This is part of a series that is posted randomly throughout the week. The series is a selection of photos and sometimes editorial cartoons that sum up visually what is going on around the world. Unless otherwise noted, I don’t necessarily endorse the actions or the sentiments portrayed in the photos, and I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the captions. Feel free to add any current events photos or editorial cartoons in the replies. WARNING: There may be VERY graphic photos depicting death and violence in each edition of this series.
If you want to post a link to this at other sites, please use this link. Thanks.
July 12: Prayers of the children : A Pakistani Christian child holds a candles as joins others in prayers for the London bomb blasts victims in Islamabad. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
Through a tunnel : Cyclists ride through a tunnel during the tenth stage of the 92nd Tour de France cycling race between Grenoble and Courchevel. Spaniard Alejandro Valverde (Iles Balears/Spa) won the stage. (AFP/Joel Saget) Tue Jul 12
This photo made available by Israeli archeologist Chanan Eshel on Friday, July 15, 2005, shows a fragment of an ancient Torah scroll containing verses from the Book of Leviticus, said to have been found last year in a ‘refugee’ cave in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea. Eshel, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University, said Friday, July 15, 2005, that the discovery of two fragments of nearly 2,000 year-old parchment scroll from the Dead Sea area gave hope to biblical and archaeological scholars, frustrated by a dearth of material unearthed in the region in recent years, that the Judean Desert could yet yield further treasure. (AP Photo, Ho)
July 13: A mother and child shelter from the heat at an aid centre in Maradi. A United Nations (UN) food representative warned that the most vulnerable victims of Niger’s famine — children, the sick and the elderly — are ‘on the brink of being wiped out’ from the food crisis caused mainly by years of drought.(AFP/File/Natasha Burley)
Residents of the southeastern Mexican seaside resort town of Cancun take their boats out of the water ahead of hurricane Emily’s forecast landfall July 15, 2005. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz
Two women pass by a banner announcing a peace vigil in London’s Altab Ali park. The global hunt for the masterminds behind the London bombings took a potentially key twist with the arrest in Egypt of a suspect who might have put the deadly explosives together(AFP/Odd Andersen)
July 15: Ranchers and buyers pack the Strathmore Auction Market in Strathmore, Alta. on Friday. (CP/Larry MacDougal)
View taken 14 July 2005 shows the Saint-Joseph church, in central Le Havre, rebuilt after World War II by architecte Auguste Perret. The UNESCO decided to add the rebuilt city centre on the list of the World Heritage sites(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau)
This picture taken from a distance of six miles during the first atomic bomb explosion July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, N.M. The Trinity Site generally is open to the public only twice a year, the first Saturday in April and October. This year, the site will be open for tours for the 60th anniversary, Saturday, July 16. (AP Photo/Keystone, File)
July 14: Fuerteventura Island : One of the 32 would be African immigrants who arrived earlier at Las Salinas beach in a boat (rear) awaits processing in Fuerteventura Island. Police detained them all. (AFP/Samuel Aranda)
Trafalgar vigil : Crowds gather for a vigil at Trafalgar Square in remembrance of the victims of the London bombing. (AFP/Carl de Souza) Thu Jul 14
Some freaky eyes. Not cute like PhillyGal’s pootie pics.
A Siamese cat looks out at Arab Gulf tourists at Jordan Zoo near Amman July 13, 2005. Many Arab Gulf tourists visit Jordan during the peak of the summer season. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
In this photo released Friday, July 15, 2005, by Jonathan Powers is U.S. Army Capt. Jonathan Powers with an unidentified orphan at a playground at the Adhamiya Public Orphanage in Baghdad, Iraq. Powers, 27, is director of the upstart Orphans and Street Kids Project, whose goal is to coordinate the country’s ill-equipped orphanages and offer vocational training for children living on the streets and out of the facilities’ reach. (AP Photo/Jonathan Powers)
The Honorable Damon Keith, right, presents Oliver Hill Sr., seated, with the 90th Spingarn award, the highest honor from the NAACP, as his son Oliver Jr. looks on at left, during the final night of the NAACP 96th annual convention at the Midwest Airlines Center Thursday July 14, 2005 Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)
July 14: Blanca Li : A dancer of the Spanish ‘Blanca Li company of dance’ performs during the ‘Italica Festival International of Dance 2005’ at Hacienda Santa Ana in Tomares, Sevilla. (AFP/Cristina Quicler)
July 14: Young opponent : An Israeli boy peeks through the window of a makeshift hut erected to house opponents to Israel’s planned disengagement plan, in the southern Gaza Strip Gush Katif settlement of Shirat Hayam. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
July 13: Sony’s entertainment robot Aibos chase the ball during the four-legs version of RoboCup 2005 in Osaka. Robots from 31 countries went head to metallic head Wednesday in football and other competitions with a goal of triumphing against human soccer champions — after 50 years or so of practice.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
A Kenyan police reservist patrols in Marsabit, northern Kenya, 14 July 2005. An Italian Roman Catholic bishop was killed in an overnight attack in central Kenya, police and church officials said, as authorities investigated whether it was linked to a grisly cycle of inter-clan violence in the volatile north(AFP/The Nation/Joseph Mathenge)
Visitors crowd at the Yasukuni Shrine on the first day of Mitama Festival in Tokyo July 13, 2005. Over 29,000 paper lanterns, dedicated to nearly 2.5 million war dead will be lit during the four-day festival. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
July 13: Bastille celebrations : Fireworks explode over the town of Givors as part of Bastille Day celebrations. (AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)
Firemen extinguish a blaze caused by a car bomb attack on Iraqi troops in Baghdad July 15, 2005. Car bomb attacks on two Iraqi military patrols in different parts of Baghdad killed six people and wounded 23 within minutes of each other, a police source said. (Ali Jasim/Reuters)
A Filipino girl writes ‘Gloria Resign’ on a letter to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during a workshop held in a park in Quezon City, north of Manila, July 16, 2005. After the Philippine opposition brought out 30,000 protesters on Wednesday, Arroyo loyalists fight back with a prayer rally in Manila on Saturday. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo
July 11: ‘Last Landscape’ : Serb choreographer Josef Nadj performs in ‘Last Landscape’ with music from Russian Vladimir Tarasov, at the Saint Joseph chapel, during the Theater Festival held in Avignon, southern France. (AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)
June 13: This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a ship passing in front of BP’s listing semi-submersible oil platform, Thunder Horse, Tuesday, July 12, 2005, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans. The platform was found listing after Hurricane Dennis, and BP spokesman Ronnie Chappell says a cause has not been determined. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Robert M. Reed)
Iraqi policeman Ramadan Aziiz, 38, is treated by doctors at a Baghdad, Iraq hospital after he was wounded in a car bomb attack targeting a U.S. military convoy in the area east of Baghdad, Iraq Friday July 15, 2005. A series of car bombs targeted American and Iraqi troops in separate areas of the Iraqi capital, a day after security forces captured a would-be suicide bomber near the entrance to the heavily guarded Green Zone. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)
July 15: A Vietnamese health official inspects the purity of a cup of water taken from a stotage tank in Nghia Hiep. The World Bank and Vietnam agreed a 112.6-million-dollar project to bring clean water to about one million people living in cities.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)
July 12: Muslim coffins lined up prior to a burial ceremony at the Potocari-Srebrenica Memorial Center, during ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre and the burial of 610 bodies of Bosnian Muslims, victims of the massacre, that were found in several mass grave sites and were identified during last year.(AFP)
