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South Korean students carry a parachute during a training camp for civilians at a military base of the Special Warfare Command in Bucheon, west of Seoul. The camp is part of a summer programme organised by the army for 1,245 civilians including 364 women who have volunteered to experience hard military training. -- PHOTO: AFP
A worker lowers Krasnoyarsk's city flag to fly at half mast on the mayor's office. Krasnoyarsk region marked a day of mourning after a Russian passenger plane AN-24 crashed as it came into land near the town of Igarka in the Arctic, about 3,000 km north-east of Moscow the Siberian oil town. The 12th passenger the 15 people on board has died in hospital of Igarka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Kenyan election officials point a voter to the voting booth in a poling station in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha, Kenya. Long lines of voters formed before sunrise in the Kenyan capital, as voters cast ballots on a new constitution that would reduce the powers of the presidency and give citizens a bill of rights. -- PHOTO: AP
Filipino mothers tuck their babies on their chests at a ward of state-owned Fabella maternity hospital in Manila. The Philippine government along with some 73 countries worldwide joined the observance of the 19th World Breastfeeding Week. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Obese Chinese boys do sit-ups as they take part in a weight-lost camp in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province. A third of primary schoolchildren in China are suffering from psychological ill-health as a result of classroom stress and parental pressure, according to a study published by British and Chinese researchers. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani flood survivors walk in a flooded street of Charsadda. Devastating floods have swept away farmland and devastated livestock in Pakistan's north-west, costing farmers millions of dollars and sparking demands for government compensation. -- PHOTO: AFP
In this family handout photo from the Mayorga Family, from left: Matilde, Aaron, Priscilla, Isaac and Joel Mayorga are shown shortly after their birth in Houston. -- PHOTO: AP
A double rainbow shines through the rain over the forest in West Kalimantan province on Borneo island. In 2007 Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei signed a declaration to protect the 'Heart of Borneo' region they share, which is home to endangered orangutans, elephants and rhinos. Under the declaration, the three countries agreed to work together to conserve about 220,000 square kilometres of equatorial rainforest covering about a third of the island and combat illegal logging and wildlife trafficking in the ecologically sensitive area. -- PHOTO: AFP
An art exhibition made out of push pins and Post-it Notes by artist Eric Daigh is seen on display at Grand Central Terminal in New York.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A colourful lorikeet peers out of its' birdhouse at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Oregon. -- PHOTO: AP
Mickey Garza (left) and Tom Orr (second from left) both of San Francisco, watch a rally in the Castro district celebrating a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex marriage ban in San Francisco. -- PHOTO: AP
A fireman fights fire in a forest near village Laskovo. The area ablaze expanded by several thousand hectares in the past day as hundreds of new fires started in a disaster that has already claimed 48 lives. -- PHOTO: AFP
Fallen trees cover the Hietasaari camping site in Uurainen, central Finland, following a freak wind storm. -- PHOTO: AFP
Tourists take cable car for sightseeing as they take part in a Yangtze cruise tour in south-west China's Chongqing municipality.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Hello Kitty poses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, in New York. Hello Kitty was on hand along with executives and guests of SANRIO and Build-A-Bear, Workshop, Inc to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the SANRIO brand. -- PHOTO: AP
The sun sets behind luxury apartments in the Chung Hom Kok district of Hong Kong island. The city's government has ushered in a series of measures to cool overheating in the property market over the past year, such as increasing residential land supply and hiking stamp duty on luxury flats. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pleasure ships cruise the Moskva River despite a thick blanket of smog covering Moscow. -- PHOTO: AP
A man repairs an old car in Havana in Cuba. -- PHOTO: AP
A girl plays with a doll at a makeshift camp where displaced Pashto families from Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, live on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AP
This September, 1945 file picture shows the remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, now known as the Atomic-Bomb Dome, which was later preserved as a monument. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on August 6, 2010 will become the first UN chief to attend the anniversary ceremony commemorating the August 6, 1945 atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, which was followed three days later by the Nagasaki bombing. The US atomic attacks killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima and more than 70,000 in Nagasaki, either instantly or later through the horrific effects of burns from the white-hot nuclear blast and radiation sickness. -- PHOTO: AFP
This photo shows Cave Cay island in the Bahamas, which is sold by German-born Canadian entrepreneur Farhad Vladi at 110 million dollars. As owner of one of the world's biggest agencies specialising in the rental and sale of private islands, Farhad Vladi is an expert in sunkissed slices of paradise. -- PHOTO: AFP
Kambiri, the first pygmy hippo calf is shown with her mother Petre at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Born on June 26 2010 and weighing a very healthy 5.3kg, Kambiri has doubled her birth weight and now tips the scales over 13kg, putting on about 300g a day. Pygmy Hippos are a solitary forest-dwelling creature native to West Africa and little is known about them in the wild with the majority of research recorded about the species learned from those cared for in zoos. The World Conservation Union estimates that there are fewer than 3000 Pygmy Hippos remaining in the wild. -- PHOTO: AFP
Jack McCarron stands covered in foam as Dedham firefighter Jared Blaney sprays foam onto a field at Dedham Pool in Dedham, Mass., during the annual Foam Day event. -- PHOTO: AP
Volunteer Verna Alexander dries off Maggie, a six week old terrier-mix, on Thursday in at Angel Animal Hospital in Farmington Hills, Mich. The dog was one of a group more than three dozen dogs, a dozen cats and several rabbits removed from a home in Redford, Mich. -- PHOTO: AP
Mourners react as the cortege carrying bodies of Lance Sgt Dale McCallum and Marine Adam Brown is driven through the town of Wootton Bassett in western England. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Russian tries to stop the fire near the village of Golovanovo, Ryazan region. -- PHOTO: AFP
Kashmiri Muslims burn an effigy of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah during a protest in Srinagar, India. Kashmir has been rocked by violent protests for nearly two months with demonstrators hurling rocks at paramilitary soldiers and setting government buildings and vehicles ablaze.
-- PHOTO: AP
Riot police use tear gas to help disperse the crowds as they clash with Polish soccer fans of Jagiellonia Bialystok during their game with Aris for Europa league third qualifying round second leg soccer match at Toumba Stadium in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki. -- PHOTO: AP
People look as the wreckage of a passenger bus which plunged into the flooded River Jhelum in Ghari Duppata near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, on Thursday is dragged from the river. -- PHOTO: AP
A Canadian solider walks atop concrete security walls at a combat outpost near the village of Salavat, in the Panjway district west of Kandahar.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A plane flies in front of a rainbow above the Mediterranean sea in Nice, south-eastern France. -- PHOTO: AP
Activists of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party take cover from a police water canon during a protest against the mismanagement of the preparations ahead of the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India. Corruption allegations have dogged the Commonwealth Games and government officials have urged organisers to take action. -- PHOTO: AP
A visitor walks past an iluminated wall painting depicting Chinese traditional paper cutting art at an Expo subway station, Shanghai.
-- PHOTO: AP
This photo shows penitents carrying the statue of Saint Mary of the Snow during the religious festival 'The Lucerne' (oil lamp) in Casamale, near Naples, in southern Italy. The festival it is held in remembrance of dead relatives and takes place every four years. -- PHOTO: AFP
Tourists look at North's side through the wire fence decorated with messages wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju wldnear the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea. South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. -- PHOTO: AP
A supporter of the opposition Puea Thai Party and the anti-government 'red shirt' movement sits in the rain while listening to political speeches delivered onstage at a townhall in Si Sa Ket province, 600 km north-east of Bangkok. Emergency rule has helped to restore order in Bangkok and many areas. But in the rice-growing farmlands of Si Sa Ket bordering Cambodia and other provinces where the decree has been lifted, Thailand's political opposition is regrouping. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Pakistani farmers carry belongings from their destroyed houses to tents set on the motorway in the outskirts of Peshawar. Pakistan's beleaguered authorities braced for a deluge in the country's farming heartland, evacuating half a million people from at-risk areas in the south as the worst floods in living memory worsened. The overall number of people affected by the two-week-old crisis has risen to more than four million after the floods washed away entire villages in the north-west, and anger at the government response is intensifying. -- PHOTO: AFP
Salvadoran believers carry a figure of the Divine Savior of the World during the rite of 'the descent' (la bajada) in downtown San Salvador. The event symbolises the transfiguration of Jesus Christ at Tambor hill during the patron festivities. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chinese Yi ethnic women wearing traditional dresses hold yellow umbrellas during a parade celebrating the annual Torch Festival in Xichang, in southwest China's Sichuan province. The Torch Festival, celebrated on the 24th or 25th day of the sixth month of the Yi calendar, is one of the major holidays celebrated by Yi and some other ethnic groups in south-west China. -- PHOTO: AP
Philippine members of the Free Burma coalition take part in a protest outside the Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Manila. The protesters in their press statement urged the Philippine government to pledge its support to the ongoing international campaigns calling for the creation of a UN commission of inquiry to investigate possible crimes against humanity in Myanmar. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Racing pigs head to the finish line during a race on opening day of the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. -- PHOTO: AP
A man performs in the freestyle competition of the waterballet event on the pink party of the Gay Games in the western German city of Cologne. Some 1,000 athletes compete in 35 disciplines during the week-long event. -- PHOTO: AFP
Paratroopers in the First Brigade of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division parachute float to the ground during a training jump at Camp Mackall,
a training ground of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. -- PHOTO: AFP
Anti-narcotics police officers break packages containing cocaine before destroying them on the outskirts of Panama City. Some 5.9 tons of cocaine and marijuana, seized by the police in different nationwide operations during the last two months, were incinerated. -- PHOTO: AP
Magician Timothy Terror gets off a bed of nails as he performs on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, the first day of the Edinburgh Fringe.
-- PHOTO: AP
People wear masks during the 12th edition of the Rotilla Festival of Electronic Music in Jibacoa beach, Cuba. Thousands of people came to the annual festival to enjoy three days of electronic music, hip-hop, rock and roll, video-art presentations and performances. -- PHOTO: AP
Owen Wright of Australia performs a backside 360 during the Hurley US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
A girl arranges a display of origami cranes at a public square in Valparaiso city, north-west of Santiago. The cranes were made by children from different schools as part of a campaign to promote world peace in remembrance of the victims of the atomic bomb on the 65th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Indonesian Muslim students march during a rally for Ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia. -- PHOTO: AP
Three boys wade in a waist-deep water as they search for any salvageable materials after a fire in suburban Malabon City, north of Manila, Philippines.
Some 200 houses, mostly built of light materials, were gutted by fire. -- PHOTO: AP
Taiwanese indigenous people light a bonfire during a protest in Taipei against the government's resettlement plans ahead of the one-year anniversary of a deadly typhoon. Thousands of indigenous people villagers were left homeless when Typhoon Morakot ravaged Taiwan last year, leaving more than 700 people dead or missing in one of the island's worst natural disasters. -- PHOTO: AFP
Hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters march through San Francisco celebrating a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex marriage ban on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay rights supporters by urging a federal judge to allow gay couples to resume marrying in the state without further delay. -- PHOTO: AP
Participants celebrate Ivory Coast's 50th Independence Day during a ceremony at the Felix Houphouet Boigny stadium in Abidjan.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Georgian girl cools herself in a fountain in Tbilisi. Temperatures in Georgia's capital have been hovering around 35 degrees celsius, 95 fahrenheit.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Bagisu youths perform a traditional song and dance during an initiation ceremony in Mbale, 220 km (136 miles) east of Uganda. Bagisu initiates took part in a unique circumcision ritual marking their transition from childhood to adulthood in Mbale. It is believed that once a boy goes through the process he becomes a true Mugisu, a mature and circumcised man in the Bagist tribe. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral is seen through the heavy smog covering Moscow, Russia, as people photograph each other. Temperatures up to 100 F (38 C) have exacerbated forest and peat bog fires across Russia's central and western regions, destroying close to 2,000 homes. -- PHOTO: AP
Members of Darfur's tribes perform a traditional dance during a rally to support the Darfur peace talk, in Khartoum. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
