Monday: The day in photos

A Chinese girl with a parasol waits outside the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in hazy and humid weather.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

Rowers prepare for a practice session at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.  (Shaun Botterill / Getty Images)

Swimmers practice at the National Aquatics Center ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.  (Phil Walter / Getty Images)

Residents collect their possessions from a house damaged by heavy rains in the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.  (Muhammad Iqbal / Associated Press)

Kashmiri Muslim women wail during the funeral procession of Mohammed Asif, who was killed during a protest in Srinagar, India, over a government decision to not transfer land to a Hindu shrine.  (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)

A policeman hits a tear gas shell back to protesters during a demonstration in Srinagar, India, against the alleged assaults on Muslims in the Jammu region.  (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)

In Santokhgarh, India, villagers attend a cremation for family members who were among the 145 people killed in a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple.  (Ashwini Bhatia / Associated Press)

Firefighters sit on a hose and watch as smoke rises from a fire at a car-recycling company in Chatelet, Belgium. The fire raged overnight after lightning struck the site.  (Olivier Papegnies / AFP/Getty Images)

A Bangladeshi man carries his elderly mother after casting her vote in the Manikganj district. Bangladesh held its first election since an army-backed government took charge last year under a plan to restore democracy by the end of this year.  (Adi Shah / AFP/Getty Images)