Orestis Panagiotou/European Pressphoto Agency
Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, left, and his newly appointed successor, Lucas Papademos, met Friday in the Maximos Mansion, in Athens, Greece. Mr. Papademos named a cabinet to implement the country’s latest €130 billion ($177 billion) bailout.
Vassil Donev/European Pressphoto Agency
A girl slept near rose bushes near the village of Rosino, Bulgaria. The oil rose was brought to the country in the 16th century and must be picked by hand at sunrise to achieve the highest concentration of oil. Bulgaria is one of the highest producers of rose oil in the world, along with Turkey.
Felipe Truba/European Pressphoto Agency
The top-seeder Roger Federer kicked up some clay while defeating Julian Reister, 6-4, 6-0, 6-4, during their third-round match at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris.
Justin Lane/European Pressphoto Agency
The New York Stock Exchange before the opening bell. The Dow Jones industrial average dipped below 10,000 points shortly after opening, but it closed 135.38 points, or 1.25 percent, higher.
Oliver Weiken/European Pressphoto Agency
A Palestinian woman with a Palestinian flag wrapped around her head flashed the victory sign in celebration at the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
Divyakant Solanki/European Pressphoto Agency
Indian children enjoyed playing in the sand at the Juhu beach in Mumbai, as several parts of the country have been locked in a heat wave with many temperatures well above 100 degrees.
Andy Rain/European Pressphoto Agency
World War II veterans and participants in the evacuation of Dunkirk were reunited after 70 years at the Imperial War Museum in London. The nine Dunkirk veterans shared memories of their experiences.
Ni Yuxing/European Pressphoto Agency
An ethic Tibetan monk threw the body of a child onto a funeral pyre in a ditch in Jiegu, famed for its horse-racing festival and purebred Tibetan mastiffs. On Saturday, local monks organised a mass cremation of 1,400 bodies in Jiegu that took place without any government involvement.
Mast Irham/European Pressphoto Agency
Indonesian surrounded an injured municipal police officer they captured during a clash in Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, the capital. Bloody clashed broke out in Jakarta between scores of demonstrators and security forces over the demolition of a cemetery of an Islamic scholar.
Nick Bothma/European Pressphoto Agency
Senegalese boys practised traditional wrestling, known as Lutte, in the 400-year-old village known as Ngor near Dakar, Senegal. Senegalese wrestling is a type of folk wrestling with the main objective to throw the opponent to the ground.
Franck Robichon/European Pressphoto Agency
A sumo wrestler carried a baby before a ceremonial tournament at the Yasukuni Shrine precincts in Tokyo.
Anatoly Keizer/European Pressphoto Agency
Bodies were strewn at the Park Kultury station in Moscow.as people searched from missing relatives and friends, and the authorities tried to determine whether more attacks were planned.
Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto Agency
White phosphorous munitions are blown up in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. United Nations officials have blown up such munitions that remained unexploded since the Gaza war.
Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency
Jew in a neighborhood on Jerusalem gathered Thursday for a ceremony for the bones of ancient Jewish sages that were unearthed in a national park. The bones were moved to the Mount of Olives for reburial.
Alejandro Ernesto/European Pressphoto Agency
Guillermo Farinas, a Cuban journalist and dissident, completed seven days of a hunger and thirst strike at his house in Santa Clara, Cuba. Mr. Farinas called for the release of the country’s estimated 200 political prisoners.
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