Best pictures from July 12
A novice Tibetan Buddhist monk, center, rests on a fellow monk as they listen to their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's religious sermon at the Dzongar Chodhe Monastery in Gurupura 210 kilometers southwest of Bangalore, India.Aijaz Rahi/The Associated Press
Instructor Ralph Heldt of the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) Aerospace Technology Campus throws a paper airplane he made at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia. Heldt was teaching visitors and travellers how to make the paper flying structures as part of a paper airplane workshop and competition sponsored by the airport.ANDY CLARK/Reuters
A woman reads a book as she rests in a public garden on a sunny summer afternoon near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.GONZALO FUENTES/Reuters
A cow looks out a window at the alpine dairy Bindalm near Berchtesgaden, southern Germany. The alpine dairy is run by the Josef and Elisabeth Wurm family. Each year they work on the alpine farm from June to September and produce milk and cheese that they to visitors, hikers and mountain bikers.Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press
Supporters of ousted Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi, pray after breaking their fast, during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.Manu Brabo/The Associated Press
A Nepalese Muslim boy offers Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kathmandu.NAVESH CHITRAKAR/Reuters
Frontier soldiers look up at the swell, as they carry out a check of a seawall, as Typhoon Soulik approaches in Wenling, Zhejiang province. China braced on Friday for the impact of Typhoon Soulik as the toll of dead and missing from torrential rain across a broad swathe of China climbed beyond 200.CHINA DAILY/Reuters
Visitors ride camels as sun rises in Dunhuang, Gansu province, China.ROONEY CHEN/Reuters
Supporters of the deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi pray during a protest in Cairo. Islamist supporters of Egypt's ousted president, Mohamed Mursi, protested in Cairo on Friday after a week of violence in which more than 90 people were killed in a bitterly divided nation.SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
A runner is caught between the horns of an El Pilar fighting bull on Estafeta street after being gored by the same bull during the sixth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona.SUSANA VERA/Reuters
A message is attached to a ladder of a member of the media, in front of the door to the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, where Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth her baby in London.STEFAN WERMUTH/Reuters
Israeli border police officers walk by Palestinians crossing a checkpoint on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the holy fasting month of Ramadan, between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Oded Balilty/The Associated Press
People join in an unofficial candle-light vigil on the steps of St. Agnes Church in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The church near the epicentre of the disaster, St. Agnes, is now accessible to the town's people, but media have been asked to keep their distance.Peter Power/The Globe and Mail