Palma de Mallorca: Sheltering from the sun, German tourists take a break on Arenal beach. Tourism is Spain's leading industry, accounting for 12% of the country's GDP.Photograph: Jaime Reina/AFPBrunsbuettel, Germany: An impromptu game of football in the mud of the Elbe River. The mud soccer pitch regularly attracts sports fans.Photograph: Heribert Proepper/APMumbai, India: An Indian labourer repairs a stretch of damaged road in Mumbai. India's financial capital - a sprawling metropolis of some 15 million people - was flooded by heavy monsoon rains late last month with people wading through shin-deep water.Photograph: Pal Pillai/AFP
Miami, USA: A student reaches for the fly bar on the swing at the the Flying Trapeze School at Bayfront Park. The outdoor school, which is run by professional trapeze artists, aims to provide everyone with what they say is the opportunity to feel the absolute freedom that comes with "flying" on a trapeze.Photograph: Joe Raedle/GettyPyongyang, North Korea: North Koreans visit the statue of their late ruler Kim Il Sung to mark the 13th anniversary of his death, in this photo taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency and released by Korea News Service in Tokyo.Photograph: APFillmore, USA: A fire burns around Interstate 15 near the Interstate 80 interchange in Utah. A massive wildfire that has swept across two central Utah counties grew to 283,000 acres on Sunday, making it the largest fire in the state's history, according to officials.Photograph: Chris Detrick/APJakarta, Indonesia: Labourers work at an construction site next to an advertisement. Indonesia's annual inflation eased slightly in June to 5.77%, beating market expectations and signalling a possible further drop in interest rates.Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFPBeijing, China: A pedestrian walks past an empty advertisment billboard. Beijing has launched a blitz on billboards promoting luxury lifestyles to tone down the city's image before next year's Olympics - and remind visitors it is the capital of a communist country.Photograph: Teh Eng Koon/AFPAthens, Greece: Athenians demonstrate in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Greek parliament to protest the government's failure to stop a recent wildfire from destroying thousands of hectares of the national park of Parnitha near Athens.Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFPSrinagar, India: An Indian policeman fires tear gas towards a Kashmiri Muslim demonstrator. Violent protests continued for four days after a teenager was killed when police fired on a crowd demonstrating against alleged human rights violations by Indian forces, police said.Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPAEverett, USA: Visitors reach out to touch the fuselage of the first production model of the new Boeing 787 airplane after it was unveiled to an audience of several thousand employees, airline executives and dignitaries during a ceremony at Boeing's assembly plant. The 787 is Boeing's first all-new plane since airlines started flying the 777 in 1995.Photograph: Ted S. Warren/APTuzla, Bosnia: Bosnian Muslim women survivors of the Srebrenica massacre sitting and talking next to dozens of photos of citizens who went missing after this safe UN enclave fell into Bosnian Serb hands in July 1995. Preparations are under way for the funeral of more than 464 victims on the 12th anniversary of the fall of the village. Photograph: Amel Emric/APMarun Al-Ras, Lebanon: Lebanese workers rebuild a house from inside a damaged apartment in southern Lebanon. A year after the Israel-Hezbollah war which battered the country, much of the infrastructure has been restored but the rebuilding of homes has been slow and the services sector remains stagnant. International aid has flowed in, with pledges totalling $7.6bn made at a Paris conference in January.Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFPSydney, Australia: Animal rights campaigner Lana Went wears nothing but heart-shaped cardboard sign during a demonstration. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are commending New Zealand sheep farmers for ending the practice of mulesing, the removing of fleece and skin from the backside, while asking Australian farmers to follow suit. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/APPamplona, Spain: Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Encabo, second left, is set up by his 'Banderilleros' before fighting a Miura's bull in the bullring.Photograph: Bernat Armangue/APCanterbury, UK: Two ladies sit in a couch cheer on the riders during the first stage of the 94th Tour de France cycling race between London and Canterbury.Photograph: Frank Fife/AFP
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