Tuesday: The day in photos
Players dressed in 17th century costume convene on London’s Pall Mall to have a go at “paille maille,†a once-popular lawn game that gave the famed thoroughfare its name. The stunt kicked off a campaign to educate Londoners and tourists about the history behind the city’s roads. (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)
Mourners in the Pacific island nation of Palau file past the coffin of Sgt. Jasper Obakrairur, the first soldier from the former U.S. territory to be killed in Afghanistan. (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)
Iranian students protest election results and post-election violence in their home country outside the Iranian Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)
Two women square off in an international bodyguard competition in Logoisk, Belarus. The field for the five-day tournament includes bodyguards for private firms as well as government agencies from several countries. (Viktor Drachev / AFP / Getty Images)
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One of three new Amur tiger cubs receives some attention from its mom Sasha at Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland. There are an estimated 500 Amur tigers left in the wild, confined to the Amur River Valley in eastern Russia. (Andrew Milligan / Associated Press)
A French Dassault-made Rafale jet fighter performs during the 48th Paris Air Show. (Remy de la Mauviniere / Associated Press)
The leaders of the pack round a hairpin turn during the fourth stage of the 73rd Tour of Switzerland pro cycling race. Matti Breschel of Denmark won the Biasca-to-Stafa leg and Tadej Valjavec of Slovenia was the overall leader after finishing third in the stage. (Karl Mathis / Associated Press)
A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, offers prayers to the sun from the waters of the Ganges River in Allahabad, India. Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswath rivers, is an important Hindu center. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)
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Model maker Czeslaw Lewicki adds some spray paint to a giant ant -- a European red wood ant -- erected on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in northeast Germany. It’s the first exhibit of the Giant Insect Exhibition scheduled to open next year in Heringsdorf. (Jens Koehler / AFP / Getty Images)
Busy Muscovites rush past Rabbis Chaim Manklin, background right, and Boroukh Kleinberg, left, and their Mitzvah Bus on a downtown Moscow street. The rabbis drive from spot to spot in the capital, aiming to bring Russian Jews back to their religious roots. (Alexander Nememov / AFP / Getty Images)
