Monday: The Day in Photos

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, government ministers and the relatives of victims killed in an explosion pray next to flag-wrapped coffins during a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey. Investigators are trying to determine who was behind the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in nearly five years, a twin bombing that killed 17 people and injured more than 150 others in a crowded Istanbul square.  (Murad Sezer / Associated Press)

The hands of Pope Benedict XVI, right, reach out to his followers as his arrives in Bressanone, Italy. The pontiff will stay in the Italian alpine resort in the northern Dolomiti mountain before returning to Castel Gandolfo and beginning preparations for a September trip to France.  (Alessia Giuliani / AFP / Getty Images)

Tessa Maehler, 8, screams as she gets a face full of water from a fountain in Erfurt, Germany. Meteorologists predict sunny weather for the upcoming days in most parts of Germany.  (Jens Meyer / Associated Press)

Chinese construction workers ready bedding inside a mosquito net while preparing to sleep outdoors in Beijing. Authorities have repatriated tens of thousands of migrant workers in order to tighten security in the Chinese capital ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games.  (Andrew Wong / Getty Images)

A group attends the inauguration of the “wood house” for the homeless built in the popular Casilino 900 district located on the outskirts of Rome. The house was built by the four ethnic groups living in Casilino 900 to improve the living conditions of Roma’s living in Rome.  (Massimo Percossi / EPA)

A pilgrim, breaking his journey to perform noon prayers, is frisked by security while entering the 14th of Ramadan Mosque. Three women bombers blew themselves up today in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, one of a string of attacks in Iraq that killed at least 51 people. The attacks undermine hopes of a drop in violence.  (Tengku Bahar / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman pilgrim stands near the tomb of Imam Moussa Kadhim in the Kadhimiyah district of Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims gather on the anniversary of the death of the imam who was the seventh of the 12 Shia imams.  (Ali Abbas / EPA)

Supporters of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir take part in a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan. Demonstrators gathered to show their support of the Sudanese president and to protest the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant against him.  (Phillip Dhill / EPA)