The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is ready to be lifted on its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. An International Space Station crew of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams is due to travel on the spacecraft to the space station on July 15. (Reuters)
A lit spherical structure at the World Heritage site Stonehenge during an elemental Fire Garden display, which is part of the London 2012 Festival, in Salisbury, southern England, July 10, 2012 (Reuters)
Indian farmers plow a field in preparation for sowing cotton in Nani Kisol village, around 70 km from Ahmedabad. (AFP)
French President Francois Hollande inspects the honor guard, 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. (AP)
Using observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. (NASA/CXC/Royal Military College of Canada/P.Chandra et al)
An ethnic member of parliament leaves parliament after the parliament session in Naypyidaw, Burma on July 10, 2012. (AFP)
A Yemeni girl walks past a pile of rubbish on a main street in the capital, Sana’a, after garbage collectors ended their second five-day strike which they undertook to protest against their salary. (AFP)
Torchbearer Alan Corbishley carrying the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg down Long Walk after leaving Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. (AP Photo/LOCOG)
A house, with its foundation washed away, hangs over a rain-swollen creek at Nyhammar in Dalarna, central Sweden. Areas in Sweden hit by floods are bracing themselves for further downpours and thunderstorms as a low pressure system moves across the region. (Reuters)
A man dressed as a giant holds a young girl during the giants and big heads parade of the San Fermin festival in the Northern Spanish city of Pamplona. (AFP)
A child stands on a massive bonfire in the Shankill Estate in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Thousands of bonfires have been built in Protestant areas across Northern Ireland for the annual July 11 bonfire night. (AP)
A F-18 fighter jet flies in display during Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough, England. (AP)
An exile Tibetan in traditional costume waits to perform a dance at Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India. The Dalai Lama celebrated his 77th birthday with festivities held for the entire day at the temple complex. (AP)
An aerial view of a flooded area of Jorhat in Assam state, India. (AP)
Camera operators are silhouetted as they film a news conference by U.S. singer Jason Mraz at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. (Reuters)
Liu Yang (C), China’s first female astronaut, waves next to her comrade Jing Haipeng (L) as she comes out of the re-entry capsule of China’s Shenzhou 9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Reuters)
A member of Sotheby’s auction house staff looks at The Shah of Persia’s Elephant Automation Clock, circa 1780, with a guide price of £1-2 million (1.5-3 million US$), London, England. (Reuters)
Foot imprint of a Nepalese farmer is left on mud during the celebrations of Asar Pandhra or the festival of planting rice in Pokhara, west of Katmandu. (AP)
Twelve-year-old Chatu collects lemons at a wholesale fruit market in Kolkata, India. (Reuters)
France’s Alice Decaux takes the start of the women’s 100m hurdles qualifications at the 2012 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. (AFP)
Shar Pei dog Cleopatra breast-feeds one of two adopted tiger cubs in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi. (AFP)
The wedding of two frogs, arranged by Hindu farmers seeking rainfall, is performed in Nagpur in order to please the Rain Gods and in the hope that the region would soon receive monsoon showers. (AFP)
Protesters hold masks of EU leaders as they demonstrate outside an EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The group protested to encourage EU leaders not to lose their priorities for development cooperation. (AP)
Dozens of homes and much of the downtown area of Live Oak, Florida, are flooded by torrential rains from Tropical Storm Debby. (AP)
Michael Phelps, left, and Conor Dwyer swim in the men’s 200-meter freestyle preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska. (AP)
A woman cries for her four children lost in a landslide in Bududa, about 250kms east of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of eastern Uganda Monday, killing scores of people. (AP)
Young monks gather and pray at Tergar Monastary to celebrate the 28th birthday of Ogyen Trinley Dorje the 17th Karmapa, at Bodhgaya, India. Karmapa, 27, is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism, and a possible successor to the Dalai Lama. (AFP)
Deputies arrive to elect the president of France’s National Assembly during the opening session in Paris. Lawmakers returned to the Assembly for the first time since the elections with a packed agenda to implement President Francois Hollande’s social and economic reforms. (AP)
Police officers stand in front of wall painted with a message that reads in Spanish: ‘Franco, Coupist,’ referring to Paraguay’s newly named President Federico Franco, in Asuncion, Paraguay. (AP)
Schoolchildren waves flags as they await the arrival of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to a Service of Thanksgiving at Saint Macartin’s Cathedral in Ennniskillen, Northern Ireland. (Reuters)
Belgian adventurer and extreme sports athlete Marc Sluszny in action during the ‘100m vertical run’, a world record attempt at the Belgacom tower in Brussels. (AFP)
Three Siberian tigers born at Circus Renaissance, which is now located in Leiden, Netherlands. The tigers where born on June 24, 2012 and in good health. The circus now has a total of 12 Siberian tigers. (AFP)
