Pictures of the Day
  • Drone view of wooden crosses marking the graves of victims in La Guaira, almost a month after earthquakes rocked Venezuela on June 24, killing and displacing thousands of people. Reuters
    Drone view of wooden crosses marking the graves of victims in La Guaira, almost a month after earthquakes rocked Venezuela on June 24, killing and displacing thousands of people. Reuters
    Drone view of wooden crosses marking the graves of victims in La Guaira, almost a month after earthquakes rocked Venezuela on June 24, killing and displacing thousands of people. Reuters
    Drone view of wooden crosses marking the graves of victims in La Guaira, almost a month after earthquakes rocked Venezuela on June 24, killing and displacing thousands of people. Reuters
  • Abseilers prepare to paint over Pam the Bird graffiti, spray-painted on a 140-metre-tall pylon by alleged vandal Jack Gibson-Burrell, on Melbourne's Bolte Bridge. AFP
    Abseilers prepare to paint over Pam the Bird graffiti, spray-painted on a 140-metre-tall pylon by alleged vandal Jack Gibson-Burrell, on Melbourne's Bolte Bridge. AFP
    Abseilers prepare to paint over Pam the Bird graffiti, spray-painted on a 140-metre-tall pylon by alleged vandal Jack Gibson-Burrell, on Melbourne's Bolte Bridge. AFP
    Abseilers prepare to paint over Pam the Bird graffiti, spray-painted on a 140-metre-tall pylon by alleged vandal Jack Gibson-Burrell, on Melbourne's Bolte Bridge. AFP
  • Robert Smith, lead vocalist of The Cure, performs at the open-air Paleo music festival in Nyon, Switzerland. EPA
    Robert Smith, lead vocalist of The Cure, performs at the open-air Paleo music festival in Nyon, Switzerland. EPA
    Robert Smith, lead vocalist of The Cure, performs at the open-air Paleo music festival in Nyon, Switzerland. EPA
    Robert Smith, lead vocalist of The Cure, performs at the open-air Paleo music festival in Nyon, Switzerland. EPA
  • Staff lift the coffin of an Ebola victim into a vehicle at the general hospital in Bunia, Ituri, the epicentre of the Bundibugyo variant of the virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. EPA
    Staff lift the coffin of an Ebola victim into a vehicle at the general hospital in Bunia, Ituri, the epicentre of the Bundibugyo variant of the virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. EPA
    Staff lift the coffin of an Ebola victim into a vehicle at the general hospital in Bunia, Ituri, the epicentre of the Bundibugyo variant of the virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. EPA
    Staff lift the coffin of an Ebola victim into a vehicle at the general hospital in Bunia, Ituri, the epicentre of the Bundibugyo variant of the virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. EPA
  • Firefighters battle a blaze at a plastics and packaging factory in Cali, Colombia. EPA
    Firefighters battle a blaze at a plastics and packaging factory in Cali, Colombia. EPA
    Firefighters battle a blaze at a plastics and packaging factory in Cali, Colombia. EPA
    Firefighters battle a blaze at a plastics and packaging factory in Cali, Colombia. EPA
  • A woman shelters from the sun in Tokyo, which has recorded the highest daily heat-related hospitalisations since 2010, with one person dead and four in a critical condition. AFP
    A woman shelters from the sun in Tokyo, which has recorded the highest daily heat-related hospitalisations since 2010, with one person dead and four in a critical condition. AFP
    A woman shelters from the sun in Tokyo, which has recorded the highest daily heat-related hospitalisations since 2010, with one person dead and four in a critical condition. AFP
    A woman shelters from the sun in Tokyo, which has recorded the highest daily heat-related hospitalisations since 2010, with one person dead and four in a critical condition. AFP
  • The Gravity-1 commercial rocket launches from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, carrying nine satellites to their designated orbits, off the coast of Shanghai, China. AFP
    The Gravity-1 commercial rocket launches from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, carrying nine satellites to their designated orbits, off the coast of Shanghai, China. AFP
    The Gravity-1 commercial rocket launches from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, carrying nine satellites to their designated orbits, off the coast of Shanghai, China. AFP
    The Gravity-1 commercial rocket launches from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, carrying nine satellites to their designated orbits, off the coast of Shanghai, China. AFP
  • A protest march by the social-media-driven Cockroach Janta Party in Patna, demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged medical entrance exam irregularities. AFP
    A protest march by the social-media-driven Cockroach Janta Party in Patna, demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged medical entrance exam irregularities. AFP
    A protest march by the social-media-driven Cockroach Janta Party in Patna, demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged medical entrance exam irregularities. AFP
    A protest march by the social-media-driven Cockroach Janta Party in Patna, demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged medical entrance exam irregularities.
  • A fruit vendor at a market in Kabul, which is facing weak domestic demand for Afghan melons and watermelons, as export volumes to Pakistan, India and other Central Asian countries have reduced. EPA
    A fruit vendor at a market in Kabul, which is facing weak domestic demand for Afghan melons and watermelons, as export volumes to Pakistan, India and other Central Asian countries have reduced. EPA
    A fruit vendor at a market in Kabul, which is facing weak domestic demand for Afghan melons and watermelons, as export volumes to Pakistan, India and other Central Asian countries have reduced. EPA
    A fruit vendor at a market in Kabul, which is facing weak domestic demand for Afghan melons and watermelons, as export volumes to Pakistan, India and other Central Asian countries have reduced. EPA