Young wrestler Dzhambulat Khotokhov, a 4-year-old Russian weighing 123 pounds with a height of 3 feet 11 inches flexes his muscles before wrestling against Georgy Bibilauri, a 112-pound Georgian who turned 5 on July 9, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Wrestlers Georgy Bibilauri and Dzhambulat Khotokhov had both hoped for victory, but they settled for ice cream instead. After the boys tied on the mat, they went off to celebrate Bibilauri's birthday with ice cream and chocolate.
Marcy Christmas greets one of four puppies rescued from Iraq along with their mother at the Air France cargo warehouse at Los Angeles International Airport, July 7. Christmas saw the four puppies and their mother who were starving and abandoned in Iraq on television and decided to rescue them. The Humane Center for Animal Welfare in Amman, Jordan brought the dogs out of Iraq and shipped them to Christmas in the U.S.
Dr. Nikola Adid holds a fork removed from the stomach of a 32-year-old woman who accidentally swallowed it while using it to scoop a cockroach out of her throat, as he stands next to an x-ray of the fork lodged sideways in her stomach, at the Poria hospital in the northern Israeli town of Tiberias July 10. The fork was removed with laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure performed through a tiny incision in a patient's abdomen.
An unidentified teenager cannon balls off of the Cliff Hanger water slide at Wild Waters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, July 9.
This is a Sept. 2003 file photo of the sausage race at Miller Park in the seventh inning of a Milwaukee Brewers game in Milwaukee. Pittsburgh first baseman Randall Simon was questioned by sheriff's officers after hitting one of the racing sausages with a bat during the game July 10.
Thousands of rubber ducks are dumped off the Veterans Memorial Bridge into the Susquehanna river in Wilkes Barre, Pa., July 4, as part of the annual Duck Dump for the American Cancer Society.
A detail photograph of a note is seen on July 7, 2003, in St. Petersburg, Fla. This note was found inside a bottle behind the Venetian Isles home, near St. Petersburg, of Don Smith on the Fourth of July. The note was dated Dec. 27, 1984. The author was 7- year-old Roger Clay. Smith returned the note to Clay's mother Lisa Ferguson. Clay died in a motorcycle accident on July 10, 1998.
A tooth, purportedly pulled from Elvis Presley's mouth at a dentist's office, has been on display at a Plantation hair salon for about 10 years along with other items Wednesday, July 9, in Plantation, Fla. Now they're being auctioned on eBay.
Divers participating in the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys play mock musical instruments July 12. From left are Mary Thomas, Nancy and Mel Herlehy, all of Big Pine Key, Fla. Almost 400 divers and snorkelers got wet to listen to a Keys radio station's six-hour music broadcast piped below via underwater speakers at the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary near Big Pine Key.
Aaron Garcia, 18, of Sarasota, Fla., assembles the "Globe of Death," July 8 at the Outagamie County Fairgrounds in Seymour, Wis. The globe, a 14-foot diameter metal cage in which Aaron and other family members ride motorcycles, is an act in the Star Family Circus performance.
Dave "Cannonball" Smith flies out of a cannon on a 175-foot journey over the circus big top at the Great Circus Parade grounds, to a net waiting on the other side July 9, in Milwaukee. Smith, 61, has been wowing crowds for more than 30 years. Dozens ignore the lions and tigers for a minute to cheer his shot.
David Biggin of Sussex, England is tossed by a fighting bull from the Dolores Aguirre Ybarra ranch during the daily running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, July 12. Biggin was hospitalized with head and leg injuries. The week-long festival, made famous by U.S. author Ernest Hemingway, involves running with fighting bulls though the streets in the early morning, bullfights in the afternoon and around the clock partying.
Japan's synchro team performs to win the gold medal in the synchronized swimming free routine combination final at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain, July 16.
A Thompson submachine gun stolen from a Racine, Wis., police sergeant, who was shot by a Dillinger gang member during a 1933 holdup of a Racine bank, is displayed in the lobby of the Racine Police Department, July 15. The gun could be moved to the new Racine Art Museum, which is housed in the remodeled downtown building of the bank Dillinger robbed.
Chihuahuas caged at an animal shelter, July 9, in Baldwin Park, Calif., must wait before they are available for possible adoption pending the results of a court case involving their owner. Approximately 200 of the dogs were confiscated from an elderly woman last Fall. A letter in the lobby of the shelter informs the public that the Chihuahuas are not available and that many of them are very aggressive.
French police officers remove a man dressed as a chicken from a Paris boulevard July 16. Pop star Chrissie Hynde, of The Pretenders, and a dozen protesters from the U.S. based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals demonstrated against what they believe is cruel treatment of chickens by Kentucky Fried Chicken food chain, and scuffled with guards and policemen.
This teddy bear was confiscated from a 10-year-old boy at the Orlando International Airport after a Transportation Security Administration worker noticed the outline of handgun in the X-ray machine on July 12. Inside, workers found a loaded 22-caliber gun. The boy's family said the teddy bear was given to their son by a girl at their hotel.