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Drinkers enjoy refreshments at the world's longest bar with a counter stretching for 150 metres (492 feet) in Tokyo, Japan. -
South Korea's KJ Choi chips the ball during a practice session at the British Open Golf Championships in Hoylake, in Liverpool. -
A worker stacks empty oil drums at a yard in Tangshan city, east of Beijing. -
Demonstrators calling for a moratorium on illegal immigrant deportations used a fire hydrant to cool off in Chicago amid stifling temperatures. -
A 12-ft Burmese python called Houdini spent two hours on an operating table in Ketchum, Idaho after swallowing an electrical blanket. Houdini survived the mishap. -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:47 PM ET
Face paint and stare : A youth with her face painted waits to participate in a show of dance folklor that is offered to the delegations of the 32 member countries of the XX Central American and Caribbean Sports Play. (AFP/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:41 PM ET
New home : A Venetian Gondola makes its way along the Little Venice stretch of canals 21 July 2006 in London UK. The Gondola called, Rosanna has been shipped from Italy after serving over 30 years on the Venetian canals and will now be taking locals and tourists on trips on London's canals. (AFP/Shaun Curry) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:38 PM ET
Tasty ice cube : A polar bear refreshes with a giant mackerel sauce flavour ice cube at the La Fleche zoo, western France. This treatment was set up by the Zoo aides to help the animals to better deal with the current heatwave. (AFP/Jean Francois Monier) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:28 PM ET
Painted protest : A demonstrator with his face painted in the colours of the Lebanese flag shouts slogans during a protest by Kuwaiti and Arab people against the Israeli offensive against Lebanon and the Palestinians, in front of Kuwait's National Assembly. (AFP/?Yasser Al-Zayyat) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:24 PM ET
Floyd drips : USA's Floyd Landis (Phonak/Swi) spreads water on his head during the 197 km eighteenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Morzine to Macon. (AFP/Javier Soriano) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 8:16 PM ET
Pedal power : The breakaway riders pedal during the 197 km eighteenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Morzine to Macon. (AFP/Javier Soriano) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 7:56 PM ET
Bird court : A budgerigar is seen at the tennis court during the Mercedes-Cup ATP tennis tournament's quarter final match between Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador and Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic in Stuttgart. (AFP/Oliver Lang) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 7:52 PM ET
British Beach : A general view of the beach adjacent to the Royal Liverpool golf course is pictured as Tiger Woods takes an early lead during the second round of the 135th British Open Golf Championships in Hoylake, in Liverpool, in north-west England. (AFP/Paul Ellis) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 7:44 PM ET
Counting on the vote : Congolese children play at the Nyongera IDP Camp, in Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo. Some 25.6 million of the DRC's 60 million inhabitants will vote 30 July in 50,000 polling stations across a nation that is the size of Western Europe but has hardly any infrastructure. The poll is seen as a key step in bringing lasting peace to the enormous, war-scarred country. (AFP/Jose Cendon) -
AFP - Fri Jul 21, 7:41 PM ET
Bomb launch : An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a 155mm shell towards Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon to support their ground special forces. (AFP/Dennis Sinyakov) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:47 PM ET
Comforting a tiny evacuee : An Italian national holds his child as people wait to board and Italian military ship to flee Lebanon from Beirut's port. (AFP/Patrick Baz) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:44 PM ET
Night raid : A plume of smoke is seen over buildings following an Israeli night air raid on a Beirut southern neighborhood. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:32 PM ET
Cleaning time : "Thug," one of London zoos' two pygmy hippos, opens wide to have his teeth brushed and checked by a keeper in their enclosure at the zoo. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:21 PM ET
Momentarily headless : The gymnist Katherine Coronel of Venezuela performs her routine during the rhythmic gymnastics competition at the 20th Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. (AFP/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:17 PM ET
Off the platform : Cuban diver Jose Guerra preforms a dive from the 10 meter platform during the 20th Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. (AFP/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:12 PM ET
Passing yam story : Rebecca Richards from Sotheby's walks past an aboriginal artwork titled "Yam Story III" by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, in Sydney. (AFP/Greg Wood) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:10 PM ET
Nasty bunker : Geoff Ogilvy of Australia chips from a bunker on the opening day of the 135th British Open Golf Championships in Hoylake, in Liverpool, in north-west England. (AFP/Carl de Souza) -
AFP - Thu Jul 20, 8:04 PM ET
Washing away a bad day : American Floyd Landis (Phonak/Swi) pours water on his head while riding during the 200.5 km seventeenth stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Morzine. (AFP/Franck Fife) -
Reuters - Sun Jul 16, 1:52 PM ET
A man swims in the Mediterranean sea off the west coast of the Balearic island of Mallorca July 16, 2006. REUTERS/Dani Cardona (SPAIN) -
AP - Thu Jul 20, 5:34 PM ET
A hummingbird tastes the pollen of this Gloriosa rothschildiana or Glory Lily, as it is commonly known, Thursday, July 20, 2006, near Archer, Fla. This flower grows by tendrils on the ends of slender leaves and reaches hights of 6 to 7 feet and is a favorite of hummingbirds and butterflies. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)