Chambley-Bussieres, France: Hot air balloons fly over a field during the Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons gathering, the world's largest international balloon event, which brings together participants from 70 countries. Photograph: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFPArnhem, Netherlands: An employee of Burgers Ocean zoo takes a jellyfish out of a aquarium. It is one of the only zoos in Europe to succesfully breed captive jellyfish.Photograph: Vidiphoto/EPASpace: The most detailed true colour image of the Earth to date was released by NASA yesterday.Photograph: NASA/AFP
Edinburgh, UK: Images of Campbell's soup cans are wrapped around the columns of Scotland's National Gallery to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Andy Warhol.Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/GettyBrownsea Island, UK : Modern-day Scouts wear replica Edwardian clothing and badges at the site of the first ever Scout camp as the movement celebrates its 100th birthday. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/GettyMontana, USA: A huge plume of smoke rises near Browning as the Skyland wildfire rages.Photograph: Robin Loznak/APGhazni province, Afghanistan: The bodies of court officials killed by Taliban miltants lie in a hospital room. The bodies of four Afghan court officials, whom the Taliban identified as judges and kidnapped nearly two weeks ago, were found in the same province where Taliban militants are holding 21 South Koreans.Photograph: MASSOUD Hossaini/AFPShan County, China: Rescuers rest outside the entrance of the state-owned Zhijian mine. Rescue workers poured milk down the mine's ventilation pipes to keep alive 69 workers who were trapped underground and have now been rescued.Photograph: HO/APManagua, Nicaragua: A faithful, with his body painted in black, impersonates 'evil' in Las Sierritas church on the eve of the Santo Domingo patron saint's day.Photograph: Miguel ALVAREZ/AFPCape Town, South Africa: A South African model showcases one of the creations from Anglogold Ashanti's AuDITIONS collections.Photograph: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFPPort-au-Prince, Haiti: Haitians buy snow cones on the street.Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/APCanary Islands , Spain: Residents of the village of Arguayo try to get some sleep at the Pancracio Socas sports resort after being evacuated from their homes because of to a fire in Tenerife affecting an area of more than 15,000 hectares. Photograph: Manuel Lerida/EPAMashad, Iran: Iranian police officers and others view the scene as five convicted criminals are hung. Photograph: Halabisaz/APSirajgong, Bangladesh: A young flood victim looks on as she sits in a shelter centre at a local high school.Photograph: Pavel Rahman/APHavana, Cuba: Cuban children have fun in old part of town. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/APWarsaw, Poland: A general view shows the communist-era Palace of Culture displaying posters of 50s 'Stakhanovite' workers who were celebrated at the time for vastly exceeding the regime's production targets. The posters promote an exhibition of communist-era photographs.Photograph: JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP
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