An anthropomorphic robot named hitchBOT sits on the shoulder of Highway 102 outside Halifax, Nova Scotia to begin its 6000-kilometre cross-country journey. The hitchhiking robot is part of a social experiment to see if drivers will pick up and drop off the robot in one piece to an art gallery in Victoria, British ColumbiaReutersThe Giant Grandmother walks through Liverpool during French street theatre company Royal de Luxe's World War I centenary show 'Memories of August 1914'GettyA man is treated by a paramedics after a lightning strike in the water in Venice, California. A 20-year-old man died after lightning struck the popular Los Angeles beach and a golf course. Nine people were taken to hospital, including one who remains in a critical conditionReutersA mother holds her daughter as they wade across a flooded street during heavy rains in Hefei, Anhui province, ChinaReutersDavid Colturi of the USA dives from the 27 metre platform on Islet Vila Franca do Campo in the Azores, Portugal, during the fifth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World SeriesGettyStephen McDonagh takes part in the Irish Bog Snorkelling championship at Peatlands Park in Dungannon, Northern IrelandGettyKenya's Denis Okoth lands a punch on England's Samuel Maxwell during their men's Light Welterweight boxing fight at the Commonwealth Games in GlasgowReutersPatricia Bezzoubenko of Canada performs during her ribbon routine as she competes in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final at the Commonwealth GamesReutersMarie-Julie Malboeuf of Canada lifts during the women's 58kg weightlifting competition at the Commonwealth GamesReutersIndonesian Muslims perform a payer to mark Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, at Parangkusumo beach in Yogyakarta, JavaGettyMuslims make their way home on a packed train, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival at Karachi's Cantonment railway stationReutersOrthodox Jewish pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through central London to call for an end to Israeli military action in GazaGettyPro-Palestine demonstrators wave flares during a protest against Israel's military action in Gaza, at Avenue Habib Bourguiba in TunisReutersAn Israeli army officer shows journalists a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacksReutersResidents help an injured man who survived what activists said were two barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in AleppoReutersSecurity forces and experts gather at the site of a bomb attack in the town of Betong in southern Thailand, which is popular with tourists from nearby MalaysiaReuters
July 28, 2014 11:11 BST
