A rebel fighter sits on stacked chairs as he aims his weapon through a hole inside a house in the town of Morek in Hama province, SyriaReutersAn Israeli tank manoeuvres outside the northern Gaza Stripat sunsetReutersA Palestinian man looks at copies of the Koran, Islam\'s holy book, in the rubble of a mosque destroyed by an Israeli military strike in Gaza CityAFPPalestinians inspect a cemetery damaged during Israeli shelling, in Gaza CityReutersFriends and relatives of 20-year-old Israeli Staff Sergeant Moshe Melako of the Golani Brigade, who was killed during fighting with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, mourn during his funeral at the Mt Herzel military cemetery in JerusalemAFPBulgarian Roma people sit in front of their house after it was demolished in a suburb of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Municipal authorities are demolishing 55 illegally built shacks and houses in the suburbReutersThe wreckage of a burnt aircraft is pictured after shelling at Tripoli International Airport in LibyaReutersPart of the wreckage is seen at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in the Donetsk region of eastern UkraineReutersA sign calling Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko a terrorist is seen near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17AFPA pro-Russian separatist shows members of the media a black box said to belong to Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, before handing it over to Malaysian representatives, in Donetsk, UkraineReutersArmed pro-Russia separatists stand guard near the train station as shelling rocked the area, in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern UkraineAFPA worker walks past a 6.5-metre high scarecrow secured to the ground as Typhoon Matmo approached the town of Shanhsing in Ilan county, TaiwanAFPGreen Canary worker Samuel Bucio sprays green water-based paint on a drought-affected brown lawn at the Almaden Valley Athletic Club in San Jose, California. As the severe drought continues, home owners and businesses looking to conserve water are letting lawns die off and are having them painted to look green. The paint lasts up to 90 days on dormant lawns and will not wash offGettyA man smokes on his houseboat on a section of weed-covered river in Wuhan, Hubei province, ChinaReutersThe Costa Concordia is seen during the refloat operation at Giglio harbour, two and a half years after the luxury liner capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 peopleReutersNina Saunders makes her way across a zip wire over the river Clyde from the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow, carrying the Commonwealth Games batonGettyPrince George sits in a high chair, flanked by his parents and his birthday presents and cakeGettyKate Middleton and Prince William take Prince George to visit the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, in a photo released on his first birthdayReuters
