Thursday July 23, Our World In Pictures
BAGHDAD — Teen Mourns after Attack: Afrah Hussein, 13, grieves at her apartment near the site of an attack in the aftermath of a car bomb explosion in the impoverished neighborhood of al-Bayaa. A pair of car bombs exploded Wednesday at crowded popular markets in predominantly Shiite neighborhoods, killing and wounding civilians, officials said.
INDIA — Vendor Smokes Hookah While Waiting: A Kashmiri vegetable vendor smokes a hookah on his boat as he waits for customers in Srinagar on Thursday. Set in the Himalayas, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and is surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. About 100 lakes dot its highlands and plains.