India monsoon, Gaza fighting, and Commonwealth Games | July 30
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Visitors to Weymouth enjoy the warm weather on the seafront on July 30, 2014 in Weymouth, England. Figures released by the Met Office show that this July is likely to go down as one of the warmest and sunniest on record. However the arrival of August will also see the return of more unsettled weather with the potential for heavy rain at the weekend. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
People gather on the beach as they enjoy the warm weather on the seafront on July 30, 2014 in Weymouth, England. Figures released by the Met Office show that this July is likely to go down as one of the warmest and sunniest on record. However the arrival of August will also see the return of more unsettled weather with the potential for heavy rain at the weekend. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Tracie Ang of Malaysia performs on the beam during the Team Final and Individual qualification of the Artistic Gymnastics event during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (Carl Court/Getty Images)
Scotland's Laura Muir lies on the track at the end of the final of the women's 1500m athletics event at Hampden Park during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on July 29, 2014. (Adrian Dennis/Getty Images)
Palestinians walk past the collapsed minaret of a destroyed mosque in Gaza City, on July 30 2014 after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike. Overnight Israeli bombardments killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)
A general view shows destruction inside a mosque in Gaza City, on July 30 2014 after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike. Israeli bombardments killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)
A general view shows the collapsed minaret of a destroyed mosque in Gaza City, on July 30 2014 after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike. Israeli bombardments killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)
Young Indian Hindu devotees of Lord Shiva wade through floodwaters as they return from collecting water from the river Ganges, as they head towards the holy Hindu city of Varanasi during the month of Shravan, in Allahabad on July 30, 2014. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)
An Israeli artillery gun fires a 155mm shell towards targets from their position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israel agreed to observe a four-hour lull in Gaza several hours after a deadly strike on a school killed 16, drawing a furious response from a UN refugee agency. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
Italian Vincenzo Nibali of Astana Pro Team competes to win the 9th edition of the 'Profronde van Lommel' cycling race, on July 30, 2014 in Lommel. The contest is a part of the traditional 'criteriums', local races which mainly feature cyclists who rode the Tour de France. Greg Van Avermaet won the race. (Yorick Jansens/Getty Images)
A boy sits near a car stuck under a roof, which collapsed after heavy rains and floods hit the town of Ittre July 30, 2014. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters photo)
A statue of Buddha and storm debris are covered with mud outside a flooded house after heavy rains hit the town of Ittre July 30, 2014. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters photo)
Fire and smoke engulf part of the pier in Eastbourne, southern England July 30, 2014. A Victorian-era seaside pier at Eastbourne on Britain's south coast was badly damaged when fire broke out in an amusement arcade on Wednesday. Flames could be seen leaping from the roof of the two-storey structure and East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said a large plume of smoke was rising above the town. No injuries were reported. (Benjamin Hall/Reuters photo)
A car drives past a man through a flooded road after heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 30, 2014. July, the second month of the monsoon season, usually gets the maximum rainfall, accounting for about a third of the seasonal downpour. (Amit Dave/Reuters photo)
A woman is transported on a handcart through a flooded road after heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 30, 2014. July, the second month of the monsoon season, usually gets the maximum rainfall, accounting for about a third of the seasonal downpour. (Amit Dave/Reuters photo)
Palestinians look at the bodies of people, whom medics said were killed in an Israeli air strike, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 30, 2014. Israeli fire killed at least 43 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday as the Jewish state said it targeted Islamist militants at dozens of sites across the coastal enclave, while Egyptian mediators prepared a revised ceasefire proposal. Israel launched its offensive in response to rocket salvoes fired by Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists and their allies. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters photo)
Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade stand in a circle at a staging area before entering Gaza from Israel July 30, 2014. Israeli fire killed at least 43 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday as the Jewish state said it targeted Islamist militants at dozens of sites across the coastal enclave, while Egyptian mediators prepared a revised ceasefire proposal. (Baz Ratner/Reuters photo)
A Palestinian man mourns a relative who medics said died in Israeli shelling during an Israeli ground offensive, at the hospital in Beit Lahita in the northern Gaza Strip July 30, 2014. Israeli fire killed at least 43 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday as the Jewish state said it targeted Islamist militants at dozens of sites across the coastal enclave, while Egyptian mediators prepared a revised ceasefire proposal. Israeli tank shells and air strikes on houses and a school in Jebalya in northern Gaza killed at least 43 people and wounded many others, including 20 in a U.N. school, health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said. Among the dead were a medic and an infant. Israel launched its offensive in response to rocket salvos fired by Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists and their allies. (Finbarr O'Reilly /Reuters photo)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk near Israeli army tanks near the border with Gaza July 30, 2014. Israeli fire killed at least 43 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday as the Jewish state said it targeted Islamist militants at dozens of sites across the coastal enclave, while Egyptian mediators prepared a revised ceasefire proposal. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters photo)
A Palestinian boy, left, comforts his father, whom medics said was wounded by Israeli shelling in Shejaia, at a hospital in Gaza City July 30, 2014. Israeli strikes near a market in the eastern Gaza Strip killed 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, the local health ministry said. Residents said that Israeli shelling and two missiles from the air hit the area in Shejaia, on the fringes of the city of Gaza. Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman of the Gaza Health Ministry, said 160 people were also wounded. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report. Israel launched its offensive in response to rocket salvos fired by Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists and their allies. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters photo)
A miner with a donkey makes his way through the low and narrow tunnel leading out of a coal mine in Choa Saidan Shah in Punjab province, April 29, 2014. Workers at this mine in Choa Saidan Shah dig coal with pick axes, break it up and load it onto donkeys to be transported to the surface. Employed by private contractors, a team of four workers can dig about a ton of coal a day, for which they earn around $10 to be split between them. The coalmine is in the heart of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous and richest province, but the labourers mostly come from the poorer neighbouring region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Sara Farid/Reuters photo)
A man looks at a car that is partially submerged in floodwaters in Novaci, southwest Romania, July 30, 2014. Hundreds of people were evacuated from floods in southern Romania, local authorities reported. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters photo)
A woman carries her belongings after her house was destroyed by flash floods in Vaideeni, southern Romania, July 30, 2014. Hundreds of people were evacuated from floods in southern Romania, local authorities reported. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters photo)
Australia's Naoya Tsukahara falls off the pommel horse during his routine in the men's all-around gymnastics final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2014. (Russell Cheyne/Reuters photo)
David Katoatau of Kiribati makes his last lift after winning the gold medal of the men's 105kg weightlifting competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2014. (Andrew Winning/Reuters photo)
Sasha Madyarchyk of England (front Left) grapples with Bajrang Bajrang of India (front Right) during their men's freestyle 61kg wrestling match, as Jill Gallays of Canada (back Left) tussles with Odunayo Adekuoroye of Nigeria during their women's freestyle 53kg quarter-final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2014. (Phil Noble/Reuters photo)
Pope Francis sprinkles holy water over the coffin of Italian cardinal Francesco Marchisano during a funeral service in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican July 30, 2014. (Max Rossi/Reuters photo)
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