July 14, 2013

Pakistani Muslim man prepares Iftar food for Muslim devotees to break their fast during Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi.

An Indian telegraph employee processes a telegram on the last day of the 163-year-old service at the central telegraph office in Mumbai. Sunday night, the state-run telecommunications company will send its final telegram, closing down a service that fast became a relic in an age of email, reliable landlines and ubiquitous cellphones.

Two men fight with their lances at the traditional fishermen's joust tournament on river Danube in Ulm, southern Germany. The jousting contest with 16 jousting pairs in historic costumes represents historical figures and original characters of the city of Ulm.

Monks take part in a mass ordination ceremony for Buddhist Lent at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, July 13, 2013.

A pack of riders cycles past an onion field during the 242.5 km fifteenth stage of the centenary Tour de France cycling race from Givors to Mont Ventoux.

Soldiers from French Foreign Legion take part in the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris.

A six-year-old gymnast practices on a horizontal bar at the gymnastics hall of a sports school in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China.

A couple sunbathe near Bournemouth beach in Bournemouth, southern England.