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Baby birds wait to be fed by their mother in their nest outside an house in Madrid, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. -- PHOTO: AFP
Palestinians walk under coloured lights as they go to the first evening prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque at Jerusalem's old city Damascus Gate
after breaking the fast on the first day of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Shih-tzu dog named 'Cookie' stands in a basket to head to a morning market in Bangkok. -- PHOTO: AP
Residents evacuating through flood waters dodge an army truck carrying relief supplies for flood victims in
Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People mourn for their family members killed in the landslides in Zhouqu county, in north-western China's Gansu province. -- PHOTO: AP
A policemen takes down a record of a multiple road accident in Asokoro district in Nigeria's capital Abuja. Seven people were feared killed in the accident that was caused by the failure of a truck's brakes, local media reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Thai people do mass aerobic exercise at National Stadium in Bangkok to celebrate Thailand's Queen Sirikit's 78th birthday. -- PHOTO: AP
A Yemeni boy tries to sell a box of tissues to a driver in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. A study carried out in 2010 by the US-based aid group CHF International revealed that out of Yemen's 11 million children, five million are currently employed. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pamela Fontaine of the US (left) returns the ball to South African's Rosebelle Riese during the women's singles match
at the International Paralympic Copa Costa Rica in San Jose. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
In a picture released by Japanese animal theme park Adventure World and received through Jiji Press, shows the giant panda, Rauhin,
holding babies after giving birth to twins at the park in Shirahama. -- PHOTO: AFP
French milk farmers hold a banner reading 'Intermediaries, you make your money on the back of producers' during a demonstration of milk farmers protesting against wholesale milk prices in front of the Bel site in Sablïur-Sarthe, western France. French farmers have ramped up protests in search of governmental support and inter-professional agreements. -- PHOTO: AFP
A bugler plays 'Taps' for US Army Specialist Morganne McBeth at section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC during her funeral ceremony. McBeth, 19, of Fredericksburg, VA; assigned to the 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC died July 2, 2010, in Asad, Iraq, of wounds sustained July 1, 2010 in a non-combat-related incident in Khan Al Baghdadi, Iraq. -- PHOTO: AFP
Body technician Bree Sarver demonstrates the pixie tangerine and pomegranate treatment on Andrea Olsonat the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, Calif.
-- PHOTO: AP
A Chinese woman cries among the rubble as rescuers take a break after the massive landslide in Zhouqu, northwest China's Gansu province. Fresh heavy rains brought more misery to a town in northwest China devastated by mudslides that have already killed more than 1,100, with new floods leaving more people missing. -- PHOTO: AFP
A supporter of Desi Bouterse holds a poster with his picture while celebrating his presidential election at the National Assembly in Paramaribo, Suriname. Bouterse, a former coup leader, convicted drug trafficker and accused murderer will be sworn-in as President of Suriname. -- PHOTO: AP
Palestinians walk under coloured lights as they go to the first evening prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque at Jerusalem's old city Damascus Gate
after breaking the fast on the first day of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Pakistani boy displaced by floods carries waters to his tent at a college converted to a camp by the army on the outskirts of Nowshera. Pakistan's government says 14 million people are facing direct or indirect harm because of floods. The United Nations has warned that children are among the most vulnerable victims, with diarrhoea the biggest health threat. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Pakistani man arranges food for Muslims to break their fast on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Karachi.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A woman lays down begonia blossoms for the famous Brussels Flower Carpet, on the Grand Place in Brussels. The carpet is made of some 700,000 begonia flowers and its theme is the Belgian presidency of the European Union. -- PHOTO: AFP
Planes and helicopters are seen at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibit, LABACE, at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
-- PHOTO: AP
A dummy representing the deceased in a replica of a Mayan tomb is surrounded by jade masks and jewelry of a Mayan King, during the exhibition 'Face of Divinity' at the National Museum of Anthropology and History, in Mexico City. For the first time the jewels buried with six Mayan Kings of the Classic period (200-900 BC) including masks that reveal their face are being displayed to the public. -- PHOTO: AFP
Jesse Powers, 5, of Tilton, N.H., plays with an R2-D2 robot that his father built, at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando. -- PHOTO: AP
Participants perform Taiji, a traditional form of Chinese martial arts, during a public fitness activity at the Olympic Central Park in Beijing.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotees dance during The Adippura Festival at The Mayarapadi Sri Badrakali Hindu temple in Colombo on Saturday. Some 15 per cent of the population of the Indian Ocean island are Hindus almost exclusively from the Tamil minority community which numbers approximately 1,500,000. -- PHOTO: AFP
A salesperson adjusts the spectacles on miniature dolls of Philippine President Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino Jr. (in yellow) and his mother, the late president Corazon Aquino (3rd R), and her four daughters, in a shop in Manila's Makati financial district. The Philippines remembered the late Corazon Aquino, heroine of the 1986 people power movement. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A bison cools off in a sprinkler at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois. The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the Chicago area as temperatures reached the low to mid-90s with high humidity causing the heat index to reach 105 to 110 across the area. -- PHOTO: AFP
Union members hold up 'I want to work' placards as they join a protest of several thousand people demanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles. A Labour Department report showed 131,000 jobs were lost in July and the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.5 per cent. -- PHOTO: AFP
Czech's Roman Koudel competes during the 2nd round of the FIS summer Grand Prix Ski Jumping in Courchevel, French Alps. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian Muslims gather during Friday Prayers at a mosque in Allahabad, India. -- PHOTO: AP
Displaced Pakistani flood affected children make preparations to celebrate the Independence Day of Pakistan in Qadirpur,
120 kilometres from Sukkar, Pakistan. -- PHOTO: AP
German artist Christian Orendt from the German Art Academy Muenster works on his project titled 'god in a church' in Herne in the western German Emscher region. -- PHOTO: AFP
Spanish rejoneador (mounted bullfighter) Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza falls in the arena after being pushed by the bull during a bullfight in the northern Spanish town of Gijon. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A child showing symptoms of dengue fever screams while being weighed by a doctor during a medical check-up in the pediatric emergency room of a public hospital in Santo Domingo. Thirty-two people have died from dengue fever out of the 7,313 suspected cases reported this year in the Dominican Republic.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Everett Balko observes damage from strong storms near Little Rock Lake north of St. Cloud, Minnesota. -- PHOTO: AP
Dancers wearing masks wait to perform during festivities marking the start of annual harvest festival of Onam in the southern Indian city of Kochi. The ten-day long festival is celebrated annually in India's southern state of Kerala to symbolise the return of King Mahabali to meet his beloved subjects.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Residents celebrate Fidel Castro's 84th birthday at La Caoba neighborhood in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba. Hanging on the wall are a Cuban flag,
left, and a portrait of Fidel Castro, and the sign at centre reads in Spanish: 'Congratulations Commander'. -- PHOTO: AP
Tibor Szabo of Guelph, Ontario reaches out towards the crowd, while covered in honey bees at the Clovermead Bees & Honey,
Bee Beard Competition in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada. --PHOTO: AP
Sikor Natuan, the son of the local chief, displays the Union Jack to honour Britain's Prince Philip in the remote village of Yaohnanen on Tanna in Vanuatu.
-- PHOTO: AFP
The game ball rests on top of a rosin bag prior to the start of the game between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium
in Kansas City, Missouri. -- PHOTO: AFP
Children fly kites during an international kite festival in Cartagena. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An Indian street dweller collect cooking coals from rubbish on a street of Kolkata. Around 410 million people in India were living under the estimated poverty line set by the UN at US$1.25 a day. -- PHOTO: AFP
People release white doves in the air during a ceremony at the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. Japan commemorated the 65th anniversary of its surrender in World War II without any ministerial visits to the controversial Tokyo war shrine for the first time in decades. -- PHOTO: AFP
Anti-North Korea activists release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets towards the north at Imjingak pavilion, near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju. The activists released about 30,000 anti-Pyongyang leaflets, denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and the North's attack on the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan in March. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Residents trapped in a house after a mudslide swept through, wait to be rescued at Qingping town in Hanwang in southwest China's Sichuan province. This year has seen the worst floods nationwide in a decade. Deluges have killed more than 2,000 people since the beginning of the year. -- PHOTO: AP
Lien foundation report manuals, shaped as tombstones are displayed on a field in Singapore. The report describes charitable actions that need to be and are being taken care of by the foundation. The letters RIP, which stands for 'Radical Philanthropy' contains the middle I which spells these words.
-- PHOTO: AFP
The US Navy Blue Angels perform along the lakefront during the Chicago Air and Water show in Chicago. -- PHOTO: AP
Emil Sayfutdinov of Russia (centre) and Tomasz Gollob of Poland (right) take a spill behind Leigh Adams of Britain (left) during the in the FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden, at the speedway stadium in Malilla. -- PHOTO: AFP
Muslim men attend a mass prayer session 'Tarawih' at a mosque in Cairo. -- PHOTO:REUTERS
Indonesian singer Hudson Prananjaya (middle), who splits his character into two personalities -- Hudson (on the left side, singing in a baritone voice) and Jessica (on the right side, singing in soprano), prepares in the dressing room prior to the final of the 'Indonesia Mencari Bakat' television program or Indonesia's version of 'Britain's Got Talent', in Jakarta. The local television broadcasts the program to select young talented Indonesian singers, dancers or musicians. -- AFP PHOTO
Protesters dressed as polar bears demonstrate outside the Brisabane Convention Center during the Australian Labor Party's election campaign launch in Brisbane, Australia. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and two of her predecessors went before cheering crowds as Australia's governing party launched its re-election campaign Monday, and an opinion poll showed it leading the opposition in a tight race. -- PHOTO: AP
Chinese workers rest during their lunch break at an under construction highway in Tianjin, China. Japan lost its place to China as the world's No. 2 economy in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery. Gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of just 0.4 percent, the government said, far below expectations of 2.3 percent growth in a Kyodo news agency survey. -- PHOTO: AP
