WORLD IN A SNAP | Interesting images from around the world
Stonehenge solstice, Japanese whalers, Kenyan blaze
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June
People look at fireworks and the Shtandart frigate with scarlet sails floating on the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Sunday. St. Peter and St. Poul Cathedral are seen on the left. The frigate participated in festivities marking school graduations which were held all over Russia as students of elementary, high schools, and military academies finished their education. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
U.S Marine John Daly, right, of Collingdale, Pa., from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, is helped by a fellow Marine after injuring his ankle in a fall when Taliban fighters opened fire on him and his squad inside a mud walled compound during a gun battle near Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Saturday. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Iqra, 4, fixes her scraf during the 3 hour religious class at the Ummah Welfare Trust madrassa ( religious school) on Saturday in the Chota Lahore relief camp in Swabi, Pakistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A woman is lifted above the crowd as revellers celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge on Sunday near Amesbury, England. Record crowds were expected to watch the sunrise over the ancient monument on the longest day of the year at 4.58 am., although clouds covered the sunrise. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
The supreme priest of Russian neo-pagans beats his drum while his followers dance around the bonfire celebrating the summer solstice in Maloyaroslavets, 124 miles south-west from Moscow, Russia, early Sunday. The festivities of Ivan Kupala, or John the Baptist, is similar to Mardi Gras and reflects pre-Christian Slavic traditions and practices. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
A fire rages across a holiday complex in Malindi, Kenya, on Sunday, as some 150 private villas and cottages burn just as preparations are being made for the high tourist season. The Palm Tree Club hotel and the prestigious Kibokoni Riding Center, a popular horse riding destination for foreigners, were among the properties razed by the fire. (AP Photo/Robert Nyagah)
Children watch Japanese whalers cut open a Baird's beaked whale, their first catch of the season, which was caught 38 miles off the coast, in Wada, southeast of Tokyo, on Sunday morning. Beard's Beaked and Pilot whales, species are not subject to the International Whaling Commission's 1986 ban on commercial whaling. The catch, measuring more than 32 feet in length, comes a week before the International Whaling Commission (IWC) are due to meet in Madeira, Portugal. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Ultra Orthodox Jewish men pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, during a special prayer to support the settlements in the West Bank, in Jerusalem on Sunday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Kashmiri Muslim porters carry a Hindu pilgrim on their way to the Amarnath cave, near Dumail, 80 miles northeast of Srinagar, India on Sunday. Hundreds of pilgrims annually go to the remote Himalayan shrine of Amarnath at 14,500 feet above sea level to worship an icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Bulgarian Muslims cook as they stir "kurban", boiled mutton, in a pot during the traditional prayer for rich harvest, in the village of Topolovo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Sunday. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
Young Armenian women dressed with their national dress perform during the annual three-day international folklore festival in the town of Varna east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Sunday. (AP Photo/Petko Momchilov)
