Posted July 3rd, 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC-4)
Queen Sofia of Spain, second from left, toasts with Philippine Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile during a dinner hosted by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, second from right, at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines. (AP)
Vandenberg Air Force Base Hot Shot fire fighter Chris Loung wipes sweat from his face while cutting a fire line in the Mount Saint Francois area of Colorado Springs, Colorado while helping to battle several fires in Waldo Canyon. (AFP/US Air Force)
German honor guards line up during the welcoming ceremony for the President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev at Germany’s President Joachim Gauck’s residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin. (AP)
Smoke billows from a building after a gas explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)
Belarussian athletes perform during celebrations marking Independence Day in Minsk. (Reuters)
A model wears a creation of Chanel by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld during his Women’s Fall Winter 2013 haute couture fashion collection in Paris, France. (AP)
Javier Fernandez, left, and Deanna Wetmore hold a rope as they help a crew flying a hot air balloon draped with the colors of the U.S. flag at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AP)
Stuntman Nick Macomber carries the Olympic Flame through the air using a jet pack at the National Space Center, on the Torch Relay leg through Leicester, England. (AP/LOCOG)
Spain’s national team soccer players celebrate on top of a bus with their supporters a day after their victory at the Euro 2012 in central Madrid, July 2, 2012. Spaniards seized on their Euro 2012 triumph as a source of restored national pride after months of economic anxieties. (Reuters)