

N Mba Ndong Marius, an Eco Guard from Oyem, holds seized ivory tusks in front of confiscated weapons following an anti-poaching patrol in northern Gabon. Last year, Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba created an elite military unit whose mission is to secure Gabon's parks and to protect wildlife, especially against poaching and illegal trade of ivory. James Morgan/WWF-Canon/AP
Girls stand outside their house in the Yemeni province of Hajja. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
A school bus sits in flood waters near downtown Live Oak, Fla. Dozens of homes and much of the downtown area were flooded by torrential rains from Tropical Storm Debby. Dave Martin/AP
Employee Juergen Liebert cleans Wiehe's Mount Rushmore sculpture of US President Barack Obama in the miniature world construction named 'The USA from East to West' in Wiehe, central Germany. Jens Meyer/AP
A penguin named Mr. Munro leaves its footprints on a white canvas at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Keepers at the zoo have been collecting the footprints of almost 4,000 animals to pledge their support for wildlife. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A spectator watches the women's singles tennis match between Sabine Lisicki of Germany and Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London. Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Pigeons perch on the wall of an old building in the central business district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mark Baker/AP
An artist performs a laser show during a ceremony at Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara, Turkey. Umit Bektas/Reuters
A fan of Spain's soccer team shouts slogans after arriving at the airport of Donetsk, Ukraine. Spain will play in the semifinal of the Euro 2012 soccer championships against Portugal in Donetsk today. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A sculpture called 'Woman walking to the sky' by US artist Jonathan Borofsky is seen in Strasbourg, France. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
Riot police hold up their shields to take cover from water thrown at them from balconies by protesters during a forced eviction in Oviedo, northern Spain. The protesters were trying to prevent the eviction of an Ecuadorian family unable to maintain its mortgage payments. Eloy Alonso/Reuters
A girl attends her daily madrassa, or Islamic school, in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A man fishes on the Thunersee on a hot summer day near Interlaken, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
A boy sits in a Catholic church destroyed by warfare in Mogadishu, Somalia. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Camelia Jean and her daughter, Mina Jean, carry baskets filled with avocados to sell at market as they walk along a road in the Kenscoff Mountains to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP
Hindu priests offer prayers for monsoon rains at Osman Sagar Lake on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. The monsoon rains are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people. Mahesh Kumar A./AP
Switzerland's quadruple scull team (from l. to r.) Andre Vonarburg, Augustin Maillefer, Nico Stahlberg, and Florian Stofer train on the Sarnersee at the Swiss rowing center in Sarnen, Switzerland. The team will compete in the Olympic Games next month in London. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
US rapper will.i.am wears headgear made up of three iPads while performing at the 'Isle of MTV Malta Special' concert in Floriana, Malta on Tuesday. Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters
People ride on a local commuter bus in Donetsk, Ukraine. Donetsk will host the first 2012 soccer championship semifinal match between Spain and Portugal. Vadim Ghirda/AP
Huge papier mache figures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (r.) and Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister Philipp Roesler, with hands full of Euro coins, stand in front of the chancellery in Berlin. Markus Schreiber/AP
An Irish Republican opposed to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Northern Ireland carries a small Irish flag up Black Mountain after a massive Irish flag was unfolded that could be seen all over Belfast, Northern Ireland. Peter Morrison/AP
Christophe Lemaitre of France (l.) and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey of Britain prepare to compete in the men's 100 meter heat at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
People run for cover as it rains in Mumbai, India. Rafiq Maqbool/AP
Bjorn Barrefors of Sweden competes in the long jump event of the men's decathlon at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters
A man puts his cow in a paddy field in Baray village, Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. Heng Sinith/AP
Alan Ellinson abseils with the Olympic Flame down the side of the Royal Dock Tower in Grimsby, England, at the beginning of Day 40 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. Joe Giddens/LOCOG/AP
A family walks down a street in Strasbourg during the first day of summer sales in France. Vincent Kessler/Reuters