The Sagrada Familia cathedral is seen in the background as an unidentified diver practices ahead of the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. The FINA swimming World Championships run from July 19 to Aug. 4 in Barcelona. Manu Fernandez/AP
A cygnet is lifted for inspection by the Queen's Swan Uppers during the annual Swan Upping ceremony on the River Thames between Shepperton and Windsor in southern England. The five-day census of the swan population dates back to the twelfth century when the Crown claimed ownership of all mute swans. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
A woman fills up her voter's registration form before the deadline to register for the upcoming Constituent Assembly Election, to be held on November 19, at the Kathmandu District Election Office in Kathmandu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Faithfuls place their hands on the World Youth Day cross during a visit to the Vidigal slum in Rio de Janeiro. Pope Francis will travel to Brazil on his first international trip as pontiff in July. Pilar Olivares/Reuters
Israeli policemen detain a protester during a demonstration in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Protesters scuffled with Israeli police during the demonstration against an Israeli cabinet plan to relocate some 30,000 Bedouin citizens from the southern Negev. Amir Cohen/Reuters
A worker inspects several bags of rice seized by customs intelligence and investigation service at the port of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines, the world's biggest rice buyer in 2010, is cutting rice imports as it aims to be self-sufficient in the grain by 2014. But illegal rice shipments into the Asian country continues and could hurt local rice farms. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
A worker boxes up 'Twinkies' at a plant in Schiller Park, Illinois. The Twinkie returned to production after the Hostess's snack cake brand was purchased earlier this year by buyout firms Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co. Jim Young/Reuters
A man walks through the Orange County Convention Center before the 2013 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention in Orlando, Florida. David Manning/Reuters
A Peking opera troupe performs at the 49th International Festival of Carthage at the Roman Theatre of Carthage in Tunis, Tunisia. Anis Mili/Reuters
A man holds up a cardboard cut out of Trayvon Martin at a rally in reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in New York. Thousands of protesters chanting 'No justice, no peace' gathered in New York City on Sunday to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman. Eric Thayer/Reuters
Demonstrators march against amnesty for illegal aliens, during a rally against the immigration reform bill in Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. The US Senate passed sweeping immigration legislation at the end of June. But the legislation's fate is unclear in the Republican-controlled House. Jose Luis Magana/Reuters
A novice Tibetan Buddhist monk plays with a toy gun during a break from their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's religious sermon outside the Gyudmed Tantric Monastery in Gurupura, southwest of Bangalore, India. The Dalai Lama is in Gurupura till July 16 for Buddhist religious teachings. Aijaz Rahi/AP
An bull is led into a stockyard ahead of the annual Argentine Rural Society's Palermo livestock exhibition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thousands of people are expected to visit the exhibition which include various breeds of cattle as well as an extensive range of farm machinery. Enrique Marcarian/Reuters
A woman holds Indonesian rupiah banknotes as she looks through a Bank Indonesia mobile bank window in Jakarta, Indonesia. Beawiharta/Reuters
A girl reads a book containing short verses from the Quran in a madrasa, or religious school, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood/Reuters
Striking municipal police officers hold a Greek flag during a protest against new austerity cuts that will affect thousands of public sector workers, outside the Greek Parliament in Athens. The measures are part of a broad plan to slash the size of Greece's public sector, which counts some 670,000 employees. Petros Giannakouris/AP
Kids in camouflage clothes attend a physical training session in a kindergarten in Taichung, central Taiwan. A kindergarten in Taiwan provides physical training sessions, a series of exercises that combines marine drills and gymnastics for pre-school and school aged kids. Pichi Chuang/Reuters
Officials in Panama interrupted a shipment of arms from Cuba to North Korea last week. Now, the U.N. Security Council will investigate the incident for a possible breach of sanctions. North Korea says the weapons were being sent in for repairs.
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