Pamplona, Spain: A regional music band wearing red berets, the traditional colour for the festival, tries to march through the crowd as thousands of of people enjoy the celebrations during the 'Chupinazo'Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/APPamplona, Spain: Revellers hold up traditional red neckties during the 'Chupinazo', the official opening of the San Fermin fiestasPhotograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/APNawa, Afghanistan: A US marine, overcome by heat exhaustion, lies on a stretcher as he waits to be picked up by a medical evacuation helicopterPhotograph: David Guttenfelder/AP
Ramallah, West Bank: A Palestinian girl holds up her doll as she plays with her relatives and friends in an alley of al-Amari refugee campPhotograph: Muhammed Muheisen/APSwabi, Pakistan: A young Pakistani boy, internally displaced from Swat, gathers bricks left over from the construction of a new kitchen at the Yar Hussain UNHCR camp in ChotaPhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesLuang Prabang, Laos: Buddhist monks stand in the early morning rain in Wat SensoukharamPhotograph: Olivier Matthys/EPAPen, India: A worker walks through a dry fish pond in a fieldPhotograph: Punit Paranjpe/ReutersTel Aviv, Israel: A migrant worker rests during beauty contest auditions for migrant workers from the Philippines community, at the central bus stationPhotograph: Oded Balilty/APXinjiang, China: Ethnic Uighur women grab a riot policemen as they protest in UrumqiPhotograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty ImagesTehran, Iran: A Shia Muslim prays during the 'Etekaf' religious ceremony at a mosque in a universityPhotograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/ReutersCalifornia, USA: Michael Jackson fan Leandro Lapagesse of Brazil holds memorabilia at the Forest Lawn mortuary in Los AngelesPhotograph: Eric Thayer/ReutersUrumqi, China: A boy stands between the burnt wreckage of a bus and stallsPhotograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty ImagesBangalore, India: An Indian labourer cleans spilt ricePhotograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty ImagesShanxi, China: Chinese Buddhists perform their morning chores of sweeping the ground at Wutaishan (Five Plateau mountain).Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesGalle, Sri Lanka: Crows play in a fieldPhotograph: Gurinder Osan/APMoscow, Russia: The former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, centre, looks on as the US president, Barack Obama, delivers a speech during a graduation ceremony at the New Economic SchoolPhotograph: Haraz N. Ghanbari/APRome, Italy: A man looks across the city as the sun rises over the Villa Medici as Italy and Rome await the arrival of the world G8 leaders for their summitPhotograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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