WORLD IN A SNAP | Interesting images from around the world
Bridge under bridge, elusive otter, turtle release (13 images)
26
July
The new Willis Avenue Bridge passes under the Brooklyn Bridge and in front of lower Manhattan as it is brought up the East River on a barge in New York on Monday. The bridge is replacing the existing 109-year-old span that connects Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
U.S. Army Spc. Brad Parrish, of Spokane, Wash., from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, takes an eye scan of an Afghan villager near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan on Monday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Acrobats perform on top of a fountain during the opening ceremony of the European Athletics Championships, in Barcelona, Spain on Monday. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano)
This past weekend in Black Rock, Nevada, a team of 8 high school students successfully launched a 1,100-pound rocket into space. The students, led by instructor Tom Atchison of Rocket Mavericks, designed, built and launched the rocket using only Sony VAIO laptops with Intel processor. Traveling nearly 3x speed of sound and reaching a Mach 2.8 level, the rocket launched more than six miles into space. (Eric Kaufman/Sony via AP Images)
A house damaged when a tree landed on it during Sunday's storm, sits unattended in northwest Washington on Monday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
A rare hairy-nosed otter that was photographed recently by a remote camera in Sabah, Malaysia. A Malaysian official said the sighting of the otter has provided scientists with the first evidence that the nearly extinct creature remains alive on Borneo island. (AP Photo/Sabah Wildlife Department)
Water from the rising Wapsipinicon River pours out of the windows of the historic Independence Mill in downtown Independence, Iowa on Saturday. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Rick Chase)
A U.S. fighter takes off from the flight deck of USS George Washington during a joint military exercises at east sea on Monday in South Korea. (Photo by Song Kyung-Seok-pool/Getty Images)
British adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild sails as the "Plastiki" arrives at Sydney Harbour, completing the 7,990 mile journey from San Francisco to raise environmental awareness on Monday in Sydney, Australia. The 60-foot catamaran made from 12,500 plastic bottles was designed by Australian Andrew Dovall and embarked on the 128 day journey to bring attention to condition of our oceans and the amount of plastic debris in the Pacific. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
A trio of Kemp's ridley turtle hatchlings make their way through the surf after being released into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas. Hundreds of endangered baby sea turtles embarked on a new life in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday with federal biologists hoping that by the time the tiny critters get as far east as the BP spill, the toxic oil will largely be gone. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
The cruise ship Queen Victoria sails past Crosby beach before entering the Port of Liverpool, England, where the Duchess of Cornwall will take a tour of the ship, one of Cunard's largest on Monday. The 90,000-ton vessel will dock at the city to mark 170 years of Cunard operations from Liverpool. (AP Photo/PA, Peter Byrne)
Iraqi army soldiers stand near a massive crater outside the office of the Al-Arabiya television station after a suicide bomber driving a minibus struck in Baghdad, Iraq on Monday. The bomber was apparently waved through the first checkpoint at the Al-Arabiya television station after security guards checked his identification, said Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi. The blast killed and injured several people at the popular Arabic-language satellite news channel early Monday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Activists push an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III as they hold a rally near the House of Representatives, where Aquino is set to deliver his first State of the Nation Address in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
