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Participants put a hog on a tyre in the middle of a m&d pool at the Delaware County 4-H Fair,
during the hog wrestling event at the grandstands in Muncie, Indiana. -- PHOTO: AP
Dancers 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
Swans are lowered back into the water after being checked during the annual Swan Upping swan count on the River Thames near London. With a flurry of flapping wings and a cacophony of confused squeaking, the swan and her downy young cygnets were plucked from the River Thames and passed from boat to shore. -- PHOTO: AP
Soldiers march during a military parade to celebrate 200 years of independence from Spain in Quibdo, eastern Colombia. --PHOTO: AP
A boy jumps into the Sommerbad Olympiastadion public pool in Berlin. Meteorologists forecast temperatures
around 30 deg C for the following days in the region. --PHOTO: AFP
A boy cools himself in a fountain in the city of Kyzyl in Russia
Tourists play in the m&d during the 13th Boryeong m&d Festival at the Daecheon swimming beach in Boryeong, 190 km south-west of Seoul on Sunday. The annual festival encourages the use of m&d for its benefits for skin-care and to promote tourism in the region.
The festival runs from July 17-25. -- PHOTO: AFP
A street lamp is partially emerged by the flooded Yangtze River in southwest China.
Spanish freestyle motocross rider Mikael Milero performs during a show jump at the bullfighting arena of the picturesque village of Chinchon, south of Madrid. The show was held to announce the fourth stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Madrid. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Palestinian boys ride on a donkey as they watch the convoy of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton (not pictured)
in the northern Gaza Strip. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An aerial picture taken aboard an helicopter shows a smoggy view of the Eiffel tower (left)
and the Tour Maine-Montparnasse in Paris. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Palestinian man works to recycle cement at a factory that does not receive raw materials from Israel, east of Jebaliya, Gaza Strip.
Some of the hundreds of Gaza factories idled by Israel.
Water is discharged from the Three Gorges Dam to lower the level in its reservoir in Yichang, Hubei province.
Torrential rain that has lashed China for weeks has killed dozens more people in China.
This picture taken in Fromelles, northern France, shows the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) military cemetery during the burial ceremony of an unknown World War One soldier, the last of the 250 found in a mass grave from the 1916 Battle of Fromelles. Forensic experts excavated in May 2010 a World War I mass grave in what is thought to be the largest unmarked Allied war grave found since the 1918 Armistice. Between 250 and 400 Australians and Britons killed in the Battle are thought to have been buried by German forces, without name tags, in five separate pits in Pheasants Wood. -- PHOTO: AFP
A rock climber scales the face of a mountain called The Chief in Squamish, British Columbia. The flat faced 700m granite mountain in Stawamus Chief Provincial Park just north of Vancouver is a popular spot for rock climbers and base jumpers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Palestinian mourners stand behind the window of a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun following an Israeli strike that killed a Palestinian militant and wounded 10 others, including two children. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Israeli couple poses inside a toy store at a mall in the coastal city of Rishon Letzion after their pre-wedding outdoor photoshoot was ruined by the heat. -- PHOTO: AFP
A clown attends a mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Hundreds of clowns ended their annual pilgrimage
to the Basilica to pay their respects to the Virgin of Guadalupe. -- PHOTO: AP
Thousands of signatures are signed to a petition during the Rally for Economic Survival
opposing the drilling moratorium at the Cajundome in Lafayette, La. -- PHOTO: AP
A Georgian girl holds a doll during festival at Ethnographic Museum of Tbilisi. -- PHOTO: AFP
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
Mr Gryshchenko is on an official visit to the region. -- PHOTO: AP
One of the two leopard cubs, Pati and Jaya, looks out from an enclosure at the Jardin des Plantes menagerie in Paris.
A pair of clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa) cubs were born two months ago in Paris.
A parachutist from the Red Devils Parachute Regiment Freefall Team performs during
an air display at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire. -- PHOTO: AFP
A cleanup worker moves a bag on the beach polluted by crude oil after a pipeline explosion in Dalian, in north-east China.
Hundreds of freight trucks are ordered to wait at a port in Haikou, south China.
In this May 6, 2010 file photo, Israeli and international activists prevent a bulldozer from working during a protest against the construction of Israel.
A woman wades into the ocean at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California, as waves driven from a Southern Hemisphere storm.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Staff spray water onto spectators during a special summer attraction at Tokyo DisneySea at Urayasu city in Chiba prefecture,
suburban Tokyo on Thursday.
Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls Tim Ream gets caught in the net after trying to defend on Tottenham Hotspur player Gareth Bale's goal during the second half of their game at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Visitors take pictures of a Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), one of the world's largest and rare tropical flower native to Sumatra, at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden in Tokyo. The flower, which emits strong odor to attract pollinators, bloomed for the first time in nearly 20 years at the Tokyo botanical garden. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Members of AnimaNaturalis with their bodies covered with black paint protest against the oil spill of BP's drilling well in the Gulf of Mexico, in Mexico city. Demonstrators aim to alert people about the animals dying because of the oil spill and call to use less petrol. -- PHOTO: AFP
A radio controlled plane flies past the moon near the city of Liptovsky Mikulas after the sunset. -- PHOTO: AFP
Andean indigenous 'Hatun Runa', bottom top, and 'Rocky II' wrestle during a Takanacuy fighting exhibition in Lima, Peru. The Takanacuy is an annual tradition celebrated every Dec 25, in Chumbivilcas, in Peru's southern state of Cusco, aimed to clear personal grievances ahead of the New Year. -- PHOTO: AP
Looking through papier-mache binoculars, Jorge Mendez, of Phoenix, is dressed up to depict Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as he joins
dozens to protest the SB1070 Arizona immigration law in front of US District Court on Thursday in Phoenix. -- PHOTO: AP
A kitten sits next to a fish tail at the fish market in Essaouira. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A devotee who is believed to be possessed by evil spirits goes into a state of trance as her daughter sits next to her at the shrine of Sufi Saint Shahdaana Wali in Bareilly, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Devotees from all religions visit this 700-year-old shrine to seek the betterment of their family, and to ward off evil spirits by participating in diverse local invocation ceremonies. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Palestinian boy takes a picture of his friend outside a children centre in Gaza City. -- PHOTO: AP
Ukrainian young people cooling themselves in a fountain near the opera house in central Lviv during 38 deg C summer heat. -- PHOTO: AFP
Journalists take photos as flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province. China's claims that its massive Three Gorges Dam can withstand the worst floods only seen every 10,000 years have lost mileage this week as the dam reached record higher water levers, with more torrential rains and typhoons expected in the country's worst flooding in a decade. -- PHOTO: AP
A young comic fan poses during Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Comic-Con is one of the largest pop-culture conventions in the world.
The convention brings together fans of various genres including science fiction, fantasy, movies and television. -- PHOTO: AFP
Demonstrators dump black slim in front of Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to end a US$1.2 billion annual taxoil pumping loophole to Occidental Petroleum and other large oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. -- PHOTO: AFP
Penguins walk after swimming in a pool while being treated by the local non-governmental organisation Socobioma (Society for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Maldonado), in the department of Maldonado, some 140 km east of Montevideo. At least 100 migrating Magellanic penguins soaked in an hydrocarbon were rescued after reaching the coasts of Maldonado and Rocha, in Uruguay, while en route from Patagonia in southern Argentina, to Brazil.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Demonstrators hold a banner as they protest against Arizona's controversial Senate Bill 1070 immigration law outside the US District Court in Phoenix. The SB1070 law, currently being challenged by the US Department of Justice at the court to prevent it from going into effect, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Saxo Bank's Andy Schleck (in white) of Luxembourg cycles with Astana's Alberto Contador of Spain during the 17th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Pau and Tourmalet Pass. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Israeli children play on a rodeo cow during a ceremony for placing the foundation stone of a new building for the council of Mount Hebron in the industrial area of Meytarim, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. -- PHOTO: AFP
Sixty three hotel workers and supporters are arrested by Sheriff's Deputies after refusing to end their sit-in on busy Sunset Boulevard, which was a breach of the terms of their protest permit during their demonstration against the Hyatt Hotel chain in West Hollywood. Union officials said that protests against the chain were held in 15 cities across the US and involved thousands of worker. Over 700 turned out in Los Angeles and blocked peak hour traffic on Sunset Boulevard for one and a half hours. -- PHOTO: AFP
A lightning bolt strikes down near downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Bad weather caused the delay
of the 1A evening state baseball games at Principal Park. -- PHOTO: AP
A photo shows fish at the Cabo Pulmo National Marine park beach in Baja California State, Mexico. The 20,000 year-old coral reef at Cabo Pulmo, the only one in the Gulf of California, is at the center of a dispute over a huge tourist development which could draw thousands to a remote part of Mexico.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Spectators wave the British flag as the pack passes during the 18th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 198 kilometers (123 miles)
with start in Salies-de-Bearn and finish in Bordeaux, south western France. -- PHOTO: AP
