July 22, 2015

A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask stands among a group of protesters from tobacconist groups throwing papers in the air in oppostion to neutral cigarette packaging in Paris, France. Government officials claim the packaging will help reduce the attractiveness of the product, while the tobacco industry claims plain packing will permit easier means of producing counterfeit cigarettes.

A fan rides a bicycle as he is suspended from a cable during the 161-km (100 miles) 17th stage of the 102nd Tour de France cycling race from Digne-les-Bains to Pra Loup in the French Alps.

A university assistant shows fragments of an old Quran at the University of Birmingham, in central England. The University of Birmingham said that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript may have been written close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Radiocarbon testing at Oxford University dated the parchment to the time of the prophet, who is generally believed to have lived between 570 and 632.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of a river of smoke passing over the Greenland Sea. The smoke most likely arose from fires in Canada and Alaska. (Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC)

Cucumbers carved by Japanese sushi chef Okitsugu Kado with the faces of (L-R) tennis player Kei Nishikori, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and figure skater Mao Asada are displayed during a promotional event in Tokyo.

Pakistani women sit in a trolley crossing a flooded stream due to heavy rains in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Members of the Franciscan fraternity "O Caminho" (The Way) shave and cut the nails of a homeless man in front of Se Cathedral in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 21, 2015. Sao Paulo, South America's largest city, has an estimated 16,000 homeless people according to the Town Hall.

Plant roots are pictured at the Plant Advanced Technologies (PAT) company greenhouse in Laronxe near Nancy, Eastern France. Plants are grown in a special way with a view to "milking" them for use in medicines, cosmetics and agrochemicals.

A visitor is silhouetted as she slides down a huge water pipe at a public swimming pool on a hot sunny day in Vienna, Austria.

Children play in a inflatable pool filled with smashed watermelons to cool off, at an amusement park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.

Firemen look at a tree that fell after the Hong Kong Observatory issued an Amber Rainstorm warning in Hong Kong, July 22, 2015.

Priscilla Frederick of Antigua competes during the Women's High Jump Finals at the CIBC Athletics Stadium at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.