Pictures of the day: July 20, 2016

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world


Multimedia Desk July 20, 2016
The full moon is pictured behind the Christ the Redeemer statue ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PHOTO: REUTERS

Youngsters play with the water of fountains on the banks of the Manzanares river in Madrid. PHOTO: AFP

An Indian resident carries a tray of eggs as he wades through floodwaters in the Anilnagar area of Guwahati. Floods in the northern Indian state of Assam have affected people living across six districts as the annual monsoon continues to cross the Indian sub-continent. PHOTO: AFP

Crowds of people try to visit General Aung San's last residence (Bogyoke Aung San Museum) during a ceremony marking the 69th anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon. PHOTO: AFP

A boy wears traditional "thanaka" on his face as he attends a ceremony to mark the 69th anniversary of when Myanmar independence hero General Aung San and eight others were assassinated in 1947 during their struggle to win independence from Britain, at the mausoleum decidated to them in Yangon. PHOTO: AFP

A photograph of King Bhumibol Adulyadej is seen on a boat in Lad Chado Market during a parade to mark Asaha Bucha Day in Ayutthaya. PHOTO: AFP

Amateur and professional kite-surfers are pictured in Cabo de la Vela, Guajira Department, Colombia. In Cabo de la Vela, a remote destination in the extreme northeast of Colombia, members of the Wayuu indigenous tribe seek to tame the art of kitesurfing, a sport that has become a source of income in this impoverished region of the Caribbean as well as the challenge of competition. PHOTO: AFP

People stand in front of flowers, candles and messages laid at a makeshift memorial in Nice, in tribute to the victims of the deadly attack on the Promenade des Anglais seafront which killed 84 people. PHOTO: AFP

Participants cross a bridge over the Waal river during the first day of the 100th edition of the annual four days march of Nijmegen. The 'Nijmeegse Vierdaagse' is an annual public four-days field march which is held since 1909 in the third week of July. PHOTO: AFP

A macaque is seen on a tree at Khao Yai national park in Thailand. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman carrying an umbrella crosses a flooded street as it rains in Mumbai, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

Buddhists carry candles while encircling a large Buddha statue during Asanha Puja Day, the eve of the Buddhist Lent, at a temple in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. PHOTO: REUTERS

Peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stand stand next to their folded flags during a handover ceremony from Italian Major-General Luciano Portolano to Irish Major-General Michael Bearyover the command of Lebanon's UN peacekeeping forces at the United Nations headquarters in Naqoura, southern Lebanon. PHOTO: REUTERS

A supporter of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM, shouts slogans as party leaders are taken to jail after their arrest by the Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS

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