WORLD IN A SNAP | Interesting images from around the world
Cherokee lightning, traffic monster, Washington hawks
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June
A Palestinian boy reacts as youths frighten him with their toy guns on Tuesday in Ramallah, in the West Bank refugee camp of Al-Amari. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Twin bolts of lightning split the sky in rural Cherokee County, Kansas early Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Carthage Press, John Hacker)
An honor guard carries the remains of Commander Charles K. Springle during interment services at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday. According to the Defense Department, Springle, 52, was killed in a shooting at a combat stress clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq on May 11. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A photo taken by Joseph Carnevale shows a sculpture he made using traffic barrels in Raleigh, N.C. Carnevale says he didn't have a grandiose point to make when he chopped up traffic barrels and turned them into a hitchhiking roadside monster. The North Carolina college student has become a celebrity of sorts since city police charged him with possession of stolen goods, and the construction company that owns the barrels wants to keep the statue. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Joseph Carnevale)
Anna Kate Murphy walks around the sheep show, showing off ribbons she won during the Boyle County Fair in Danville, Kentucky. (AP Photo/The Advocate-Messenger, Clay Jackson)
After making an emergency landing on the Stonebridge Golf Course in Pittsfield Township near Ann Arbor, Michigan, a single engine plane taxis down Lohr Road with a police escort back to the Ann Arbor Airport Tuesday morning. Pilot Steve Blackman, from Ann Arbor, said the engine cut out completely and he was too far from the airport to get back. "I had about 10 seconds to figure out where I was going to put it down." His 13-year-old grandson Brad Roberts was with him. (AP Photo/The Ann Arbor News, Lon Horwedel)
Supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi run in the streets during protests Tuesday in Tehran, Iran. The government banned foreign media from covering rallies. Iran's Guardian Council reportedly said they would re-count some of the votes. (Photo by Getty Images)
The sun sets behind a man bathing in a canal near the Chota Lahore relief camp in Swabi, Pakistan. Over three million people are living at camps due to recent fighting and military operations against the Taliban. New refugee camps are sprouting up while others continue to grow as aid agencies struggle to deal with the needs of so many. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
A Nihang, or Sikh warrior, in Amritsar, India pays obeisance Tuesday in front of the Golden Temple, Sikhís holiest shrine, on the occasion of the Martyrdom Day of the fifth Sikh Guru Arjan Singh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A pair of red-tailed hawks alight on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Tuesday in Washington D.C., near the White House. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
