Today in Pictures, July 6, 2017

Elephants in Thailand's tourism industry, flooding in Japan, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Jul 06, 2017, 02:54 PM

Tourists watching an elephant perform with her handler at a pool in a animal park south of Bangkok. Twice as many elephants work in Thailand's tourism industry as the rest of Asia combined, a new report revealed on July 6, 2017, with the vast majority kept in "severely inadequate conditions". PHOTO: AFP

An areal view of flooded Asakura City, Fukuoka prefecture, on July 6, 2017.One person reportedly died and at least 18 are missing, after huge floods swept away houses in southern Japan, tearing up roads as they surged through villages, with authorities warning hundreds of thousands of people to flee. PHOTO: AFP

A man using a smartphone walks past an electronic shop's wall decorated with old cell phones which its owner Watanabe Masanao had collected over 20 years is pictured in Tokyo, Japan July 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

British fitness personality Joe Wicks leads an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for largest High Intensity Interval Workout in Hyde Park in London, Britain July 5, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

A giant panda Yuan Zai looks her "birthday cake" made from ice and fruits at Taipei Zoo, in Taipei, Taiwan July 6, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) soldiers conduct rescue operations after heavy rain hit the area in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan July 6, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

Soldiers participate in a rehearsal for pulling the royal chariot to prepare for the funeral of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok, Thailand, July 6, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

Visitors look at an installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the exhibit, 'Ai Weiwei Trace at Hirshhorn', at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, USA, July 5, 2017. The exhibit featuring internationally famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is open to the public through the end of 2017. PHOTO: EPA

Thousands of monks, nuns and laypeople -- including many Han Chinese devotees -- crowd this remote valley in Sichuan province to study at Larung Gar, the world's largest and most important institution for Tibetan Buddhist learning. But authorities have ordered the mass expulsion of devotees back to their place of origin, warning that the area is dangerously overcrowded. PHOTO: AFP

A worker walks past Studio Gang's Hive, made of over 2,700 wound paper tubes, in the Great Hall of the National Building Museum on July 3, 2017 in Washington, DC.
PHOTO: AFP

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