Jul 1, 2014

Protesters in Hong Kong, mourning Israeli teens, Wimbledon continues | July 1

The day in photos around the world.

: Thousands of pro-democracy protesters gather to march in the streets to demand universal suffrage in Hong Kong July 1, 2014. As tens of thousands gathered in Hong Kong on Tuesday to demand greater democracy and freedom from Beijing’s control, China’s military garrison stationed in the freewheeling capitalist hub launched its own offensive – to charm them. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)

: Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters stage a march to demand universal suffrage in Hong Kong July 1, 2014. Pro-democracy protesters gathered for a mass march in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with one burning a photograph of the city’s leader and another calling for him to be sacked, in what could be the biggest challenge to Chinese Communist Party rule in more than a decade. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)

: Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R), the three Israeli teenagers who disappeared when hitchhiking near a Jewish settlement on June 12, and whose bodies were found in the occupied West Bank on June 30, 2014, are seen in this undated combination handout picture released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on July 1, 2014. Israel bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on July 1, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group. Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied Israel’s allegations about its role in the disappearance of the students. Yifrah was 19, while Shaar and Fraenkel were both 16. Fraenkel was a U.S.-Israeli national. (REUTERS/IDF/Handout via Reuters)

: A woman mourns during a memorial service for U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, 16, one of three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank, before his funeral, in the central Israeli village of Nof Ayalon July 1, 2014. Israel bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group. The Islamist group has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the disappearance of the students as they hitchhiked near a Jewish settlement on June 12 nor in the cross-border rocket salvoes from Gaza. The other two Israeli teens who were killed are Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Gil-Ad Shaar, 16. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)

: Angelique Kerber of Germany reacts after defeating Maria Sharapova of Russia in their women’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London July 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Max Rossi)

: Spectators watch play on outside courts at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London June 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

: A firefighter cleans his colleague after he disembarked from a boat, on which some 30 bodies were found, after the Italian Navy towed it into the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo July 1, 2014. As many as 30 corpses were found on the boat packed with migrants off the coast of Sicily. Italy’s navy towed the boat into the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo on Tuesday after rescuing thousands of people trying to cross from North Africa over the weekend. The dead are believed to have either suffocated on this overcrowded boat or drowned. (REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello)

: A man arranges strands of vermicelli, which are kept for drying at a factory in the northern Indian city of Allahabad July 1, 2014. Vermicelli is a specialty that is eaten during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash)

: Members of the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) march on the first day of a nationwide strike in Johannesburg July 1, 2014. South Africa’s striking engineering and metal workers union NUMSA said on Tuesday it was reverting to a demand for a 15 percent wage increase, because employers had failed to respond in kind to its concession of a lower 12 percent. (REUTERS/Skyler Reid)

: Hindu priests sit in cauldrons of water and make offerings to in front of a fire while performing the “Parjanya Varun Yagam”, a special prayer for rain, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 1, 2014. India’s monsoon rainfall was 43 percent below average in June, the weather office said on Monday, the weakest first month of the season in five years. REUTERS/Amit Dave)

: Hugo, a 63-year-old Galapagos Tortoise, is lifted by keepers before his annual weighing at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby near Sydney, July 1, 2014. Once a year Hugo’s massive 166 kilogram (366 lbs) body is carried by four men and a forklift to an industrial scale to assess his health and he weighs one kilogram more than last year. The life expectancy of a Galapagos Tortoise is up to 180 years. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

: A view of the cathedral building designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia June 27, 2014. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. Picture taken June 27, 2014. (REUTERS/Jorge Silva)

: In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the launch gantry is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard, is shown at the Space Launch Complex 2 on June 30, 2014 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. OCO-2 will measure the global distribution of carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas believed to drive changes in Earth’s climate. OCO-2 is set for a July 1 launch. (NASA via Getty Images/Bill Ingalls)