A ballerina performs during a dress rehearsal for a new production of Swan Lake by The National Ballet of China at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London July 28, 2008.

A Chinese worker reads a book as he lay on a bed in a busy street, late night in Beijing Sunday, July 13, 2008. Nighttime in Beijing reveals a city that is trendy and cosmopolitan, though many parts of the city still retain their traditional character.

A billboard blocks the view to a construction site against the backdrop of a polluted skyline in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Beijing is usually shrouded under a blanket of gray pollution. As a cover-up during the Olympics, city officials have tried to add some color. But it's mostly artificial, shades of blue and green coming from enormous murals and posters, many showing off palm trees and blue skies erected like Hollywood sets to hide the reality of the Chinese capital.

People fight during a traditional food fight between the two districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain in Berlin July 27, 2008. The team from Friedrichshain won this year's competition by forcing the Kreuzberg team back of the Oberbaum bridge over the river Spree that connects the two rival districts. Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters ; Rainer Jensen / EPA

Adrian Courtney, from Coburn, Va., wakes from a night of sleeping outside the Remote Area Medical (RAM), clinic July 26, 2008 in Wise, Va. The free clinic, which lasts 2 1/2 days, is the largest of its kind in the nation, and organizers expected to treat more than 2,500 people over the weekend, mostly providing dental and vision services from more than 1,400 volunteers. For many, the RAM clinic is the only medical care they may receive each year.

People walk among clouds of insecticide after a fumigating truck drives past in Santiago de Cuba July 25, 2008.

Young girls perform hand stands against a wall during training at the Luwan Juvenile Gymnastics School in Shanghai Monday July 14, 2008.

Tracy Roberts, 33, of Rockville, Md. has her toes nibbled on by a type of carp called garra rufa, or doctor fish, during a fish pedicure treatment at Yvonne Hair and Nails salon in Alexandria, Va., July 17, 2008.

Workers clean the exterior of the National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, in Beijing on July 18. With less than a month to go to the Olympics, Beijing and neighbouring provinces have asked polluting industries to shut or reduce production to clean the air for athletes.

Seal Else celebrates her 50th birthday by eating a special fishcake, on July 18 in Rhenen, the Netherlands. Else is alledgedly the oldest seal of the world living in captivity according to the Dutch Zoo Ouwehands Dierenpark in Rhenen.

U.S. President George W. Bush holds a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington July 15, 2008.

Two Chinese girls peek underneath a billboard covering a construction site in Beijing Friday, July 11, 2008.

Spanish matador El Fundi is lifted by his Miura fighting bull during the seventh corrida of the San Fermin festivities, on July 13, 2008, in Pamplona, north of Spain.

Piper Palin, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 7-year-old daughter, gets tossed into the air from a ugruk or bearded seal, skin blanket during the season's last Nalukataq whaling festival in Barrow, Alaska, Monday, June 30, 2008.

Competitors appear run on the 145 degree F pavement in the 2008 Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley, California on July 14, 2008. With air temperatures reaching as high as 130F (55C), the 135 miles (217 km) course crosses desert as low as 280 feet (85 m) below sea level on the way to the Mt. Witney Portal at 8,360 feet (2533m).

Peruvian inmates wearing joker costumes watch a ceremony marking the celebration of Resocialization Day at the Castro prison in Lima on July 11. The event was organised to recognise the role of artistic and cultural performances in the inmates' rehabilitation process.

A Bosnian Muslim woman cries while searching for her relative among coffins of Srebrenica victims displayed at a Memorial center in Potocari near Srebrenica, on Wednesday, July 9. The 307 bodies were excavated from mass-graves in Eastern Bosnia and were identified as Muslims killed by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Srebrenica area.

A Topol-M missile launcher drives in Red Square during a Victory Day military parade in Moscow May 9, 2008. Warplanes screamed over Red Square and missile launchers rumbled past ranks of soldiers on Friday when Russia celebrated victory over Nazi Germany with a show of military might not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Revelers are chased by a Fuente Ymbro ranch fighting bulls on the third day of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights.

Balloon Lumpfish (Eumicrotremus pacificus) attach themselves to balloons at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium on July 9, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The deep-sea fish have ventral sucker disks which help them to cling to rocks in the water.

Pfc. Joe Dwyer carried a young Iraqi boy who was injured during a heavy battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces near the village of Al Faysaliyah, Iraq, on March 25, 2003. Dwyer died of an apparent overdose at his home in North Carolina on June 29, 2008.