Life around the globe: In pictures!
Pakistani boys swim in a pond to beat the heat in Hyderabad, Pakistan on Monday, June 8. Recently most of the country is in the clutches of a sweltering heat wave, with temperatures raising up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities
A Pakistani artisan buffs a traditional handicraft at his workshop in Karachi, Pakistan
Palestinian women carry stacks of straw left after the wheat harvest in their field on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
An elderly Palestinian shepherd stands next to his herd on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A veiled Palestinian woman looks at dresses displayed for sale at a shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A pedestrian looks at an advertisement board of Oliver Stone's new film "Bush" outside a movie theater in Tokyo, Japan.
A man and Buddhist monk look over a river in Tokyo, Japan.
A visitor walks out of an apartment-turned art gallery in Tokyo.
A man sits and sleep at a park during early morning hours in Tokyo.
Children play with their kites over a hill in Amman, Jordan. About 1.6 million of the country's population of around 5.6 million are in the school age group and will go into the summer holiday within days.
An Afghan street vendor slices carrot to sell in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Carts which carry fruit for sale, right, are reflected in pools of flood water as youths push a cart, left, in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
A Palestinian youth smiles while working on a kite in an alley of the West Bank refugee camp of Al-Amari in Ramallah.
A farmer walks at crop field in Sanmen, east China's Zhejiang Province.
Farmers works on terrace paddy fields at Gaopo Village in Huaxi district of Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province.
A Chinese worker pulls a trolley past two mechanical horses being prepared for a expo in Beijing.
People gather shellfish at low tide near Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant in Sanmen, east China's Zhejiang Province.
North Korean men fish with a net along the river bank of the North Korea's town of Sinuiju opposite Dandong, northeastern China's Liaoning province.
A boy looks out from a public bus in Havana.
A man rests at a taco stall located next to a police station downtown in Guatemala City.
A boy quenches his thirst from a roadside water tap on a hot day in Amritsar, India.
A member of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy offers rice to a Buddhist monk at the entrance to the party's head office in Yangon, Myanmar.
Two pedicab drivers take a break as they sleep on top of flooded waters during a brief rainfall in Yangon, Myanmar.
Myanmar Buddhists pray in front of Buddha statues at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.
Myanmar people ride a boat at the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
A Myanmar boatman waits for passengers near the "Floating Pagoda" at the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
A Myanmar woman sells flower offerings to visitors at the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
Myanmar Buddhist monks walk in a row during their morning begging in Yangon, Myanmar.