Editor's Choice - Pictures of the Day - July 4, 2011

Two, because we couldn't pick just one today...

 

A woman fills a net with clams during low tide on Lantau island, Hong Kong, on July 3, 2011. Whether for business or pleasure, the tradition of digging for clams is a regular draw for residents of Hong Kong's outlying islands. Bounty hunters prepared to spend hours hunched over barnacled rocks can expect a sure reward for their currency of clams from the ever-present nearby seafood establisments only too happy to serve up a hard-won catch. (AFP/Getty Images/Ed Jones)

 

Burqa-clad Taliban militants, who were arrested by Afghan Border Police, are presented to the media at the Afghan Border Police head quarter in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, July 4, 2011. In the district of Nazyan in the restive eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghan Border Police arrested seven insurgents travelling by car from Pakistan, said Aminullah Amerkhail, the eastern region border chief. All of them were dressed as women and at least one was strapped with an explosive vest. The border police confiscated six AK-47 rifles. Five of them men were Pakistani and two were Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)