Tour de France, sunsets and Sea World | July 9
The day in pictures around the world.
- Marine rescue workers from Sea World attempt to help a juvenile humpback whale stranded at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast, in Queensland July 9, 2014. REUTERS/Jason O’Brien
- A Bosnian woman cries while leaning on a truck carrying 173 coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in front of the presidential building in Sarajevo July 9, 2014. The bodies of the 173 recently identified victims of Srebrenica massacre will be transported to the memorial centre in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves in Europe’s worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
- A man works on one of the four iconic smokestacks of the former Battersea Power Station in London July 9, 2014. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
- Britain’s Prince William (R) dives with a British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) member at a swimming pool in central London in this July 9, 2014 picture provided by Lodge Media/Gadston. The prince and his father Prince Charles attended a reception to mark the handover of the presidency of BSAC from Prince Charles to Prince William. REUTERS/Lodge Media/Gadston/Handout via Reuters
- A man stands in front of the skyline after a rainy day in Toronto, July 8, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
- India’s Ajinkya Rahane is caught by England’s Alastair Cook for 32 runs during the first cricket test match at Trent Bridge cricket ground in Nottingham, England July 9, 2014. REUTERS/Philip Brown
- Cows, draped in the colours of the Tour de France cycling leaders jerseys, graze in a field near rolls of hay with the portraits of former champions along the route of the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race from Ypres in Belgium to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut in France, July 9, 2014. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
- Astana team rider Vincenzo Nibali of Italy cycles on a cobble-stoned section during the 155.5 km fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race from Ypres Belgium to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut July 9, 2014. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
- Palestinians stand amongst the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 9, 2014. At least 23 people were killed across Gaza, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday, by a bombardment Israel said may be just the start of a lengthy offensive against Islamist militants whose rockets struck deeper than ever before into Israel. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
- Palestinians carry a door from a destroyed house following what police said was an Israeli air strike in central Gaza Strip July 9, 2014. Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes on Wednesday, and militants kept up rocket fire at Israel’s heartland in intensifying warfare that Palestinian officials said has killed at least 37 people in the Hamas-dominated enclave. REUTERS/Ashraf Amrah
- A boy decorates his house with an orange flag in Orionstraat in Amsterdam July 9, 2014. The Dutch are preparing for their semi-finals against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. REUTERS/Cris Toala Olivares
- A local resident pushes his bicycle past buildings damaged by a recent shelling in the eastern Ukrainian village of Semenovka July 9, 2014. Ukraine said on Wednesday it was confident of receiving further aid under a $17 billion IMF bailout but appealed to Western institutions and donors for further cash and credit to rebuild the east, shattered by separatist conflict. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich