Serena Williams of the United States celebrates winning a point against Russia's Vera Zvonareva during their women's singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon on Saturday, July 3.

Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona smokes a Cohiba cigar as he rides a sail boat in waters off Havana on April 8, 2000. Maradona had been in Cuba since January on a rehabilitation program to try to kick the cocaine habit that almost cost him his life at the beginning of the year.

Horses of the Contrada of Unicorn, Eagle and Giraff fall down in the Casato curve during the Palio horseracing on July 2 in Siena. The Palio is a medieval horse race and pageant, which pits the ancient districts of Siena against each other in competition for the victory banner and in honor of the Virgin Mary. Animal rights group have often expressed their concern about the injuries and deaths of horses who frequently fall, collide, or are trampled during the race.

A member of the collective La Machine performs during a rehearsal of their show 'La Symphonie Mecanique' at the La Laboral theatre in Gijon, July 1, 2010. The collective La Machine was born in the early 1990s as a result of the collaboration between artists, engineers, decorators, technicians, mechanics, craftsmen and musicians.

A Kashmiri woman lies on a road aided by others after pleading with policemen to release relatives who were detained while allegedly playing cricket in a park during a curfew in Srinagar on July 2, 2010. Indian troops were patrolling empty streets as they enforced a strict curfew in all the major Muslim-majority towns in Kashmir to prevent Friday protests. The restive region has been hit by crippling strikes, demonstrations and curfews after the killing of 11 civilians by Indian police and paramilitary forces since June 11, when a 17-year old student was killed by police as they chased anti-India protesters.

Swimmers jump into Han River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province July 2, 2010. Temperatures reached over 36 degrees Celsius during the day.

Adili Wuxor lies on a tightrope during the last day of his two-month tightrope walking performance on top of China's National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China, Friday, July 2, 2010. Adili, an Uighur ethnic Dawaz tightrope walking performer, has been walking the tightrope five hours a day on the top of the Bird's Nest over the past 60 days, setting a new Guinness World Record.

A fighter from al-Shabab runs for cover, away from a burnt-out African Union (AU) military tank during battle in Somalia's capital Mogadishu July 2, 2010. At least 21 people were killed and 42 wounded in fighting in Somalia, a human rights group said on Thursday. Government troops alongside African Union peacekeepers exchanged shells in Mogadishu with al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab rebels, who are waging an Islamist insurgency against the Western-backed government. Seven people were killed and 18 wounded.

In this May 6, 1957 photo released by Christie's Auction House in New York, actress Marilyn Monroe is shown. The photo will be among others by photographer Richard Avedon offered for auction by Christie's Paris galleries in the Fall of 2010 to raise money for the New York-based Avedon Foundation.

Harrison Wallace of Montgomery, Ala., plays his upright bass on the beach just after dawn in Destin, Fla., Monday, June 28.

A man walks near the spilled crude oil on the shores and in the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in the famous Nigerian oil-producing Ogoniland, which hosts the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria's Rivers State on June 24, 2010. The region has in recent years experienced an average 300 spills a year, roughly one spill a day, from terminals, pipes and platforms, according to government officials and experts. Sabotage of oil facilities by armed rebels fighting for a fairer share of oil wealth for locals, and theft of crude (popularly known as oil bunkering) in recent years saw spills spiking to new levels.