Barcelona, Spain: View of the inside of a hot air balloon during the 13th European balloon festival, at IgualadaPhotograph: Susi Saez/EPABaghlan province, Afghanistan: A displaced Pashtun woman covers her face during a meeting near the village of Kafta Khana. Hundreds of Pashtuns were forced by local Tajiks to leave their villagesPhotograph: Bela Szandelszky/APTegucigalpa, Honduras: A supporter of the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, walks along a wall Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Swabi, Pakistan: A girl holds her sibling while taking shelter at the Yar Hussain camp. Pakistan will start bringing home people displaced by fighting from next weekPhotograph: Faisal Mahmood/ReutersAccra, Ghana: A vendor folds T-shirts commemorating Barack Obama's planned visit to Ghana. Obama was due to arrive in Ghana today on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking officePhotograph: Rebecca Blackwell/APUrumqi, China: Troops do their morning exercise on the main square. The anger of weekend riots has given way to cold bitterness on both sides of the ethnic divide in Xinjiang provincePhotograph: Nir Elias/ReutersCologne, Germany: Nadua, a golden-bellied capuchin monkey, scratches his head at the zooPhotograph: Clemens Bilan/AFP/Getty ImagesSadr City, Iraq: People peer through a window to watch boys being circumcised. Some 200 boys were circumcised for free by medics at the Zahraa mosque, paid for through donations to the mosque during the past yearPhotograph: Ahmad Al-rubaye/AFP/Getty ImagesManila, Philippines: Masks cover the eyes of newborn babies afflicted with jaundice at a government-run maternity hospital. The Philippine congress has been debating a reproductive health bill that would promote family planning and provide health services to poor familiesPhotograph: Erik De Castro/ReutersTrujillo, Peru: Workers fill sacks with guano at Macabi island. Guano is an organic fertiliser once found in abundance on more than 20 islands off the Peruvian coastline, where the dry climate preserves the droppings of seabirds. Extraction has resumed after a 10-year break, with the bird population having climbed from 3.2 million to 4 million in the last two years – compared to 60 million in the first years of the guano rush in the 19th centuryPhotograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty ImagesPamplona, Spain: A participant runs ahead of a Jandilla fighting bull named Capuchino, on the fourth bull run of the San Fermin festivalPhotograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty ImagesSantiago de Cuba, Cuba: Dancers perform during the annual Caribbean festival. The event features religious ceremonies, street shows, concerts, conferences and art exhibitsPhotograph: Javier Galeano/APRome, Italy: People near the Pantheon await the arrival of Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia, on a visit to Rome's oldest large-scale domePhotograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty ImagesVallejo, California: Odin, a white Bengal tiger, dives for a piece of meat at the opening of the Odin's Temple of the Tiger exhibit at Six Flags Discovery KingdomPhotograph: Russel A Daniels/APKoggala, Sri Lanka: Stick fishermen perch on stilts fixed to the ocean floorPhotograph: Gurinder Osan/APBeit Jala, West Bank: Palestinians release balloons during a protest against the Israeli barrier. It is the fifth anniversary of a ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague that Israel's construction of the barrier in the occupied West Bank was illegalPhotograph: Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters
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