Hindu devotees offer evening prayers during Sawan, the holiest month in the Hindu calendar, in Allahabad, India, July 21.
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Ukrainian football supporters of FC Dynamo Kiev, FC Karpaty Lviv, and FC Shakhtar Donetsk hold flares and shout slogans during the "March of Unity" in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, July 22. Thousands of demonstrators took part in the march, organized prior to the Ukrainian Super Cup football match, calling for the union of the country.
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An Israeli artillery unit fires towards the Gaza Strip from a position near Israel's border with the coastal Palestinian enclave, July 21. FP contributor Daniel Byman looked at Israel's strategic logic in the ongoing Gaza conflict in a recent column for Foreign Policy, "An Eye for a Tooth."
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A relative of Shahed Qishtah, a nine-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in an Israeli strike, left the Kamal Adwan hospital where he brought her in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, July 22. Colum Lynch covered recent casualties at a U.N.-run school in Gaza for FP's The Cable.
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A Syrian man walks on a street covered with dust following a reported air strike by government forces, in the old city of Aleppo, on July 21. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband discussed a potential humanitarian breakthrough in Syria in a recent column for Foreign Policy.
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Engineer Daniel Schubert holds lettuce at the German Aerospace Center in Bremen, Germany, July 21. Scientists and engineers from the German Aerospace Center are developing greenhouses for a potential Mars colony. The greenhouses will contain combined life-support systems which use recycled urine to manufacture fertilizer. The first greenhouse will be tested for nine months starting in 2016 in an inhospitable environment in the Antarctic.
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Members of the South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members set fire to paper and cardboard during clashes with South African police outside the Gauteng Legislature building in Johannesburg on July 22.
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An injured Israeli soldier is evacuated from a site near the Israeli border with Gaza Strip, July 21.
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Palestinians celebrate in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 21 after Hamas's armed wing said it had captured an Israeli soldier during fighting in the Gaza Strip.
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A displaced mother from Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood holds her daughter at the U.N. school where she and others have taken refuge after fleeing heavy fighting in their area, July 21.
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A Bengal tiger cub is fed with a bottle at the Anatolian Wonderland zoo in Turkey's Kayseri Province, July 21. Zoo officials are caring for the tiger after it was refused by its mother.
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A man blows fire during the final procession of the eleven-day festival of Bonalu, at Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple in Hyderabad, India, July 21.
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Armed pro-Russian separatists stand guard in front of train cars containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez, July 21. FP contributor Mark Galeotti examined the consequences of the MH-17 shoot-down for the conflict in Ukraine in his article, "The Missile That Will End the War."
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A man walks through a tunnel at a beer museum in Qingdao, in China's Shandong Province, July 24.
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A group of elderly women from a nearby village shelter from the rain after visiting the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Grabovo, Ukraine, July 22. FP's Shane Harris reports on the questions still surrounding U.S. intelligence on the MH17 shoot-down.
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Residents of Lingayen, Philippines look at a green sea turtle accidentally caught in a fishing net, July 21. The fishermen who found the sea turtle informed local authorities, and later in the day the turtle was tagged and released into the sea. Sea turtles are protected under Philippine law and catching them is punishable by jail time.
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People relax during warm weather on Brighton beach in Brighton, England, on July 23.
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Ferry boat drivers wait for customers at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 22.
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A fisherman casts his line into the sea on the Faliro coastline in Athens, Greece, on July 21.
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