personnel from 24 counties conducted military exercise called the Angkor sentinel 2010.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Kids play in a water park to beat the early evening temperatures in Indianapolis.
Temperatures are expected to be in the low 90's in central for the next few days.-- PHOTO: AP
Workers stage a disaster area along Michigan Avenue at the Chicago River bridge during filming of the movie Transformers 3 in Chicago, Illinois. Sections of Michigan Avenue, in the heart of the city's downtown, will be closed until Monday morning to accommodate the filmmakers. -- PHOTO: AFP
A memorial for the New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is layed outside the stadium before the game against theTampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Steinbrenner died on July 13 at age 80. -- PHOTO: AFP
Artists paint the body of a model during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Seeboden. The world's biggest bodypainting event takes place at Lake Millstaettersee, in Austria's southern Carinthia province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Penitents take part in the 'Virgen del Carmen' brotherhood procession during the Carmen day celebrations in Malaga, southern Spain.
Every year, an image of the Virgin, the patron saint of seafarers, is placed on a boat, which sails down the coast. -- PHOTO: AFP
Visitors line up at the Houston Museum of Natural Science to catch a glimpse, and a whiff, of the rare Corpse Flower, which emits a carrion-like stench when it blooms to attract pollinating insects. Thousands of people are breathlessly waiting for one of the largest and rarest flowers in the world to bloom, but when Lois the Corpse Flower finally unfurls, they may want to hold their breath. This will be the first time the seven-year-old plant has produced the stinking flower for which it is named, and the bloom is expected to last for only three days. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A villager walks on a stone barrier as sea water reaches her house in Mayangan village in Subang, Indonesia's West Java province. Sea levels are rising unevenly in the Indian Ocean, placing millions at risk along low-lying coastlines in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, scientists say in a study. Researchers from the University of Colorado and the National Center for Atmospheric Research say the rising sea levels are caused in part by climate change and are triggered by warming seas and changes to atmospheric circulation patterns. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Texan 550 LSA We Fly Team perform their air display during the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. --PHOTO: AP
The pack rides past sunflower in the 196 km and 13th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race run between Rodez and Revel, southern France. --PHOTO: AFP
A girl cools herself in one of the new fountains in Budapest, Hungary.
A heat wave hit Hungary with temperatures rising above 35 C (95F) and authorities announced a heat alert. --PHOTO: AP
Seagulls fly over the Old Course during third round play at the British Open golf championship in St. Andrews, Scotland. --PHOTO: REUTERS
An amateur actor dressed with Teutonic Order armour is seen as he takes part in the reeanactment of the great Medieval Battle of Grunwald, in Grunwald. Thousands of fans of the Middle Ages relived the heady days of 1410, when a Polish-Lithuanian army smashed the Teutonic Knights in battle.
--PHOTO: AFP
An oil slick sits on the surface of the water a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP's experimental cap was holding Saturday near the end of a two-day well integrity test. --PHOTO: AP
U.S. actress Whoopi Goldberg performs during the opening ceremony of the 18th Life Ball in Vienna.
Life Ball is Europe's largest annual AIDS charity event. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A motorcyclist performs in front of the government palace during a Red Bull X-Fighters Jams exhibition in Lima. --PHOTO: AP
High waves smash against the bank of Do Son beach in the northern port city of Hai Phong, Vietnam,
as Typhoon Conson churns towards northern Vietnam. --PHOTO: AP
A foreign tourist plays with m&d during the 13th Boryeong m&d Festival at a beach in Boryeong, about 190 km southwest of Seoul. During the festival, visitors can take part in activities such as m&d slides, m&d wrestling and m&d massages. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A participant of the 18th Life Ball poses for photographers during the opening ceremony in Vienna. Life Ball is Europe's largest annual AIDS charity event.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Bikers ride their Harley-Davidson motorcycles as they parade through the streets of Lugano during the Swiss Harley Days event.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Firefighters and residents try to extinguish a fire outside the Mikrochori village, northeast of Athens.
Two large forest fires, the first of the summer season, are burning near Athens, aided by gale force winds up to 65 km per hour. -- PHOTO: AP
A South Korean animal rights activist confines herself in a cage during a campaign opposing South Korea's culture of eating dog meat in Seungnam, south of Seoul, South Korea. Some of South Koreans traditionally eat dog meat with the belief that it boosts stamina and virility and will help them endure the heat of summer. -- PHOTO: AP
Cambodian dancers perform during a hand over ceremony of seven Khmer artifacts from the government of the US to the Cambodian government at the National Museum in Phnom Penh. A US envoy is in Phnom Penh for events marking the 60th anniversary of relations between Cambodia and the United States. -- PHOTO: AFP
Larry Dixon deploys his chutes in a qualifying round for Top Fuel cars during the FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Hunter Cure wrestles a steer in the Steer Wrestling event during the rodeo at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Coast Guard Cutter skims oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's 48-hour trial run of a cap blocking oil from streaming into the Gulf of Mexico has ended with no word on what happens next. -- PHOTO: AP
Girls are sillouetted as they reach toward the image of a whale shark as they watch the high definition movie of Okinawa Chraumi Aquarium shown at the Ginza Sony building in central Tokyo to mark the Marine Day national holiday. -- PHOTO: AFP
Matt Shiozawa flips a calf to win first place and $100,000 dollars in the Tie-Down Roping event during the final day of the rodeo at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A staff member with a Jetsons 'Rosie the Robot' maquette (right) and a Robin Williams Bicentennial Man Animatronic Head (left) that will be auctioned by Heritage Auction Galleries, in Beverly Hills. -- PHOTO: AFP
Participants run during a m&d field racing competition held by the local tourism organization in Daishan county, Zhejiang province.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A model poses for photographers during the annual World Bodypainting Festival in Seeboden, at Lake Millstaettersee, in Austria's southern Carinthia province on Sunday. The festival is the world's biggest bodypainting event. -- PHOTO: AP
People throw water over each other during the annual water fight in the streets of Vallecas, Madrid, Spain. -- PHOTO: AP
A tourist grabs a shrub in strong wind with high waves breaking behind him during the passage
of tropical storm Conson at the northern coastal city of Hai Phong. -- PHOTO: AFP
Protesters display placards behind barbed wire barricades near the Presidential Palace in Manila,
Philippines to protest the alleged killings in the country involving activists. -- PHOTO: AP
AIDS activists stage a mass 'die-in' during a protest at the International AIDS Conference in Vienn. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A South Korean child cools himself off by playing in a fountain in Seoul, South Korea. -- PHOTO: AP
An official holding an umbrella walks on a tarpaulin ground cover during a rain delay on the second day of the
first test cricket match between Sri Lanka and India in Galle. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Models pose on a cube among art work at the Bass Museum of Art before the Red Carter show
during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida. -- PHOTO: AP
A Chinese villager rides his motorcycle through floodwaters in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, after torrential rains hit the Yangtze River areas. At least 20 people were missing after a rain-triggered landslide buried parts of a north China village, while rising waters threatened to overrun numerous lakes and rivers including the Yangtze. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man fixes power lines in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan consumes less energy per person than any other country in the world, even after years of reconstruction efforts, according to data compiled by the US government. -- PHOTO: AP
A cyclist rides past Colombian soldiers and police officers taking part in a ceremony to commemorate the bicentenary of the nation's independence in Zipaquira near Bogota. Colombia will mark 200 years of independence from Spain with a series of celebrations across the country on Tuesday.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
The pack ride past sunflowers during the 184,5 km and 14th stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race run between Revel and Ax-Trois-Domaines, southern France in Pyrenees region. -- PHOTO: AFP
Spanish pilot Ramon Alonso performs with his aircraft over the Samil beach in Vigo, during the International Vigo Airshow. -- PHOTO: AFP
Honda MotoGp rider Randy de Puniet (centre) of France falls during the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit near the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal. Honda MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain won the race. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Dancers Eriko Jimbo and Jun Kuribayashi from the dance group Pilobolus perform a scene from 'Contradance' during
a dress rehearsal before opening night at the Joyce Theater in New York. -- PHOTO: AFP
Jewish settlers pray from the biblical Book of Lamentation at the ancient mountain fortress of Herodium near the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the 9th of Av day of mourning. Jews around the world mark the destruction of the First and Second holy temples. The Tisha Be'Av ceremony, literally the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebraic calendar, is the darkest day of the year for Jews, marking the destruction of both the temples, by the Babylonians in 587 BC and later by the Romans in 70 AD. -- PHOTO: AFP
People watch through an underwater viewing area as a polar bear reaches toward a fish while being fed at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in an 11-foot deep saltwater pool, in Tacoma, Wash. The zoo has two polar bears who have been there since they were cubs and provides sanctuary for another two who were rescued from a circus in 2002. -- PHOTO: AP
A dancer walks around the University of Moncton Stadium to help open the IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships in
Moncton, New Brunswick. The international event features over 1500 athletes from around the world. -- PHOTO: AP
A boy dances in the rain during a heavy tropical shower in a street of Havana. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman, wearing her traditional clothing, walks on stage at the 'Guelaguetza' festival in the southern city of Oaxaca. The 'Guelaguetza' (Monday of the Hill) is a nine-day folkloric festival celebrating Oaxaca state's seven cultural regions through dance, parades and pageantry. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman looks at municipal employees working to set up an artificial beach with palm trees on the banks of the Seine on in Paris, as part of the installation of 'Paris-plage'. For the nineth summer in a raw, Paris will recreate a beach on its river bank with palm trees, outdoor showers and hammocks.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Dancers of La Compagnie Julien Lestel of France perform in 'Constance', choreographed by Julien Lestel, during the Malta Arts Festival 2010 in Floriana, outside Valletta. The piece was inspired by D.H. Lawrence's novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Spectators watch the Opening Ceremony for the 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Stade Moncton 2010 Stadium in Moncton, Canada.
-- PHOTO: AFP
The Three Gorges Dam discharges water to lower the level in a reservoir in Yichang, Hubei province. China's massive Three Gorges dam is facing a major test of the flood control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction, as torrential rains swell the rivers that feed it. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
South Korean soldiers wear traditional military uniform during a rehearsal of a ceremony to commemorate the Korea War at the Korea War Memorial in Seoul. Tensions remain high between the South and the North over the sinking of a South Korean warship which the US, the South and other nations, citing findings of a multinational investigation, blame on the North, a charge that Pyongyang continues to deny. -- PHOTO: AFP
Fireworks explode along the Medellin City skyline in Colombia, during celebrations to mark the bicentennial of its independence from Spain.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Service members from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and the US Marines carry out a sea landing exercise at the port of Ancon,
north of Lima, during the Southern Exchange and Partnership of the Americas (SE/POA 10) military exercise. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An unidentified man passes by the graves of Greek and Cypriot soldiers who were killed in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus at the
Tymvos Macedonitissas military cemetery in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus. -- PHOTO: AP
Workers drain away polluted water near the Zijin copper mine in Shanghang, after pollution from the mine contaminated the Ting river. The toxic pollution spill from a mine operated by China's top gold producer Zijin Mining Group has spread to a second province, threatening the fishing industry there.
-- PHOTO: AFP
