Espen Eckbo, left, and Stein Johan Grieg Halvorsen, from Norway, joyfully wave the Michael Jackson memorial-service tickets they won in an online lottery. They collected their tickets and wristbands at Dodger Stadium. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Participants, wearing traditional red bandanas, celebrate the start of the festival of San Fermín. More than 1 million people were expected. (Pedro Armestre / AFP / Getty Images)
Revelers jump into the sea followed by a bull during the “Bulls to the Sea” festival in the town of Denia, Spain. The bulls are later brought back to the coast in boats. (Alberto Saiz / Associated Press)
Medics prepare to carry a Marine, who was overcome by heat exhaustion, to a medical evacuation helicopter in Afghanistan. (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)
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President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attend a joint press conference at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / Associated Press)
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, center, strains during the third stage of the Tour de France cycling race. The race covers 122 miles, beginning in Marseille and finishing in La Grande-Motte, France. At left, next to Armstrong, is Alberto Contador of Spain. (Bas Czerwinski / Associated Press)
A Pakistani boy, among millions of Pakistanis displaced from their homes as a result of military operations against the Taliban, crosses a bridge at a camp for internally displaced people in Chota Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani forces are battling militants in the Swat Valley, Lower Dir and Buner districts. New camps are sprouting up while others continue to grow. Refugees face harsh living conditions amid searing heat in overcrowded camps. (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)
A woman lies on a new public-seating installation by artist Peter Newman in London. The sculpture, entitled “Sky Station,” is outside the Haywood Gallery and is open to the public through Sept. 14. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
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Lebanese snake hobbyist Pierre Rizk and his Sri Lankan wife, Sapa, watch television with two of their Indian python snakes at home in Dekwaneh, Lebanon, near Beirut. Rizk and his wife have no children but are happily living with 13 pet snakes in their two-room apartment. (Joseph Barrak / AFP / Getty Images)
Dutch police arrest a demonstrator in front of the Chinese Embassy in the Hague. Demonstrators hurled rocks at the embassy and about 60 people were detained in a protest that followed deadly unrest in China, police said. (Ed Oudenaarden / AFP / Getty Images)