Monday: The day in photos

A peacock butterfly sits on a butterfly bush flower in a garden in Hohen Neuendorf, Germany, near Berlin. The colorful creature is commonly found in temperate Europe and Asia.  (Michael Urban / AFP / Getty Images)

A boy touches paper lanterns hung for the Mitama Matsuri summer festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. About 300,000 people visit the shrine during the four-day event.  (Kimimasa Mayama / EPA)

Bede Durbidge from Australia free-surfs during a practice session at sunrise in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. Day one of competition has begun for the world’s top 44 surfers competing in the Billabong Pro 2009 surfing event at Supertubes in Jeffreys Bay, one of the longest and most perfect righthand point breaks in the world.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

Sri Lankan cricket player Nuwan Kulasekara avoids a bouncer during the second day of the second Test match against Pakistan at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo. Sri Lanka leads by 136 runs with two wickets remaining in the first innings on the second day of the second Test.  (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP / Getty Images)

U.S. golfer Tom Watson plays a shot on the ninth fairway during a practice round ahead of the 138th British Open Championship at Turnberry Golf course in southwest Scotland. The championship begins July 16.  (Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty Images)

Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor‘s nephews Conner, left, and Corey Sotomayor doze off during the confirmation hearing for their aunt before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. Sotomayor, if confirmed, will become the first Latino justice on the Supreme Court.  (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

Feeders hold four Chinese tiger cubs in their first public appearance at Wangcheng Zoo in Luoyang in central China’s Henan province. The four cubs -- three of which were born on April 18 and one of which was born May 1 -- have passed the critical period in the first successful breeding north of Yangtze River. There were only 81 Chinese tigers left by the end of 2008 and are considered the world’s most endangered animal.  (Zhang Xiaoli / EPA)