2013-07-18 Photo gallery

Children run through a sprinkler system installed inside a playground to cool off during a hot summer day in New York, July 17, 2013. Temperatures in New York City, the nation's biggest metropolitan area, soared into the upper 90s Fahrenheit for a t...

South African artist Paul Blomkamp explains the meaning behind the giant acrylic-on-canvas painting he has made of former South African President Nelson Mandela, at his studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Blomkamp said he w...

Wild sparrows are being fed by hand in Ueno park in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. (AP Photo

The Sagrada Familia cathedral is seen in the background as an unidentified diver practices ahead of the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, July 15, 2013. The FINA swimming World Championships run from July 19 to Aug. 4 in Barcelona...

Malala Yousafzai, wearing a white shawl that had belonged to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, gives her first speech since the Taliban in Pakistan tried to kill her for advocating education for girls, at the United Nations Headquarter...

Elliot Sudal (L) pulls a 7-foot (2.1m) sand shark ashore in Nantucket, Massachusetts in this July 14, 2013 handout photo provided by Hanson Grant. Sudal, 24, who moved from Florida to Massachusetts, pulled the shark ashore by the tail, and then rele...

Bayern Munich Spanish head coach Pep Guardiola , left, introduces the new Spanish soccer player ,Thiago Alcantara , in Munich, Germany Tuesday July 16, 2013. (AP Photo

Arsenal's Lukas Podolski (L) talks with Vietnamese soccer fan Vu Xuan Tien also known as 'The Running Man', before a friendly match between Vietnam and Arsenal at My Dinh stadium in Hanoi July 17, 2013. Tien, a medical student, became a local celebr...

Actress Katrina Kaif during her visit to the shrine of Hazarat Saleem Chishti at Fatehpur Sikri on Thursday. PTI Photo

A youth walks with his goats past unfinished idols of elephant headed Hindu god Ganesha in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, July 15, 2013. AP Photo

The Star of India sits at a dock next to the San Diego Convention Center during the Preview Night event on Day 1 of the 2013 Comic-Con International Convention on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in San Diego. The ship is decorated as a pirate ship to p...

A youth walks with his goats past unfinished idols of elephant headed Hindu god Ganesha in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, July 15, 2013. (AP Photo

A worker cuts carcasses into pieces in the Biernacki Meat Plant slaughterhouse in Golina near Jarocin western Poland July 17, 2013. Biernacki Meat Plant Biernacki was one of the leading producer of kosher and halal meat in Poland. Poland's Prime M...

A man weeps while holding the body of his child who died after consuming contaminated meals given to children at a school on Tuesday at Chapra in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Reuters

FILE - This Thursday, July 11, 2013 file photo shows a detail of a painting of Nelson Mandela which has been in Klerksdorp prison since it was made in 2011 by a prisoner named Renato Booysen, who was later released, after being donated by the pris...

Rapper 'Pitbull', right, performs before the MLB All-Star baseball Home Run Derby, on Monday, July 15, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo

Women are seen roasting the corn to sell in the rain at SB temple road in Gulbarga on Thursday.DH Photo

An aerial view of metro construction work which is going on faster after the shifting of Ambedkar statue, in front of Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore on Thursday. DH Photo

A devotee, center, prays as he stands near a chariot ahead of the return of chariots event that marks the end of the nine day long chariot festival of Lord Jagannath in Puri, Orissa, India, Thursday, July 18, 2013. The three idols of Hindu god Jag...

A book belonging to a second standard student lies on the floor of a classroom where contaminated meals were served to the children at a school on Tuesday at Chapra district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar July 18, 2013. The Indian governmen...

Muslims break their day long fast during Ramadan at a utensils shop in Allahabad, India, Thursday, July 18, 2013. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar during which devotees fast from ...

Traditional temple bell players run during a procession ahead of the return of chariots event that marks the end of nine day long chariot festival of Lord Jagannath in Puri, Orissa, India, Thursday, July 18, 2013. The three idols of Hindu god Jaga...

Khushi Kumari, who is sick, cries in pain as she lies on a bed inside a hospital after she consumed contaminated meals given to children at a school on Tuesday, in the eastern Indian city of Patna July 18, 2013. The Indian government announced on ...

AIADMK Chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa along family members of her party senior leader and sitting member of Legislative Assembly from Yercaud constituency C. Perumal (62), who died following cardiac arrest at a private hospital...

School children play in rain water in Mumbai on Thursday. PTI Photo

England's Jonathan Bairstow waits on his way to the pavilion for video replay after he was bowled by Australia's Peter Siddle on the first day of the second Ashes test cricket match at Lords, in London, July 18, 2013. Siddle was ruled to have bowl...

Australia's Peter Siddle celebrates bowling out England's Jonathan Bairstow on the first day of the second Ashes cricket test match at Lords, in London, July 18, 2013. Siddle was ruled to have bowled a no-ball so Bairstow stayed in. REUTERS

People during a protest against the recent BSF firing incident in Ramban, at Talab Khatika in Jammu on Thursday. PTI Photo

Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne chairing the Durand Cup football tournament organising committee meeting, in New Delhi on Thursday. Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh and the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral D.K. Joshi are...

A view of Himalayas from Badarinath during the month of June 2013. Photo clicked by  Balakrishna Samaga.

View of Neelkanth mountain, Badrinath on a sunny day. Photo clicked by  Balakrishna Samaga.

A view from Devprayag, one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River where Alaknanda and Bhagirathi rivers meet and take the name Ganga.