The son of one of the members of Tayseer Al-Batsh's family, who were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourns during their funeral in Gaza City. The Israeli air strike on the family home of Al-Batsh, Gaza's police chief, killed 18 people.ReutersMourners carry the bodies of the four Palestinian children from the Bakr family, who were killed on a beach by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat.ReutersIsraeli soldiers sleep next to armoured personnel carriers near the Israeli-Gaza border.GettyRockets fired from Gaza City are launched towards Israel.AFPFree Syrian Army fighters react after firing a weapon towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the southern part of Maarat Al-Nouman, Idlib.ReutersA man who volunteered for the Ukrainian self-defence battalion Azov embraces his girlfriend in Kiev after a ceremony where he took an oath of allegiance to the country.ReutersAn injured passenger talks on his mobile phone after being rescued and treated by paramedics.AFPParts of of the Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur are seen near the town of Shaktarsk.AFPPassengers' belongings are strewn at the site of the crash of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 jet near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine.AFPResidents look at a fallen tree which damaged four houses after Typhoon Rammasun (locally named Glenda) battered the town of Rosario, Cavite city, south of Manila.ReutersThe ancient town of Fenghuang is partially submerged by floodwater as a river overflows in Hunan province, China.ReutersA bolt of lightning strikes the Empire State Building during a summer thunderstorm in New York.ReutersLightning strikes One World Trade Center in Manhattan during a summer storm.ReutersPeople crowd onto 42nd Street as they take photos of the 'Manhattanhenge' phenomenon, occurring twice a year, when the setting sun aligns itself with the east-west grid of streets in Manhattan.ReutersThe Supermoon rises over houses in Olvera, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz. Occurring when a full moon coincides with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth, the Supermoon results in a larger-than-usual appearance of the lunar disk.ReutersPeople relax in deck chairs on the beach in Brighton on the hottest day of the year so far.AFPA man jumps from the sea wall in Brighton as the temperature soars.AFPParkour enthusiast Luke Webb practices a flip along the Thames on the South Bank in London.ReutersBengal tigers play in a pool of water at the zoo in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines.ReutersA polar bear snacks on an ice block containing fruit to beat the heat at South Korea's Everland Amusement and Animal Park in Yongin.AFPA runner is gored by a bull at Estafeta corner during the eighth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.ReutersPeople feed sparrows in front of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.AFPA long exposure photo shows the flight paths of seagulls as they fly over the left field bleachers at AT&T Park in San Francisco.GettyA long exposure photo shows Buddhists holding candles encircling the Wat Asokaram Temple in Samut Prakan, Thailand.ReutersFireworks explode around the Eiffel Tower in Paris during the annual Bastille Day celebrations.GettyMen carry the statue of Virgen del Carmen to Puerto de la Cruz dock on the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain.GettySchoolchildren show their hands decorated with henna during a competition to mark World Population Day in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.ReutersTourists play in the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in South Korea.ReutersA 6.6 metre tall Godzilla statue is illuminated at the Midtown park in Tokyo for the promotion of the recent film.AFPPeople look at at the Gulliver sculpture in the Gulliver's World amusement park in Pudagla, on the island of Usedom, Germany.AFPAn aerial view of farmer Tom Pearcy's Maze, which features giant likenesses of famous Yorkshiremen Geoffrey Boycott, Jeremy Clarkson and Brian Blessed cut into an 18-acre field of maize.GettyDavid Beckham and his sons Romeo and Cruz get "slimed" as he accepts the Legend Award during the 2014 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports awards in Los Angeles.ReutersReese Hoffa competes in the men's shot put final at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, California.GettyConstruction workers take pictures as Germany's 2014 World Cup squad proceed in an open-top bus through Berlin.ReutersThe Queen sits with construction workers as she opens the refurbished Reading Railway station.Getty
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