Protection from rain, the Commonwealth Games, Kim Jong Un tour

A Palestinian man, who medics said was wounded by an Israeli air strike, raises his fingers as he arrives to a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a U.S. ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700. A truce between the Jewish state and Hamas Palestinian fighters remained elusive despite intensive mediation bids. Palestinians said residents of two southern villages were trapped by days of tank shelling, with medics unable to evacuate wounded, and U.N. agencies said more than 140,000 people had been displaced. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A Swiftair MD-83 airplane is seen in this undated photo. Authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, Algeria’s APS state news agency and a Spanish airline company said on Thursday. Spanish private airline company Swiftair confirmed it had no contact with its MD-83 aircraft operated by Air Algerie, which it said was carrying 110 passengers and six crew. The company said in a notice posted on its website that the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 GMT and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 GMT but never reached its destination. (Xavier Larrosa/Reuters)

The sister-in-law of Lebanese passenger Randa Daher reacts as she holds her mobile phone displaying a picture of Randa and one of her children at her home in the southern Lebanese village of Srifa July 24, 2014. According to local media, Randa and her children were on board Air Algerie flight AH 5017, which an Algerian aviation official said crashed on Thursday en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)

A couple look at stone sculptures at the Remic Rapids in the Ottawa River during sunset at Ottawa July 23, 2014. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)

AG2R-La Mondiale team rider Christophe Riblon of France cycles during the145.5km 18th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Pau and Hautacam in the French Pyrennes mountains, July 24, 2014. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

A man covers himself with a plastic to protect from rain in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 24, 2014. India’s monsoon rains were 24 percent above average in the week ended July 23, the weather office said on Thursday, the first week of surplus rainfall during this year’s monsoon season. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

A bolt of lightning strikes over Tokyo skyscrapers at dusk in Tokyo July 24, 2014. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance at the Kosan Fruit Farm in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang July 24, 2014. (KCNA/Reuters)

Palestinians try to extinguish a fire following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City July 24, 2014. Gazan authorities said Israeli forces shelled a shelter at a U.N.-run school on Thursday, killing at least 15 people as the Palestinian death toll in the conflict climbed over 750 and attempts at a truce remained elusive. The Israeli military said its troops were fighting gunmen from Hamas, which runs Gaza, in the area and that it was investigating the incident. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

A Palestinian man holds a girl, whom medics said was injured in an Israeli shelling at a U.N-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees, at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. At least 15 people were killed and many wounded on Thursday when Israeli forces shelled a U.N.-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza, said a spokesman for the Gaza health ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra. Chris Gunness, spokesman for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and criticised Israel. The Israel army had no immediate comment on the reports. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Finbarr O’Reilly /Reuters)

A crater marks the centre of a courtyard at a United Nations-run school sheltering Palestinians displaced by an Israeli ground offensive, that police said was hit by an Israeli shell, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. At least 15 people were killed and many wounded on Thursday when Israeli forces shelled a U.N.-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza, said a spokesman for the Gaza health ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra. Chris Gunness, spokesman for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and criticised Israel. The Israel army had no immediate comment on the reports. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

Israeli soldiers patrol on a beach outside the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a U.S. ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700. A truce between the Jewish state and Hamas-led Islamist guerrillas remained elusive despite intensive mediation bids. Palestinians said residents of two southern villages were trapped by days of tank shelling, with medics unable to evacuate wounded. U.N. agencies said more than 140,000 people had been displaced. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Dutch Ronald Visee holds a Netherlands flag flying at half-mast (R) as a hearse carrying the remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plane disaster are escorted on highway A27 near Nieuwegein by military police, on their way to be identified by forensic experts in Hilversum, July 24, 2014. (Toussaint Kluiters/United Photos/Reuters)

A Palestinian rescue worker reacts as he searches for victims under the rubble of a house which witnesses said was destroyed by an Israeli air strike during an Israeli ground offensive east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a U.S. ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, while continued fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700. A truce remained elusive despite intensive mediation efforts. Israel says it needs more time to eradicate rocket stocks and cross-border tunnels in the Gaza Strip and Hamas Islamists demand the blockade on the enclave be lifted. In southern Khuzaa and Abassan villages, they said, Israeli shelling left dead and wounded under rubble, while medical crews could not risk attending. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

An Israeli soldier stands next to Palestinians captured during a military offensive in the Gaza Strip in this July 23, 2014 handout photo obtained by Reuters from the Israeli news website Walla. Israel said on Thursday it had detained scores of Palestinians during fighting in the Gaza Strip. Pictures of one group of men being held outside under guard by Israeli soldiers were published on Thursday on the Israeli news website Walla. Picture taken July 23, 2014. (Walla News/Handout via Reuters)

A Palestinian girl, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling at a U.N-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees, is treated at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. At least 15 people were killed and many wounded on Thursday when Israeli forces shelled a U.N.-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza, said a spokesman for the Gaza health ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra. Chris Gunness, spokesman for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and criticised Israel. The Israel army had no immediate comment on the reports. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

A Palestinian girl, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling at a U.N-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees, lies on a bed at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. At least 15 people were killed and many wounded on Thursday when Israeli forces shelled a U.N.-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees in northern Gaza, said a spokesman for the Gaza health ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra. Chris Gunness, spokesman for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and criticised Israel. The Israel army had no immediate comment on the reports. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Danilo Baletic, 22, moves the leg section of a “transformer-inspired” sculpture constructed from scrap metal at a junkyard in Podgorica, July 21, 2014. Baletic, 22, makes sculptures of his childhood cartoon heroes “Transformers” from scrap metal. In the last two years, he has made seven “Transformers” that are placed on the streets of Montenegro’s capital Podgorica as part of an exhibition called “Transformers defending Podgorica”. Picture taken July 21, 2014. (Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters)

Leonid Razvozhayev, co-defendant of opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, gestures from the defendants cage during a court hearing in Moscow July 24, 2014. Udaltsov and Razvozhayev are charged with the organization of riots and use of violence against police during a protest rally in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, according to local media. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Girls play in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp inside the U.N. base in Malakal, July 24, 2014. According to UNMISS, the U.N. base is hosting about 17,000 people who were displaced by the armed conflict in the region. (Andreea Campeanu/Reuters)

Conor Munn, from Northern Ireland, prepares before the men’s 50m Butterfly heats during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, July 24, 2014. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)

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