

Brendan Earley of Davison, Mich. puts on his own car show while waiting for the start of the Back to the Bricks Mitten Promo Tour in the parking lot on Friday in Flint.
Syrian refugee children crowd around in a playing area in a camp in Boynuyogun, Turkey, near the Syrian border, on Thursday. At least 150 more refugees crossed into Turkey on Thursday afternoon, increasing the number of refugees to more than 9,000. They were quickly ferried to the refugee camp in the town of Yayladagi.
South Africa's Cameron Van Der Burg competes during a men's 100m breaststroke race at the Sette Colli Swimming Trophy, in Rome, on Friday.
A Syrian boy looks on at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province on Friday. Turkey called for Syria to immediately halt a violent crackdown on protesters and pass democratic reforms, in a meeting on Thursday between Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and a top Syrian envoy.
A girl rests on a concrete column of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, on Friday. The memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe consists of 2,711 charcoal-grey rectangular pillars, which rise from the ground and form a tight grid through which visitors can wander.
The Monument fire burns north toward Sierra Vista, Ariz. High winds expected to buffet eastern Arizona will challenge firefighters who have been making progress in a battle to tame the largest wildfire in state history.
17-year-old Boipelo Ndaba from rural northern South Africa stands beneath 131 nooses, representing the 131 opponents of the regime hanged under apartheid-era anti-terror laws, during a visit to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, on Friday. Over two days 250 school children have been taken to the museum and other sites in Soweto, the black township known as a cauldron of resistance to apartheid to educate them on the brutality of the past that all are too young to remember.
A musician of Panama's Big Band orchestra, practices before a reenactment of a 1950 salsa hall as a tribute to famous late Puerto Rican musician Tito Puente in Panama City, on Thursday.
A pair of horses frolic on a cool spring evening near Stevensville, Mont.
Jack Merriam plays with the interactive 'Silver Clouds' art installation in The Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) exhibit at the Washington Pavillion in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Friday. The exhibit, which opened Friday and runs through Sept. 11, features 63 original works, one interactive art installation and a video by Andy Warhol.
Jacquie O'Brien cleans up during installation of a sculpture by Nancy Rubins at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. on Friday. The yet untitled sculpture is made from more than 60 used aluminum canoes and other boats.
A woman holds a raw emerald at the 'Minergemas 2011', an international mining and precious stones and metals conference in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday. Colombia is one of the world's largest emerald producers.
An office worker walks near a water fountain at a government office complex in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday.
Catholic nuns attend a mass for peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula, at Imjingak Peace Park in Paju, near the demilitarised zone separating North Korea from South Korea, on Friday. About 20,000 South Korean Catholics participated in the mass on Friday.
A supporter of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Salah wears sunglasses with his picture on it during a rally to show their support in Sanaa on Friday. Yemeni President Salah, taken to Saudi Arabia for wounds suffered in an attack on his palace earlier this month, will return to the country within days, a Yemeni official said on Friday. The words read, 'Thanks God for his Safety.'
A man paddles a boat that carries local residents through a flooded area in Banshan Cun, Zhejiang province on Friday. Pelting rain in parts of central and southern China has forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and prompted the government to demand safety checks on vulnerable dams, news reports said on Thursday.
Demolition crew begin to tear down the structure as tenants of a government tenement building watch on Friday at the poor neighborhood of Tondo in Manila, Philippines. Some tenants of about 600 families refuse to vacate their units which were their homes for nearly 50 years and marked for demolition by the government.
Dennis Kuipers of the Netherlands and co-driver Frederic Miclotte of Belgium drive through water in their Ford Fiesta RC during the WRC Acropolis Rally of Greece at the stage of Reggini, central Greece, on Friday.