A two-week-old Malay fish owl waits to be fed at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore on Thursday. This owl was born and bred in the park as part of its efforts in wildlife conservation. Wong Maye-E/AP
Orlando Duque of Colombia dives from a 53-foot rock at Lana'i Lookout as some local hula girls look on in the lead up to the final round of the 2010 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Oahu, Hawaii, on Thursday. Deam Treml/Red Bull/Reuters
A man walks in a large earthquake crack in the ground in Kaiapoi near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Thursday. The city was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 4. Rob Griffith/AP
Camels walk past a US Marine patrolling an area in Taghaz village in Helmand, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Erik de Castro/Reuters
Flooded houses are seen from a Japanese Army helicopter bringing humanitarian aid to an enclave isolated by floodwaters in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab Province on Thursday. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
Iraqi policemen stand guard outside an Evangelical Protestant church in Baghdad, Iraq. There are fears of a backlash against Christians in predominantly Muslim countries in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks anniversary and possible Koran burnings by a pastor in Florida. Canon Andrew White, the chaplain of an Anglican church in Baghdad, said the Iraqi military had warned him that his church had been threatened. Security was beefed up around the Church of the Virgin Mary in central Baghdad on Thursday, with military vehicles blocking the entrance to the church and more soldiers were deployed to guard it. Khalid Mohammed/AP
An Iraqi policeman distributes the Koran between security checkpoints at Al-Firdous Square in Baghdad on Thursday. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged the United States on Thursday to prevent the American pastor of an obscure Christian church from burning copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks. Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
Ring-tailed lemurs sit outside their cages in the sun at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, on Thursday. The highly social animals, found in groups of up to 30 individuals in wild populations, are natives of Madagascar. Martin Meissner/AP
The wreckage of a car destroyed in a suicide car attack is seen in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, Russia, on Thursday in this image taken from video. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 130 people, officials said. NTV Russian Channel/AP
People watch riders during the 12th stage of "La Vuelta," or the Tour of Spain cycling race, as riders race from Andorra to Lleida, Spain, on Thursday. Felix Ordonez/Reuters
Children carrying torches march through a street Thursday to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the start of Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia. Crack Palinggi/Reuters
This video image provided by WGRZ-TV shows a fire truck at the scene of the large warehouse fire fed by wooden pallets and propane in Buffalo, N.Y. on Thursday morning. The blaze at Superior Pallets Inc. destroyed the warehouse and is under investigation. WGRZ-TV/AP
A woman walks by a North Korean flag attached with a picture of the North's leader, Kim Jong-il, during a rally held against pro-North Korean groups in Seoul on Thursday. The youngest son of leader Kim Jong-il is widely expected to make his public debut as the Dear Leader's heir apparent at a rare Workers' Party convention Lee Jin-man/AP
Burqa-clad Afghan women listen to Naheed Ahmadi Farid, an Afghan parliamentary candidate, at a mosque during her campaign in Herat, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Raheb Homavandi/Reuters
A Palestinian woman pays for her vegetables in a market during the last day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Thursday. Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP
Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal (r.) poses for photographers with Londoner “Tiny Iron” in central London on Thursday. Khagendra is the smallest known person on earth at 22-inches-tall, while "Tiny Iron," known for the "Biggest Biceps in Britain," has biceps measuring 24 inches in circumference. The two posed together for Ripley's Believe it or Not! museum in London. Toby Melville/Reuters
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-Day-06-16
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-Day-0615
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-06-14
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Erin-go-bragh-images-of-Ireland
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Weather-extremes-2013
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-06-13
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Children-s-labors
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Wildfires-2013
/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2013/Photos-of-the-day-06-12
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Turkey-s-discontent
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Venezuela-after-Chavez
/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/James-Whitey-Bulger-on-trial