Jul 12, 2013

Rival rallies in Cairo mark the first Friday of Ramadan, while Brits eagerly await the arrival of the royal baby in today’s daily brief.

: A Somali National Government (SNG) soldier walks past burning debris after a suspected suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into an armored convoy of African Union troops in Mogadishu on July 12, 2013. Initial reports from witnesses near the blast said a car targeted AU troops on a busy street close to the central K4 roundabout, while an AFP reporter confirmed a loud blast followed by heavy gunfire. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)

: Somali women walk over dead bodies covered by blankets after a suspected suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into an armored convoy of African Union troops in Mogadishu on July 12, 2013. Initial reports from witnesses near the blast said a car targeted AU troops on a busy street close to the central K4 roundabout, while an AFP reporter confirmed a loud blast followed by heavy gunfire. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)

: The pack rides during the 173-km thirteenth stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 12, 2013 between Tours and Saint-Amand-Montrond, central France. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)

: In this picture released by Human Rights Watch, U.S. fugitive and National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden (center) meets with rights activists at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, on July 12, 2013. Snowden told a group of activists that he wanted to claim asylum in Russia because he is unable to fly on anywhere else. (Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch via AFP/Getty Images)

: Royal well-wisher Terry Hutt poses for a picture as he waits outside the Lindo Wing of Saint Mary’s Hospital in London, on July 12, 2013, where Prince William and his wife Catherine’s baby will be born. Britain’s royal family and the world’s media are on tenterhooks awaiting the birth of Prince William and wife Catherine’s first child, a baby who will one day be king or queen of Britain and a diverse group of commonwealth countries. (Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Sri Lankan Muslim prays after breaking his fast at a mosque in Colombo on July 12, 2013. Islam’s holy month of Ramadan is calculated on the sighting of the new moon, and Muslims all over the world are supposed to fast from dawn to dusk during the month. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)

: Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed president Mohamed Morsi, sporting a cartoon mask of the toppled leader, flashes the sign of victory during a rally outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque on July 12, 2013, following Friday noon prayer. Activists for and against ousted Morsi have called rival rallies for the first Friday of Ramadan, as tensions soar over the army’s overthrow of the Islamist leader. (Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

: Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) and World War II veterans attend in a flowers-laying ceremony at the Battle of Prokhorovka monument at the State Military-Historical Museum of Prokhorovka Field, in southern Russia, on July 12, 2013. The 1943 Battle of Prokhorovka was fought near the settlement of Prokhorovka, 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Kursk, on the Eastern Front during the Second World War as part of the Battle of Kursk in the Soviet Union. The Wehrmacht’s II SS Panzer Corps clashed with the Red Army’s 5th Guards Tank Army. It is regarded as one of the largest tank battles in military history. (Yuri Kochetkov/AFP/Getty Images)

: The coffin of Fusilier Lee Rigby is carried by members of his regiment after his funeral service at the parish church in Bury, northern England July 12, 2013. A British soldier who was hacked to death in London was buried on Friday, with Prime Minister David Cameron among the mourners paying their respects to an Afghanistan war veteran murdered on a busy street in broad daylight. (Dave Thompson/Pool/Reuters)

: A man cuts banana leaves in which to wrap fermented soy beans at a small tempeh factory on July 12, 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tempeh is an Indonesian staple made from fermented soy beans. The Indonesian government has said that it will increase food imports during the Ramadan fasting month to reduce inflation caused by increased food consumption during the month leading up to and during the Eid Al Fitr holiday marking the end of the fasting month. (Ed Wray/Getty Images)

: A woman rests in a public garden on a sunny summer afternoon near the Eiffel Tower in Paris July 12, 2013. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)

: Indonesian ‘Spider-Man’ window cleaner, 37-year-old Teguh prepares to clean the glass windows of the 18-story Alana Hotel on July 12, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Teguh is a specialist glass window cleaner working on high-rise buildings wearing a Spider-Man uniform and working at an altitude of over 500 meters above ground level. He earns between Rp. 5 million and 15 million depending on the height of the building and the level of difficulty. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)

: Demonstrators set on fire a bus stop during a national strike called by the Workers’ United Center of Chile (CUT) against the government of President Sebastian Pinera, in Santiago on July 11,2013. (Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images)

: Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls’ education who was shot in the head by the Taliban, sits before speaking at the United Nations (UN) Youth Assembly on July 12, 2013 in New York City. The United Nations declared July 12, “Malala Day.” Yousafzai also celebrates her birthday today. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

: An Indian couple sit together under an umbrella during heavy rain showers at the sea front in Mumbai on July 12, 2013. The monsoon season, which runs from June to September, accounts for about 80 percent of India’s annual rainfall, vital for a farm economy which lacks adequate irrigation facilities. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)

: Goldfish swim in a tank as part of art exhibition ‘Art Aquarium’ during a press preview in Tokyo on July 12, 2012. The exhibition, designed by aquarist Hidetomo Kimura, will begin from July 13 through September 23. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images)

: An young Iranian boy stands among Shiite Muslim worshipers attending the weekly Friday prayer during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on July 12, 2013 at the university of the Iranian capital, Tehran. During Ramadan, one of the five main religious obligations under Islam, Muslims are required to abstain from food and from drinking liquids, smoking and having sex from dawn until dusk. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)

: Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi participate in Friday prayer on the third day of Ramadan, the sacred holy month for Muslims where many will fast from sun-up to sun-down on July 12, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt continues to be in a state of political paralysis following the ousting of former President and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi by the military. Adly Mansour, chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, was sworn in as the interim head of state in a ceremony in Cairo on the morning of July 4. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

July 12 Photo Brief: Tour de France, Somali suicide bomb kills two, Ramadan observances continue