An artist scores a basket during a show held prior the women's preliminary round group A basketball match of the London 2012 Olympic Games Angola vs. Croatia on August 3, 2012 at the basketball arena in London.
Crazy yet amazing photos
This picture taken on July 21, 2012 shows a visitor posing with a "3D painting" at the Magic Art Special exhibition at the Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Centre in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. In one of the few art exhibitions where photography and touch are actively encouraged, visitors are able to interact with the paintings by touching, sitting on them and even sticking their heads into the artworks.
Employees of the botanic garden pose for a photo with a 5 year old boy who sits on a big lily pad in Stuttgart, southern Germany. Temperatures during the next few days are predicted to remain high, there may be occasional thunderstorms on the weekend.
A stuntman pretends to play the piano in the air as he and his cardboard instrument are lifted by a hot air balloon over Vilnius on August 10, 2012 during the Piano.lt summer festival. Vilnius remains one of the few European capitals allowing hot air balloons to fly over the city.
Daredevil Nik Wallenda during his1,500-foot (457 meters) tightrope walk 100 feet (30.5 meters) above the beach August 9, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
A baby rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) plays with a tiger cub at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province,China, August 2, 2012.