Melonic Maniac: pictures of the world

know your world by looking at photos captured from every part of the world each day at Wall Street Journal Photoblog. here's what happened today and the past days that caught my attention. there are only small pictures here.. you will be more captivated if you view much larger images on the photoblog.

The sculpture “What You see Might Not Be Real,” by Chen Wenling, was displayed at a Beijing gallery Sunday. The artwork is a critique of the global financial crisis, with the bull representing Wall Street and the man pinned to the wall representing Bernard Madoff. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press)

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan Christie, of Washington, Ind., changed into a T-shirt after a patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Monday. Cpl. Christie’s inspiration for his tattoo came from a fellow Marine’s writings. It reads, “We are trained, pushed and tested. In SWEAT, in BLOOD, ‘till all that is left is honor, courage and commitment to a BROTHERHOOD and FREEDOM that no man can take away from us. Through PAIN our STRENGTH grows and BATTLE our GEORGE rs.. (tatau!) BORN, BRED for the days of WAR we are..” (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)

Women activists shouted slogans at a pro-abortion rally in front of the health ministry in Lima, Peru, Monday. (Raul Garcia Pereira/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

UNICEF left cut-outs depicting begging children in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tuesday to raise awareness of the plight of impoverished Rwandan children. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took care of a female cat that was found covered in duct tape and dumped in a yard in the Rhawnhurst section of Philadelphia Tuesday. A $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a conviction. The cat is OK. (Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/Associated Press)

The new PS20 solar power tower collected sunlight through mirrors known as “heliostats” to produce steam that is converted into electricity by a turbine in Sanlucar la Mayor, Spain, Wednesday. (Miguel Angel Morenatti/Associated Press)

Samira, a girl injured during the Iraq war, attended an Eid al-Fitr party organized by Doctors Without Borders in Amman, Jordan, Thursday. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)

Actress Jennifer Garner, left, pinched co-star Ricky Gervais as he arrived with Jane Fallon at the premiere of the movie “The Invention of Lying” in Los Angeles Monday. (Matt Sayles/Associated Press)

A supporter of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi showed a victory sign with a piece of balloon in the campaign’s signature color during a Jerusalem Day rallies in Tehran on Friday. Elsewhere in the city, thousands more marched in government-sponsored anti-Israel rallies for the holiday. (Caren Firouz/Reuters)

Martin Fortunato, the son of Capt. Antonio Fortunato, cried at his father’s coffin in Rome Monday. Capt. Fortunato was one of six soldiers killed in a bombing in Afghanistan on Sept. 17. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)

Iranian troops wearing ghillie suits, shapeless camouflage outfits worn by snipers, marched at a military parade ceremony marking the 29th anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War near Tehran, Iran, Tuesday. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)

Boys played with a toy gun in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

A woman sat in between the cars of a train traveling to Mymensingh from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday as other people traveled on top of the cars. Millions of Muslims are heading home to celebrate the end of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

Mourners consoled each other at the funeral of Pvt. Kevin Elliott near Dundee, Scotland, Tuesday. Pvt. Elliott was killed in an explosion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 31. Barry Delainey, right, was the soldier’s civilian best friend. They had a pact that when one of them died the other would attend the funeral in a dress. (David Moir/Reuters)