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Jimmie Johnson, driver of the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet, leads cars into the first turn during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series CARFAX 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. -- PHOTO: AFP
Spanish bullfighter Victor Puerto performs during a bullfight at the Las Ventas Bullring in Madrid. Bullfighting is an ancient tradition in Spain and the season runs from March to October. -- PHOTO: AP
An aerial view taken from a military helicopter shows the town of Siena and the main square ' Il Campo' where more than 30.000 people assist to the General practice prior to the famous Palio horse race in Siena. The Palio of Siena (known as Il Palio) is a horse race held twice a year in Siena, Italy, in which ten horses and riders, dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen Contrade (the medieval Siena district), or city wards. -- PHOTO: AFP
Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform as seawater gushes from pipes on the ground during the launch of Hambantota port in Hambantota south of Colombo. The Hambantota port, built at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion on the southern coast, will begin handling ships from November. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Indonesian students crawl along a street outside the parliament building during an anti-government protest in Jakarta as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gives a speech inside the building. Yudhoyono said during his speech in parliament on the eve of country's independence day, that the government is targeting up to 7.7 per cent growth by 2014. -- PHOTO: AFP
Thousands of cloth shoes are placed outside the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, as part of an exhibition to honour Chinese laborers who died in Japan during World War II, in Nanjing, China. -- PHOTO: AP
A-10 Warthogs planes perform a fluover during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series CARFAX 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A firefighting helicopter flies in front of smoke during a fire which broke out in Vari , a southern suburb of Athens. -- PHOTO: AFP
Male devotees of the Light of the World Church attend a prayer session as fellow parishioner offer bread in the Temple of Light in Guadalajara. Followers of over 43 countries flock every year to Guadalajara to attend celebrations of the cult, which was founded in 1926 in Monterrey, blending Mexican mysticism with Pentecostal beliefs. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Fans walk past as the exterior of New Meadowlands Stadium is illuminated during a preseason NFL football game between the New York Jets and the New York Giants in East Rutherford, New Jersey. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A Kashmiri boy watches a rainbow above Babdemb lake in Srinagar, India, Monday. --PHOTO: AP
Some fires burn in the mountains close the village of Soajo, near Arcos de Valdevez, northern Portugal. Fire raged through Portugal's Peneda-Geres national park for the sixth consecutive day, destroying large swathes of forest land, firefighters said. --PHOTO: AFP
A cow crosses through a burned area close the village of Soajo, near Arcos de Valdevez, northern Portugal. Fire raged through Portugal's Peneda-Geres national park for the sixth consecutive day, destroying large swathes of forest land, firefighters said. --PHOTO: AFP
One child enjoys the cooling spray of Salmon Street Springs fountain while beating the heat in downtown Portland, Ore. --PHOTO: AP
A German shepherd dog leaps into the air to bite a water balloon thrown her way while playing on a hot summer day in Encinitas, California.
--PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman walks past a taxi trapped on a flooded street in Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan province. China regularly suffers devastating summer floods, but this year has been unusually severe. -- PHOTO: AP
Buildings are half buried in m&d in the mudslide-hit Qingping Township of Mianzhu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. -- PHOTO: AP
Firefighters extinguish a fire after an explosion at a fireworks factory in Yichun, northeast China's Heilongjiang province. -- PHOTO: AFP
Buddhist monks walk along a street while collecting alms from devotees in Twantay, about 30 kilometers south of Yangon, Myanmar. -- PHOTO: AP
Competitors of the 41st edition of the solo sailing race 'Solitaire du Figaro' take the start, in Kinsale, of the fourth step between Kinsale (Ireland) to Cherbourg (France). -- PHOTO: AFP
An artist gives finishing touches to a plaster cast idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God of prosperity, Lord Ganesha at a workshop in Pen village in Raigad district of the western state of Maharashtra. -- PHOTO: AFP
The sculpture Molekular Man by Jonathan Borofsky is pictured in the river Spree as an U-bahn train passes over Berlin's landmark Oberbaum Bridge crossing the river Spree in Berlin. -- PHOTO: AFP
An Israeli child flies a kite during a kite festival in Jerusalem. --PHOTO: AP
This picture taken from on board Air Force One shows smog settling down at the valley of Serra Nevada Mountains in Nevada. -- PHOTO: AFP
Aerial dancers from Project Bandaloop perform a dance as they rappel down the side of Thanksgiving Tower in Dallas, Texas. -- PHOTO: AP
A view of of historic Sheriff badges at the Autry National Center of the American West, which is a museum that celebrates the diversity and history of the American West, in Los Angeles. The Museum's collection is comprised of nearly 21,000 paintings, sculptures, costumes, textiles, firearms, tools, toys, games, musical instruments and other historical objects. -- PHOTO: AFP
Sunflowers are seen growing at the Brooklyn Grange, a 40,000-square-foot produce-growing rooftop farm, in the Queens borough of New York.
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A child cools off as he plays with a fountain on the Mediterranean sea side during a hot summer day in Tel Aviv. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People exercise in the morning at a park near Basak River in front of the Royal Palace at Phnom Penh. The Cambodian government and its development partners stressed the need for integrated efforts under different climate change-related initiatives to help Cambodia respond to the impact of climate change efficiently, according to a press release from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Sixteen-month-old Kiara Robertson plays in one of the fountains at the Columbian Park Zoo. -- PHOTO: AP
Hillary, a Border Collie, herds several ducks dressed for the occasion during a demonstration inside the new Purina Event Center lead by Bettie Kinsley, Manager of Visitor Programs at Purina, as Nestle Purina rolled out the red carpet for the grand opening of the Purina Event Center in Gray Summit, Mo.
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A bull with flaming horns runs during Toro Embolao in Amposta, Spain. -- PHOTO: AP
Two boys play inside a dinosaur egg replica during an exhibition at a mall in Caracas. -- PHOTO: AFP
Theatre director and actor Luis Bevia makes soap bubbles during a media rehearsal of his show Uuuiii ! in Madrid. -- PHOTO: AFP
Models present creations from Target's fall line as rooms in The Standard hotel are lit for a light show during the company's 'Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular' in New York. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Remains of Aztec children, recovered during the construction of a new metro line in Mexico City, are displayed by the National Institute of Antropology and History. Archeologists have uncovered more than 500-year-old remains of about 50 Aztec children, some of them stuffed into ceramic jars for burial, and the foundations of Aztec homes, hundreds of small figurines, and pots and plates dating from 1100 to 1500 AD, on the eve of the Spanish conquest, during excavations for a new subway line in Mexico City. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Wild boars stroll at a forest in Eglharting near Munich, southern Germany. Almost a quarter century after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine, its fallout is still a hot topic in some German regions, where thousands of boars shot by hunters still turn up with excessive levels of radioactivity. -- PHOTO: AP
Sri Lankan fishermen carry their catch to shore in the island's seaport town of Trincomalee. Fishing has hit hard times in the once war-battered town of Trincomalee as large scale fishing boats resort to illegal fishing methods like dynamite or purse seine nets that destroy fish eggs and hatchlings.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A Filippino child washes her face from an open water pipe at its shanty home under a bridge that spans an open sewer in Barangay Bahay Toro in Manila. The shanty houses under the bridge were destroyed by the flood caused by typhoon Ketsana last year. Climate change may be playing a part in record rains ravaging Asia but environment experts say the destruction of ecosystems is more directly to blame for the severity of killer floods. -- PHOTO: AFP
A file picture taken on November 10, 2005 shows Cambodian students writing on a blackboard in a class room at a school in Kampong Thom province, some 160 kilometres north of Phnom Penh. Several students interviewed by AFP said they had bribed teachers to allow them to check notes they had smuggled into the exams, or answer sheets allegedly sold in advance by teachers outside the schools. Cheating and paying bribes are common during exams, but Rong Chhun, head of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association, said the problem appeared to have worsened this year. -- PHOTO: AFP
A mountain gorilla from the Kabirizi family relaxes in Virunga National Park, just north of the eastern Congolese city of Goma. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A bull leaps into the stands during a 'recortadores' competition in Tafalla. At least 40 spectators were injured after the bull jumped into the stands during the competition, in which young boys run before the bull trying to avoid being caught. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Mexican sculptor Juan Carlos Canfield works on his twenty-metre-high sculpture called 'The Colossus' at the gallery Casa Canfield in Cuernavaca,
Morelos State, Mexico. -- PHOTO: AFP
A 3,800-year-old mummy from China, known as 'The Beauty of Xiaohe', dating back to 1,800 BC, is displayed
at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Joey Carter (right) and his brother Matthew race down a concrete support into the rapids
of the San Marcos River near the Zedler Mill in Luling, Texas. -- PHOTO: AP
Actress Amber Heard (left) holds a protest sign with her girlfriend Tasya Van Ree (right) during a same-sex marriage advocates demonstration
against the stay barring gay marriages in Los Angeles, California. -- PHOTO: AFP
A pedestrian stops to shake Matt Sky's hand while Julia Lundy looks on as they hold signs in front of the site of
a proposed mosque near ground zero in New York. -- PHOTO: AP
View of damaged homes at San Martin neighborhood after strong rains, in Danli, El Paraiso department, 90 km west of Tegucigalpa.
Palestinian boys cool off in the water of a natural spring known as Ein al-Sultan, near the West Bank city of Jericho. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Pedestrians stroll down a street in the Gracia district of Barcelona. In mid-August each year, the residents o
f this district celebrate the Gracia Festival with street competitions, concerts and dances. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Animal control officer Robby Gochicoa, attending to a sick horse found on a street in South Gate, Calif. The horse, which was so emaciated she could barely get her head up for a drink of water,
had to be euthanised, but authorities haven't given up on finding the person who dumped her in the street. -- PHOTO: AP
The remains of Duke Carlos de Bourbon-Parma are temporarily placed in a chapel close to the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague. Carlos Hugo de Bourbon-Parma was a direct descendant of Spain's first Bourbon king, Philip V (1683-1746), from whom reigning King Juan Carlos also descends.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Students of the Cuban Superior Institute of Industrial Design (ISDI) paint graffiti during a street festival dedicated to the arts in Havana. Headed by singer Suylen Milanes and father Pablo Milanes, the annual urban art festival 'Proposiciones' aims to create an alternative cultural space for human diversity and nature. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A two-month-old female Siberian tiger cub plays in the grass at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb. -- PHOTO: AP
Members of the group 'Accion y Reaccion' (Action and Reaction) pose naked with banners to protest against the use of leathers and animal skins in clothes and consumer goods in Montevideo's downtown. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Cuban artist Lazaro Medina (right) rides a chivi chana down a street in Havana. The chivi chana is a toy sled made of wood which is popular amongst urban Cuban youth and is also used as a mode of transportation by residents of mountainous provinces. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Women wearing traditional sevillana dresses stand inside a stall in Malaga, southern Spain. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
