Posted July 8th, 2012 at 7:56 pm (UTC+0)
Delegates pose at a photo session at the Tokyo Conference on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan, in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
Egyptian guards try to close the gate of presidential palace to the people willing to give their demands personally to President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo. (AFP)
Congolese refugees queue for porridge at the Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town, 521 km (324 miles) southwest of Uganda’s capital Kampala. (Reuters)
A fighting bull from Miura ranch passes over revelers as they go on the way during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas, in Pamplona, northern Spain. (AP)
A man looks at a public telephone booth painted by Brazilian artist Juarez Fagundes during the Call Parade art exhibition in Sao Paulo, July 7, 2012. The Call Parade is a street art exhibition involving 100 artists who decorated and painted 100 public telephone booths around Sao Paulo, according to the organizers. (Reuters)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande deliver a speech in front of the cathedral of Reims, eastern France. Leaders meet to mark 50 years of an important step toward cooperation after two world wars, amid today’s tensions over Europe’s financial crisis.(AP)
Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. Every few thousand years, U Cam coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected in the star’s latest eruption is clearly visible in this picture as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star. (ESA/NASA)
Supporters of the Defense Council of Pakistan sit on the top of vehicles with party flags as they take part in a rally, in Lahore, Pakistan. Prominent hardline Islamists led thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan’s decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. (AP)
Triathletes swim during the Ironman at the ‘Langener Waldsee’ in Frankfurt, western Germany. Thousand triathletes attend the Ironman tournament which includes 3,8 kilometer roughwater swim, 180 km bike race and 42,2 km marathon. (AFP)
A woman dressed in flower costumes participate in the11th Jember Fashion Carnival in Jember, Indonesia’s East Java province. The carnival procession that had a 3.6 km ( 2.2 mile) route was made up of 700 participants. (Reuters)