Friday: The day in photos

Women run from the fire at the Oriental Market in Managua.  (Esteban Felix / Associated Press)

A woman looks at a partial solar eclipse in St. Petersburg, Russia.  (Dmitry Lovetsky / Associated Press)

People use special dark glasses to monitor the total eclipse of the sun in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Over 10,000 visitors flocked Siberia to witness the total eclipse of the sun.  (Alexey Yefimov / AFP/Getty Images)

Rescue teams search for victims after a gas explosion destroyed a three-story girls dormitory in Konya, Turkey, killing at least 17 students and setting off a search for a half dozen girls believed to be under the rubble. The girls, between ages of 8 and 16, were attending Koran courses during the school summer break.  (Ates Tumer / EPA)

Hasan Ozkan weeps outside of his destroyed house after a forest fire in the village of Karatas, near the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya in southern Turkey.  (Kaan Soyturk / Associated Press)

Onlookers stand in front of two fishing boats that were driven onto the beach by high seas near Melkbosstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa.  (Roger Bosch / AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqis in Sadr City burn U.S. flags while rallying against the proposal to keep U.S. armed forces Iraq beyond 2008.  (Wissam Al-Okali / AFP/Getty Images)

David Florence from Great Britain trains in the men’s single canoe slalom at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in preparation for the Beijing Olympics.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

A cleaning woman inspects the floor at the National Aquatics Center, the new building that will host swimming events at the Beijing Olympics.  (Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press)

Korean golfer In-Kyung Kim plays her approach shot to the seventh green during the second round of the Women’s British Open at Sunningdale golf course in Surrey, England.  (Glyn Kirk / AFP/Getty Images)

Dancers from Zhejiang province take souvenir photos before their performance for a selected audience at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.  (Diego Azubel / EPA)