Jun 8, 2014

The day in photos around the world.

: Rowers arrive in the Gran Canal as they take part in the Vogalonga, or Long Row, in the Venice lagoon June 8, 2014. The annual boating event features a 30 km (18.6 miles) course starting at St. Mark’s Square. (Manuel Silvestri /Reuters)

: An Afghan woman holds her phone after an election campaign by Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in Kabul June 8, 2014. The second round of Afghanistan’s presidential election will take place on June 14. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

: A Brazilian football fan plays with a soccer ball as he poses for a photograph on a beach in Rio de Janeiro June 8, 2014. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil starts on June 12. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)

: Russia’s Maria Sharapova poses with the Suzanne Lenglen trophy in Paris on June 8, 2014 a day after winning the Roland Garros French Tennis Open. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

: People shout slogans against the monarchy as they hold placards that read “Real transition, without a king” at Madrid’s landmark Puerta del Sol square during an anti-monarchy demonstration June 7, 2014. King Juan Carlos said on June 2 he would abdicate in favor of his son Prince Felipe, aiming to revive the scandal-hit monarchy at a time of economic hardship and growing discontent with the wider political elite. (Susana Vera/Reuters)

: A Chinese devotee who has his cheeks pierced with a skewer sits on a chair before marching around Chinatown during the Guan Ping Festival in Kuala Lumpur June 8, 2014. The festival, held in celebration to mark the birthday of Chinese deity Guan Ping, is believed to bring prosperity for local businesses. (Samsul Said/Reuters)

: Members of the Samaritan hold up Torah scrolls during a traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Shavuot, atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus early June 8, 2014. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism. (Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters)

: An aircraft flies overhead as a person rummages for recyclables at a garbage dumpsite in Paranaque city, metro Manila June 8, 2014. The United Nations declared “Small Islands and Climate Change” the theme of 2014 World Environment Day, with the year’s official 2014 slogan being “Raise your voice, not the sea level”. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

: A Rohingya Muslim man performs a dance before the start of a fight as part of a traditional wrestling festival at Kyaukpannu village in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state June 6, 2014. Rohingya Muslim men and children took part in the festival in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where the majority of an estimated 1.3 million stateless Muslim Rohingyas live in. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

: Spain’s Rafael Nadal hits a return to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic during the French tennis Open men’s final match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on June 8, 2014. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

: Miguel Cotto lands a punch on Sergio Martinez in the 8th round of their WBC middleweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York June 7, 2014. Cotto defeated Martinez in the 9th round. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

: Castellers de Barcelona form a human tower during a demonstration, “Human towers for democracy: Catalans want to vote”, at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona June 8, 2014. (Albert Gea/Reuters)

: Spanish Alberto Contador rides during the time trial first stage of the 66th edition of the Dauphine Criterium cycling race on June 8, 2014 in Lyon. Britain’s Christopher Froome places first and Spanish Alberto Contador takes the second place. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)

: A reveller stands in a burial crypt below the crematorium at the southern cemetery in Leipzig during the Wave and Goth festival June 7, 2014. The annual festival, known in Germany as Wave-Gotik Treffen (WGT), features over 150 bands and artist in venues all over the city playing Gothic rock and other styles of the dark wave music subculture. The event that counts as one of the biggest of its kind attracts a regular audience of up to 20,000 the organizers said. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

: Los Angeles Kings celebrates after defeating the New York Rangers in the second overtime period in Game 2 of their NHL Stanley Cup Finals hockey series in Los Angeles, California, June 7, 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

: Members of Spanish-Argentinian “Grupo Puja” troupe perform during the opening of the “Theatrical Syndrome” festival on a quay of the Yenisei River in the Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk June 7, 2014. The troupe has performed their choreographed acrobatics at heights of over 30 meters (100 feet) in more than 20 countries. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: Pope Francis delivers his Regina Coeli prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 8, 2014. (Giampiero Sposito/Reuters)

: A boy collects bullets and empty cartridges next to abandoned buildings of the Ukrainian border guard regional headquarters damaged in a recent fight with pro-Russian separatists, on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk June 8, 2014. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

Guan Ping Festival, Rafael Nadal, and the Dauphine Criterium| June 8