June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
June 18, 2013
A jockey rides his horse during a race to mark Burma's (Myanmar's) 63rd Independence Day in Rangoon (Yangon). The race was organized by the Myanmar Equestrian Federation and a total of 59 horses from Rangoon, Ayeyawaddy, Pakukku, Bagan and Nyaung Oo took part in the tournament. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Malaga's new soccer player, Julio Baptista of Brazil, heads a ball during his official presentation at the Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain. Bautista signed from A.S. Roma. Sergio Torres/AP Photo
A girl with cat makeup holds her Canadian hairless during a cat exhibition dedicated to the New Year holiday in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Vladimir Konstantinov/Reuters
An unidentified employee of the Stefanik Observatory in Prague uses a projection shield to show the partial solar eclipse visible in the Czech capital. The partial sun eclipse started over the Czech Republic at about 08:00 CET and it will last until 10:50. In the culminating phase, up to 80 percent of the solar disc was obscured by the silhouette of the moon passing between it and Earth. Michal Kamaryt/AP Photo
A workman hangs across from the Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes while he is suspended on a harness above the entrance to the Grotto of Massabielle during a presentation to the media in Lourdes, southwestern France. Workmen suspended on harnesses will undertake a month-long project to reinforce the outer cliff walls at the grotto. Laurent Dard/Reuters
A devotee worships the sun god Surya in the Tawi River after a partial solar eclipse in Jammu, India. Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
Indian students with visual disabilities walk together at the Devnar School for the blind in Hyderabad, India. Tuesday marks the 202nd birth anniversary of Louis Braille, French inventor of writing for the blind. Braille, who was born in 1809 and blinded three years later, invented a system used by the blind for reading and writing which has since been adapted to almost every known language. Mahesh Kumar/AP Photo
A cat looks at a herd of goats at a compound for the displaced in western Baghdad, Iraq. An estimated 1.55 million people are currently displaced inside Iraq, according to the International Organization for Migration. Hadi Mizban/AP Photo
A member of the South Korean Special Warfare Forces reacts during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Lee Jin-man/Reuters
People offer prayers at the start of the new business year at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
A woman feeds a bird in Moscow. Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
Workmen put the finishing touches to a large snow sculpture at the 12th Harbin Ice and Snow World display in China's northern city of Harbin in Heilongjiang Province. The ice festival will be officially launched on Jan. 5. David Gray/Reuters
A supporter of Alassane Ouattara, wearing a campaign T-shirt, carries a bag of rice delivered by a United Nations helicopter at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Ouattara, recognized internationally as Ivory Coast's elected leader, is attempting to govern from the hotel, where he and his staff are barricaded behind sandbags and giant coils of razor wire. He is under the constant protection of United Nations peacekeepers. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo
Mammal keeper Angela Ryan coaxes a meerkat for the benefit of photographers during the ZSL London Zoo's annual inventory count. Zookeepers are conducting an annual head count on over 16,000 different creatures including over 10,000 invertebrates, 4,700 fish, and 100 reptiles. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
Luis, an unemployed construction crane operator since 2009 (right in the shadow), begs for alms accompanied by his dog, Luna, on Estafeta Street in Pamplona, northern Spain. More than 60 percent of the Spanish are concerned about the economic crisis, according by the latest Spanish economic official survey known today. Spain has suffered a long economic crisis with more than 4 million unemployed. Alvaro Barrientos/AP Photo
An inmate stands inside the Alcatraz wing, housing the most dangerous prisoners of the Tacumbu high security prison in Asuncion. Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo ordered the closing of Tacumbu, the largest prison in the country, because it is populated beyond its capacity and living conditions are precarious. The transfer of the inmates should begin in 2011. Jorge Adorno/Reuters
Southern Sudanese watch as Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrives at the airport in Juba. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
People are silhouetted against light pollution in the sky before daylight beside telescopes set up to view the partial solar eclipse from Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath in London. Cloudy skies hung over London on Tuesday morning, preventing the view of the eclipse that began over the Middle East and extended across much of Europe. Matt Dunham/AP Photo
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching them.
When President Obama stood in Berlin today and said that budget balancing must not trump the priority of improving lives, some saw a dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has led the call for austerity across Europe.
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