Pictures Of Recent Events [July 28, 2012]

 

Ultra Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Jerusalem on July 18, 2012. (Photo by Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press)

 

People walk past a flood damaged vehicle in Beijing on July 23, 2012. China's flood-ravaged capital experienced the heaviest rain in six decades killing 37 people. (Photo by Andy Wong/Associated Press)

 

Paramilitary policemen train in the mud in Chuzhou city in central China's Anhui province on July 18, 2012. (Photo by Associated Press)

 

This image released by NASA, taken by astronaut Joe Acaba onboard the International Space Station at an altitude of approximately 240 miles, shows the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, on July 15, 2012. The Canadarm2 robot arm is in the foreground. (Photo by Joe Acaba/NASA)

 

Batman fan Brian Haughs, 28, from Indiana, role plays as “Two-Face”, a fictional supervillain, while waiting for the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, the third in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles on July 19, 2012. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)

 

Two clowns take a rest on a sidewalk during the fourth annual Latin American Clown Congress in Guatemala City on July 24, 2012. Clowns from Central America and South America and the Caribbean have gathered for three days to exchange ideas and attend workshops. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)

 

Mass murder James E. Holmes appears in Arapahoe County District Court on Monday, July 23, in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and could also face additional counts of aggravated assault and weapons violations stemming from the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora that killed 12 and injured dozens of others. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/Denver Post)

 

Alain Kohl of Luxembourg dives from the 28 meter platform during the third stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, in Islet Vila Franca do Campo, Azores, Portugal on July 21, 2012. (Photo by Dean Treml via Romina Amato/Red Bull)

 

A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud from 1962, which has been adorned with countless Swarovski crystals, is pictured during a charity event at Hotel Vierjahreszeiten in Munich, Germany, 17 July 2012. It took three years to cover the Rolls Royce in about 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals. It is going to be auctioned in the next months in favour of the “Help in Motion” charity. (Photo by Tobias Hase)

 

Edwardo Martinez yells for help as he tries to rescue Pete Lui off the balcony of Lui's home in Racine, Wisconsin, as flames spread through the second floor apartment on July 24, 2012. (Photo by Gregory Shaver/Journal Times)

 

Residents crowd a government tanker delivering drinking water in New Delhi, India, on July 6, 2012. A patchy monsoon season has left many residents scrambling for water. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/AP)

 

A woman is made up to look like a female vampire at the Comic-Con convention in Mexico City on July 21, 2012. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/Associated Press)

 

Thousands of participants joined actress and model Kelly Brook at Sky Ride Manchester on July 15, 2012 – a free, fun, family cycling event from British Cycling and Sky held in partnership with Manchester City Council, offering people of all ages and abilities the chance to cycle around a traffic free city. (Photo by Paul Thomas)

 

Make-up artist Valerie Merceron gives the final touch to the wax figure of Spanish actress Penelope Cruz which was unveiled at the Grevin Wax Museum in Paris on July 26, 2012. (Photo by Remy de la Mauviniere/Associated Press)

 

Bob Steele, of Jefferson, Texas, positions his bears during The Great Bear Show at the Dubuque (Iowa) County Fair on July 25, 2012. (Photo by Jessica Reilly/Telegraph Herald)

 

Fiestin is one of the Ccowns from Central America, South America and the Caribbean who attended the fourth annual Latin American Clown Congress in Guatemala City on July 26, 2012. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)

 

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, reacts on a ride as he attends the completion ceremony of the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang on July 26, 2012. (Photo by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

 

Fireworks light up the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on Juky 27, 2012. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/PA)

 

A paratrooper from Chosen Company of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry photographs a rainbow towards the end of a helicopter assault mission to improve their biological database, near the town of Ahmad Khel in Afghanistan's Paktiya Province July 16, 2012. Picture taken July 16, 2012. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

 

Protesters push over a police vehicle as they gather to demonstrate against plans for a water discharge project in Qidong, China on July 28, 2012. The government in the city announced on its official website Saturday that the plans were scrapped amid the strong opposition by local residents, who are concerned over potential pollution. (Photo by Kyodo News)

 

A girl rows a boat near her submerged house in Burhaburhi village, India on July 20, 2012. Days of continuous rainfall has raised the water level of the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries and flooded the area. (Anupam Nath/Associated Press)

 

Members of a Thai bomb squad unit inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province, on July 20, 2012. Two civilians were killed and four wounded in bomb and shooting attacks in southern Thailand, a military spokesman said, as the region marked the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)

 

Monica Bellucci attends Day 5 of the 2012 Ischia Global Fest on July 12, 2012 in Ischia, Italy. (Photo by Venturelli)

 

Performers entertain the New Zealand Olympic Team at the welcome ceremony for New Zealand during previews ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Park on July 19, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Paul Gilham)

 

A man uses a signboard to signal motorists driving through flooded streets following the heaviest rains to hit Beijing in six decades on July 21, 2012. (Photo by Associated Press)

 

Heba Seraj, Shaimaa Hamid and Shaimaa Abdelhamid prepare to film a segment of a Ramadan program at the Maria Channel's studio in Cairo on July 22, 2012. The first Egyptian satellite channel operated by women wearing the niqab, or face veil, launched on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. The station manager says he hopes the full face-veiled women will set an example for others by showing a “new kind of woman” as a role model. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press)

 

Paramilitary soldiers lift logs during a physical training in mud in Chuzhou, Anhui province, July 18, 2012. Picture taken July 18, 2012. (Photo by China Daily/Reuters)

 

Soldiers perform during a ceremony, attended by Egypt's new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi at the Egyptian military academy in Cairo on July 17, 2012. (Photo by Sheriff Abd El Minoem/AP/Reuters)

 

A taxi driver and his passenger get stuck in the floodwaters in Tianjin, China on July 26, 2012. (Photo by Associated Press)

 

North Korean soldiers dance in the plazas of Pyongyang after the country announced that leader Kim Jong Un was granted the title of marshal, a move that cements his status at the top of the nation s military as he makes key changes to the 1.2 million-man force on July 18, 2012. (Photo by Kim Kwang Hyon/Associated Press)

 

The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Russian, Japanese and U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station for a four-month mission. Carla Cioffi is a photographer and photo archivist for NASA and currently based in the Washington DC-area. (Photo by Carla Cioffi/Reuters/NASA)

 

This image released by the European Space Agency shows the Aurora Australis, or the southern lights, glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on July 18, 2012. It was taken by ESA-sponsored scientist Alexander Kumar and his colleague Erick Bondoux from about 6 miles from the station, located in the Antarctic at 75 S latitude. (Photo by European Space Agency)

 

Commuters dodge high wind and heavy rain during a thunderstorm in midtown Manhattan, in New York July 18, 2012. (Photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters)

 

Villagers carry the coffin and portrait of a victim who was killed by a flash flood as they wade through a stream during a funeral in Sujia village of Zhaotong, Yunnan province July 17, 2012. The flood caused by heavy rain falls in Sujia Village of Zhaotong since Sunday, left 2 dead and 8 injured. Torrential rain last week affected more than 2 million people in several southern Chinese provinces, according to local authorities, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Photo by Wong Campion/Reuters Photo)

 

Members of the Jain community march outside the Digambar Jain temple with the body of Ajaymati Mataji, who is believed to have died after performing Sallekhena, or the holy rite of fasting to death in Bhopal, India, on July 26, 2012. Supporters of this salvation ritual believe that Sallekhena cannot be considered suicide, but rather something one does with full knowledge and intent. (Photo by Associated Press)

 

Police regroup themselves following a clash with protesters as the latter try to get closer to the Philippine Congress to protest the third State of the Nation address of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila on July 23, 2012. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/Associated Press)

 

A riot policeman hits demonstrators outside the Spanish socialist PSOE party headquarters in Madrid on July 14, 2012. (Photo by Juan Medina/Reuters)

 

A woman and her child react as Iraqi soldiers raid her house in Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad, Iraq on July 20, 2012. Iraqi security forces detained 54 suspected members of al-Qaida. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Associated Press)

 

Nasa Indians drag off a soldier in Toribio, southern Colombia on July 17, 2012. Leaders of the 115,000 Nasa people are demanding government troops and leftist rebels alike go away and leave them in peace. (Photo by William Fernando Martinez/Associated Press)

 

A Hindu woman dressed as the goddess Mahakali performs during a “Bonalu” festival in Hyderabad, India on July 16, 2012. Bonalu is a Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A/Associated Press)

 

Police officers take a man into custody after he refused to disburse during a demonstration to show outrage for the fatal shooting of Manuel Angel Diaz, 25, at Anaheim City Hall on July 24, 2012 in Anaheim, California. Diaz was fatally shot on July 21 by an Anaheim police officer and has sparked days of protests by the angered community. (Photo by Jonathan Gibby)

 

Chinese paramilitary policemen jump through a wall of fire during a training exercise at a military base in Chuzhou, China on July 25, 2012. (Photo by Associated Press)

 

A view of the third excavation of a grave inside the medieval Convent of Saint Ursula in Florence on July 17, 2012, during research focusing on the burial site of Lisa Gherardini, wife of the wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, the model who inspired Leonardo da Vinci's painting “The Mona Lisa”. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP)

 

Two Islamist policemen, among them Ivorian Ahmed El Guedir (L), patrol in the streets of Gao, northern Mali, on July 16, 2012. Mali, once one of west Africa's most stable democracies, was plunged into turmoil on March 22, 2012 when a band of soldiers seized power in the capital Bamako, saying they were fed up with how the president was handling a Tuareg rebellion in the north. The ensuing chaos created a power vacuum and enabled the Tuareg ethnic rebels and Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters to seize the northern half of the country. (Photo by Stringer/Reuters)

 

Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel to for their annual swim to Chincoteague Island, on July 25, 2012 in Chincoteague, Virginia. Every year the wild ponies are rounded up to be auctioned off by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company. (Photo by Mark Wilson)

 

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky, a supporter of jailed members of russian female punk band “Pussy Riot”, looks on with his mouth sewed up as he protests outside the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 23, 2012. A court on Monday rejected a request to call President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to testify in the trial of three female punk rockers who derided Putin in a protest in the country's main cathedral, their lawyer said. Picture taken July 23, 2012. (Photo by Trend Photo Agency/Handout/Reuters)

 

Prosthetic legs are exhibited at the Wellcome Trust's new exhibition “Superhuman” in London, England. The exhibit makes up part of the Wellcome Collection's new summer exhibition, “Superhuman”, which focuses on the many ways mankind have sought to improve, adapt or enhance their body's performance, and opens to the public from July 19 to October 16, 2012. (Photo by Dan Kitwood)

 

Indian firefighters try to control the blaze at the Hitachi Airconditioner Manufacturing facility at Karan Nagar near Kadi town, some 50 kms from Ahmedabad, early on July 19, 2012. The cause of the overnight fire, which gutted the plant that manufactures some 350,000 air conditioning units per year, is still unknown. Hundreds of contractual workers employed at the plant have been on strike since June 8, alleging exploitation and low wages. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP)

 

An elderly woman stands by her damaged home in the devasted area in Beijing on July 26, 2012, after the worst rainstorms in six decades pounded the capital city on July 21 leaving the metropolis flooded and tens of thousands of people stranded in surging waters. Authorities in Beijing said they would begin to "strike" out at online critics of the government response to recent record flooding, while declining again to release updated casualty tolls. (Photo by AFP)

 

German model Micaela Schaefer, right, poses next to the new waxwork figure of Formula One World Champion German Sebastian Vettel at Madame Tussauds in Berlin, Germany on July 27, 2012. (Photo by Gero Breloer/Associated Press)

 

Police drag a drunk man to the koban in Shibuya, Japan on July 21, 2012. (Photo by Mark Buckton)

 

A Labrador Golden Retriever gets a shower at Germany's first Dog Wash in Duisburg, Germany on July 24, 2012. The dog wash, which was installed in a pet store and runs as self service, delivers a shower, shampoo and a hair dry. (Photo by Frank Augstein/Associated Press)

 

A general view of St Samaans (Simon) Church also known as the Cave Church in the Mokattam village, nicknamed as “Garbage City”, is seen on July 26, 2012 in Cairo. Once a week hundreds gather at the Cave Church in Moqattam, after the prayer, a coptic priest performs exorcism or healing blessing to some of the believers. With a cross and holy water he fights spiritual entities and demons. The Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner is the largest and it has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20,000 making it the largest church in the Middle East. It is named after the Coptic Saint, Simon the Tanner, who lived at the end of the 10th century, when Egypt was ruled by the Muslim Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz Lideenillah. Simon the Tanner is the Coptic Saint who is associated with the legend of the moving of the Mokattam Mountain. (Photo by Gianluigi Guercia/AFP)

 

Children flee renewed fighting between Congolese army and M23 rebels near the eastern Congolese city of Goma July 24, 2012. Congolese rebels and government forces traded heavy weapons fire around two eastern villages on Friday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee towards the provincial capital days ahead of a regional summit due to tackle the rebellion. (Photo by James Akena/Reuters)

 

A coot water bird stands next to the bronze sculpture «El Nino» by German artist Ubbo Enninga on the banks of the Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Radolfzell, southern Germany on July 16, 2012. Due to the rainfalls of the past weeks, water-level of the lake of the lake has risen. (Photo by Patrick Seeger)

 

Przewalski horses interact with each other in an acclimatization enclosure after arriving at Takhin Tal National Park in south-west Mongolia, July 18, 2012. The Prague Zoo transported four Przewalski horses to Mongolia as part of its efforts to reintroduce the endangered species into its native environment. (Photo by Petr Josek/Reuters)

 

A topless man smashes the windshield of a taxi in the middle of a street in Hefei, Anhui province July 17, 2012. The man ran onto a busy street on Tuesday morning wearing only a pair of shorts, climbing onto cars and smashing windows with his bare fists. He was taken away to the hospital by policeman and doctors after smashing nearly 20 vehicles in half an hour. Police said there was no identification with the man, and he would go through psychiatric examination to determine whether he was mentally ill, local media reported. Picture taken July 17, 2012. (Photo by Stringer/Reuters)

 

Young divers attend a training session at a gymnasium in Hefei, Anhui province on July 17, 2012. (Photo by Reuters Photo)

 

Demonstrators shout at the Spanish government’s provincial representative, Maria Cifuentes, during a protest against austerity measures in Madrid on July 13, 2012. (Photo by Andres Kudacki/AP)

 

Residents play in water during afternoon heat in Philadelphia, USA on July 18, 2012. (Photo by Matt Rourke/AP)

 

A man sits on an inflatable sofa floating on a flooded street near the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China, July 25, 2012. Torrential rain that battered 17 provinces since July 20 has left 95 dead and another 45 missing. (Photo by Shi Tou/Reuters)

 

A firefighter looks at dead sheep after a forest fire near Darnius, in the northern Spanish province of Girona, July 23, 2012. (Photo by Jordi Ribot/Reuters)

 

A displaced Congolese lady and her child walk past a retreating government army tank in the village of Rugari, around 37km from Goma, following an alleged ambush by M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's restive North Kivu province on July 26, 2012. This area has seen heavy fighting over the past three days, displacing thousands of people and increasing fears of a move by M23 on the provincial capital. Heavy fighting has continued today around Rumangabo, the headquarters of the Virunga National Park, just several kilometres from Rugari. (Photo by Phil Moore/AFP Photo)

 

US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas takes part in a training session at 02 North Greenwich Arena in London on July 26, 2012 on the eve of the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP)

 

A fighter from the Syrian opposition aims fire during clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, in the center of Syria's restive northern city of Aleppo on July 25, 2012. The Syrian army and rebels on July 25, sent reinforcements to Aleppo to join the intensifying battle for the country's second city, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged the world “to stop the slaughter”. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP)

 

File picture taken on January 22, 2002 shows a tiger crossing a road in the Ranthambore National Park in India's northwestern Rajasthan state. India's top court has suspended tourism in core areas of tiger reserves as the country struggles to stem the dwindling numbers of the endangered wild cats, a lawyer said July 25, 2012. (Photo by Photoaditya Singh/AFP)

 

Lion mother Princess licks one of her white lion babies on July 17, 2012 in Kempten, southern Germany. Lion mother Princess gave birth to six white lion cubs on July 11, 2012 at the Circus Krone. (Photo by Tobias Kleinschmidt/AFP)

 

A polar bear eats a treat of frozen fruits, fish and gruel in his pool at the Zoo in Hanover, Germany on July 25, 2012. (Photo by Joerg Sarbach/Dapd)

 

A forest burns on the mountains in La Jonquera, Spain, near the border with France on July 22, 2012. Regional officials say wildfires have burned almost 17.297 acres of forest so far. (Photo by Josep Ribas/Associated Press)

 

Cambodian troops in armoured vehicles take part in a military withdrawal ceremony near the Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province July 18, 2012. Thai and Cambodian soldiers withdrew from the disputed area surrounding the Preah Vihear Temple along the border on Wednesday in compliance with a United Nations court ruling. The U.N.'s highest court ruled last July that both sides needed to withdraw troops in the 4.6 square kilometres (2.9 square miles) area claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia. (Photo by Stringer/Reuters)

 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shows the pistols of independence hero Simon Bolivar during a ceremony to mark the his birthday in Caracas July 24, 2012. Chavez unveiled a 3D image of South America's 19th century independence hero Bolivar on Tuesday, based on bones he had exhumed two years ago to test a theory that Bolivar was murdered. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)

 

Armed police patrol at the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, in Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province, July 24, 2012. Due to the downpours in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, China's longest, the Three Gorges Dam experienced its largest flood peak this year on Tuesday, with a peak flow of 70,000 cubic meters of water per second. (Photo by iao Yijiu/Xinhua)

 

People carry an effigy of demon Ghantakarna as another effigy of the demon is burnt to symbolize the destruction of evil, during the Ghantakarna festival in the ancient city of Bhaktapur on July 17, 2012. According to legend, the demon is believed to “steal” children and women from their homes and localities. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters Photo)

 

A brassiere from the late Middle Ages is pictured at the University of Innsbruck, archaeology department July 24, 2012. The textiles date back to the year 1440-1485 and were discovered in 2008 during renovations of the castle Lengberg in East Tyrol, according to the university. The decayed finds were pieced together recently. (Photo by Michaela Rehle/Reuters)

 

Fighters from the Syrian opposition rest at a former primary school in the center of Syria's restive northern city of Aleppo on July 25, 2012. The Syrian army and rebels on July 25, sent reinforcements to Aleppo to join the intensifying battle for the country's second city, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged the world “to stop the slaughter”. (Photo by Bulent Kilicbulent Kilic/AFP Photo)

 

An Egyptian Goose eats a breadcrumb at the spa gardens in Bad Schwalbach, western Germany on July 24, 2012. Meteorologists forecast sunny weather for the upcoming days in Germany. (Photo by Fredrik von Erichsen/AFP)

 

Two members of the Free Syrian Army hold their weapons as they take defense positions in a house in El Moalimin neighborhood in Homs July 14, 2012. The Red Cross now views fighting in Syria as an internal armed conflict – a civil war in layman's terms – crossing a threshold experts say can help lay the ground for future prosecutions for war crimes. The independent humanitarian agency had previously classed the violence in Syria as localised civil wars between government forces and armed opposition groups in three flashpoints – Homs, Hama and Idlib. (Photo by Yazen Homsy/Reuters)

 

A taxi is attacked by other taxi drivers during a demonstration in Madrid, Spain on July 27, 2012.The taxi drivers are protesting the planned deregulation of the taxi sector. (Photo by Paul White/Associated Press)

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and his wife Ri Sol-Ju attend the opening ceremony of the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground on Rungna Islet along the Taedong River in Pyongyang in this July 25, 2012 photograph released by the North's KCNA to Reuters on July 26, 2012. The Rungna People's Pleasure Ground has attractions such as a dolphinarium, a wading pool, a fun fair and a mini golf course, according to Korean Central News Agency. (Photo by KONA/Reuters)

 

Girls prepare for the famous Tenjin Matsuri (festival) in Minami-Mirimachi, Osaka on July 24, 2012. The two-day festival is one of the three biggest summer festivals in Japan, along with the Gion festival in Kyoto and the Kanda festival in Tokyo. The 1,000-year-old festival culminates in a huge fireworks display. (Photo by Kamasami Kong)

 

Shaped in the form of an aeroplane, an attendant opens the door to the entrance of a cave that was once the headquarters of former Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao, located in mountains on the outskirts of Beijing on July 16, 2012. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters Photo)

 

Soldiers jump as they take part during a military training session in muddy water at a military base in Jinan, Shandong province China, July 23, 2012. (Photo by China Daily/Reuters)

 

French roller man Jean-Yves Blondeau slides down a corner at Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, in south China's Hunan province on July 22, 2012. Blondeau, inventor of the 31-wheel roller suit, also known as the wheel suit, succeeded in his attempt to navigate the 10.77 km road featuring 99 U-turns, finishing the course in19 mins 34 sec. (Photo by Associated Press)

 

Amurskaya, a Siberian tiger, licks one of its cub at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, July 18, 2012. The mother, Amurskaya, gave birth to her two cubs on May 24, 2012. The Siberian tiger is also called Amur tiger. (Photo by Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)

 

Paratroopers from Chosen Company of the 3rd Battalion Airborne, 509th Infantry, board a CH-47 Chinook to begin a helicopter assault mission in Afghanistan's Paktiya Province on July 15, 2012. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

 

India's Rohan Ajit Kokane, 11, performs in Hong Kong on July 25, 2012, flattening his body until none of it is higher than 6.75 inches off the ground. The event staged in a local shopping mall was aimed at encouraging sport practice among the elderly. (Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP Photo)

 

A Nepalese farmer walks past rice paddies near the Khokana village, Nepal on July 19, 2012. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP)

 

People pray at the Jama mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan in New Delhi, India on July 27, 2012. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)

 

Two children walk on the Tottori sand dunes on July 21, 2012 in Tottori, Japan. The dunes are more than 11 square miles and have existed for more than 100,000 years but are shrinking in size due to a government reforestation program following World War II. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

 

Pakistani soldiers escort a suspect arrested during a crackdown operation against militants in Bannu on July 16, 2012. Pakistani Taliban attacked an office of the security force's intelligence agency in the country's northwest, taking several hostages before police stormed the building and ended the siege. (Photo by Ijaz Mohammed/Associated Press)

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