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AFP - Wed Jul 26, 4:37 PM ET
Final touch : A worker paints the hull Greek ferry "Orient Queen" chartered by the US government to evacuate US nationals fleeing Lebanon at Beirut's port. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri) -
AFP - Wed Jul 26, 4:32 PM ET
Walk through the rubble : A Lebanese man walks through the rubble and debris caused by Israeli air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar) -
AFP - Wed Jul 26, 4:28 PM ET
Altogether now... : Members of the Mexican synchronized swimming team execute their routine during the event's qualifying heats at the XX games for Central American and the Caribbean in Cartagena. (AFP/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP - Wed Jul 26, 8:33 AM ET
Keeping watch : A rebel keeps watch as General Laurent Nkunda gives a press point near Kitchanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP/Jose Cendon) -
Reuters - Wed Jul 26, 7:16 AM ET
A city zoo employee cuddles a six-month old baby bear named Tony in Sofia, July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Nikolay Doychinov (BULGARIA) -
AFP - Tue Jul 25, 12:34 PM ET
A young lady tries to ride her bicycle in the fresh water of a fountain in Bordeaux, southwestern France. Europeans struggled through another day of blazing sunshine and rising temperatures as a heatwave that has killed about 40 people in the last two weeks intensified.(AFP/Patrick Bernard) -
AP - Wed Jul 26, 5:04 AM ET
Genia Kuehmeier in the role of Pamina, right, and Christian Gerhaher as Papageno perform during a dress rehearsal for Wolfgang Amaeus Mozart's opera 'Die Zauberfloete' (The Magic Flute), on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, in Salzburg, Austria. Premiere of the opera, conducted by Ricardo Muti is on Saturday, July 29, as part of the Salzburg Festival. (AP Photo/Andreas Schaad) -
Day in pictures: 26 July 2006
Residents in the Bosnian town of Tuzla face thunderstorms and rain, a change in the weather offering a respite from a heatwave which has hit much of Europe. -
A Rex acoustic guitar used by Paul McCartney to learn his first chords is put on show before being auctioned on Friday in London when it is expected to fetch £100,000 ($184,000). -
Researchers excavate the skull of a mesopithecus - an extinct primate species - in Halkidiki, northern Greece. The skull is thought to be more than five million years old. -
Palestinians bury their dead after Israeli air strikes east of Gaza City kill at least 12 people, most of them militants. -
Residents of an old people's home eat ice-cream in the city of Leiden in the Netherlands, as Europe's continuing heatwave brings soaring temperatures. -
Tajik elders attend a ceremony to open a mountain tunnel built with Iranian financial help which will link the capital Dushanbe with the north of the country. -
Russia's Natalia Ishchenko gives a solo performance at a preliminary competition at the European Swimming Championships in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. -
A cyclist in the Indian capital Delhi is prepared for rain with the country's monsoon season well under way. -
A firefighting plane dumps water on a blaze at solvent factory in Lavrio, around 60km (40 miles) south of Athens, Greece. -
A baby zebra born in the early hours of Wednesday morning rests near its mother at Amsterdam Zoo. -
AFP - Thu Jul 27, 9:46 PM ET
Standing guard : A Congolese soldier part of the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) stands guard at the UN base in Walikale, in the northern Kivu Province. (AFP/Jose Cendon) -
AFP/DDP - Thu Jul 27, 9:45 PM ET
Iban's bath : Sumatra tiger "Iban" enjoys a bath to cool off at the zoo in Frankfurt/M. (AFP/DDP/Martin Oeser) -
AFP/DDP - Thu Jul 27, 9:45 PM ET
Shaking it off : Sumatra tiger "Iban" enjoys a bath to cool off at the zoo in Frankfurt/M. (AFP/DDP/Martin Oeser) -
AFP - Thu Jul 27, 9:43 PM ET
Fading daylight : The sun sets over Beirut. (AFP/Patrick Baz) -
AFP - Thu Jul 27, 9:43 PM ET
Zahra and her doll : Lebanese girl Zahra Awali, displaced from the southern Lebanese village of Tulin, carries her doll which she refused to leave behind fearing she might die under heavy Israeli bombs, as she and her family wait to be housed in a shelter in Sidon. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayat) -
AFP - Thu Jul 27, 9:43 PM ET
Grief in Gaza : A Palestinian girl is comforted by women during the funeral of seven-month-old Shahd Okal, her three-year-old sister Mary and their mother Asmaa, in Jabalia, Gaza City. (AFP/Hrvoje Polan) -
AFP/SCANPIX - Thu Jul 27, 9:43 PM ET
Hooping it up : 11-year-old Sofie Schwarz from Denmark attempts to break the children's world record, with eighty five hula hoop rings at the same time, in Copenhagen. (AFP/SCANPIX/Lars Helsinghof) -
AFP - Thu Jul 27, 9:42 PM ET
At the rally : Supporters cheer at a rally of DRCongo vice president and presidential candidate Jean Pierre Bemba, at Tata Raphael stadium in Kinshasa. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)