SPEARED FISH: An anhinga, a fresh-water bird that dives for its food, speared a small fish in Everglades National Park near Homestead, Fla., Wednesday. (J. Pat Carter/Associated Press)
LINE BY LINE: Gov. David Paterson (D, N.Y.), who is legally blind, vetoed the state’s budget bills in Albany Thursday. Mr. Paterson had promised to veto measures, saying the state can’t afford the unbalanced budget. (Tim Roske/Associated Press)
AT THE CENTER: French photographer Francois-Marie Banier, center, spoke to the media at a courthouse near Paris Thursday. He is accused of swindling gifts worth $1.2 billion from elderly L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. A judicial panel postponed the trial Thursday to review evidence. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
CROWD CONTROL: Spectators tried to push a fence forward at a military parade Wednesday in Kinshasa, Congo, marking the 50th anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s independence from Belgium. Belgium’s King Albert II and Prime Minister Yves Leterme, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attended. (Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency)
STATE OF CHAOS: Demonstrators cried after riot police fired tear gas outside the capitol building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday. Police blocked access to the building to prevent university students and others from protesting Gov. Luis Fortuno’s budget cuts and policies. (Ricardo Arduengo/Associated Press)
SITTING IN: Police removed protesters occupying the Government Headquarters during a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong Thursday. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched against a reform bill. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
LOSING A BROTHER: Basudhar Das cried Thursday in Dadara village, India, over the body of his soldier brother. Up to 200 Maoist rebels ambushed paramilitary troops Tuesday in an eastern India forest, killing at least 27. (Anupam Nath/Associated Press)
LYING IN STATE: The casket of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) lay in the Senate chamber in Washington Thursday. Sen. Byrd, who died Monday at the age of 92, served in the Senate for more than 50 years. (Stephen Crowley/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ADDRESSING THE ECONOMY: President Barack Obama answered questions about the economy at a town-hall style event in Racine, Wis., Wednesday. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
STRING SECTION: People watched musicians suspended from ropes and a crane during the official presentation of cycling teams in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Thursday. The Tour de France starts Saturday. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press)
A QUEEN LOOK: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II watched a performer during Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Thursday. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
MUDDY WATER” : The Santa Catarina River overflowed Thursday in Monterrey, Mexico, due to heavy rains from Hurricane Alex. At least two people were killed; the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm as it moved across northeastern Mexico. (Kristian Lopez/Reuters)
GOOD SPORTS: U.S. and Canadian players shook hands after a Women’s Softball World Championship game in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday. Jennie Finch hit a grand slam to lead the U.S. to a 16-1 victory. (Leonardo Ramirez/Associated Press)
MISSING: Protesters pasted posters of missing people during an anti-Army Day march in Guatemala City Wednesday. According to human rights groups, 98% of abuses against the civilian population during the Guatemalan Civil War were committed by the army. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
ILLUMINATED EGGS: A United States Department of Agriculture inspector checked eggs at Maine Contract Farming in Turner, Maine, Thursday. The company agreed last month to pay $25,000 in penalties and to make a one-time payment of $100,000 over allegations its birds were mistreated. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press)
FEELING FRISKY: Former soccer referee Pierluigi Colina posed at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, one day before Brazil and the Netherlands compete in the World Cup quarterfinals. (Stephanie de Sakutina/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
FLIPPING OUT: Boys jumped into Chiemsee Lake near the village of Chieming, Germany, Friday. (Christof Stache/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ON THE BALL: A young baseball player prepared for his turn at bat at an exhibition game held for Major League Baseball scouts in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, Thursday. About 40 players took doping tests and had their ages and identities checked before final selections were made. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
DRINKING WITH A LEGEND: Tourists enjoyed daiquiris beside a life-sized bronze statue of writer Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana Thursday. Daiquiris were the Nobel-prize winning writer’s usual drink when he lived in Cuba. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)
ALL MADE-UP: A transsexual applied makeup in Mumbai Friday, the one-year anniversary of an Indian court’s ruling that decriminalized homosexual sex between consulting adults. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)
A SOCCER SHOCKER: Brazilian soccer fans watched in Cape Town, South Africa, as their team lost 2-1 to the Netherlands. The Netherlands rallied to upset the five-time champion and advance to the semifinals. (Andy Rain/European Pressphoto Agency)
PLAYER DEJECTED: Britain’s Andy Murray attended a news conference after losing a Wimbledon semifinals match to Spain’s Rafael Nadal in London Friday. A British man hasn’t won Wimbledon since 1936. (Hamish Blair/Getty Images)
GETTING A SHOT: A woman received an H1N1 vaccine at Cambodian People’s Party headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday. Prime Minister Hun Sen and three cabinet ministers contracted the virus. At least six Cambodians have died from H1N1 and 600 have become ill from it since last June. (Tang Chhin Sothy/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
BOMBING VICTIMS: The wife and child of a man who was killed in a twin suicide attack sat near his body in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday. At least 42 people were killed and more than 100 wounded Thursday in blasts at the Sufi shrine Data Darbar. (Mani Rana/Reuters)
REMEMBERING BYRD: Audience members stood during a memorial service for Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D., W.Va.) at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Friday. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
CLOSE TO THE CHURCH: A woman attended confession in the garden of a Catholic church during a festival for a religious icon in Budslav, Belarus, Friday. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)
BATTLE SCENE: An al-Shabaab fighter ran for cover near a burnt-out African Union military tank in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday. Dozens of civilians have been killed in recent clashes between rebel and government forces in the capital. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
WATER FIGHT: Friday in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, Israelis dressed like a commando and a Turkish man re-enacted the deadly May storming of a Turkish flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip. (Jim Hollander/European Pressphoto Agency)
FLAME HIGH: Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt attended a ceremony Friday in Bogota marking the second anniversary of a military operation in which she and other hostages were rescued from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. (William Fernando Martinez/Associated Press)
HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE: Jill Riegelmayer held up a sign, one of approximately 20,000 handed out to the crowd at a Cleveland Independence Day celebration Thursday, to urge Cavaliers player LeBron James to stay with the team. (Jason Miller/Associated Press)
TEAM COLORS: Saskatchewan Roughriders fans cheered on their team against the Montreal Alouettes in overtime at a Canadian Football League game in Regina, Saskatchewan, Thursday. Saskatchewan won 54-51. (Fred Greenslade/Reuters)
A FAN OF POOH: A woman held a Winnie the Pooh and Tigger fan in front of her house in Beijing Friday. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
EXTRA SEATING: A man walked through a hall Wednesday in Essen, Germany, where tables and benches are being stored for the “World’s Longest Dining Table” project as part of the European Capital of Culture 2010. (DPA/ZUMA Press)
DEMANDING HELP: Hundreds of people demonstrated in Rome Wednesday to demand help from the government for the reconstruction of L’Aquila, Italy, and other areas damaged by the April 2009 quake. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse/ZUMA Press)
RUNNING WITH BULLS: A bull leapt over revelers at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday. An 18-year-old Australian man suffered fractured vertebrae and was in serious condition at a hospital, and a 20-year old Spanish man’s eye was injured. (Joseba Etxaburu/Reuters)
MINUTE OF SILENCE: Firefighters observed a minute of silence Wednesday in London’s Tavistock Square to mark the fifth anniversary of suicide bombings on three subway cars and a bus that killed 52 commuters. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
HOLDING HANDS: Villagers waded through a flooded street in Punjab, India, Wednesday. Major river and canal breaches caused flooding, prompting authorities to warn against traveling on the busy National Highway 1 to New Delhi. (European Pressphoto Agency)
FLYING HIGH: A father and son jumped into a river in Liuzhou, Guangxi province, China, Monday. (Yan Huang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA Press)
SEIZING AN OPPORTUNITY: Afghans collected fuel from a tanker that was shot up in an attack on a NATO supply convoy in Baghlan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday. (Associated Press)
SCENE SECURED: A police officer stopped a fisherman Tuesday in Rothbury, England, as officials closed off the area during a manhunt for Raoul Thomas Moat in connection with weekend shootings that left one man dead and a police officer wounded. (Scott Heppell/Associated Press)
NETANYAHU IN D.C.: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, arrived at the White House Tuesday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. The leaders sought to soothe rocky relations, declaring that any talk of a rift is unfounded. Mr. Obama called the U.S.-Israeli bond “unbreakable.” (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WATCHING WAVES: Skimboarders watched an oil-containment boom in Orange Beach, Ala., Tuesday. Oil spotting and skimming operations have been hampered by bad weather and choppy seas. (Dave Martin/Associated Press)
MONEY LAUNDERING: Alex Mupondi hung dollar bills to dry after washing them in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday. Locals say the bills are often too smelly to handle by the time they make it to their country. The Zimbabwean government declared the U.S. dollar legal tender last year. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)
ALL ABOUT NEWS: A news presenter rehearsed at Tolo TV, owned by media mogul Saad Mohseni, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. Mr. Mohseni launched the country’s first 24-hour TV news outlet last week and expects to reach about 1 million viewers. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
FUMIGATING: A worker fumigated a factory office in Mumbai Tuesday. With the onset of the monsoon season, several cases of the mosquito-borne infection malaria have been reported in city hospitals, according to local news reports. (Rajanish Kakade/Associated Press)
SLUM LIFE: A girl stood outside a school in the Mukuru kwa Njenga slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday. An Amnesty International Report released Tuesday says the government has failed to incorporate slums, leaving women vulnerable to sexual and other attacks. (Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
MOURNING THE AYATOLLAH: Shiite women mourned as they took pictures of the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah’s coffin in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday. Tens of thousands of people swarmed the top cleric’s coffin. He died Sunday at the age of 75 after a long illness. (Hussein Malla/Associated Press)
DIVE IN: A reveler jumped off a recycling bin into a crowd at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain, Tuesday. The festival, best known for the running of the bulls, kicked off Tuesday and will run until July 14. (Vincent West/Reuters)
CARRIED AWAY: Former Minister of Cultural Affairs Piyasiri Wijenayake was carried away after police forcibly removed protesters from U.N. headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday. Hundreds demanded the U.N. cancel its probe of alleged abuses during the country’s civil war. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters)
TAKING FIVE: U.S. Army Pfc. William Molina took a break in the back of a military vehicle during a day-long mission in Afghanistan Tuesday. His unit uses specialized equipment to seek out improvised explosive devices. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
FILLING OUT JEANS: A man brushed jeans at a textile factory in Katunayake, Sri Lanka, Tuesday. The European Union plans to withdraw Sri Lanka from a trade scheme that offers tariff cuts to developing countries due to its human-rights record. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
A local farmer pulled out his pants to show he wasn’t carrying weapons as he was questioned by Afghan Army soldiers on patrol with U.S. Army troops near the village of Jilga, Afghanistan, Thursday. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
A protester shouted slogans at a rally in central Athens Thursday. Police estimated that more than 12,000 people took part in two separate marches. Greece’s governing Socialists are battling growing discontent amid a new round of economic austerity measures. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press)
Ruling and opposition lawmakers brawled in Taipei, Taiwan, as discussions started on the floor of the legislature over the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement planned with China. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)
A Bosnian woman tidied up a newly dug grave in the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica, Bosnia, 15 years after the fall of Srebenica. Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the 1995 massacre in the city. (Dimitar Dikoff/AFP/Getty Images)
An employee paused in her work at a factory in Huabei, Anhui providence in China. The International Monetary Fund upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast on Thursday, citing robust expansion in Asia. (Reuters)
AT SAYYIDA’S SHRINE: People prayed near the Shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed, during a celebration for her birthday in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
WIFE WEEPS: Babita Pandey wept Wednesday in New Delhi near the body of her husband, freelance journalist Hem Chandra Pandey, who was killed along with a Maoist leader in an encounter with police last week. (Mustafa Quraishi/Associated Press)
COMMUTER DELAYS: A passenger asked a railway clerk about the status of delayed trains in Amritsar, India, Wednesday. Several trains were canceled due to heavy rains in Punjab and Haryana. (Raminder Pal Singh/European Pressphoto Agency)
FACTORY FIRE: A firefighter helped tackle a blaze at a polystyrene plant in Weltyn, Poland, Wednesday. (Jerzy Undro/European Pressphoto Agency)
COVERED UP: Acid-attack victims attended a therapy session at a secure shelter run by the nonprofit group Cambodia Acid Survivors Charity outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday. Authorities are drafting legislation to restrict acid sales and to punish perpetrators. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
Onlookers and railway officials stood beside the cars of a passenger train derailed by an explosion in Kokrajhar, in northeastern India. The explosion and accident killed a five-year old boy and wounded seven others. (Reuters)
An India army solider trained his weapon on the surrounding area from the top of an armored vehicle on patrol on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. (Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency)
Iraqi police checked Shiite pilgrims as they arrived at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim Mosque in the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad to mark the death of the eighth-century Imam. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian children read the Koran Thursday ahead of the Islamic holiday of Isra and Mi’raj in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Al Hashlamoun/European Pressphoto Agency)
An aircraft fought a fire on a Danish-registered container ship in the Malacca Strait near the Klang port of Malaysia. (Malaysian Maritime Enforcement/AFP/Getty Images)
CATCHING HER BREATH: Tourist Debbie Rich, from Saunemin, Ill., sought relief from the heat in the shade at the National World War II Memorial in Washington Wednesday. The East Coast is enduring a heat wave with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
CLEANUP DELAYED: A sign stood in the surf amid high winds and waves that caused the cancellation of oil-spill cleanup efforts in Port Fourchon, La., Wednesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
RIDING IN THE RAIN: Commuters traveled through the rain in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday. At least 10 people have been killed. Pakistan’s monsoon season usually runs from early July to September. (Asif Hassan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
RIDING BY: Competitors rode past windmills during the 95.4-mile ride fourth stage of the Tour de France between Cambrai and Reims, France, Wednesday. Italian Alessandro Petacchi won the stage. (Lionel Bonaventure/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
BOMBING MEMORIAL: A man walked through a memorial Wednesday in London dedicated to the victims of the July 7, 2005, transit bombings. (Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
KEEPING WATCH: From nearby hills, police officers surveyed Rothbury, England, Wednesday as they searched for Raoul Moat, who allegedly shot three people — one fatally — over the weekend. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A fighting cow leapt over revellers in the bull ring during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. (Joseba Etxaburu/Reuters)
Two-year-old Carmen Brumos of Valencia, Spain, lowered her head into a water jet Thursday near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The experimental aircraft “Solar Impulse,” flown by pilot Andre Borschberg, crossed over Switzerland Thursday on its first attempt to fly around the clock fuelled by nothing but the energy of the sun. The plane completed its test successfully. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
Waters from the Rio Grande rose around a parking lot sign in Laredo, Texas, after recent heavy rains and water releases. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)
Founded in 1894, Ridgefield Park’s Fourth of July parade and celebration prides itself as one of the oldest parades in the United States, and the oldest in New Jersey. On Monday, they celebrated the day after, on July 5, 2010. Above, The Hawthorne Caballeros, a drum and bugle corps from Hawthorne, N.J., marches down Main Street. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A small cannon pulled by an SUV is set off on Main Street during the parade. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
11-year-old Danielle Sinclair waits for the parade to start. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
Members of the Board of Education throw candy out of a open-top car for children along the parade route. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
Pat Bramley, a retired nurse who has lived on Poplar Street in Ridgefield Park for 39 years, is startled by the loud bang of a parade cannon going off on Main Street. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
People watch the parade. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A member of the Ridgefield Park High School Band waves from his school’s float. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A woman applauds. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A firefighter cools off during the high afternoon heat. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
More families watch the parade. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
6-year-old McKale Harkin watches the start of the parade from a home on Union Street. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A table of trophies and a microphone sit in the park at the end of the parade route. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A woman receives a free water bottle during the parade. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
A young girl recovers in the air conditioning at a Dunkin’ Donuts after the parade. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)
Afghan parliamentary candidate Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, in red, talked to her campaign team — and a mannequin — in Kabul Friday as she managed a photo session for campaign posters. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)
A group of men detained for suspected Taliban activities were held for questioning Friday at a schoolhouse in the village of Kuhak, north of Kandahar. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
Residents stood in the rubble after a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwestern Mohmand region Friday. The blast killed at least 55 people. (K. Parvez/Reuters)
Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s Alpha Company prepared to leave on an early morning patrol Friday in the village of Kuhak in the Arghandab District north of Kandahar. (Bob Strong/Reuters)
An Army carry team carried the casket containing the remains of Army Private First Class Michael S. Pridham Jr. of Louisville, Ky., out of a plane at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base early Friday morning. Pfc. Hindman was a soldier in Operation Enduring Freedom. (Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press)
LAID OFF: Janice Sowles of Ocean Beach, Calif., a shipfitter at NASSCO-General Dynamics, waited for a ride outside the gate after being laid off Monday morning. In all, 290 employees were laid off. (San Diego Union Tribune/ZUMApress.com)
PUSH AND PULL: Police and protestors got in a tug-of-war after protesters tried to prevent an arrest in the Ardoyne area Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday. Protestors were staging a sit down protest against an Orange order march in the city. (Charles McQuillan/European Pressphoto Agency)
LOOKING FOR CLUES: Police officers prepared to dig up a back garden in Brighton, England, Monday to search for bodies that may have been buried there by convicted serial killer, Peter Tobin. (ZUMApress.com)
GET OUT TO VOTE: An Afghan election worker photographed a woman being registered at a voter registration center in Kabul Monday. Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections on Sept. 18. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
MURDER TRIAL: Defendant Sebastian L. and his lawyer Jochen Ringler waited for the beginning of a trial in Munich on Tuesday. Sebastian L. is being tried for the murder of a man at a Solln, Spain, train station last September. (Andreas Gebert/Reuters)
COLLAPSED: A man examined the site of a residential building collapse that killed seven people Wednesday in the Darb el-Ahmar area of the historic Islamic quarter of Cairo. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)
CHLORINE SPILL: A firefighter sprayed off a pile of cylinders Wednesday after chlorine gas leaked from one at a port area in Mumbai, India. At least 92 people were sickened, eight of them critically, when they inhaled the leaked chlorine. (European Pressphoto Agency)
HONORING: A visitor to Yasukuni Shrine looked at paper lanterns with the names of war dead during the Mitama Festival in Tokyo Wednesday. More than 300,000 lanterns donated by citizens are on display. (Koji Sasahara/Associated Press)
HEADS DOWN: Pedestrians walked under a construction crane that fell amid strong winds from Typhoon Conson in Paranaque City, Philippines, Wednesday. The typhoon packed winds of 75 miles per hour that toppled power lines and uprooted trees. (ZUMApress.com)
RECOVERY REMARKS: Vice President Joe Biden delivered remarks Wednesday on the Recovery Act with Christina Romer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Biden addressed the Council’s quarterly report and the economic impact it had on the Recovery Act. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A Virgin plane took off from Heathrow Airport’s southern runway as smoke engulfed the cargo area at the London airport Friday. The airport said passenger terminals have not been affected. (Associated Press)
The pack of riders cycled through a field Friday during stage six of the Tour de France. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
Two chickens fought for a soccer ball during a chicken football match show Thursday in Shenyang, in northeast China’s Liaoning province. (AFP/Getty Images)
Two boys swam while a girl watched them from the other side through a window at the Grugabad pool Friday in Essen, Germany. (Julian Stratenschulte/European Pressphoto Agency)
ARRESTED: A man tipped his hat Tuesday after being arrested in Reggio Calabria, Italy. Three hundred people involved in the ‘ndrangheta crime organization were arrested. (Adriana Sapone/Associated Press)
STANDING GUARD: An Israeli border police officer stood guard Tuesday as a Palestinian home was razed in East Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood. It was the first time in eight months that Israel razed a Palestinian home. (Reuters)
TAKING A SPIN: Figures danced through the streets Tuesday in the San Fermin festival’s parade of the giants and the big heads. Large puppets accompanied by brass bands parade daily through the city during the nine-day festival. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)
WAITING IN WASHINGTON: Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (D., Calif.) left, spoke with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, (D., R.I.) right, prior to the Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on Tuesday. The committee has delayed the vote on Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court until next week. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
GOING GREEN: A Chinese child played on a beach covered by green algae Monday in Qingdao. The algae is an ecological threat, according to local marine forecasters. The city has sent 6,000 people to clear away the algae. (ZUMApress.com)
Miami Heat fans held images of NBA star LeBron James outside the American Airlines Arena in Miami late Thursday after he announced he is going to sign with Miami. (Hans Deryk/Reuters)
A U.S. Army soldier shielded himself Friday from dust kicked up by a helicopter’s rotor in Jeluwar, Afghanistan. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
A Bosnian woman cried Friday beside trucks loaded with the coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Sarajevo. (Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters)
Mourners loaded the coffin of Ali Ahmed onto a bus in Baghdad Friday. Mr. Ahmed was killed Thursday in an attack on Shiite pilgrims gathered to mark the death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim. (Karim Kadim/Associated Press)
A pedestrian passed a mural of Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif., shortly before a jury delivered an involuntary manslaughter verdict in Johannes Mehserle’s trial on Thursday. Mr. Mehserle, a transit police officer, shot and killed Mr. Grant on New Year’s Day 2009. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)
Correction & Amplification: Afghan parliamentary candidate Farkhunda Zahra Naderi was coordinating a photo session when photographed Friday. An earlier version of the caption above incorrectly indicated she was at a shop. The caption has been corrected.
BABY BAPTISM: Children were baptized Tuesday during a mass baptisim ceremony in the town of Mtskheta outside Tbilsi. About 700 children were baptized by the Georgian Orthodox church. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)
DIGGING OUT: A resident salvaged roofing materials from his burnt home Tuesday in Manila, Philippines. One child died and at least 50 families were left homeless during a fire that broke out at dawn Tuesday. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)
OVERSIZED LOAD: A Eurofighter of the German Bundeswehr was carried on a truck Monday near Buchole, Germany. For years, the plane was used for educational purposes by a German air force school. It will now face an overhaul by the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company. (AFP/Getty Images)
SEWAGE SPILL: Sewage water was drained Tuesday from a leaking sewage tank at a copper mine in Shanghan, Fujian province, China. The leak has polluted a river and reservoir, according to the Xinhua news agency. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images)
AFTERNOON SNACK: Three-year-old Zubair, with henna-dyed hair, ate a popsicle Tuesday while standing outside his mud house near Islamabad, Pakistan. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)
BASTILLE PARADE: The French Army’s Ecole Politecnique opened the Bastille Day Military parade in Paris in torrential rain Wednesday, marching past French President Nicolas Sarkozy and 14 African heads of state and government. (Horacio Villalobo/European Pressphoto Agency)
FUELED UP: The external fuel tank for the last scheduled space shuttle flight was transported Wednesday to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The tank is designated for space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission, scheduled for launch in February. (John Raoux/Associated Press)
STEEL WORK: Employees worked Wednesday in the foundary section of Sheffield Forgemasters, in Sheffield, England. Labor lawmakers expressed outrage that a $120.8 million loan for the company to make components for nuclear power plants had been cancelled. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)
CHARRED CAR: The owner of a burned-out car returned to her vehicle in the parking lot on the Mall in central London on Wednesday. The fire, which burned three cars, is believed to have been the result of faulty wiring. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
MUDDY STREET: Firefighters cleaned streets Wednesday in Xiaohe, Oiaojia County, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Rain-triggered landslides have left 41 people dead and 44 others missing in Yunnan, Hunan and Sichuan provinces. (ZUMApress.com)
CHALLENGING COURSE: A dog picked his way through barbed wire laid across a street during a curfew Tuesday in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. One person was killed and 13 others were injured when Indian police allegedly opened fire on a procession of youth in Kashmir’s Baramulla township. (Altaf Zargar/ZUMApress.com)
CLEAN-UP: Workers shoveled oiled sand on the beach of a barrier island Tuesday in Terrebonne Bay near Cocodrie, La. (ZUMApress.com)
RIVER LITTER: A litter-cleaning vessel removed floating garbage Tuesday in front of China’s Three Gorges Dam before opening the dam’s gates to lower the water level in the reservoir, swollen by recent flooding in the region. (ZUMApress.com)
SECURITY CHECK: A U.S. soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, asked an Afghan villager to lift up his shirt Tuesday to show he was not wearing a suicide vest during a patrol in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
SOMBER MOMENT: The family of Josh Bowman held hands as they waited for the remains of four soldiers, including Maj. Bowman, that were repatriated to Britain on Tuesday after being killed in the conflict in Afghanistan. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)
CLEARING DEBRIS: Indian rescue workers cleared debris after a two-story building collapsed near Usmanpur in New Delhi, India. The collapse, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killed six people. (Anindito Mukherjee/European Pressphoto Agency)
R AND R: U.S. Army Sgt. Ryan Blalock, 22, of Salamanca, N.Y., napped Wednesday as he and other members of the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, waited at Baghdad International Airport to begin their journey back to the U.S. The soldiers, based at Fort Drum, N.Y., are headed home after nine months in Iraq. (Maya Alleuzzo/Associated Press)
THROUGH THE SMOKE: A man walked past plumes of smoke from tires set on fire Wednesday by an angry mob protesting the killing of a prominent member of a local political party during a drive-by shooting in Quetta, Pakistan. (Rizwan Saeed/Reuters)
LET ME IN: A passenger forced open a train door as two others tried to get off during a subway strike in Madrid Wednesday. The strike is to protest wage cuts ordered by the Spanish government in an effort to trim an oversized budget deficit. (Paul White/Associated Press)
UH OH: A reveler ahead of a bull Wednesday during the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press)
FLOOD CONTROL: The Three Gorges Dam discharged water to lower the level in a reservoir Tuesday in Yichang, Hubei province. The dam, on the Yangtze River, is facing a major test of flood-control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction. (Reuters)
SAD ANNIVERSARY: A relative visited the grave of a loved one during Tuesday’s annual memorial service for all the soldiers who lost their lives fighting in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Tymvos, Makedonitissa and Nicosia. (Katia Christodolou/European Pressphoto Agency)
LOOKING FOR VICTIMS: Local residents peeped inside a mangled train compartment Tuesday at Sainthia station, about 125 miles north of Calcutta, India. Two trains collided early Monday morning at the site, killing 61 people. (Bikas Das/Associated Press)
REST AT THE WALL: Ultra-Orthodox Jews slept against the ancient stones at the Western Wall Tuesday. Religious Jews stay up all night, reciting lamentations focusing on the destruction of the ancient temple — and sometimes napping. (Jim Hollander/European Pressphoto Agency
CHALLENGING COURSE: A dog picked his way through barbed wire laid across a street during a curfew Tuesday in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. One person was killed and 13 others were injured when Indian police allegedly opened fire on a procession of youth in Kashmir’s Baramulla township. (Altaf Zargar/ZUMApress.com)
CLEAN-UP: Workers shoveled oiled sand on the beach of a barrier island Tuesday in Terrebonne Bay near Cocodrie, La. (ZUMApress.com)
RIVER LITTER: A litter-cleaning vessel removed floating garbage Tuesday in front of China’s Three Gorges Dam before opening the dam’s gates to lower the water level in the reservoir, swollen by recent flooding in the region. (ZUMApress.com)
SECURITY CHECK: A U.S. soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, asked an Afghan villager to lift up his shirt Tuesday to show he was not wearing a suicide vest during a patrol in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
SOMBER MOMENT: The family of Josh Bowman held hands as they waited for the remains of four soldiers, including Maj. Bowman, that were repatriated to Britain on Tuesday after being killed in the conflict in Afghanistan. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)
FLOAT TRIP: A disabled man cycled his wheelchair down a flooded street after a downpour Tuesday in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
SHANTY FIRE: A firefighter sprayed water to extinguish a fire that broke out in a shanty town along North Avenue, Quezon City, the Philippines, Tuesday. A total of 150 families were left homeless in the fire. (ZUMApress.com)
REFRESHING: An American soldier took a shower in the small Dutch village of Lent, Netherlands, as he sought refreshment during the annual Four Days March, or “Vierdaagse.” (Erik Van’T Woud/European Pressphoto Agency)
CONSERVING LAND: Chinese soldiers buried 280 biodegradable urns during a collective eco-burial ceremony at the cemetery of Tianjin on Tuesday. The patented urns in China are designed to help protect the environment amid overcrowding in China’s cemeteries. (Stephen Shaver/UPI)
MASS PRAYER: Buddhist novices attended a mass ordination ceremony at the Dhamagaya Temple in Pathumthani province in central Thailand on Tuesday. (Apichart Weerawong/Associated Press)
DRUMLINE: Young musicians waited to march in a military ceremony Tuesday in Quibdo, Colombia, to celebrate the country’s 200 years of independence from Spain. (William Fernando Martinez/Associated Press)
BELLY FLOP: A boy jumped into the Sommerbad Olympiastadion public pool on Tuesday in Berlin. (Tobias Kleinschmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
FLOOD CONTROL: The Three Gorges Dam discharged water to lower the level in a reservoir Tuesday in Yichang, Hubei province. The dam, on the Yangtze River, is facing a major test of flood-control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction. (Reuters)
SAD ANNIVERSARY: A relative visited the grave of a loved one during Tuesday’s annual memorial service for all the soldiers who lost their lives fighting in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Tymvos, Makedonitissa and Nicosia. (Katia Christodolou/European Pressphoto Agency)
LOOKING FOR VICTIMS: Local residents peeped inside a mangled train compartment Tuesday at Sainthia station, about 125 miles north of Calcutta, India. Two trains collided early Monday morning at the site, killing 61 people. (Bikas Das/Associated Press)
REST AT THE WALL: Ultra-Orthodox Jews slept against the ancient stones at the Western Wall Tuesday. Religious Jews stay up all night, reciting lamentations focusing on the destruction of the ancient temple — and sometimes napping. (Jim Hollander/European Pressphoto Agency)
BIG BLAZE: Firefighters tried to put out what was left of a fire generated by explosions at two oil pipelines in Dalian, Liaoning province, northeast China, Sunday. More than 2,000 firefighters and 338 fire engines from 14 cities across the province worked through the night to extinguish the fire. (Yan Sheng/CNImaging)
COLLISION VICTIM: Ashraful Hak, an injured 12-year-old passenger, was treated in a hospital near the Sainthia station in West Bengal’s Birbhum district after two trains collided in Bengal, India. (Piyal Adhikary/European Pressphoto Agency)
WATCH YOUR STEP: Residents of Hefei in east China’s Anhui Province tried to walk through a flooded street Sunday. Flooding and rainstorms have left 118 people dead and 47 missing since July 1. (ZUMApress.com)
LOGGED ON: An Indonesian Muslim woman worked on her laptop Monday after afternoon prayer at Istiglal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Irwin Fedriansyah/Associated Press)
FLOAT TRIP: A disabled man cycled his wheelchair down a flooded street after a downpour Tuesday in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
SHANTY FIRE: A firefighter sprayed water to extinguish a fire that broke out in a shanty town along North Avenue, Quezon City, the Philippines, Tuesday. A total of 150 families were left homeless in the fire. (ZUMApress.com)
REFRESHING: An American soldier took a shower in the small Dutch village of Lent, Netherlands, as he sought refreshment during the annual Four Days March, or “Vierdaagse.” (Erik Van’T Woud/European Pressphoto Agency)
CONSERVING LAND: Chinese soldiers buried 280 biodegradable urns during a collective eco-burial ceremony at the cemetery of Tianjin on Tuesday. The patented urns in China are designed to help protect the environment amid overcrowding in China’s cemeteries. (Stephen Shaver/UPI)
MASS PRAYER: Buddhist novices attended a mass ordination ceremony at the Dhamagaya Temple in Pathumthani province in central Thailand on Tuesday. (Apichart Weerawong/Associated Press)
DRUMLINE: Young musicians waited to march in a military ceremony Tuesday in Quibdo, Colombia, to celebrate the country’s 200 years of independence from Spain. (William Fernando Martinez/Associated Press)
BELLY FLOP: A boy jumped into the Sommerbad Olympiastadion public pool on Tuesday in Berlin. (Tobias Kleinschmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
ON GUARD: An Indian police officer stood guard Monday outside a market closed during a strike in central Sringar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Kashmir has been rocked by protests and strikes for nearly a month. (Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency)
VICTIMS IN PAKISTAN: Pakistani volunteers carried away the bodies of a pair of Pakistani Christian brothers accused of blasphemy against Islam The brothers were shot to death Monday as they left a court in Faisalabad. (Khalilur Rehman/Associated Press)
MORNING RITUAL: A U.S. soldier of the First Squadron, 71st Cavalry exercised at a forward operating base in the Dand district of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan Monday. (Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images)
PROTEST: Russain activists rested Monday while raising barricades to prevent loggers from cutting down a forest in Khimki, Russia, a Moscow suburb. Moscow regional authorities plan to build a highway in the pristine, protected area. (Misha Japaridze/Associated Press)
Somalis walked in Gisiny, home to Uganda’s Somali community, July 15. Somalis are worried that the bombings July 11, which killed 76, put them in danger of revenge attacks by Ugandans, though Somalia’s president has declared war on the al Shabaab Islamists who claimed responsibility. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for The Wall Street Journal)
A Ugandan newspaper reported on the bombings. Ugandan officials believe more than 20 members of al Shabaab entered Uganda several months ago, but authorities said they weren’t able to gather sufficient intelligence in time to prevent them from carrying out the attacks. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Local police officers in Kampala stood near a pharmacy where an alleged bomb was spotted — it turned out to be a benign metal object. Since Monday, nine arrests have been made, all Somalis, according to a Ugandan military official, and a Ugandan man with suspected links to al Shabaab was arrested in Kenya. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
At left, a private security officer checked a customer as she entered a store in one of Kampala’s largest malls Thursday. A focal point of the investigation has become al Shabaab’s ties to al Qaeda, which some Ugandan investigators believe played a supporting role in the attack. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
At left, two Ugandan women stood outside the Ethiopian Village in Kampala Thursday, one of the two places where people were killed by Sunday’s bombings. In 2008, the U.S. Treasury Department declared al Shabaab a terrorist group for its aggressive campaign against Ethiopian troops. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
By the time Ethiopia pulled out of Somalia in early 2009, al Shabaab was an established militant force, though the U.S. didn’t believe it had the capacity to carry out attacks abroad. At left, a young Ugandan boy peeked into the Ethiopian Village Thursday. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
In the past year, al Shabaab has shifted to accommodate more foreign fighters, some of whom have “close links” with al Qaeda, according to senior U.S. administration officials. At left, shattered glass and overturned chairs littered the Ethiopian Village following the bombings. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Al Qaeda, to whom al Shabaab has sworn allegiance and has increasingly aligned with its agenda of global jihad, hasn’t officially acknowledged ties to al Shabaab. At left, glass and overturned chairs in the Ethiopian Village. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
A man prepared for a memorial service for people who were killed by the attacks. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Because of Somalia’s fragile political situation and sensitivities to U.S. involvement, the Uganda bombing may have been al Shabaab’s attempt to draw an American military reaction, some analysts say. At left, an injured Somali man in Gisiny. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Al Shabaab’s foreign fighters have pressed to expand its mission to foreign targets, opening a rift between those who want to stay focused on overturning a weak Somali government. At left, Somali refugees in the hallways of their home in Gisiny. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Al Shabaab’s new willingness to kill civilians in roadside bombs and mortar attacks has angered Somalis and sapped popular support. The al Qaeda-style tactics also include suicide bombs, once unheard of in Somalia. At left, Somali children looked through the window of a home in Gisiny on Thursday. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Al Shabaab was the target of Somali street protests last year after a suicide bomber struck at a graduation ceremony, killing at least 19 people, mostly students. At left, two Somali men at a restaurant in Gisiny on Thursday. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Ugandans gathered around food stalls in downtown Kamplala on Wednesday, though many residents still preferred to stay at home following the bombings. The African Union has sent an estimated 6,000 peacekeepers to help support the Somali government, while Burundi and Uganda have sent about 3,000 each. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
Ugandan workers decorated Entebbe Road with Ugandan flags on Thursday in preparation for the upcoming African Union summit the following week. (Dominic Nahr / Magnum Photos for the Wall Street Journal)
MOTHER’S CARE: Pakistani acid-attack survivor Mumtaz Bibi, sat next to her son Moazam Raza, 6, as he lay on a bed unconscious Monday after an operation on his eye — damaged in the acid attack — at the Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital in Rawlpindi. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images)
SOLDIER’S AID: Thai soldiers carried one of their comrades away from the scene of a bomb attack in the city of Sungai Kolok in southern Thailand near the border of Malaysia Monday. Suspected insurgents had detonated a bomb in an attack on a unit of Thai soldiers where they were during a patrol. (Padung Wannalak/European Pressphoto Agency)
SUMMER TREATMENT: A boy received an acupuncture treatment, known in the West as “cupping,” at Tanggu Hospital. Traditional Chinese doctors believe that acupuncture during the summer can effectively treat asthma and cold symptoms that happen during the winter. (ZUMApress.com)
VEGGING OUT: A vegetable vendor took a nap during the hot afternoon Monday at Karwanbazar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
CRIME SCENE: Investigators looked for evidence after a homemade bomb exploded in a public bus in Guatemala City Friday. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion just before the bus burst into flames, resulting in three people being hospitalized. (Daniel LeClair/Reuters)
COMFORTING: Amother Salbia comforted her son, Reza Facrul, 9, at Zainal Abidin Hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday. He was hospitalized due to malnutrition. (Hotli Simanjuntak/European Pressphoto Agency)
A NEW LEG: A disabled Afghan man, who lost his leg in a landmine blast, put on his artificial leg Friday in northern Afghanistan. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)
MEET AND GREET: Rio’s Governor Sergio Cabral, left, shook hands Friday with a resident at Cantagalo Slum in Ri de Janeiro as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso looked on. (Bruno Domingos/Reuters)
AFTERNOON PRAYER: Members of the Iranian military participated in weekly Friday prayers at Tehran University. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
RARE DISCOVERY: Planks stick out of the mud of a 32-foot-long, 18th century boat that was found during construction at the World Trade Center site on Thursday. (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)
SAFE AND SOUND: Iranian scholar Shahram Amiri attended a press conference with his son after he arrived in Tehran. Mr. Amiri told the media Thursday that his son was kidnapped by the CIA and the abduction was part of the U.S. campaign to add political pressures to Iran. (ZUMApress.com)
LOSS OF A BROTHER: Salim Walid, 20, grieved for his younger brother Ali Walid, 15, who was killed in a car bomb attack in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, Thursday. The attacks took place on the day U.S. forces were to transfer control of the last prison they run to Iraqi authorities. (Bassem Daham/Associated Press)
YOUNG LABOR: A boy worked at a brick-making factory outside Kabul Thursday. Laborers, most of whom work barefoot and without gloves, earn from $3 to $8 depending on their working hours and number of bricks produced in a day. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
YOUTHFUL PROTEST: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir-Kashmiri Muslims shouted freedom slogans Thursday during protests against the recent killings of youth during anti-India protests. (Zuma Press)
AWAITING NEWS: A man waited outside Mulago Hospital Monday to learn the fate of victims injured in bombings in Kampala, Uganda. Suspected Somali Islamists carried out two bomb attacks, killing at least 74 people watching the World Cup final on TV Sunday. (Xavier Toya/Reuters)
STORM TRACKING: Monsoon clouds hovered over Jammu, India, Monday. (Channi Anand/Associated Press)
TAKING A STROLL: Women walked along a street market in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
HIGH WATER: Commuters traveled through a flooded street in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday. The city is expecting more rain for the next few days. (Arif Ali//Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
DRYING OUT: A heat wave with temperatures reaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit dried out a field near Petersdorf, Germany, Monday. (Patrick Pleul/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
REMEMBERING VICTIMS: Family members mourned during a memorial service for six Eritreans killed in twin bomb attacks in Kampala, Uganda, on Sunday, which killed more than 70 people watching the World Cup. (Benedicte Desrus/Reuters)
BUILDING UP: James Morrall, a builder, did brickwork using a trowel and cement on a construction site for residential housing in Hornchurch, U.K. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News)
RE-HYDRATING: A girl drank a bottle of water next to a misting fan on a hot summer day in Rome. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)
SOMBER ANNIVERSARY: People holding photographs of victims participated at a ceremony Friday to mark the 16th anniversary of the bomb attack against the Jewish Community Center on July 18, 1994, in Buenos Aires (Leo La Valle/European Pressphoto Agency)
PROTESTS: Israeli soldiers stood guard as Palestinians attended a protest Friday against the expansion of Israeli settlements and confiscation of lands in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah. (ZUMApress.com)
REMEMBERING THE PAST: A Cypriot woman stood by the graves of Cypriot soldiers and police killed July 15, 1974, during a coup that was intended to overthrow Archbishop Markarios. (Petros Karadijas/Associated Press)
SEEING THE DESTRUCTION: Children looked at the dead body of a fisherman killed by typhoon Conson Thursday on the coast of Mariveles, Bataan in the Philippines. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
RESCUE EFFORT: Rescuers worked in a railway tunnel Thursday in Binyang County in southwest China. Two new cave-ins in the tunnel have forced rescuers to suspend their search for 10 trapped workers. (Zuma Press)
RECYCLING RUBBER: A worker retreaded used tires Thursday at a workshop in Agartala, the capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura. Indian rubber prices rose to a record last week, and are likely to extend gains this week. (Jayanata Dey/Reuters)
BURNED DOWN: A firefighter worked to extinguish a peat fire Thursday in a forest near the town of Shatura, southeast of Moscow. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
SPINNING: An employee worked at a textile mill Thursday in Huaibei, Anhui province, China. (Reuters)
HOMELESS: A Palestinian woman sat on the rubble of her house Thursday after it was demolished by Israeli army machinery in the West Bank village of Abu al-Arqan, west of Hebron. Many Palestinian homes have been razed by Israeli authorities, who say they lack proper construction permits. (Abed al Hashlamoune/European Pressphoto Agency)
UPHILL CLIMB: A local man carried a cabinet from his house destroyed by flood in Xiaohe Town of Qiaojia County, in China’s Yunnan Province. Thousands were evacuated following torrential rains that triggered flash floods. (Xinhua/Associated Press)
FEEDING TIME: A man fed a donkey that had been shifted to his home in New Delhi, India. New Delhi is adopting a policy to phase out horse and donkey driven carts. (Saurabh Das/Associated Press)
SHELLS BY THE SEA: A Pakistani family sat among seashells washed up on Sea View Beach in Karachi. A large amount of oyster shells washed up from the Arabian sea following cyclone Phet last month. (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)
A NEW LAW: New York Gov. David Paterson signed a bill Friday prohibiting the New York Police Department from electronically storing the names and addresses of people stopped on the street but found to have done nothing wrong. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)
GUSTS IN GOLF: A scorekeeper yawned as second round play was suspended due to high winds during the British Open on the Old Course in St. Andrews (Phil Noble/Reuters)
SUNSET CRUISE: A Kashmiri fisherman smoked a hubble bubble pipe on his boat as the sun set over the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
DEATH JUMP: A woman stood under a car that a man tried to drive off the 12th floor of a parking garage Friday in Houston. The Houston Chronicle reported that a man jumped to his death from the garage after he failed to drive his car off the 12th floor. (Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle/Associated Press)
WELCOME HOME: Spain’s soccer team captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas raised the World Cup trophy to cheers after landing in Madrid Monday. Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 in overtime, giving Spain its first World Cup title. (Dennis Doyle/Getty Images)
HEADING TO JAIL: Paramilitary force members accused in a deadly February 2009 mutiny waited to be transported back to jail after a hearing in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
OBSTACLE COURSE: Children with fake machine guns navigated an obstacle course in Zhodino, Belarus, Monday. The children are spending a few weeks at a military-themed summer camp. (Viktor Drachev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
CLEANING UP: Canadian Armed Forces members rushed to clean a trauma room at Kandahar Air Field after tending to a soldier who was wounded by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan Monday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
TIGHT GRIP: Anat Hoffman, chairwoman of the Women of the Wall organization, held on to a Torah scroll as Israeli police arrested her at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Monday. An Israeli court ruling bars women from carrying the holy texts at the site, according to a police spokesman. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)
KICKED TO THE CURB: Milk farmers protesting the low sales price of milk threw boots and clothes during a demonstration outside the European Council headquarters in Brussels Monday. (Thierry Roge/Reuters)
CRIMINAL POSE: Authorities stood with activists, wearing masks to conceal their identities, from the banned Students Islamic Movement of India in Ahmedabad, India, Monday. The men were arrested with a revolver, air pistol and live cartridges a day before the Lord Jagannath procession. (Ajit Solanki/Associated Press)
STAYING HEALTHY: Students wore masks distributed to prevent against H1N1 flu in their Mumbai classroom Monday. (Rajanish Kakade/Associated Press)
SALVAGING EFFORT: A child looked for items in a burnt home in the Manila suburb of Navotas Monday. At least 200 homes were razed during a fire; no casualties were reported. (Romero Ranoco/Reuters)
UNDER THE SUN: People enjoyed the summer weather Wednesday on the beach in Weymouth, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
STUCK IN THE MUD: A Chinese man walked past cars submerged by floodwaters in Chongqing, China.The flooding has left 701 people dead and 347 others missing. (ImagineChina/ZUMApress.com)
TAKING A REST: A U.S. soldier watched an Afghan movie on TV Wednesday while relaxing at Combat Outpost Nolen, an outlying base for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
TRUCE TOUR: In this image provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, a North Korean soldier looked in as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates toured the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War. (Associated Press/Defense Department)
FAMILIAR SCENE: A worker cleaned up oil Friday near Dalian port in China’s Lioning province. The busy northeastern port has resumed some refined fuel loading for the domestic market, but fuel exports remain temporarily halted after a pipeline there exploded a week ago. (Reuters)
GRIEVING SISTER: Reshma Begum grieved over the body of her sister, Kamrunnessa Beauty, inside a police van at Mirpur police station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday. Ms. Begum claimed that Ms. Beauty, a machine operator, had been killed at the garment factory where she worked. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
BOMB TESTING: A bomb-disposal robot inspected a carton during clearance operations by the 723rd Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit Friday near COP Nolen in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
WRONG DIRECTION: Indonesian Muslims attended Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta. Indoesia’s Muslims learned last week they have been praying the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. (Supri/Reuters)
HISTORY RECORDER REMEMBERED: Family members carried the coffin of scientist David Warren at his funeral in Melbourne Friday. Mr. Warren invented the flight data recorder, famously known as the “black box” that has helped solve airplane crashes and improved airline safety. (Mick Tsikas/Reuters)
AWAITING A DECISION: Kosovo Albanians played chess and watched TV Thursday as the International Court of Justice rendered its decision on the legality of Kosovo’s independence. The U.N.’s highest court said Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence, contested by Serbia, didn’t violate general international law. (Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images)
SWINGING ALONG: A child lay playfully in a hammock as his family worked at a construction site in the commercial Connaught Place area in New Delhi, India. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)
MILITANT FUNERAL: Palestinian relatives carried the body of Qasem al Shembari, a militant from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, at his funeral Thursday in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)
RETIREMENT PLANS: Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced at a a press conference Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, that he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, to spend more time with his family. (Associated Press)
OUTLOOK: Chum May, one of the few survivors of Khmer Rouge’s security prison, Toul Sleng, looked out from cell where he was tortured in Phnom Penh. (Chor Sokunthea/Reuters)
FOILED PLOT: Gustavus Adolphus professor Scott Bur worked in his aluminized office Friday in St. Peter, Minn. Students covered everything with foil in his office while he was on vacation. (John Cross/Associated Press/Mankato Free Press)
PROTESTS CONTINUE: A Kashmiri Muslim protester threw a burning effigy of Jammu and Kashmir state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during a protest Friday in Srinagar, India. The region has dealt with curfews and strikes over the past month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
BOMB BLAST: Iraqi security forces walked past a burned car Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday after an explosion that seriously wounded the city’s police chief, Borhan Habib Tayeb, and killed his son. (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images)
POWERED BY THE BREEZE: Wind turbines developed by Fuji Heavy Industries and Hitachi operated at the Wind Power Kamisu wind farm Friday in Kamisu City, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News)
STRUGGLING UPSTREAM: A Pakistani villager struggled to reach his village through flooding caused by heavy monsoon rain in Bakhtiarabad, north of Quetta, Pakistan. The flash floods have killed at least 30 people. (Fida Hussain/Associated Press)
NO SHORTAGE OF SECURITY: U.S. Army First Sgt. Buddy Hartlaub, of the 1st Battalion, 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, aimed a sniper rifle on insurgent positions Thursday at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
TAKING WHAT THEY CAN: Residents of Lahore, Pakistan, carried their belongings through floodwaters after salvaging them from their partially submerged tents Thursday. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
STILL RECOVERING: A resident bathed in front of his improvised tent on a street known as Route des Rails in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Edward Munoz/Reuters)
FATAL FIRE: A firefighter looked at damage at a home in New York’s Staten Island Thursday morning. The early-morning fire killed five people. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
TARGET PRACTICE: German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, right, talked to a German soldier, center, as an Armenian soldier took part in a drill during his visit to the air force training center at the “General Sponeck” Barracks in Germersheim, Germany, Thursday. (Mario Vedder/Associated Press)
FIXING UP: A Palestinian boy bought a bicycle tire Wednesday at a second-hand shop in an alley of Al-Amari refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
CONTINUING THE FIGHT: Palestinians scuffled with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Lubban al-Gharbi Wednesday after Israeli forces demolished two houses and four shops that had been built without the army’s permit near a road leading to the nearby Jewish settlement of Beit Arieh. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)
STREET LIFE: Children living in a wooden cart rested in a street in Manila on Wednesday. The Philippine government said it would give money directly to poor families in an effort to fight a sharp rise in the number of Filipinos enduring severe hunger. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
SUMMIT GUARD: Facing Lake Victoria, an Ugandan soldier sat guard outside the 15th African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda. Most African heads of state will be in Uganda for the summit between July 25 and 27. (Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency)
PROTEST: Kashmiri protesters shouted freedom slogans in Pampore, on the outskirts of Sringar, India, Wednesday. Indian Kashmir has been under a rolling curfew and suffering strikes for nearly a month after anti-India street protests and clashes surged in the region. (Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press)
OFF THE TRACK: A fire fighter looked a damaged train car of the Glacier Express tourist train after it derailed Friday near Fiesch, Switzerland, leaving at last 15 people injured. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Associated Press)
HARVESTING TIME: A Spanish farmer lifted a hay bale during the harvest at a field in Antequera, Mexico. Spanish farmers have harvested about 70% of the country’s wheat crop and 60% of its barley. (Jon Nazca/Reuters)
BRACING FOR THE STORM: Magva Balbuena walked on Hollywood Beach Friday. Rain and wind are expected this weekend in Florida and the Gulf as Tropical Storm Bonnie heads through Florida. (Walter Michot/Associated Press/The Miami Herald)
WILD RIDE: Members of the Belgian roller-coaster fan club, “Rollercoasterfriends” rode the new “Curse of Novgorod” at the Hansa Park in Sierksdorf, Germany. (Julian Stratenschulte/ZUMApress.com)
SCENIC PRAYER: Worshipers prayed outside a church on the summit of Mount Moses during sunrise at the Sinai Peninsula. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
HAULED OUT: Indian security personnel removed an opposition member of the Legislative Assembly after he was expelled from the Bihar Legislative Assembly in Patna on Wednesday. (Sonu Kishan/AFP/Getty Images)
IN TUNE: A Pakistani vendor fixed a used keyboard, one of many imported from Europe and on sale at his shop in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday. (Shakil Adil/Associated Press)
FISH FEST: A fisherman tried to pack his net with sardines as hundred of people rushed to the beach to catch thousands of the fish arriving on the shore in Durban, South Africa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images)
HIGH HEAT: Tampa Bay Rays’ Jason Bartlett fell backward to avoid being hit by a pitch thrown by Baltimore Orioles pitcher Alfredo Simon during the 11th inning Tuesday night in Baltimore. The Orioles won 11-10 in 13 innings. (Rob Carr/Associated Press)
OVER-MATCHED: Policemen beat a Rashtriya Janata Dal party supporter during a protest in Patna, India, Thursday. Activists of the RJD students’ wing clashed with police while demonstrating against the physical removal of opposition lawmakers from the Bihar assembly. (Prashant Ravi/Associated Press)
GAME OVER: Police officers destroyed video games Thursday at a construction site in Kunming, in China’s Yunnan province. (ZUMApress.com)
PARKING PROBLEM: Hundreds of Xiali cars sat on an open parking lot Thursday in Tianjin, north China. More than 10,000 Xiali economy cars are distributed to all parts of the country from the parking lot of First Auto Work. (ZUMApress.com)
POLLUTED WATERS: Dead fish floated in the waters of the lake of Jal Mahal, also known as “Water Palace,” in Jaipur, capital of India’s desert state of Rajasthan Thursday. Pollution has killed large numbers of fish in the lake. (Reuters)
BA-AH-AH-AHD TRAFFIC: Sheep ran among cyclists during stage 17 of the Tour De France from Pau to Tourmalet Pass Thursday. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)
COUNCIL UNREST: Bell, Calif., resident Carmen Bella yelled at City Council members Monday at a meeting over city leaders’ pay. Council members voted to cut their salaries by 90%. Some made nearly $100,000 for their part-time jobs; the city manager made nearly $800,000. (Chris Pizzello/Associated Press)
OUT OF ORDER: BP gas pumps sat unused in London Tuesday after Greenpeace activists took over 46 local stations in a protest timed with BP’s quarterly report. (Zed Jameson/National News/ZUMA Press)
LANDSLIDE: Heavy rains caused a landslide that collapsed buildings in Sichuan province, China, Tuesday. At least 21 people were missing and about 4,000 villagers were evacuated. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)
DOCUMENTATION: A North Korean soldier photographed U.S. soldiers Tuesday in the border village of Panmunjom as South Korean and U.S. troops conducted joint exercises. (Song Kyung-Seok/Getty Images)
IN COMMAND: U.S. Army Second Lt. John Keller of Downingtown, Pa., directed mortar fire toward insurgents during clashes in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Tuesday. Meanwhile, NATO confirmed the body of one of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week has been found. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
DARK WATERS: A worker paddled his boat as he cleaned up oil near Dalian Port, Liaoning province, China, Tuesday. A pipeline explosion and fire Friday spilled about 1,500 tons of crude into the Yellow Sea. (Reuters)
OUT OF GAS: A driver pushed his van at a gas station in Athens Tuesday, on the second day of a fuel-truck driver strike. The drivers are protesting an overhaul of licensing rules. (Evi Zoupanou/Associated Press)
THROUGH THE FIRE: A woman walked by burning barricades set up during a protest Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, against the government’s lack of help in rebuilding after a January earthquake. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)
COVERED UP: A woman covered her face with her sari as a municipal worker (unseen) fumigated against malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Mumbai Tuesday. (European Pressphoto Agency)
PRISON PAIN: Inmates squirmed as they received free dental services at the Quezon City Jail in the Philippines Tuesday. The Public Attorney’s Office also conducted medical, legal and other programs. (Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
LEFT HOMELESS: Bedouins prayed after Israeli authorities demolished their homes in al-Arakib, north of Beersheba, Israel, Tuesday. Officials said the homes were illegally built in the Negev desert and evicted about 300 Bedouins. (Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
MUD BATH: A boy played in the mud on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday. Monsoon rains are hitting different parts of the country. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
PITCHING IN: Women did their part to battle a wildfire Tuesday near Rebordelo, Portugal, while more than 1,200 firefighters battled more than a dozen wildfires in heat-stricken Portugal. (Paulo Duarte/Associated Press)
ROOM TO BREATHE: A couple wore face masks in smog while walking through Moscow’s Red Square during a heat wave. (Andrey Smirnov/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
PRESENTING FLAGS: In Washington Tuesday, Korean War veterans and Korean War Veterans Association honor guard members marked the 57th anniversary of the Korean War cease-fire. (Shawn Thew/European Pressphoto Agency)
FOLDED FLAGS: An honor guard held American flags to be given to relatives of Staff Sgt. Edwardo Loredo at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Loredo, of Houston, was killed June 24 by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
COPTER CRASH: Afghan National Army soldiers stood guard alongside an International Security Assistance Force Chinook helicopter, which crashed in an eastern district of Kabul on Monday. Four passengers sustained minor injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
IN NEED OF HELP: A man carried a boy injured during a blast in Pabbi near Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. At least eight people, including three policemen, were killed and dozens of others injured in a suicide blast outside a provincial minister’s residence Monday. (ZUMApress.com)
PREPARING TO DEFEND: Philippine policemen wore protective armor as they prepared to secure the House of Representatives for the State of the Nation address in Manila on Monday. Thousands of protesters are expected to march to demand the new government prosecute former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
OVERCROWDED: Hindu devotees traveled on the roof of a train after participating in Guru Purnima Festival in Mathura, India, Monday. (ZUMApress.com)
BRIDGE BARGE: The new Willis Avenue Bridge, resting on barges, passed the Brooklyn Bridge as it was towed up the East River in New York on Monday. The 350-foot, 2,400-ton span will replace the 109-year-old existing bridge that connects Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. (Peter Morgan/Associated Press)
PLAY TIME: Children played in water pipes at a construction site on the banks of Yamuna River Monday in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
STANDING TALL: A U.S. Navy sailor held the tip of an F-18 Super Hornet onboard the USS Harry S. Truman as the carrier sailed in the Northern Arabian Sea on Monday. (Mazen Mahdi/European Pressphoto Agency)
SUCCESSFUL SURGERY: Oscar, right, who underwent a full-face transplant in April following an accident, posed with Dr. Joan Barret as he appeared in public for the first time in a news conference at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. A 30-member medical team led by Dr. Barret carried out the transplant. (David Ramos/Associated Press)
MEETING WITH THE LAW: Texas Gov. Rick Perry greeted sheriffs before he participated in a law enforcement conference at the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, Monday. (Paul Moseley/Associated Press/Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
FLOODED PATH: A resident rode a bike in a street submerged by flooding in Wenling, a city in east China’s Zhejian Province. (Zhou Xuejun/Associated Press)
RUNNING AWAY: A policeman ran while a fire blazed at a road near Palmela, Portugal. (Rafael Marchante/Reuters)
REFRESHING BREAK: A boy cooled himself off in a river covered with duckweed in Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. Duckweed, prevalent now due to hot weather, has blanketed many rivers in Jiaxing. (ZUMApress.com)
NEW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: Men rode their donkeys as they competed in a race in Houla village in southern Lebanon. (Sharif Karim/Reuters)
BOTTLE BOAT: Plastiki, a boat made of 12,500 reclaimed soft drink bottles, approached Sydney Harbor in Australia Monday. The vessel was arriving from San Francisco after a four-month voyage. (ZUMApress.com)
At the scene of a small apartment fire, firefighter Jim Lanigan from Ladder 5 resuscitates a puppy. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)
A parking garage collapsed in Hackensack, NJ with two people still inside. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)
The victim of a homicide is removed from 175 West 87th Street in Manhattan Monday, July 19, 2010. (David Goldman for the Wall Street Journal)
Bibi McGill, 12, a student at the National Dance Institute summer program, stretches before rehearsal. The National Dance Institute offers a summer program for elementary and middle schoolers from New York City public schools. (Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal)
During a doubles match facing Andy Roddick, John McEnroe contests a line call and then sulks on the sideline during a World Team Tennis Match that took place on Randall’s Island. (David Turnley for The Wall Street Journal)
New York Yankee PA Announcer Paul Oden announces the starting line ups before the Yankee game against the Los Angeles Angels last night. (David Turnley for The Wall Street Journal)
Red Bull forward Thierry Henry fights for the ball during a practice session at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (Emile Wamsteker for The Wall Street Journal)
Joey King, who’s playing Ramona in “Ramona and Beezus” takes a trip to the top of the Empire State Building on July 21. (Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal)
Robert Steel (left) and Manuel Guzman (right) sells their prints in Union Square, in addition to displaying signs in protest of the new legislation limiting the artists rights to sell their work in the public park and also saying that what the government was trying to do is illegal. (Julie Platner for The Wall Street Journal)
A police officer walks around the perimeter of a vehicle struck by a New Jersey transit bus (seen in background) after a multi-vehicle accident at 16th Avenue and Fairmount in Newark, New Jersey, Thursday, July 22, 2010. A driver of an SUV talking on a cell phone ran a red light, collided with a New Jersey transit bus, the driver of which lost control and struck two other vehicles. There were numerous injuries, but no reported deaths. (Emile Wamsteker for The Wall Street Journal)
3,000 athletes participated in the 2010 Nautica New York City Triathlon held on the west side of Manhattan, New York City on July 18, 2010. Tri-athletes congregated from all over the world to participate in the event, which is composed of a 1.5 km swim, bike course, and a 10km run. (Ty Cacek for The Wall Street Journal)
Donning a respirator mask, Sous Chef Wahid Baig displays the famous Phaal Curry at a Brick Lane Curry in Little India, NYC on July 20th, 2010. Getting a whiff of fumes as the curry is heated up is enough to make your insides burn. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)
A diver vaults from the board during warm-ups in the diving portion of the 85th annual Westchester County Swimming and Diving Championships at Sprain Ridge Park in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, on Monday, July 26, 2010. (Suzy Allman for The Wall Street Journal)
NYPD officers search a crime scene where a 3 year old girl was shot shortly after 10 PM in Brooklyn on Sunday, July 25, 2010. (Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal)
A painter works at the site of the recently painted concrete at Times Square on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (Ross Mantle/The Wall Street Journal)
New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez pulls out second base as he slides in for a double in the sixth inning in a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)
Dark clouds form over Rockaway Beach in Queens bringing rain and high winds, forcing many to leave on Sunday, July 25, 2010. (Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal)
Fedora Dorato, 90, walks down the steps of her West Village apartment to the restaurant she has owned for the last 58 years. At the end of this week, Fedora is transferring ownership of her restaurant and bar. Friday, July 23, 2010. (Bryan Berballa for The Wall Street Journal)
Charlie Haden’s 8:30 set at Birdland on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal)
Fans cheer on the Mets from section 510 during their afternoon game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Citifield in Queens on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (Ross Mantle/The Wall Street Journal)
Storm damage in Riverdale, Bronx on Sunday, July 25, 2010. (Alfred Giancarli for The Wall Street Journal)
Caitlin Scranton and Ty Bommershine of Lucinda Childs Dance perform during the free performance at Neslon A Rockafeller Park to pay tribute to the one year anniversary of Merce Cunningham’s death on Monday, July 26, 2010. (Paul Quitoriano for The Wall Street Journal)
The new Willis Avenue Bridge passes under the Manhattan Bridge with the help of two barges from Jersey City, N.J., to its new home on the Harlem River. The bridge is 350 feet long and weighs 2,400 tons. Monday, July 26, 2010. (Bryan Derballa for the Wall Street Journal)
Human art installations at the 17th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit at The Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY on Saturday, July 24, 2010. (Gordon M. Grant for The Wall Street Journal)
THROUGH THE FIRE: Firefighters battled a wildfire near Leona Valley, Calif., Thursday. Flames up to 50 feet high threatened the community and others. (Jonathan Alcorn/ZUMA Press)
DEMO TIME: Officials demolished a seven-story illegally built structure along a river in Hubei province, China, Thursday. (ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA Press)
RAW RAGE: Locals vandalized a car during clashes with police in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday. Rioting erupted after U.S. contractors were involved in a traffic accident that killed four Afghans, according to local authorities. (Yuri Cortez/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
COWERING: Police charged a protester during clashes with thousands of garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday. The garment workers rioted a day after the government raised the minimum wage to $45 from $25 a month. (Munir Uz Zaman/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
ROCKET REMAINS: Israeli police handled the remains of a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip into Ashkelon, Israel, Friday. The strike caused no damage and was the first in a period of relative quiet. (David Buimovitch/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
MASKED: Palestinian and foreign activists protested Friday in Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, West Bank, against the use of Palestinian land for Jewish settlements. (Abbas Momani/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
TEAM WORK: Residents used buckets to scoop water from their house on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods that have killed at least 430 people. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)
RICE SACKS: A man handled bags of rice at a government warehouse in Quezon City, Philippines, Friday. The world’s biggest rice importer is now “swimming” in the staple grain because of massive imports by the previous government that drove world prices to record highs. (Pat Roque/Associated Press)
FIRE AFTERMATH: Women cried near a burnt house in Voronezh, Russia, Friday. Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency as more than 10,000 firefighters labored during the country’s hottest summer on record. At least 25 people have died in the past two days from forest fires, officials said. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
DETAINED: More than 1,000 undocumented workers sat at an immigration detention center in Bangkok as authorities announced their arrests at a news conference Friday. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
LOW VISIBILITY: A U.S. medical helicopter arrived to evacuate a soldier who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an explosive device in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Friday. NATO announced that six U.S. troops died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)
FOLLOW THE LEADER: A rescue member of the People’s Liberation Army held a sign that read “Follow me” during a demonstration Friday near Beijing to show the role of China’s army in international humanitarian missions. (Diego Azubel/European Pressphoto Agency)
RELATIVE CRIES: A relative of one of three men fatally shot by soldiers during pro-independence protests cried in an ambulance in Srinagar, India, Friday. (Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency)
CIGARETTES SWIRL: Customs officials prepared to destroy smuggled tobacco goods at a dump on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, Friday. Millions of smuggled cigarettes were destroyed. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)
CHILDREN POSE: Children posed for a picture at the Korean War memorial in Seoul Friday. Military officers from North Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command met Friday for a third round of talks about the deadly sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, blamed on North Korea. (Ahn Young-joon/Associated Press)
DRESS STRESS: Bride-to-be Lauren Cechak and her mother, Elaine Cechak, showed distaste for a wedding gown during an annual sale at Filene’s Basement in Bethesda, Md., Friday. Hundreds of brides lined up early for the sale. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
SMOOTH SAILING: British athlete Jessica Ennis competed in a high jump at the 2010 European Athletics Championships at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona Friday. (Emilio Naranjo/European Pressphoto Agency)
RANGEL RILED: Reporters thronged U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) on Capitol Hill Thursday. An ethics subcommittee charged Mr. Rangel with 13 counts of violating House rules. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters)
PULLING WEED: Drug Enforcement Agency agent Eileen Zeidler carried marijuana plants as she and others from the San Diego County Narcotics Task Force cut and pulled heavy brush along a roadway in San Pasqual Valley, Calif., Wednesday. (The San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA Press)
AIN’T NO FENCE WIDE ENOUGH: A woman talked with her husband through the fence that separates Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Mexico, Wednesday. A federal judge blocked key provisions in Arizona’s immigration law before they were to take effect Thursday. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)
HOLDING ON: Residents scrambled to safety in the flood-hit area of Nowshera, Pakistan, Thursday. At least 113 people have died and thousands more have been made homeless by flash floods triggered by torrential rains, officials said. (A. Majeed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
IMMIGRATION DEMONSTRATION: About 300 immigrant advocates marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Thursday to protest Arizona’s tough immigration law. Demonstrators held signs that read “Do I Look Illegal?” and chanted “We are America.” (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
IN TREATMENT: U.S. forces treated an Afghan National Police officer who was shot during a clash with the Taliban in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Thursday. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)
MEN AT WORK: Men worked on an apartment building Wednesday in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of a project that aims to accommodate the country’s growing population. (Jefri Aries/ZUMA Press)
ASSESSING THE SITUATION: A policeman stood Thursday at the site where an Airblue Airbus plane crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday. All 152 aboard were killed. Heavy monsoon rains have hampered recovery efforts. (Andrees Latif/Reuters)
PUSHING ON: A striking truck driver pushed a cart with the Greek flag in front of the transport ministry in Athens Thursday. Police used tear gas to disperse protesters. The government ordered truckers back to work amid fuel-shortage and other concerns. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
FLYING KITES: Palestinian children in Gaza City tried to break their own world record Thursday for the number of kites flown simultaneously at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Summer Games. (Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
BEHIND BARS: Putri Munawaroh was sentenced Thursday in Jarkarta, Indonesia, to three years in prison for harboring terrorists who attacked hotels. Police arrested the then-21-year-old pregnant woman during a 2009 shootout, in which she was wounded. Her son lives with her in prison. (Abek Berry/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
COOLING OFF: Soldiers rested after reinforcing a dam in Dujiatai, Hubei province, China, Wednesday. The fans were donated by villagers to help the soldiers cool off. Floods this year have killed at least 928 people, left 477 missing and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, according to a government agency. Heavy rains are expected through Friday. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
HOT IN MOSCOW: A man slept in the shade of an umbrella near the Kremlin in Moscow Thursday. A record weeks-long heat wave has caused forest fires, forced evacuations and increased smog. The temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit Thursday. (Andrey Smirnov/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
CRASH SCENE: Rescue workers searched for survivors after an Airblue jet carrying 152 people veered off course in monsoon rains and crashed near Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, killing everyone on board. (Adil Khan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
FACTORY EXPLOSION: Residents carried a man injured in a plastics-factory explosion in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, Wednesday. At least 12 people were killed and scores injured. (China Daily/Reuters)
PACKING UP: Residents moved belongings Wednesday from their homes damaged in a landslide in Sichuan province, China. At least 21 people have been missing since Tuesday. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)
ADMINISTERING TREATMENT: Air Force Staff Sgt. Brenden Patterson, center, and two U.S. soldiers, treated an Afghan boy who stepped on an improvised explosive device, severing his right foot and most of one hand in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Wednesday. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)
BUCKING TRADITION: Lawmakers and spectators clapped after a law was passed to abolish bullfighting in Catalonia, Spain, Wednesday. The northeastern region became the second in Spain to forbid bullfighting after the Canary Islands outlawed it in 1991. (David Ramos/Associated Press)
DESTROYED BY FIRE: Flames smoldered Tuesday in Tehachapi, Calif., where a 1,400-acre wildfire burned as many as 40 homes and caused evacuations. (Felix Adamo/The Californian via Associated Press)
QUADRUPLE HAPPINESS: Newborn quadruplets delivered by Caesarean section lay at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province, China, Wednesday. (Reuters)
LEAVING CUBA: Released political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya, center, waited with his wife and her son at a Havana airport to travel to Miami Wednesday. Mr. Sigler served more than seven years of a 25-year sentence for working with the U.S. to destabilize Cuba. Mr. Sigler and U.S. officials deny the claim. (Enrique De La Osa/Reuters)
HALTED: Traffic moved along a fence separating Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Mexico, Tuesday. On Wednesday, a federal judge blocked some provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law, which were set to take effect Thursday. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)
GREEN LAKE: A Kashmiri man fished in Dal Lake in Srinagar, India, Wednesday. (Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press)
RUB A DUB: A girl bathed in a bucket near a railway in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday. (Crack Palinggi/Reuters)
YOUNG OBSERVERS: Boys looked at the site of a bombing in Baghdad’s Sadr City Wednesday. Two midmorning bombings in Baghdad killed six people and injured 15 others in the eastern Shiite slum, officials said. (Shehab Ahmed/European Pressphoto Agency)
GOV LOVE: Patti Blagojevich reached back toward her husband, impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, as he greeted supporters on the first day of jury deliberations Wednesday in Chicago in his corruption trial. He’s accused of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s Senate seat. (Tannen Maury/European Pressphoto Agency)
SOUND THE HORN: Ultra Orthodox Jewish men blew shofars during a protest Wednesday against a company that protesters say plans to remove ancient tombs to construct a new building in Jaffa, Israel. (Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
SCOUTS SALUTE: More than 45,000 Boy Scouts saluted during the national anthem at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree near Bowling Green, Va., Wednesday. The Boy Scouts are celebrating 100 years. (Cherie Cullen/Department of Defense via Associated Press)
END OF THE MONTH.....CONTINUE TO AUGUST 2010.....WAIT FOR ME.... A NEW DAY IN HISTORY
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