A two-day-old baby elephant pushes against its mother Thong Dee at Taronga Zoo in Sydney July 6, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Rob Griffith
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, poses beside the deployed flag of the United States during the Apollo XI moon landing July 20, 1969. The lunar module is at left and the footprints of the astronauts are visible in the foreground. July 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of man’s walk on the moon. Source: REUTERS/NASA
Aborigine dancers in traditional outfits stand backstage before performing during the 2009 Amis Harvest Festival in Taitung July 19, 2009. More than 28 aboriginal tribes in the area held a joint annual harvest festival on Sunday highlighted by ceremonies and dances paying their respects to their God, ancestors and to also pray for a good harvest next year. Source: REUTERS/Nicky Loh
Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrive by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police escorted landau at Rideau Hall in Ottawa July 6 , 2009. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are on an official visit to Canada from July 3-14. Source: REUTERS/Chris Wattie
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy chats with U.S. President Barack Obama before the start of the G8 Summit in L’Aquila July 8, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Jason Reed
A model presents a creation by French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier as part of his Autumn/Winter 2009-2010 Haute Couture fashion show in Paris July 8, 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Police officers are stationed in front of signed posters following a memorial service for Michael Jackson held in Los Angeles July 7, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Phil McCarten
Nelson Mandela appears in a previously taped video during the Mandela Day concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York July 18, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Roger Federer of Switzerland kisses his trophy after defeating Andy Roddick of the U.S. in their Gentlemen’s Singles finals match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, July 5, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
A boy jumps into the Yangtze River to cool down in Wuhan, Hubei province July 18, 2009. A heat wave hit Wuhan with temperature exceeding 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 degrees Fahrenheit), local media reported. Picture taken July 18, 2009. Source: REUTERS/China Daily
A “Kiliki” hits a boy with a sponge tied to a wooden club during San Fermin festival’s “Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos” (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona July 13, 2009. Enormous puppets accompanied by brass bands parade daily through the city during the nine-day-long festival made popular by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway. Source: REUTERS/Susana Vera
Orangemen shelter from the rain after marching to Drumcree Parish Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland July 5, 2009. Their yearly parade which at one point was attended by 50,000 supporters, has been stopped from travelling along the Nationalist Garvaghy Road since 1998. Source: REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
A Muslim woman prays beside the coffin of her relative among 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre lined up for a joint burial in Potocari July 10, 2009. Each year, bones are matched to a name and buried in a mass funeral on July 11, the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys by the Bosnian Serb forces. Source: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Brazilian artists Tiago Primo (top) and his brother Gabriel hang out at a wall in Rio de Janeiro July 8, 2009. The bizarre vertical “house” built on a climbing wall by Brazilian artists has been drawing the attention of thousands who walk by the installation in Rio de Janeiro’s downtown neighbourhood. Source: REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
An ultra-Orthodox Jew gestures during a protest against the opening of a parking lot on the Jewish sabbath in Jerusalem July 4, 2009. Jewish religious law bans travel on the sabbath. Source: REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Birthday messages are projected onto the Big Ben clocktower above the Houses of Parliament in London July 11, 2009. Big Ben is the nickname of the bell inside the 96-metre clock tower and it was 150 years ago on July 11, 1859, Big Ben first struck time. Source: REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Riders race horses through a puddle during the traditional horse and trotter race meet in Duhnen, on the German North Sea coast near Cuxhaven, July 19, 2009. About 30,000 spectators were on hand to watch the annual event that begins as the ebbing tide exposes the mud flats on which the races are run. Source: REUTERS/Christian Charisius
The moon passes between the sun and the earth during a solar eclipse as seen in Changsha, Hunan province July 22, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Stringer
Pallbearers gather around the coffin with the remains of Michael Jackson during the memorial service for Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, July 7, 2009. Michael Jackson fans began crowding into downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday for a star-packed public memorial to the “King of Pop” whose sudden death nearly two weeks ago shocked the world. Source: REUTERS/Wally Skalij
The Eiffel Tower is illuminated over tour boats during the traditional Bastille Day fireworks display in Paris July 14, 2009. Source: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Rio’s residents carry crosses during a protest against violence at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro July 26, 2009. The NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) held the protest on the beach with the relatives of victims of violence. Famous for its beaches and the “biggest party in the world” at Carnival time, Brazil’s second-biggest city is plagued by a vast gap between rich and poor that helps breed violent crime, including a huge drug trade, murders and assaults. Source: REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province, June 19, 2009. The country has invested 51 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) towards the construction of 2,712 projects for the treatment of eight rivers and lakes including Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River, Chaohu Lake, Dianchi Lake, Songhua River, the Three Gorges region of the Yangtze River and its upstream area, Xinhua News Agency reported. Source: REUTERS/Jianan Yu
Men throw Swiss flags in the air as alphorn blowers perform during the international alphorn contest on the alp of Tracouet in Nendaz, southern Switzerland, July 26, 2009. About 120 alphorn blowers took part in the contest this year. Source: REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud
A pet monkey rides on a recovery truck in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata July 28, 2009. The symbol reads “Evil eye bearers, may your face be blackened”. Source: REUTERS/Parth Sanyal
A local resident walks on a dried-up riverbed at Huangyangchuan reservoir in Lanzhou, Gansu province July 16, 2009. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visit China this week to press China to join with the United States in stepped-up efforts to fight global warming. Source: REUTERS/China Daily