Honduras: A bird flies over the Ticamaya lagoon. The lagoon has recovered its beauty after being covered by heavy, dense growthPhotograph: Gustavo Amador/EPAJeddah, Saudi Arabia: Carved wooden panels decorating the facades of traditional buildings in the old cityPhotograph: Hassan Ammar/AFPCleveland, USA: A barefoot man rushes across the street as a late afternoon storm hits downtownPhotograph: Thomas Ondrey/AP
Havana, Cuba: An image of the revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is seen on the official state TV channelPhotograph: Rodrigo Abd/APBerlin, Germany: An employee of German railway operator Deutsche Bahn walks past a trainPhotograph: Barbara Sax/AFPRome, Italy: The gay community in Rome is protesting against discrimination by the police and called on homosexuals to gather near the Colosseum on August 2 for a protest 'kiss'Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPAKibbutz Nir Am, Israel: An Israeli resident fires eggs and vegetables towards the neighbouring Gaza Strip. A group of young Israeli leftwing activists developed a homemade launcher made from recycled materials, to protest against the Israeli government's helplessness in dealing with rocket attacks from GazaPhotograph: Edi Israel/AFPRivesaltes, France: A grape-picker at work in a vineyard at the beginning of the harvestPhotograph: Raymond Roig/AFPManikgong District, Bangladesh: Children walk with livestock through floodwaters. At least 16 people have died in the past week and more than a million were marooned or homeless as floods from monsoon rains and snowmelt inundated north and central BangladeshPhotograph: Kazi Borhan Uddin /AFPGoodwood, England: Celebrity racing pundit John McCririck holds his race programme, full of notes, at Goodwood racecoursePhotograph: Clive Rose/GettyBrasilia, Brazil: An indigenous leader of the Assurinin tribe, from the Amazon jungle, wears traditional ornaments during the inauguration of a photographic exhibition on the AssurininPhotograph: Eraldo Peres/APKirkuk, Iraq: Mahmud Wagaa al-Juburi collapses amid the coffins of his five killed children. Yesterday Iraqi police found an eight-year-old boy weeping among the corpses of his murdered elder brothers. The Wagaa brothers were not soldiers or policemen or even rebel fighters: they worked as painters and decorators on short-term government contracts, first in their hometown of Mosul and then further south in Kirkuk.Photograph: Marwan Ibrahim/AFPSaint-Leu, Reunion: Jamaican reggae singer Winston Mac Anuff performs at the Safiko world music festivalPhotograph: Richard Bouhet/AFPNyala, Sudan: A Turkish doctor examines a refugee at a Turkish Red Crescent hospitalPhotograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFPCadiz, Spain: An art work called 86 Little Black Men by the German artist Boris Hoppeck can be seen on Caleta beachPhotograph: Jorge Zapata/EPAMoscow, Russia: People reflected in a puddle stand on a platform overlooking the Moskva riverPhotograph: Andrey Luft/AFP
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