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Balloons containing leaflets denouncing North Korea, released by anti-North Korea protesters toward the North, are seen at Imjingak pavilion
near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A beauty queen poses next to a wax sculpture on a decorative float during a Wax Festival parade in Suphan Buri. The Wax Festival
marks the beginning of a three-month long Buddhist Lent known as Khao Phansa. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Workers collect oil from the water outside a dock in the port city of Dalian, in China's north-eastern Liaoning province. China said an oil spill on the north-east coast had been successfully controlled as reports said operations at the port where it originated were returning to normal. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dance students take part in a training session at a pole dancing school in Hefei, Anhui province. More than 90 students, mostly young women,
have signed up for classes in this school, to get fit or to train to be a pole dancing coach. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
US aircraft flying in formation over South Korean Navy amphibious landing ship Dokdo and the US Navy guided-missile destroyers USS McCampbell and USS Lassen. US and South Korean warships staged anti-submarine drills as part of a major naval exercise intended to send a warning to North Korea despite its threats of nuclear retaliation. -- PHOTO: AFP
Peruvian Paso horses are seen at Montalban stud in Lurin, Lima Province. Though Spaniards and other Europeans brought horses to the Americas, Peruvians say their national horse, the Caballo de Paso Peruano, or Peruvian Walking Horse, is unique and were developed over five centuries. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A music video is filmed with musician Kyle Andrews (centre) of the 'Cougar Cooldown', an event intending to break a world record for the world's largest water balloon fight hosted by Brigham Young University on the Richards Building Field. -- PHOTO: AP
A view shows the illuminated war memorial during 'Vijay Diwas' or victory day celebration in Drass, about 160 km east of Srinagar. The Indian army commemorates 'Vijay Diwas' annually in memory of more than 500 soldiers who were killed eleven years ago during a war with Pakistan.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Damaged houses are seen after a rain-triggered landslide hit Shuanghe village in Hanyuan county, Sichuan province. Twenty-one people were missing after the landslide, triggered by recent torrential rains, hit villages in Hanyuan County, south-west China' Sichuan Province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Stephanie Palermo jumps into the water from a cliff at the end of a hiking traildown from the crater's rim in Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Artist Lucy McRae of Australia poses after she glued safety pins on part of her body during the 'Rojo Nova work in progress' at the Museum of Image
and Sound in Sao Paulo. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Nora Mendivil demonstrates outside the Arizona State Capital Building as protesters begin to arrive from around the country, two days before the controversial state law SB1070 which criminalises illegal immigration takes effect, in Phoenix. -- PHOTO: AFP
A man paints a graffiti on the wall in Prague. -- PHOTO: AFP
Female conjoined twins receive a medical examination at a hospital in Chongqing municipality. The twins, who were born on July 6 in Guizhou province, went to Chongqing for better medical treatment. They await a medical evaluation to decide on the procedure for their separation. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Construction continues on the rising tower of One World Trade Center (left) on Tuesday in New York. The tower, also known as the Freedom Tower, will be 1,776 feet (541 metres) tall. The square outlines (lower right) of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, mark the location of the original twin towers, destroyed September 11, 2001. -- PHOTO: AP
Mexico's Geovany Lanaro competes in the Men's Pole Vault final in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, during the XXI Central American & Caribbean Games.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A Kashmiri Muslim prays near the illuminated grave of a relative during Shab-e- Barat, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Muslims visit ancestral graveyards for the salvation of the souls of the departed and also believe that all sins will be forgiven by praying to Allah throughout the Shab-e-Barat night.
-- PHOTO: AP
A woman leaves flowers at a make-shift memorial site near the entrance to the tunnel where panic broke out during the
Loveparade in Duisburg, western Germany. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Agent Green NGO activist wearing a bear-like outfit while holds a poster reading in Romanian 'STOP ROAD 66A, this is my home' during a protest in Retezat National Park against a national road to be build through the park. -- PHOTO: AFP
Labourers work outside Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Swimming Complex, one of the venues for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Residents view the remains of US war veteran Albert Mitchell (Left), a retired member of the US Air Force, and his Filipina wife Jeanette Androneda (Right) inside a parlor in Angeles city, Pampanga province, north of Manila. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Puerto Rico's Yarleen Santiago signals her teammate where to serve during their women?s beach volleyball gold medal match against Mexico at the Central American and Caribbean Games Mayaguez 2010 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. -- PHOTO: AP
A clown entertains a group of schoolgirls during a parade in the Historic Center of Guatemala City in the framework of the II Latin American Clown Congress. -- PHOTO: AFP
Children jump into floodwater at an inundated park by the Yangtze River in Chongqing Municipality. Heavy rains have pounded large swathe of central and southern China lately, flooding riverside towns, causing landslides and m&d flows and raising key rivers to danger levels. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Spanish bullfighters Curro Diaz (Left), Salvador Vega (Centre) and female bullfighter Mari Paz Vega are carried on the shoulders of spectators after a victorious 'Corrida Goyesca' bullfight at Archidona's Ochavada square, near the southern Spanish city of Malaga. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A child plays next to puppies outside his shack at Managua's municipal garbage dump, Nicaragua. Around 258 poor families who live inside the dump, will receive houses built by a programme led by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation, AECI. The programme includes the construction of a processing plant for organic and inorganic waste management. -- PHOTO: AP
Revelers listen to a concert of Goran Bregovic as he performs with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra at a pontoon positioned in the middle of the Vltava river in central Prague, as a part of the summer festival 'The summer night's dream' in the Czech capital. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Samuel Aldaraca holds a US flag and a sign outside the Arizona's State Capital after US District Judge Susan Bolton blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new Senate Bill 1070 immigration law in Phoenix. Judge Bolton on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law just hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control over the issue. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An X Games competitor practices at the BMX Street event venue at X Games 16, at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles.
Bryan Richardson (upper left), flies through the air after getting bucked off during the bull riding section of the
Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyo. -- PHOTO: AP
Models present creations by students of design school Colegiaturas during the Colombiamoda fashion show in Medellin. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Cadets of the Francisco Morazan Military Academy carry a coffin with the relics of Saint Ioannes Bosco in Tegucigalpa. The relics of the Italian saint - which have been travelling the world - were honoured in a mass at the Basilica of Suyapa before continuing their journey onto El Salvador. -- PHOTO: AFP
Angela Torres, 9, of Providence, RI (left), runs through a stream of water spraying from an open fire hydrant as her brother Jefferson Torres, 8
(centre right), collects water in a bucket, in Providence.
Sabah Zaib wears Halal certified make-up in Birmingham, central England. Samina Akhter has launched a company that offers a range of Halal make-up, which is free from alcohol and animal products and marketed towards Muslim customers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Rome's ancient Colosseum is seen from a helicopter in this 2004 file photo. As Rome's ancient Colosseum literally crumbles from neglect, the cash-strapped Italian government is looking for private sponsors willing to help pay for restoration work in exchange for advertising rights. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Models present creations by Colombian brand Leonisa during the Colombiamoda fashion show on Wednesday in Medellin,
Antioquia department, Colombia. -- PHOTO: AFP
Palestinian Abdullah Inshasi takes a leap as he performs parkour at an old cemetery, in the Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. In back rooms, refugee camps and vacant lots across this impoverished territory, young men are rapping over hip hop beats, flipping over metal bars and spinning on their heads to funky dance music Many Gaza youth - the bulk of its 1.5 million residents - are stuck between Hamas strict version of Islam and the Israeli-Egyptian blockade that keeps them locked in with little work. -- PHOTO: AP
Cypress trees killed by saltwater intrusion are seen in wetlands near Houma, La. Environmentalists are calling on the White House to speed up the restoration of the oil-damaged Mississippi River delta by getting BP PLC to pay US$5 billion now for environmental damage caused by the spill. -- PHOTO: AP
French skipper Damien Cloarec sails on his Port-de-Plaisance-Roscoff singlehull during the first stage of the 41st edition of the solo sailing race
'Solitaire du Figaro' between Le Havre and Gijon in Spain. -- PHOTO: AFP
A plume of smoke is seen after a plane crashes on the Elmendorf Air Force in Anchorage, Alaska. The Alaska National Guard says a military cargo plane has crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. -- PHOTO: AP
Kit Sheppard waits for her husband, Lieutenant junior grade Adam Sheppard, after the 'Nightdippers' of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Five (HS-5) returned home off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va. The Eisenhower is back in Norfolk after a seven-month deployment to support the war in Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AP
This picture taken on June 23, 2009 in Greenland shows a scientist cutting the cooling tunnel. Scientists hit Greenland bedrock this week after five years of drilling through 2.5 kilometres of solid ice, a 14-nation consortium announced on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
An M-14 sniper rifle sits beside a watch tower as smoke rises in the background after US soldiers blew up a m&d wall which Taliban insurgents were using as cover to attack troops from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AFP
A member of the Engineering Regiment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) makes his rescue dog jump through his arms during a demonstration for international media at a base located on the outskirts of Beijing. The regiment makes up most of the China International Search and Rescue (CISAR) force, who are called on to participate in rescue efforts in foreign countries. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Balloons are released with seeds in them to commemorate the eleven lives lost and 100 days of the BP oil spill in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Three to five million barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the BP Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP
Firefighter Michael Nokes escapes out of a second storey window after fire came between him and his crew while battling a house fire on Cumberland St in Clear Spring, Md. Fire destroyed four row houses in the small community west of Hagerstown, Md. -- PHOTO: AP
A man sits near mortars arranged in a local market in Suleja town in the outskirt of Nigeria's federal capital Abuja. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A student takes part in a practice session of a stunt performance at Tagou Wushu School in Zhengzhou, Henan province. More than 1,500 students from the school will perform at the opening ceremony of the upcoming Asian Games to be held this November in Guangzhou, local media reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Palestinian children in Gaza attending UNRWA?s (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) Summer Games attempt to smash their own world record
for the number of kites flown simultaneously on the beach in Gaza City. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Israeli soldier rests next to a doll during a Home Front Command army drill simulating a missile attack, at training ground in the
Israeli southern city of Beersheba. -- PHOTO: AP
Sarah Prior holds a partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - after they were sold at auction in Aylesdham, England, on Thursday for 15,200 pounds (US$23,723). The upper dentures, one of several sets specially made for the wartime prime minister, were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts. The dentures were bought by a British collector of Churchill memorabilia, at three times the estimated price. -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian idolmaker works in clay to make a models of Hindu Gods in a workshop at Kumartoli, the artists' village in Siliguri. Kumartoli - the artists village is buzzing with hundreds of artists who live and work there preparing models of various Hindu Gods and Goddesses ahead of forthcoming Hindu festivals.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Chinese tourists visit the Sun Yat-sen park, dedicated to the founding father of the Republic of China in Taipei, Taiwan. Despite closer ties between Taiwan and China, the common language, and the attempts by Beijing to play up both sides' common cultural history many Taiwanese insist the island's 23 million people don't identify culturally with the mainland because 50 years of Japanese colonial rule and another six decades of political separation has created a distinct Taiwanese identity. -- PHOTO: AP
An artist displays his back in front of his exhibition booth at the 2010 Taiwan International Tattoo Convention in Taipei on Friday. The convention which is slated to run from July 30 - August 1 aims to gather people from all over the world to promote the industry and garner positive thinking towards tattoos.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Mat Rebeaud of Switzerland competes in the Moto X Freestyle Final during X Games 16 at the LA Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
Workers of PCCS Garments Ltd look out from gaps between their factory gates during a strike in protest against the suspension of a local union official in Phnom Phenh. At least nine female garment workers were injured in clashes with riot police who used shields and electric shock batons to try to end the week-long strike. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman walks along a road, with buildings on fire caused by severe heat in the background, outside the town of Vyksa, some 150 km south-west of the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod. Russia's worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A member of the Engineering Regiment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) makes his rescue dog jump across a platform during a demonstration for journalists at a military base, outskirts of Beijing, China. China's military on Friday criticised remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington had a strong interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea resolved peacefully. -- PHOTO: AP
Search and rescue crew from the Engineering Regiment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) stage a rescue operation at the scene of mock earthquake during a demonstration on Friday at a military base on the outskirts of Beijing. The PLA, established on August 1, 1927 is the world's largest military force with some 3 million members and has the world's largest standing army with some 2.25 million members. The Engineering Regiment of the PLA was formed in 1964 and is involved in earthquake relief, flood reduction and international exchange. -- PHOTO: AFP
Fans of Lebanese diva Fairouz hold her pictures as they protest against a ban preventing her from performing songs composed by The Rahbani Brothers, as family heirs fight over inheritance and property rights, in Beirut, Lebanon. For four decades, Lebanese singer Fairouz has performed on the world's most prestigious stages, moving audiences to tears with songs of freedom, justice and love throughout 15-years of civil war. Now, a bitter family dispute over inheritance, song royalties and intellectual property rights is threatening to silence Lebanon's most beloved diva, who is now 75-years old, and fans are outraged, and marching in the streets to ask her to keep singing. -- PHOTO: AP
