Day in pictures

1 of 11 Gun-toting Andean women march in the Peruvian capital Lima as celebrations continue for Independence Day.

2 of 11 Shoals of fish bask in the Mediterranean waters off Kemer on the Turkish coast.

3 of 11 A water-carrying plane flies over forest fires ravaging parts of Spain and Portugal.

4 of 11 A bear looks glumly out of the bars of his small enclosure in Bucharest zoo, Romania.

5 of 11 A trader shows his anguish at the International Petroleum Exchange in London. Crude prices dropped after as Russian giant Yukos resumed production.

6 of 11 A Bosnian girl poses by a giant Turkish coffee pot - which its makers hope will see them into the Guinness Book of Records. The pot could provide some 8,000 cups of Turkish coffee.

7 of 11 Mourners in Iraq bury some of the dozens of victims of Wednesday's suicide bomb attack in Baquba.

8 of 11 An Afghan woman waits with her child to see a doctor, a day after the medical charity MSF announced it would leave the country.

9 of 11 Boy scouts celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising by retracing steps taken by insurgents through the city's sewers during WWII.

10 of 11 A contestant in the Miss Indonesia pageant in Jakarta tries on a traditional headdress while preparing for a photo shoot.

11 of 11 Waves crash into the shore in Bombay, India. Dozens of people have died in floods.