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July 15, 2010
 
 
 
Tourists sit in the sunshine near St Andrews castle, Scotland.
 

Tourists sit in the sunshine near St Andrews castle, Scotland.

Photograph by: Chris Helgren, Reuters

 
Tourists sit in the sunshine near St Andrews castle, Scotland.
Five-year-old Michael Smila (R) waves to his mother as he kite surfs with Israeli kite surfer Eli Zarka at the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Israel.
A rainbow stretches over Battersea Power Station in London, England.
Pigeons fly over the Wazir Khan Mosque in the walled city of Old Lahore in Lahore, Pakistan. The Mosque was built in 1634-35 during the reign of Mughal Emperor Shahjehan by Ilam-Ud_Dinansari. The Mosque took 7 years to build.
Balinese carry a cremation tower called "Bade" bearing a dead body during a procession for a cremation ceremony locally called a "ngaben" in Kutuh village in south Kuta on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on July 14, 2010. The ritual cremated 152 bodies as part of a Balinese traditional religious ceremony for the dead.
A Bangladeshi child plays as a man sits near a wall painted with graffiti in a street of Dhaka.
Camels eat at Al Nassma's Camelicious camel farm in Dubai July 14, 2010. Camelicious is one of the two UAE dairy farms which produces camel milk.
A view of the flower market in Cesena, Italy.
Tourists swim in Hangaroa beach as the sun sets on Easter Island, 3,000km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean.
A craftsman makes walking sticks at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate, northern England.
An Indian villager sits outside her home in Zarua, some 60 kms from Lucknow,
Local Kazakh residents walk near the new Khan Shatyr tent in Astana. British architects Foster and Partners have designed Astana's new Khan Shatyr shopping and entertainment complex as a massive tent, 100 metres high from base to top and 150 metres including the post at the top.
A toy vendor negotiates with a customer near Delhi Gate in the walled city of Old Lahore in Lahore, Pakistan. Delhi Gate is one of the thirteen gates of Lahore, built by Akbar the Great. The 3rd Mughal emperor who enclosed the city of Lahore in Red Bricks during the 15th century.
Londoners enjoy the sun on the foreshore of the River Thames near the Southbank Centre in London, England.
Four-year-old visitor Yi Han adjusts the head dress of a Gege, or the princess of an emperor of the Qing dynasty, as she plays at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
A Tibetan herder stands with her child on the grasslands near Lake Namtso, Tibet Autonomous Region.
Thousands of tourists as well as local residents try to get to the Dubrovnik Old City main square to see the official opening ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
Tourists use umbrellas to shade from the sun as they take a pleasure boat trip along the river Spree on a sunny day in Berlin, Germany.
Honour guards perform in front of tourists from China at the Sun Yat-sen memorial in Taipei, Taiwan.
A bushman, known in the community as Gert, stands in front of a traditional bushveld toilet in Andries Vale village in the Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa. Although the bushmen have adapted to a western way of life, many still prefer their traditional lifestyle.
Visitors walk through a room that contains works by early Italian painters at the State Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The State Hermitage, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, has approximately three million objects in its collections, including the most paintings of any museum.
Table Mountain is shrouded in mist from Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa.
wo performers dressed in 18th-century costumes allow tourists to pose with them for snapshots for a few rubles in front of the State Hermitage museum on Jin St. Petersburg, Russia. St. Petersburg is among Russia's most western-like cities and bustles with commerce and culture.
A shepard tends to sheep near Gross Vahlberg, Germany.
Women arrive at Ebaneza Methodist Church to pray in the New Brighton Township in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The New Brighton Township was established in 1903, making it one of the Eastern Cape's, and South Africa's oldest townships. The Xhosa make up the majority of the people who live in New Brighton an
This photo shows an exterior view of the San Salvador de Leyre Monastery in Navarre, Spain. Located in foothills of the Pyrenees the earliest buildings on the site date back to the 1000s and has been an important historical monastery in Spain.
A transient man plays his music while sitting along the beach in Ocean Beach area in San Diego, California.
Hadlow Tower stands tall over the Kent countryside near Tonbridge in England.
A village to be redeveloped lies in front of the Simatai section of the Great Wall in Miyun county about 120 km north of Beijing, China. UNESCO has designated Simatai Great Wall as one of the World Cultural Heritage sites, which is known for its steepness.
Tourists take pictures of human remains at a memorial centre on the grounds of the Choeung Ek "killing fields", where nearly 9,000 people killed by Khmer Rouge were exhumed from mass graves, in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Women sell a wedding dress and other items on a street in Tirana, Albania.
A woman sprays water on her kid during a hot day outside the Belarus town of Mikashevichi.
A shop attendant in a Qing Dynasty costume (L) waits for customers beside a security guard along a street in Beijing's Qianmen shopping district.
An Indian priest performs 'Aarti' (evening prayers) at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, in Allahabad. Sangam is one of Hinduism's most important centres where thousands of people take holy dips as the Hindu belief that the Ganges washes away sin entices millions of Hindus i
Commuters walk on a railway track during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India.
A young couple walk past a billboard covering a construction site showing a night view of Beijing's urban development.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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