World in photos

A Bosnian Muslim woman prays at the memorial wall with the names of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica on Tuesday. Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade that day.  (Elvis Barukcic AFP/Getty Images)

An aircraft battles a wildfire burning in a forest on the island of Rhodes, Greece, on Thursday. The fire has been burning out of control for three days, forcing the evacuation of at least two villages.  (Nikolas Nanev / EPA)

South Korean elementary school students shout the word “mother” as they lie in the water during an exercise at a marine boot camp for students on Daebu Island, in Ansan, South Korea on Thursday. About 70 students took part in the three-day camp as a way to mentally and physically strengthen themselves.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

A line of detained Iraqi men casts shadows as the men are escorted by a U.S. Army soldier from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment during Operation Wolfpack Catseye near Qara Tappah, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad in Iraq’s volatile Diyala province Monday. The squadron fanned out in this mountainous region near the Iranian border to root out Al Qaeda leadership and deny them safe haven as part of a renewed push to secure the Diyala province.  (Maya Alleruzzo / Associated Press)

An Iraqi soldier stands on the abandoned carcass of a Saddam Hussein-era Mi-2 helicopter at an agricultural airport during a patrol with U.S. soldiers Monday.  (Ali Yussef AFP/Getty Images)

A footballer on Redcar Beach in Middlesborough, England, is silhouetted in the foreground of the Corus Steelworks in Teeside. The giant foundry on the south bank of the River Tees produces 3.4 million tons of slab steel a year.  ((Christopher Furlong / Getty Images))

A coach helps young gymnasts with flexibility exercises at a sports training center in Beijing on July 18. The training center coaches children from the age of 5. The centers, of which there are hundreds across China, help identify talented children who can be selected for sports schools where they receive an education and sports training aimed at turning them into world-class athletes.  (Greg Baker/Associated Press)

A man puts a cage back in its place at the bird sector of the Rural Society’s annual exposition in Buenos Aires on Thursday. The exposition opened to the public after a four-month conflict between farmers and the government that ended July 18 when Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez canceled a farm export tax hike.  ((Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press))

The Dalai Lama participates in a long life ceremony Thursday in Madison, Wis. Tibetans were performing an elaborate Buddhist ritual to wish the Dalai Lama a long and happy life at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, where thousands of Tibetans now living in the U.S. and Canada have gathered.  (Morry Gash/Associated Press)