Day in Pictures

Horsemen of the French Republican guard ride their horses down the Champs-Elysees with the Arc de Triomphe in the background, during the annual Bastille day parade in Paris. (Reuters)

A French Rafale jet flies over the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, followed by a Mirage 2000-N during the Bastille Day military parade. (AFP)

Indian staff members of GaneshaSpeaks.com, a company devoted to website astrology, participate in a candlelight vigil in Ahmedabad, in memory of those who died and were injured in Mumbai blast. Investigators probe triple bomb blasts that killed 17 people in Mumbai, the nation's commercial capital. (AFP)

A woman wades through a flooded street in Hamar Jajab district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The Horn of Africa is in the grip of a major food crisis, with millions of people severely affected in drought-stricken areas of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda, according to the United Nations. (Reuters)

US soldiers board a military plane, as they leave Afghanistan, at the U.S. base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. President Barack Obama announced last month that he would pull 10,000 of the extra troops out in 2011 and the remaining 23,000 by the summer of 2012. (AP)

A fisherman looks at her algae-filled fish pond near the coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province, China. (Reuters)

"Gigantes" (Giants) dance during a farewell ceremony on the last day of San Fermin festival's "Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos" (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona, Spain. Enormous puppets accompanied by brass bands parade daily through the city during the nine-day-long festival made popular by US writer Ernest Hemingway. (Reuters)

Men work on a clay statue at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta in Yogyakarta. Indonesian artist Eddi Prabandono and his 15 workers made a 4-meter-by-4-meter statue as part of a series of art works called the "Luz Series". The statue will be displayed at Jog Art, an annual art exhibition held in Yogyakarta. (Reuters)

A man works on a sand sculpture titled "Maestro Paganini" by sculptors Sergey Tselebrovsky and Sergey Zaplatin at the Festival of Sand Sculptures 2011 under the topic "Masterpieces of World Culture" at a beach near the Peter and Pawel Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters)

A woman cools down in Lake Balaton near Tihany, 150 km (93 miles) west of Budapest. Temperatures reached 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) in Hungary. (Reuters)

Two baby cheetahs play in their enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany. The animals were born on May 10, 2011, at the zoo. (AFP)