Monday: The Day In Photos

Merritt Short, 4, from Durham, N.C., cools off in a spray of mist at the National Zoo in Washington, as temperatures rose toward the triple digits along the East Coast.  (Charles Dharapak/ Associated Press)

Soccer fans from the Netherlands gather prior to their team’s Euro 2008 European Soccer Championship match against Italy, in Bern, Switzerland.  (Marcel Bieri / Associated Press)

Soccer fans from Italy add their own color before their match with the Netherlands.  (Alessandro della Valle / Associated Press)

A French fan wears a colorful headdress before France’s match with Romania in the Euro 2008 European Soccer match at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, Switzerland.  (Paulo Cunha / EPA)

Bolivian indigenous leaders march through the streets of La Paz in a protest against the U.S. decision to grant political asylum to former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez, who is accused of genocide. Sanchez fled the country during violent protests in 2003 that killed at least 60 people, most shot by troops under his command.  (Dado Galdieri / Associated Press)

Passengers jam into a railway station in Jammu, India, to buy tickets during a transport strike in a protest over rising gas prices.  (Channi Anand / Associated Press)

A Kashmiri Muslim walks past parked passenger buses at a bus terminal in Srinagar, India. Private transport in Jammu and Kashmir came to a grinding halt due to a four-day strike to protest recent gas price hikes.  (Farooq Khan / EPA)

Truck drivers Ivan Vasquez, Carlos Carvahlo and Francisco Castellon prepare a meal in front of a truck blocking traffic on the border with France in Behobia, Spain. Tens of thousands of Spanish truckers began a strike over soaring fuel costs.  (Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press)

Farmers block the streets of Lille, France, to protest higher gas prices.  (Sylvain Lefervr / EPA)

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supporters scuffle with riot police before starting a march to Islamabad to demand the restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Lahore. Chaudhry was stripped of his powers by President Pervez Musharraf last year.  (Rahat Dar / EPA)

Iraqi policemen inspect the site of a car bomb attack in eastern Baghdad. At least four people were killed in the attack.  (Mohammed Jalil / EPA)

A U.S soldier guards the site of the car bomb explosion in Baghdad.  (Wathiq Khuzaie /Getty Images)

Thousands of Muslims stage a protest rally to urge the Indonesian government to ban a minority Islamic sect branded “deviant’”by top clerics in Jakarta.  (Bagus Indahono / EPA)

A dog from the St. Bernard hospice runs in the snow in the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy. The dogs from the traveler’s hospice spend their summertime in the pass and return to Martigny at the onset of winter for their search and rescue duties.  (Olivier Maire / Associated Press)