WORLD IN A SNAP | Interesting images from around the world
Marines sleep, mud day, Berlin Wall art
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July
Seal pups look out of the pool's water at the seal station in Friedrichskoog at the North Sea, northern Germany, on Wednesday. A total of 69 abandoned young common seals (Phoca vitulina) will grow up here until they are reintroduced to their natural habitat in August. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines watch as a helicopter drops an emergency water resupply outside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A firefighting helicopter makes a water drop on a brush fire near the Getty Center art complex, Wednesday, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Fire fighters work along a ridge on a brush fire near the Getty Center art complex on Wednesday in Los Angeles. A huge plume of white smoke rose over the western side of Los Angeles as the fire burned northward toward an area still scarred by a fire last fall. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
German artist Birgit Kinder paints her picture "Trabi" at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday. The restoration of the 105 wall paintings of the former Berlin Wall is scheduled to be finished for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 2009. The same 118 artists from 21 countries who created the paintings in 1990 will repaint their pictures in the world's longest open-air art gallery after replacement of the concrete surface of the wall. (AP Photo/Maya Hitij)
Therese Hebda, 7, of Trenton, Michigan plays with hundreds of otherv children in a giant lake of mud at the annual Mud Day event Tuesday in Westland, Michigan. The event is sponsored by the Wayne County Parks and Recreation Department and the mud hole is made with approximately 200 tons of topsoil and 20,000 gallons of water. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
A boy plays as commuters make their way through water logged streets after heavy rains in Mumbai, India on Wednesday. Authorities have cut the supply of water to the city by 30 percent. An overnight downpour caused flooding but failed to replenish the city's dangerously low water supply. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
A tiger feeds in the Serengeti Park Hodenhagen, in northern Germany. The park took over eight tigers which were in a bad condition from a circus in Portugal in Oct. 2008. On Wednesday the big cats were shown to the public the first time. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
People carry the body of a person suspected of have died from consuming illicitly brewed liquor in Ahmadabad, India. Police said 43 people have died in western India days after drinking home-brewed liquor that was apparently toxic. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
