Picture News
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AFP - Mon Aug 1,12:39 PM ET
Guarding the mausoleum : A Turkish honour guard stands in front of the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk in Ankara. (AFP/Tarik Tinazay) -
AFP/POOL - Mon Aug 1, 1:02 PM ET
Celebrating the CPLA : Dancers perform during a reception marking the 78th anniversary of the founding of the China's People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong. (AFP/POOL/Vincent Yu) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1, 3:49 PM ET
Quick refresher : A racehorse enjoys a cold shower after a training run in Sofia as a heatwave hits Bulgaria. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1, 3:51 PM ET
Selling gamchas : A Bangladeshi child vendor sits under his display of traditional towels or gamcha as he waits for customers on a street of Dhaka. (AFP/Farjana Godhuly) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1, 4:06 PM ET
Watching the rising waters : A young Indian girl perched on the window grille of her house looks at the rising rain water in a shanty town in Mumbai as monsoon rains hit the city anew. (AFP/Sebastian D'Souza) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1, 4:29 PM ET
Beach volleyball : An Albanian couple play volleyball on the beach as the sun sets over the city of Durres, some 45 kilometers in West of Tirana. (AFP/Gent Shkullaku) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1, 4:36 PM ET
Beach horse race : Two jokeys are silhouetted against the sunset after finishing the traditional beach race of Sanlucar de Barrameda, near Cadiz, southern Spain. (AFP/Jose Luis Roca) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1,12:46 PM ET
Children at play : Israeli children from the Gush Katif settlement bloc play with huge plastic bag at the beach of Shirat Hayam settlement in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Tali Tibbon) -
AFP - Tue Aug 2, 4:26 PM ET
Eiffel's leg : Tourists climb up and down the steps inside one of the Eiffel Tower's four legs in Paris. (AFP/Thomas Coex) -
AFP - Tue Aug 2, 3:57 PM ET
Flip flop galore : A Bangladeshi street vendor arranges a display of flip flops at his roadside stall in Dhaka. (AFP/Farjana Godhuly) -
AFP - Tue Aug 2, 4:12 PM ET
Very wet ride : An Indian milkman pushes his bicycle laden with supplies through the waterloggged Kalina area of Mumbai in the wake of torrential monsoon rains. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee) -
AFP - Wed Aug 3, 4:50 PM ET
Cattle herd : cows are being herded on La Constancia ranch, 130Km from Buenos Aires. (AFP/Daniel Garcia) -
AFP - Wed Aug 3, 4:54 PM ET
All aboard! : A conductor waits for a passengers as he stand in front of the 'Grand Express,' the first private luxury train-hotel at a railway station in Moscow. (AFP/Maxim Marmur) -
AFP - Thu Aug 4, 9:18 PM ET
Splash-N-Play : A boy beats the heat wave hitting the Eastern US with heat indexes over 100-degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius), by enjoying a water fountain jet at Planet Splash-N-Play, a water park in Chantilly, Virginia. (AFP/Paul J. Richards) -
AFP - Thu Aug 4, 9:33 PM ET
Battling the blaze : A villager tries to extinguish a wildfire in Fonte de Oleiro, close to Leiria, 140 Km north of Lisbon. (AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP - Thu Aug 4, 9:33 PM ET
Fun in Gaza : Israeli children from the Gush Katif settlements bloc play with foam, during a special day of fun, at the beachfront settlement of Shirat Hayam in the Gaza Strip, a few days before the start of the Israeli pullout from Gaza Strip. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
AFP - Thu Aug 4, 9:23 PM ET
Ball to the head : South Korean Yoo Young-Sil heads the ball during the East Asian Football Federation Women's Cup in Jeonju World Cup Stadium, 240 Km south of Seoul. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je) -
AFP - Thu Aug 4, 9:32 PM ET
Foam on the mind : Israeli children from the Gush Katif settlements bloc play with foam, during a special day of fun, at the beachfront settlement of Shirat Hayam in the Gaza Strip, a few days before the start of the Israeli pullout from Gaza Strip. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
A clean-up operation is under way in Taipei after Typhoon Matsa dumped heavy rains on Taiwan. -
Flood affected women stand in a queue for kerosene at a government public distribution centre in Mumbai, India. -
Further north, in Varanasi, a boy jumps off a flood-submerged temple in the River Ganges. -
In Paris, a customer enjoys a meal at the "Beurger King Muslim" - a new fast food restaurant designed for a Muslim clientele. -
Artists paint the side of a truck in Pakistan, where it is customary to attract more business by decorating vehicles. -
A baby giant anteater makes its first outing at London Zoo, which is admitting people with generous noses free of charge in its honour. -
Mourners light candles for four Israeli Arabs killed by a teenage Israeli gunman who opened fire on a bus.