Piney River, USA: Crates of sweet scarlet peaches, which have been hit hard by the Easter freezePhotograph: Chet White/APBelgrade, Serbia: A ray of sunlight hits the stairs of an underground passageway during a heat wave.Photograph: Marko Drobnjakovic/APCascais, Portugal: A woman plays with the wind in the port during the Olympic Sailing World Championships ISAF 2007.Photograph: JOSE LUIS ROCA/AFP
Bend, USA: Balloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawn chair as he floats in the skies. Mr Couch, on his way to Idaho, carried a global positioning system device, a two-way radio, a digital camcorder and a cell phone. He also had instruments to measure his altitude and speed and four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as a ballastPhotograph: Pete Erickson/APSan Francisco, USA: Fans fill McCovey Cove to enjoy the 78th Major League Baseball All-Star Home Run DerbyPhotograph: Justin Sullivan/GettyCologne, Germany: A statue in the form of Michelangelo's David from German artist Hans-Peter Feldmanns is lifted by a crane in front of the Cologne Cathedral. Photograph: Roberto Pfeil/APMeadville, USA: Paramedics place the driver of a Ford Taurus onto a stretcher after a 1,500-pound wrecking ball slammed into the back of the car. The wrecking ball damaged a number of cars after it broke loose from a crane on the campus of Allegheny College and rolled down North Main Street before hitting the TaurusPhotograph: Tim Hahn/APHarare, Zimbabwe: Students from the University of Zimbabwe carrying all of their belongings from the campus after they were evicted over a food strikePhotograph: BISHOP ASARE/EPAIstanbul, Turkey: A Turkish man walks under various political parties' flags ahead of the 22 July legislative elections.Photograph: MUSTAFA OZER/AFPBay Village, USA: Samantha Gulley, 4, cools offPhotograph: Tracy Boulian/APHalong Bay, Vietnam: A tourist looks at boats sailing past stone islands. Vietnam received more than 2 million foreign visitors in the first half of 2007, a sharp increase on the same period in 2006.Photograph: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFPVivario, France: A fire raging in the forest of Vizzanova, CorsicaPhotograph: MARIO GRAZI/EPALa Paz, Bolivia: People walk through a snowy street in the outskirts of town. A winter storm dropped several inches of snow on upper neighborhoods of La Paz, shutting down electricity and slowing the traffic. Parts of several South American countries have seen their lowest temperatures in decadesPhotograph: Dado Galdieri/APTehran, Iran: A poster of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in a cafePhotograph: Hasan Sarbakhshian/APSabucedo, Spain: Villagers try to tame a wild horse during the 400-year-old festival called Rapa das bestas (Shearing of the Beasts)Photograph: Miguel RIOPA/AFPSrebrenica, Bosnia: A Bosnian worker rests after digging graves during preparations for a mass burial ceremony for 464 identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre on its 12th anniversaryPhotograph: Amel Emric/AP
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