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Chinese people watch a performance at a gourmet festival as they experience Taiwanese food in Beijing. Gross domestic product in the world's second largest economy grew 9.5 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said, as policymakers clamped down on bank lending to tame soaring prices.
A huge overbridge under construction at Zhong Guan Cun, or Beijing Electronic Haven, in Beijing. China said its economy grew at a slower pace in the second quarter, highlighting the difficult task for Beijing as it battles to bring politically-sensitive inflation under control.
Fiipino women activists carry a caricature of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally held in front of the Shell office in the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines. The group is protesting against the recent increase of oil prices in the country.
Dancers during a protest against a bill on stricter tobacco control outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hundreds staged the protest claiming that the bill that would ban cigarette advertising and would lead to massive losses of jobs that would affect thousands of tobacco farmers in Indonesia, the world's third-largest tobacco consumer.
A Nationalist Youths dances in defiance as police fire a watercanon during rioting which ensued after a Protestant Orange Parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Trouble first flared late the day before when Protestants began lighting bonfires, the signal for the start of a day of celebrations during which thousands of 'Orange Order' men are expected to march.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (centre) and his son Kim Jong Un (second from left) pose with the Chinese friendship delegation led by Zhang Dejiang (third from left) and Chinese vice-premier Wu Donghe (third from right) in Pyongyang. The Chinese delegation is in North Korea to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the North Korea-China treaty of friendship.
Japan's national Kagawa University professor Hideyuki Sawada displays his talking and singing robot, which has motor-controlled organs such as vocal cords, a vocal tract and a nasal cavity to generate voices like human vocalisation during a robot exhibition in Tokyo.
Participants run with El Pilar's fighting bulls during the seventh San Fermin Festival bull run in Pamplona, northern Spain. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups.
Congress party leaders (Left to right) Geetha Reddy, K. Jana Reddy, K. Keshav Rao, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and other members from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh state gesture during their 48-hour hunger strike in support of a separate state of Telangana at Indira Park in Hyderabad.
Activists from the Students for a Free Tibet hold placards during a protest against China at India Gate in New Delhi.
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