A man holding a pole stands on a mound of garbage washed ashore by big waves as others look for recyclable materials along Roxas Blvd. in Manila, Philippine
Spectators react after Britain’s Bradley Wiggins wins the men’s cycling individual time trial at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Reuters)
A sea barge with three homes is pulled by a tugboat out into the Pacific Ocean waters of the Strait of Georgia near Richmond, British Columbia. (Reuters)
Iraqis inspect the destruction a day after a car bomb attack in a shopping area in Karradah, Baghdad. A double bombing struck at an upscale neighborhood, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP)
Visitors walk in a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books titled ‘aMAZEme’ by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pup,o at the Royal Festival Hall in central London, July 31, 2012. (Reuters)
A banner showing a cartoon of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed on the street in Seoul, South Korea, to demand for the improvement of North Koreans’ human rights. (AP)
A woman is transported on a cart to the International Medical Corps’ clinic in Gendrassa camp in Maban, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. (Reuters)
This new Chandra image of M83 is one of the deepest X-ray observations ever made of a spiral galaxy beyond our own. This full-field view of the spiral galaxy shows the low, medium, and high-energy X-rays observed by Chandra in red, green, and blue respectively. The new X-ray data from the remnant of SN 1957D provide important information about the nature of the explosion that astronomers think happened when a massive star ran out of fuel and collapsed. (NASA)
Spanish acrobat David Pereira is silhouetted as he performs on the roof terrace of a hotel with a 368-meter-high television tower in the background in Berlin, Germany. Pereira and other artists presented parts of the new show ‘Made in Berlin’ of the Wintergarten Berlin Variety. (AP)
