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A woman is framed by Turkish flags depicting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Istanbul's Taksim square.YANNIS BEHRAKIS/Reuters

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Kite boarders sail on Howe Sound in Squamish, British Columbia north of Vancouver. With consistent winds, the area is popular with windsurfers and kite boarders.ANDY CLARK/Reuters

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A cleaner watches a skateboarder compete at the Mini Mega competition during the 2013 X-Games at Jiangwan Stadium in Shanghai.CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters

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A horse and rider are silhouetted against the pre-monsoon clouds at Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai. India's monsoon rains recorded higher than average levels in the first week of the four-month rainy season, weather office sources told Reuters on June 6, reflecting a timely onset and progress so far over southern states.BABU/Reuters

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A young Palestinian takes part in a military-style exercise run by Hamas during summer vacation in Gaza City.MOHAMMED SALEM/Reuters

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Employees try to push a scaled replica of the rubber duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman away from lakeside at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province. The 13-metre-tall and 15-metre-long replica was set up on Sunday for the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, local media reported.CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/Reuters

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A fisherman pulls his boat across an algae-filled coastline in Qingdao, Shandong province.CHINA DAILY/Reuters

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A garden with a swimming pool is inundated by the waters of the Elbe river during floods near Magdeburg in the federal state of Saxony Anhalt. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags.THOMAS PETER/Reuters

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A snail crawls along a leaf during a rainy day in Toronto, Ont.Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail

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