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A U.S. soldier secures the site where a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Monday, July 23, 2007. An explosives-laden car, parked on a road in Karrada, exploded at around 11:00 a.m., security officials said. A few minutes later another car bomb went off in the same area targeting a passing police patrol. At least seven people, including three policemen, were killed in the attacks.
Police Escort
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Social activist Medha Patkar shouts slogans from inside a police van in Mumbai, India, Monday, July 23, 2007. Patkar and other activists were forcibly taken by Mumbai's police to the venue of a rally, after they were denied permission to march through the city towards the venue for a rally protesting the displacement of people by development projects in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
Bad Day For Biking
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A cyclist wades through water in the town of Tewkesbury, England, Monday, July 23, 2007. Torrential rain has left large areas of Central and Western England under water and some houses without electricity and clean water.
Pack Mules
AP Photo/Channi Anand
Workers lead mules packed with construction materials across the Tawi River as monsoon clouds gather above Jammu, India, Monday, July 23, 2007. The annual monsoon rains are active over many parts of India.
6-Pack Mule
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Ethnic Hungarian farmer Tamas Fodor gives Cezar, one of his two donkeys cold beer to drink to cool him in the summer heat in Rimetea or Torocko, some 180 miles northwest of Bucharest, Romania, Monday, July 23, 2007.
Pan Am Gold
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Canada's Drew Ross competes during the Pan American Games water skiing men's slalom in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 23, 2007. Ross won the gold medal.
Kids At Play
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Rahman Hassan, 9, left, and Kadim Jawad, 7, right, play soccer at the refugee camp they call home in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2007. Many Shiite families driven out of their homes by sectarian violence are resettling in Najaf.
Future Olympians?
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Chinese children practice handstands at a sports school Monday, July 23, 2007, in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Parents in China are increasingly choosing to send their children to train at sports centers or schools in hopes of securing a spot in the country's Olympic Games effort, though training is difficult.