Monday: The day in photos
Espen Eckbo, left, and Stein Johan Grieg Halvorsen, from Norway, joyfully wave the
Participants, wearing traditional red bandanas, celebrate the start of the festival of San Fermín. More than 1 million people were expected. (Pedro Armestre / AFP / Getty Images)
Revelers jump into the sea followed by a bull during the “Bulls to the Sea” festival in the town of Denia, Spain. The bulls are later brought back to the coast in boats. (Alberto Saiz / Associated Press)
Medics prepare to carry a Marine, who was overcome by heat exhaustion, to a medical evacuation helicopter in Afghanistan. (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)
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A Pakistani boy, among millions of Pakistanis displaced from their homes as a result of military operations against the Taliban, crosses a bridge at a camp for internally displaced people in Chota Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani forces are battling militants in the Swat Valley, Lower Dir and Buner districts. New camps are sprouting up while others continue to grow. Refugees face harsh living conditions amid searing heat in overcrowded camps. (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)
A woman lies on a new public-seating installation by artist Peter Newman in London. The sculpture, entitled “Sky Station,” is outside the Haywood Gallery and is open to the public through Sept. 14. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
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Lebanese snake hobbyist Pierre Rizk and his Sri Lankan wife, Sapa, watch television with two of their Indian python snakes at home in Dekwaneh, Lebanon, near Beirut. Rizk and his wife have no children but are happily living with 13 pet snakes in their two-room apartment. (Joseph Barrak / AFP / Getty Images)
Dutch police arrest a demonstrator in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Hague. Demonstrators hurled rocks at the embassy and about 60 people were detained in a protest that followed deadly unrest in