A photographer captures a women’s 1,500-meter heat at the 12th IAAF World Championships. (Rainer Jensen / EPA)
A woman splashes herself with water from a fountain. A heat-wave warning was issued for a number of Italian cities where temperatures were expected to reach or even surpass 104 degrees this week. (Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press)
Newspapers reporting on the death of South Korea’s former President Kim Dae-jung are displayed in front of City Hall. Kim, who survived assassination attempts during his years as a dissident and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation efforts with communist North Korea, died Tuesday. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)
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Tori Hale, top center, and sister Alex Hale, bottom, are comforted by friends and family as the hearses carrying the bodies of their father, Capt. Mark Hale, 42; Lance Bombardier Matthew Hatton, 23; and Rifleman Daniel Wild, 19, process along the city’s High Street. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)
Canadian Pete McLeod performs during the third free practice session of the Red Bull Air Race World Series’ fourth stage above the Danube River. (Zsolt Szigetvary / EPA)
An aboriginal girl looks up at her father as they wait for relatives to return at the typhoon rescue center in the town of Chiashien in Kaohsiung county. Many of Typhoon Morakot’s victims belong to Taiwan’s indigenous tribes, who have lived here for thousands of years before the Han Chinese came in the 17th century -- and whose spiritual attachment to the land runs deep. (Peter Parks / AFP / Getty Images)
South Korean children walk past as a police officer aims his weapon during an anti-terrorism exercise at the Samsung Electronics building. (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)
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Turkish coffee shop owners smoke multiple cigarettes during a protest against the government’s indoor smoking ban in Ankara. Turkey on July 19 introduced a nationwide ban on indoor smoking, including bars, restaurants and coffee shops. (Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images)
A Sri Lankan boy plays cricket by the sea. (Eranga Jayawardena / Associated Press)