A U.S. soldier of the 2nd brigade, 23rd Infantry regiment is covered in sweat while on patrol in southern Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 21, 2007.
The Longest Day
The megalithic monument of Stonehenge is seen just before sunrise Thursday, June 21, 2007, on Salisbury Plain, England. Crowds gathered at the 5,000-year-old stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice; the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Designer Dishes
A man watches from a balcony as satellite dishes are seen on buildings in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday June 21, 2007. A project to "pimp" the dishes is an initiative of a Dutch artist working with school children in an area of the city referred to as "satellite city," inhabited predominantly by first and second generation immigrants.
Dropping In
Raindrops fall on a table of a beer garden during heavy rain in downtown Dusseldorf, western Germany, on Thursday, June 21, 2007.
Perilous Perch
A resident watches as a slum neighborhood burns Thursday June 21, 2007, in Jakarta, Indonesia. About 100 families lost their homes in the fire, a frequent occurrence in Jakarta's slums which often have jury-rigged electrical connections and little or no safety features.
So You Think You Can Dance?
A boy plays with a goat in Kunwarpur village, about 44 miles east of Allahabad, India, Thursday, June 21, 2007.
Holding Pattern
Clouds move in near the Vehicle Assembly Building as the first two landing attempts by the Space Shuttle Atlantis are delayed due to weather concerns Thursday, June 21, 2007, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis has six more chances to land over the next four days.
Rainbow Dome
Hot air balloons, framed under the dome of a rainbow, prepared to take flight as a part of a ballooning competition in front of the Catherine's Palace near St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 21, 2007.
Mod Odd
Jim Seay, a roller coaster designer from Baltimore, Md., walks through the "Black Hole" during the grand opening celebration of Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium Thursday, June 21, 2007 in New York's Times Square. Ripley's Times Square will house the ultimate in the odd and bizarre including 24 shrunken heads, a 3,197-pound meteorite and a section of the Berlin Wall.