July 29, 2019

Hundreds of hot air balloons take part in the Great Line at the Mondial Air Ballons festival, in an attempt to break the 2017 record of 456 balloons aligning in an hour during the biggest meeting in the world, in Chambley, France.

Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega's wife, Rosa Maria, right, follows the coffin of her husband during his funeral in Somma Vesuviana, near Naples, southern Italy. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of Mario on a street near their hotel.

A police officer walks next to an ICE highspeed train at the main station in Frankfurt, Germany. An 8-year-old boy was run over by the train and killed at Frankfurt's main station after a man pushed him and his mother onto the tracks. The mother was able to escape but the boy suffered fatal injuries.

Afghan security personnel stand guard at the site of a deadly attack in Kabul. Officials say the political offices of the president's running mate were hit by a large explosion and stormed by an unknown number of attackers. Nasrat Rahimi, the interior ministry spokesman, said vice-presidential candidate and former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh survived the attack.

Competitors take part in the first day of the 38th Copa del Rey (King's Cup) Regata off the coast of Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Children play near an apartment complex on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.

Tourists dressed in traditional Korean costumes take pictures during the visit to Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea.

A woman is carried in a coffin by relatives during the annual "Procession of the Shrouds" to celebrate Saint Martha "the Saint of resurrection" in the village of Santa Marta de Ribarteme, northwestern Spain. People who have escaped death lie in caskets and are carried in procession by relatives in a thankful gesture for being kept alive.