Bodypaining festival, Tour de France and Wimbledon women’s final | July 5
The day in pictures around the world, including the World Bodypainting Festival, the first stage of the Tour de France, the women’s final at Wimbledon and more in the Daily Brief.
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- The Statue of Liberty as seen before the ”Freedom & Fireworks Festival” in Jersey City, New Jersey, as seen from New York City. The fireworks show returned to the East River for the first time since 2008. The United States marks 238 years as an independent nation as it celebrates the national holiday. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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- Divers deploy a large American flag on the USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a former military troop transport and missile-tracking ship scuttled more than five years ago in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary as an artificial reef off Key West, Florida. The flag formerly flew at a Morris, Illinois, memorial park for the September 11, 2001, New York City terrorists’ attack victims. The flag was to be retired after being badly tattered by the weather, but Morris attorney Scott Belt conceived the idea of mending the flag and unfurling it on the Vandenberg. (Scott Belt/Florida Keys News Bureau/ via Reuters)
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- Fireworks, to celebrate Independence Day, are shot off after the St. Louis Cardinals and the Miami Marlins played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals beat the Marlins 3-2. (Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
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- People take pictures of themselves as the annual fourth of July fireworks show goes off in background over the East River in Brooklyn. The fireworks show returned to the East River for the first time since 2008. The United States marks 238 years as an independent nation as it celebrates the national holiday. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
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- Fireworks display during A Capitol Fourth in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Capital Concerts)
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- Belarus’ Catholics attend the annual celebration of Icon of the Mother of God in Budslav some 150 km north of Minsk early. Thousands of Catholics come to Budslav as pilgrims to participate in prayer, confession and take part in a procession with candles, dedicated to the celebration of the anniversary Budslav Mother of God. (Sergey Balay/AFP-Getty Images)
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- A model poses at the World Bodypainting Festival 2014in Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
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- A model poses at the flouro award at the World Bodypainting Festival 2014in Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
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- A model poses at the World Bodypainting Festival 2014in Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
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- A model poses at the flouro award at the World Bodypainting Festival 2014in Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
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- A model poses at the World Bodypainting Festival 2014in Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
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- A model poses at the flouro award at the World Bodypainting Festival 2014in Poertschach am Woerthersee, Austria. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
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- Supporters are pictured at the start of the 190.5 km first stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Leeds and Harrogate, northern England. The 2014 Tour de France gets underway on July 5 in the streets of Leeds and ends on July 27 down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP-Getty Images ORG XMIT: 496129131
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- Supporters are pictured along the road during the 190.5 km first stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Leeds and Harrogate, northern England. The 2014 Tour de France gets underway on July 5 in the streets of Leeds and ends on July 27 down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP-Getty Images)
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- Britain’s Mark Cavendish lies injured after a fall near the finish line at the end of the 190.5 km first stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Leeds and Harrogate, northern England. The 2014 Tour de France gets underway on July 5 in the streets of Leeds and ends on July 27 down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (Fred Mons/Pool/AFP-Getty Images)
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- The pack rides during the 190.5 km first stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Leeds and Harrogate, northern England. The 2014 Tour de France gets underway on July 5 in the streets of Leeds and ends on July 27 down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (Eric Feferberg/AFP-Getty Images)
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- Germany’s Marcel Kittel celebrates as he crosses the finish line ahead of Slovakia’s Peter Sagan at the end of the 190.5 km first stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Leeds and Harrogate, northern England. The 2014 Tour de France gets underway in the streets of Leeds and ends on July 27 down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP-Getty Images)
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- Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova celebrates after winning the women’s singles final match against Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard on day twelve of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London. Kvitova stormed to her second Wimbledon title in the shortest women’s final at the All England Club since 1983 as the Czech sixth seed crushed Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0. (Glyn Kirk/AFP-Getty Images)
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- Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic holding the winners trophy, the Venus Rosewater Dish, poses for photographers after defeating Eugenie Bouchard of Canada in their women’s singles final tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London. (Gareth Fuller/Reuters)
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- Tuf Cooper of Decatur, Texas, flips a calf in the tie-down roping event during day 1 of the rodeo at the 102 Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
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- A Bangladeshi driver guides his horse-cart through flood waters in old Dhaka. Seasonal monsoon rains brought Dhaka to a standstill, with vehicles scarce on the flooded roads, offices off to a slow start and people trapped in homes as low-lying areas of the city were inundated. (Munir uz Zaman/Getty Images)
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- A revelers tries to hold on to a wild horse during the “Rapa Das Bestas” traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. (Miguel Vidal/Reuters
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- Marussia Formula One driver Jules Bianchi of France drives off the track during the final practice session ahead of the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Race circuit, central England. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
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- Joseph Parker of New Zealand fights Brian Minto of the United States during a heavyweight bout between at Vodafone Events Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
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- MCC’s captain Sachin Tendulkar smiles as Rest of the World’s Yuvraj Singh attempts to grab his leg during a cricket match to celebrate 200 years of Lord’s at Lord’s cricket ground in London. (Philip Brown/Reuters)
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- A boy, who is internally displaced due to the fighting between rebels and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, plays with a ball inside Al-Tah camp in the southern Idlib countryside July 4, 2014. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)01
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- Ender Inciarte #5 of the Arizona Diamondbacks is unable to make a catch on a 2nd inning fly ball against the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field on in Atlanta, Georgia. (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
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- John Daly tees off on the third hole during the third round of the Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (Jon Durr/Getty Images)
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- Members of the National Guard march during a military parade within celebrations for Independence Day in Caracas. (Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Ukrainian soldier walks near a destroyed armoured vehicle at Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian rebels were pulling out of a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday as authorities in Kiev savored a major military success in its three-month fight against the separatists. A Reuters reporter saw a convoy of around 20 military transport vehicles and buses filled with armed rebels driving out of Kramatorsk where they had gone after apparently earlier fleeing the separatist stronghold of Slaviansk nearby. (Maxim Zmeyev/reuters)
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