Day in pictures

AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld

Royal watchers wave flags as they await for the arrival of Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Canada, Thursday, June 30, 2011.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drinks water during her joint press conference with Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, not seen, after their meeting in the Parliament building in Budapest, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Clinton arrived to Budapest to meet top Hungarian politician and for the inauguration of the Tom Lantos Institute, named after the late US congressman Tom Lantos, a Hungarian-born human rights activist and Holocaust survivor.

An apartment block is decorated with Monaco flags, in Monaco, Thursday, June 30, 2011, where Prince Albert II of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock, of South Africa, will wed Friday and Saturday.

A Hindu holy man takes a dip in the River Ganges, which appears muddy and swollen after heavy rains in upstream areas, in Allahabad, Thursday, June 30, 2011.

Satirist Stephen Colbert collects cash donations on the sidewalk in front of the Federal Election Commission in Washington, Thursday, June 30, 2011, after a hearing on his request to form a Political Action Committee.

Female anti-government protestors attend a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Yemen's president, who was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia after an attack nearly a month ago on his palace, has instructed his deputy to hold talks with political opponents on a deal to transfer power and end the nation's spiraling political crisis, his foreign minister said Wednesday.

A protester is held down by a British police officer as thousands of public sector workers and teachers protest in central London in a one day strike over pension and government cuts, Thursday, June 30, 2011. British teachers and public service workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines as hundreds of thousands walked off the job to protest pension cuts.

Outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates and President Barack Obama salute during a farewell ceremony for Gates, Thursday, June 30, 2011, at the Pentagon.

Palestinian children play with colored parachutes at an event organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) seeking to achieve a world record for the largest number of people flying parachutes from the ground, at a sports stadium in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 30, 2011. The event was part of the "Summer Games," a six-week summer camp organized by UNRWA to provide a recreational outlet for children in the Gaza Strip.

State Rep. Steven Lukan, R-New Vienna, walks down a flight of stairs to Republican caucus, Thursday, June 30, 2011, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Legislature is trying to adjourn after a marathon session on Thursday but first must resolve a dispute over abortion funding.

San Francisco Giants second baseman Emmanuel Burriss throws out Chicago Cubs' Starlin Castro at first base during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, June 30, 2011, in Chicago.