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Islamic religious students protest in Multan against an assault by Pakistani forces on the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque in Islamabad. Pakistani security forces killed a rebel cleric Ghazi during an assault on his mosque complex.

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A man prepares to free a bird during a protest in support of the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in front of the Libya’s embassy in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Wednesday, July, 11, 2007. Libya’s Supreme Court on Wednesday July 11, 2007 upheld the death sentences of the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus.

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US soldiers passed an Iraqi boy as they patrolled central Baghdad yesterday. At least 46 people died in explosions, shootings, and other violence across Iraq yesterday.

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With flames from a pipeline explosion on the horizon, a Mexican army truck makes its way in Queretaro state, where pipes operated by the national oil company were bombed. The government is guarding its “strategic installations.”

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President Bush talks with Gerris Farris after presenting her a Presidential Award for her work in tutoring after arriving at Cleveland Hopkins Airport on his way to speak about the economy and health care at the Cleveland Clinic.

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A wounded Afghan boy receives medical care at a NATO-run medical facility in the southern province of Uruzgan. A suicide car bomber killed 17 civilians in an attack on NATO forces in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.

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A Palestinian worker carries a bag of flour in a storage area at a United Nations food aid distribution center in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 11, 2007. The flow of humanitarian supplies into the volatile Gaza Strip has been sporadic since the Islamic group Hamas wrested control from the Fatah movement in fighting last month.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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A member of the security forces of Hamas stands guard in front of a mural showing the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a street in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 11, 2007. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Gaza’s Hamas rulers of allowing al-Qaida to infiltrate the coastal strip, and Hamas militants on Tuesday hotly denied the allegation.