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AFP - Tue Jul 18, 7:58 PM ET
Dive In : Diver Erick Fornaris competes at the Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. (AFP/Rodrigo Arangua) -
Reuters - Mon Jul 17, 8:58 AM ET
A boy jumps from a diving platform in the open air bath 'Westbad' in Munich July 17, 2006. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 8:56 PM ET
Dry wheat : Spikes of wheat with poor grains are seen on a field in Sdier, eastern Germany, 19 July 2006. Farmers in the eastern federal state of Saxonia expect crop losses of up to 25 per cent for wheat, rye and barley due to the ongoing drought. (AFP/Norbert Millauer) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 8:52 PM ET
Bad reflection : Israeli Muslim Arabs are reflected in a broken mirror as they gather to check the impact of a rocket fired by Hezbollah which slammed into the nearby street killing three people in the northern city of Nazareth. (AFP/Yoav Lemmer) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 8:51 PM ET
Clowns at Mass : Members of the Club of Mexican Circus Clowns and Artists attend a mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe after carrying out their 27th Annual Pilgrimage to worship the Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. (AFP/Luis Acosta) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 8:49 PM ET
Up for air : Susana Escobar of Mexico competes in the 1500 meter race at los XX Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. (AFP/Rodrigo Arangua) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 7:59 PM ET
Pack in a tunnel : The pack rides through a tunnel during the 182 km sixteenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Bourg d'Oisans to La Toussuire. (AFP/Franck Fife) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 7:55 PM ET
Blow Horn : US artist Roy Hargrove performs during the opening of the Nice Jazz Festival. (AFP/Valery Hache) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 7:52 PM ET
Broken Window : An Israeli police sapper checks a bus hit by a katyusha style rocket fired across the Lebanese-Israeli border by Hezbollah guerrllias hitting an bulding under construction in the northern port city of Haifa. (AFP/Yoav Lemmer) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Jul 19, 7:49 PM ET
Hungry Monkey : A Hulman langur enjoys a tutti-frutti ice bomb with frozen fruit. With temperatures reaching more than 30 centigrades in Germany, all types of cooling down are welcome for animals as well as for man. (AFP/DDP/Jonchen Luebke) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 7:46 PM ET
Chateau Sunset : Picture of the sunset on the Mont-St-Michel. (AFP/Mychele Daniau) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 7:42 PM ET
Stage Finish : Denmark's Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank/Ned) celebrates as he crosses the finish line of the 182 km sixteenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Bourg d'Oisans to La Toussuire. (AFP/Pascal Guyot) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 7:37 PM ET
Down Mountain : Germany's Jens Voigt (CSC/Den) rides downhill during the 182 km sixteenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Bourg d'Oisans to La Toussuire. (AFP/Javier Soriano) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Jul 19, 7:29 PM ET
Wet Hat : Eight-year old Marlon refreshes with a cap of water. Meteorologists in Germany are warning their countrymen that Thursday (20 July) could be the hottest day in the year at 38 C, and July as a whole could be the hottest month in a century. (AFP/DDP/Johannes Eisele) -
AFP - Wed Jul 19, 9:11 AM ET
Let the pigeon go : A Lebanese Shiite man frees a pigeon from the rubble of a destroyed house in Beirut's eastern Shouwayfat suburb as Israeli attacks on Lebanon continues for the seventh consecutive day. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar) -
AP - Mon Jul 17, 4:14 PM ET
A polar bear blows bubbles as he lays in a pond, Monday, July 17, 2006, at the Cleveland MetroParks Zoo, in Cleveland. It took half a summer to get here, but Ohio is into its first heat wave of the year. Temperatures of 90-95 were expected across the nation and throughout Ohio on Monday with the potential to break records of 91 in Mansfield and 93 in Youngstown, said Mike Dutter, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) -
Reuters - Wed Jul 19, 7:46 PM ET
A bee flies under some blossoms while collecting pollen from a butterfly bush in Wilmington, Delaware, July 19, 2006. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES) -
Reuters - Wed Jul 19, 11:30 AM ET
A dog licks an ice-cream cone during the heatwave in Skegness, eastern England, July 19, 2006. In Britain, Wednesday's temperatures were expected to top 37 degrees Celcius (98.6 Fahrenheit), hitting an all-time high for July. REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN) -
Reuters - Tue Jul 18, 5:22 AM ET
A street vendor sells paper flowers at Narayanghat, 200 km (124 miles) south of Kathmandu, July 18, 2006. REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar (NEPAL) -
Reuters - Tue Jul 18, 5:42 AM ET
Lightning strikes above the Luxor Hotel and Casino during a thunderstorm in Las Vegas, Nevada July 17, 2006. The Mandalay Bay Resort is at left. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES) -
Day in pictures: 19 July 2006
South Korean workers with iron pipes face riot police during a rally supporting strikers near the headquarters of steelmaker Posco in Pohang, south of Seoul. -
Children play in water jets as temperatures in Paris soar to 36C, as a heatwave spreads to the north. -
An Afghan woman walks past a newly-built house next to a shattered building which was destroyed in 1992. -
A displaced Shia girl looks through the window of her cane-made home at a camp in a public square on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad. -
Indian traffic policemen help a woman catch a bus at a water-logged street in Kolkata, after a record overnight 18cm (7in) of rain pounded the city, flooding most of its streets.