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World

24 hours in pictures: July 10 2007

Piney River, USA
Piney River, USA: Crates of sweet scarlet peaches, which have been hit hard by the Easter freeze Photograph: Chet White/AP
Belgrade, Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia: A ray of sunlight hits the stairs of an underground passageway during a heat wave. Photograph: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP
Cascais, Portugal
Cascais, 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
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 ballast Photograph: Pete Erickson/AP
San Francisco, USA
San Francisco, USA: Fans fill McCovey Cove to enjoy the 78th Major League Baseball All-Star Home Run Derby Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty
Cologne, Germany
Cologne, 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/AP
Meadville, USA
Meadville, 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 Taurus Photograph: Tim Hahn/AP
Harare, Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe: Students from the University of Zimbabwe carrying all of their belongings from the campus after they were evicted over a food strike Photograph: BISHOP ASARE/EPA
Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey: A Turkish man walks under various political parties' flags ahead of the 22 July legislative elections. Photograph: MUSTAFA OZER/AFP
Bay Village, USA
Bay Village, USA: Samantha Gulley, 4, cools off Photograph: Tracy Boulian/AP
Halong Bay, Vietnam
Halong 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/AFP
Vivario, France
Vivario, France: A fire raging in the forest of Vizzanova, Corsica Photograph: MARIO GRAZI/EPA
La Paz, Bolivia
La 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 decades Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP
Tehran, Iran
Tehran, Iran: A poster of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in a cafe Photograph: Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP
Sabucedo, Spain
Sabucedo, 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/AFP
Srebrenica, Bosnia
Srebrenica, 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 anniversary Photograph: Amel Emric/AP
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