World in photos
Yermolai Solzhenitsyn, a son of Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, author of “The Gulag Archipelago,” holds his own son so he can see his grandfather. The writer and dissident, 89, who won the Nobel Prize for literature, died Aug. 3. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Solzhenitsyn’s works should get more emphasis in the schools. (Yuri Kochetkov / EPA)
A British couple decided to get off to a flying start Tuesday. Vicar George Brigham, right, conducts the marriage ceremony of Darren McWalters, left, and Katie Hodgson, as they fly over the English countryside in Gloucestershire. The service for McWalters, 24, and Hodgson, 23, was conducted over an airborne communications system, with the ceremony played through loudspeakers to the congregation on the ground below. (Barry Batchelor / Associated Press)
A year after losing his leg in a roadside bombing in Iraq, Marine Cpl. Garrett Jones was able to rejoin his unit, now at Camp Barber, Afghanistan, with the aid of a high-tech prosthesis and recent advances in medical care. “I want to be someone an injured Marine can talk to,” Jones says. “And I can tell them: ‘Times will be rough and not always easy as an amputee, but you can still make great things out of an unfortunate situation.’ ” Times staff writer David Zucchino has the full story. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Chinese soldiers at the Jiuzhou stadium in Mianyang take off their caps to pay their respect to victims of the May 12 Sichuan earthquake. The ceremony was part of three days of Olympic torch relay activities in the province in advance of the opening this week of the 2008 Beijing Games. (Guang Niu / Getty Images)
A summer storm brings lightning to the skies over South London on Thursday, and with it a temporary end to recent hot and humid weather with light rain and a cool breeze. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
Kashmiri Muslim women mourn during the funeral procession of a man killed during a protest in Srinagar, India, on Monday. Police in Indian Kashmir reportedly opened fire on hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in an area where Hindus and Muslims have clashed. (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)
Pakistani Kushti wrestlers train at the Champion Khalu Behalwan wrestling club in the Old City of Lahore, Pakistan. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan. (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)
A woman places paper lantern floats on the Motoyasu River beside the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Wednesday, as the Japanese city marked the 63rd anniversary of the world’s first atomic attack. (Toru Yamanaka AFP/Getty Images)
Historic motorbikes from the former East German republic remain under wraps at a new museum in Berlin. Uwe Kobilke, a Berlin businessman, will show his collection of about 80 East German models at the motorbike museum, which will open to the public by the end of August. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)
