Monday: The day in photos
People at Jetty Park snap pictures of a Delta 2 rocket as it streaks by a crescent moon from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket, making one last flight for the U.S. Air Force, was carrying the final spacecraft in the current generation of Global Positioning System satellites. (Red Huber / Orlando Sentinel)
Hindu women belonging to the Dogra community swing a child in a ritual as they pray for long lives for their sons during the Dhrubari festival in Jammu, India. (Channi Anand / Associated Press)
Women return from a paddy field on a cloudy day on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. India’s monsoon rains have been 25% below normal this year, and drought has been declared in 161 out of the country’s 625 districts. (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)
Volunteers carry a body from the site of a police compound explosion in Nazran, southern Russia. Officials said 20 people were killed and dozens wounded after a truck packed with explosives rammed through the compound’s gates. (Kazbek Basayev / AFP/Getty Images)
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Customers sit behind ice blocks at Icebar Tokyo. The entrance fee covers one drink and use of a coat. Everything in the bar, including the counter, table, glasses and chairs, are made from blocks of ice cut from Sweden’s Torne River. (Junko Kimura / Getty Images)
An Afghan boy guides a donkey carrying election supplies in the rugged mountains of the Panjshir Valley. Afghan officials dispatched donkey trains laden with ballot boxes and voting papers into the most remote communities in preparation for Afghanistan’s presidential election on Thursday. (Shah Marai / AFP/Getty Images)
A 6-day-old giraffe calf, right, poses for photographs at the Chester Zoo in northwest England. The calf was born last Tuesday and is 5 1/2 feet tall. Zookeepers are asking visitors to suggest names for the leggy new addition. (Andrew Yates / AFP/Getty Images)
Children look out of a beach shelter on the North Sea island of Norderney in Germany. The summer weather in Germany is expected to remain very warm over the next few days, with temperatures reaching the mid-80s. (David Hecker / AFP/Getty Images)
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An Indonesian boy tries to hold onto a trunk as his friends climb over him during a tree-climbing competition, part of Indonesian Independence Day celebrations in Jakarta. The country marked its Independence Day amid tight security a week after police said they had foiled a suicide bomber’s plot to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. (Bagus Indahono / EPA)
Relatives of 1999 quake victims mourn in the northwestern Turkish town of Golcuk. Turks were commemorating the 10th anniversary of the magnitude 7.4 quake, which killed more than 17,000 and left 600,000 homeless. (Mustafa Ozer / AFP/Getty Images)
