Flames consume a replica of the 17th-century flagship Prins Willem in Den Helder, northern Netherlands, early Thursday, July 30, 2009. Fire has destroyed the replica of the 17th-century flagship of the Dutch East India Company. The three-mast tall ship, which was built in the 1980s, was moored for many years at Holland Village in Nagasaki, Japan, before it returned to the northern Dutch port in 2003.
Flipped Out
A child does a one-handed handstand at a the Hongshan primary school in Beijing, Thursday, July 30, 2009. NBA Cares recently helps refurbish the school, which teaches the children of migrant workers.
World's Oldest Man Remembered
A member of the Royal Air Force holds a program for the funeral of World War I veteran Henry Allingham outside St Nicholas' Church in Brighton, England, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Politicians, military chiefs, relatives and hundreds of strangers bade farewell Thursday to Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of Britain's last survivors of World War I. He passed away at 113 on July 18.
Forward March
German Bundeswehr soldiers march prior to a swearing of the oath ceremony in Munich, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
Men at Prayer
A boy sleeps on the floor as an ultra-orthodox Jewish man prays during the mourning ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, July 30, 2009. The Jewish holy day of Tisha B'Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the biblical temples is marked Thursday.
Statue Simulations
Chinese visitors pose for photos on statues on display for a souvenir photograph outside a shopping mall in Beijing, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
A Walk in the Park
A woman is silhouetted as she walks her dog past a blooming flowerbed in a park in Bremen, northern Germany, on Thursday, July 30, 2009.
Go Fly a Kite
Palestinian children fly kites during at an event organized by UNRWA on a Mediterranean beach in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip attempted to set a new world record Thursday by flying colorful homemade kites amid the ruins of Israel's bruising offensive earlier this year - a rare display of joy in the isolated seaside territory ruled by Hamas militants.