Tuesday: The day in photos
The widow of Indian Army Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta, the military attache who was killed in a terror attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, is held by a family member during a cremation ceremony in New Delhi. Mehta, a diplomat and three other Indian staff members at the heavily fortified embassy in Kabul were among the 41 people killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the mission gates during the morning rush hour. (Raveendrian / AFP/Getty Images)
People inspect one of the sites of the previous day’s bomb blasts in Karachi, Pakistan, that killed one person and injured more than 20. (Rehan Khan / EPA)
Activists against the G-8 jostle with police as they march near the G-8 summit site in Date, Japan. (Phil Walter / Getty Images)
Somali women and children wait to get medicine at a clinic south of Mogadishu. Islamic insurgents shelled the Somali town of Baidoa overnight, killing two government soldiers and wounding seven others. (Mokhtar Mohamed / AFP/Getty Images)
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Argentine sailors stand on the mast of the Argentine frigate Libertad as it approaches Manila. The ship is one of the largest of its kind in the world and is on a five-day goodwill visit to Manila as part of an eight-month world tour. Commissioned by the Argentine navy in 1963, the frigate has logged more than 800,000 nautical miles across all seas and has visited more than 500 ports in over 60 countries. (Jay Directo AFP/Getty Images)
Participants run ahead of bulls on the second day of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. (Pedro Armestre / AFP/Getty Images)
A polar bear cub shakes off after swimming in a pool in a zoo in Moscow. (Maxim Shipenkov/ EPA)
Alyssa Braun, 12, laughs while lying in a giant lake of mud at the annual Mud Day celebration in Westland, Mich. Two hundred tons of topsoil are mixed with 20,000 gallons of water, and about 1,000 children play in the mud. (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)
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Bulgarians cool off in a waterfall during a hot summer day near Sofia. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP/Getty Images)
Two zebras eat in their enclosure at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland. (Steffen Schmidt / Associated Press)
A woman touches a lifelike sculpture entitled “Survival of Serena,” by American artist Carole A. Feuerman during the opening day of the Beijing International Art Biennale at the National Art Museum of China. (Michael Reynolds / EPA)
Heavy smog shrouds the Forbidden City in Beijing. Pollution levels soared in the capital exactly one month before the start of the summer Olympic Games. (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)
