A harnessed Highland cow has a wash on June 17 at the Royal Highland Show Ground in Ingleston, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The show began on June 19.
"Crazy Legs" Conti, left, from New York, and Carson "Collard Greens" Hughes, from Newport News, Va., go head to head during the Norfolk Hot Dog Eating Contest June 14, in Norfolk, Va. Hughes, who won, will travel to Coney Island on the Fourth of July to compete in the 88th Annual Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. He ate 16 hot dogs, with buns, in 12 minutes.
Nathan Clarke's proposal to his girlfriend Christina Otis in his father's wheat field in Coleman Mich., Wednesday. Clark, 19, proposed during a plane ride that passed overhead.
A man called the Colacho jumps over young babies during El Salto del Colacho, The Jump of the Colacho, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, northern Spain, June 22. The Colacho represents the devil who takes away the evil from the babies as he jumps over them in this medieval religious custom to celebrate Corpus Christi.
Doctors check three babies in San Juan, Argentina, June 22. An Argentine woman gave birth to twin girls Saturday who were born fused at the head and sharing a heart and other vital organs, officials said. The girls were born joined from the chest to mid-abdomen and shared other lower parts of the body. According to officials, the twins, born as part of triplets with a boy, were in stable condition.
Mark Roberts helps in the clean-up of a truck accident that released millions of bees along Interstate 35 in Claycomo, Mo., June 22. The truck flipped over, spilling hundreds of beehives being hauled from Millerton Okla. to Wisconsin for cranberry pollination. The driver suffered multiple stings, as did police, firefighters and tow truck operators.
A fake gun, left, fashioned mostly of cardboard, toilet paper and newspaper, June 23, in Tacoma, Wash. The fake, intended to resemble a 25mm semi-automatic, as seen at right, was used by inmate Harold McCord to escape from a courtroom holding area in downtown Tacoma. McCord used the fake gun to threaten guards, then hijacked a pickup truck, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
Jail Break
An unidentified inmate attempts to escape from the Elkhart County Jail in Goshen, Ind., Saturday, June 21.
Kenneth Fischer, 78 , holds Chicken Foot, an ornate box turtle, June 19, in San Antonio. It's the only turtle left after his four others were stolen on Father's Day. Myrtle, a stolen tortoise, had been his pet since he was six years-old, making her at least 72.
Larry Jackson, of Salemburg, N.C., hollers his way to first place Saturday, June 21, during the 35th Annual National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, N.C.
Joshua Neumann, 13, backward someraults as his friend, Sonny LaVigne, 12, cools in a waist deep area of the reflecting pool adjacent to the Longway Planetarium, Monday, June 23, 2003, in Flint, Mich.
Sandy Avila, an animal care attendant, holds Amelia the chicken in San Francisco, June 26. Amelia was strapped to 100 helium balloons and sent skyward last weekend. The person who sent Amelia aloft was apparently imitating a promotional ad that recently aired on a local TV station.
Bob Johnson rests in his hospital bed June 26, in Livingston, Mont. Johnson, 55, was attacked by a grizzly bear June 25 in Tom Miner Basin, Mont. Johnson remembers grabbing the bear by the nose as it tried to bite his face and throat. Doctors used 75 staples to reattach his scalp to his skull.
Lytisha Santiago, left, and her dog Bailey, a Pomeranian, hold a yoga stance with Laura Gladstone, center, and her dog Mila, a French bulldog, during a monthly yoga class offered by Crunch Fitness, for dogs and their owners at Madison Square Park, June 26, in New York.
The Haines Shoe House, in Hellam Township, Pa., in this undated photo. The house, a York County landmark, was put on the market three weeks ago. It was built in 1948 by central Pennsylvania shoe magnate Mahlon Haines, who used it to promote his 40-plus stores by giving away honeymoon weekends at the house. The company folded shortly after his death in 1962.
An aerial photo shows crop circles in Rockville, Calif., July, 2. Wheat farmer Larry Balestra discovered the dozen large flattened circles and shapes in his wheat field on June 28, one of them more than 140 feet in diameter. Farm workers that live in a house near the field told Balestra they neither saw nor heard anything out of the ordinary the night before the strange circles were found.
Joe Ostrander of Lemont, Ill., and his son, Nicholas, 4, play in the surf July 7 at Warren Dunes State Park near Sawyer, Mich. Searchers recovered a seventh body Monday from waters along a three-mile stretch of Lake Michigan beaches where seven swimmers were reported missing and apparently drowned on Independence Day. Ostrander said he knew about the drownings but it did not stop him and his family from coming to the beach.
Marlies Bielderman from the Netherlands, left, and Anael Beauregard from Canada carve the Sphinx of Giza into the sand at Luebeck-Travemuende, northern Germany, July 3, 2003, during preparation for the sand sculpture festival of "Sand World" featuring the wonders of the world. The festival starts on July 11 and ends on Sept. 7.