Today in Photos
Cold weather in Brazil has zoo animals under blankets and Palestinian children flying kites on the beach are two of the subjects of today's photo slide show. A replica of a tall ship that was destroyed by fire, the teeth of the winner of the gold medal of the Individual 200 meter medley at the World Swimming Championships and weather in Germany are some of the other images today.
Section:Gallery
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Female orangutan Tanga covers herself with a blanket from the cold at the Rio Zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
Silvia Izquierdo Associated Press
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Palestinian children fly kites during at an event organized by UNRWA on a Mediterranean beach in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip attempted to set a new world record Thursday by flying colorful homemade kites amid the ruins of Israel's bruising offensive earlier this year a rare display of joy in the isolated seaside territory ruled by Hamas militants.
Adel Hana Associated Press
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A veiled Palestinian supervisor flies a kite during a kite festival organized by UNRWA on the Mediterranean beach in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip attempted to set a new world record Thursday by flying colorful homemade kites amid the ruins of Israel's bruising offensive earlier this year a rare display of joy in the isolated seaside territory ruled by Hamas militants.
Adel Hana Associated Press
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Ryan Lochte of the United States shows the gold medal of the Men's 200m Individual Medley, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
Michael Sohn Associated Press
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Chinese visitors stand pose by each statues on display for a souvenir photograph outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
Andy Wong Associated Press
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Flames consume a replica of the 17th-century flagship Prins Willem in Den Helder, northern Netherlands, early Thursday, July 30, 2009. Fire has destroyed a replica of the 17th-century flagship of the Dutch East India Company. The three-mast tall ship, which was built in the 1980s, was moored at Holland Village in Nagasaki, Japan, for many years before it returned to the northern Dutch port of Den Helder in 2003.
Peter Beek Associated Press
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A replica World War I Sopworth Triplane fighter aircraft flies over the sea off Brighton, England, Thursday July 30, 2009, after the funeral of World War I veteran Henry Allingham. Politicians, military chiefs, a large extended family and hundreds of respectful strangers bade farewell to Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of Britain's last survivors of World War I, who died July 18 at 113. Allingham was the last founding member of the Royal Air Force and one of a handful of remaining veterans of what was known as "the war to end all wars."
Peter Macdiarmid Associated Press
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Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird gets a morning bath from his groom, Leon Hernandez, outside his barn at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., Thursday July 30, 2009. Summer Bird will compete in the $1.25 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Bill Denver Equi-Photo
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A woman is silhouetted as she walks her dog past a blooming flowerbed in a park in Bremen, northern Germany, on Thursday, July 30, 2009. Weather changes between sunshine and rain in northern Germany on Thursday.
Joerg Sarbach Associated Press
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Mexico's Lorena Ochoa plays out of the bunker on the 6th hole during the 1st round of the Women's British Open Golf Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Course, Lytham & St Annes, England, Thursday, July, 30, 2009.
Peter Morrison Associated Press