Photo of the Day: A woman touches the wall at the “Empty Sky” memorial dedicated to the victims of the attack on the World Trade Center at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. (Photo: REUTERS/Gary Hershorn)
Photo of the Day: Brazil’s Luciano dos Santos Pereira knocks over an official as he competes in the men’s triple jump - F11 final in the Olympic Stadium at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Santos Pereira was competing against other athletes who were also visually impaired. (Photo: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett)
Photo of the Day: That’s one big chair!
A man walks pass a 22-feet-tall and 25-feet-wide sofa chair at a shopping mall in Shanghai.
The sofa has been approved as the biggest sofa chair in the world by the World Record Association, based in Hong Kong. (REUTER/Aly Song)
— in Shanghai, China.
Photo of the Day: People watch fuel storage tanks on fire at Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo in the Peninsula of Paraguana.
A fire burned for a third day in two fuel storage tanks at Venezuela’s biggest refinery on Monday, putting in doubt plans to quickly restart the facility after one of the worst accidents to hit the global oil industry for decades. (Reuters)
Photo of the Day: A child stands in pouring rain in the slum of Susan’s Bay in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. Sierra Leone’s government has described the current cholera outbreak in the West African state as a “national emergency.”
At the height of the wet season, over-populated areas with poor water and sanitation are exacerbating the spread of the disease. Some 170 deaths are reported since the start of the year. (Reuters/Simon Akam)
Photo of the Day: People walk past a soldier participating in an anti-terror drill at a subway station in Seoul.
South Korean and US forces began on Monday the Ulchi Freedom Guardian drill, an annual joint exercise to practice their defense ability against North Korea.
About 56,000 South Korean soldiers and 30,000 US troops will attend in the computer-aided military drill. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)
