A worker rows a boat in Chaohu Lake, filled with blue-green algae, in Hefei, Anhui province, China. The local environment protection department implemented machines to pump the algae from the lake to a treatment reservoir where it would be decontaminated and recycled. (Reuters)
Syrian men line up to buy bread at the only bakery still open in the city of Al-Bueda. (AFP)
An office worker walks past an Australian Securities Exchange window showing the main losses for the day in central Sydney. Australian shares slumped 1.7 percent, the biggest one-day fall in seven weeks. (Reuters)
A firefighter tries to extinguish a fire after a bus veered out of control on the Greek island of Chios. Greek police say three people were died and nine were injured when a bus crashed into a gully and caught fire on the eastern Aegean Sea island. (AP)
A Pakistani boy, center, listens to his teacher on how to read verses of the Quran in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad. (AP)
Santas from all parts of the world take part in the traditional foot bath at Bellevue Beach north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The bath marks the beginning of the annual World Santa Claus Congress, which runs till July 26, 2012. (AFP)
Firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Ller near La Junquera (Girona), close to the Spanish-French border. Winds whipped up a wildfire that raged out of control in northeastern Spain, forcing thousands of people to take refuge indoors, officials said. (AFP)
Newly graduated policemen take part in a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s national police day in Algiers. (Reuters)
A protester clenches his fist in between the tarpaulin portrait of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally near the Philippine Congress to protest his third State of the Nation address in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. (AP)
French betting authority on horse races PMU (Paris Mutuel Urbain) publicity vehicle from the Tour de France caravan drives past the Arc de Triomphe in Paris before the arrival of the final 20th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Rambouillet and Paris, July 22, 2012. (Reuters)
