Islamabad, Pakistan: Pasmeena Basheer, six, an Afghan refugee, holds on to her headscarf against the wind in the doorway of a home in a slum area Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/APBanyuls-sur-Mer, France: A woman hangs bras over a street as part of a protest against a private marina projectPhotograph: Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty ImagesLondon, UK: A Beefeater holds the Olympic flame in a lantern after its arrival by helicopter at the Tower of LondonPhotograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images
Gauhati, India: A girl rows a boat near her submerged house in Burhaburhi village, after continuous rainfall caused floodsPhotograph: Anupam Nath/APAurora, Colorado: Myia Young, four, places a candle by an American flag during a vigil for victims of a deadly shootingPhotograph: Jeremy Papasso/ReutersJakarta, Indonesia: Muslim women perform an evening prayer marking the first eve of Ramadan Photograph: Dita Alangkara/APLondon, UK: Visitors play on an inflatable Stonehenge on the Greenwich peninsula. The work by the Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller will tour the capital as part of Olympic celebrationsPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesMinsk, Belarus: An artist wearing national dress takes newly bound sheaves during celebrations marking the start of harvesting Photograph: Tatyana Zenkovich/EPAAzores, Portugal: Todor Spasov of Bulgaria dives 29 metres from a rock monolith during the first round of the third stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World SeriesPhotograph: Handout/Getty ImagesCallao, Peru: Riot police face illegal squatters at a shanty town in VentanillaPhotograph: Enrique Castro-mendivil/ReutersTegucigalpa, Honduras: A man is arrested for fighting in a neighbourhood with heavy gang violencePhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesJarablus, Syria: A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past a torn picture of President Bashar al-Assad at a border crossing near Turkey Photograph: ReutersBamako, Mali: Members of a self-defence militia calling itself the Front for the Liberation of the North train in SevarePhotograph: Reuters
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