Mourning in Charleston, Pope Francis in Turin, Motril International Air Festival, zombie protestors | June 21
The day in photos from around the world.
- A child cools off in a wall of water on the first day of summer, Sunday, June 21, 2015, at Yards Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
- Sixty six surfers from Huntington Beach ride the world’s largest surfboard as they break the ‘Guinness Book of Records’ record for the largest number of surfers ever to ride a wave on a single surfboard, at Huntington Beach, California on June 20, 2015. The previous record was 47 and the board was towed into the wave by jet skis before being released to surf a wave for a minimum of 10 seconds under its own momentum. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)
- A young child performs karate at the Mole refugees camp during the World Refugee Day celebrations, 35km from the Zongo village, northwestern region on June 20, 2015. Sport is often used to confort young children and stimulate reconciliation between Christian and Muslim refugees living together in the camp. The brutal inter-religious violence in 2013-2014 has forced tens of thousands of Central African Republic (CAR) refugees to flee their homes and find refuge in Democratic Republic of Congo. (Federico Scoppa/Getty Images)
- Spanish gymnasts Vicente Lli Lloris and Sara Moreno Lopez compete in the mixed pair all-around final of the acrobatic gymnastics event at the 2015 European Games in Baku on June 21, 2015. (Jack Guez/Getty Images)
- Cyclists ride through Baku’s Old City as they compete in the men’s cycling road race final at the 2015 European Games on June 21, 2015. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)
- Planes of the Spanish Aguila Patrol perform during the Motril International Air Festival in Motril, near Granada, on June 21, 2015. (Jorge Guerrero/Getty Images)
- Alphajet aircrafts from the French elite acrobatic flying team “Patrouille de France” (PAF) release smoke in the colors of the French flag during the last public days of the International Paris Airshow at Le Bourget on June 21, 2015. (Eric Piermont/Getty Images)
- Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP drives during the Formula One Grand Prix of Austria at Red Bull Ring on June 21, 2015 in Spielberg, Austria. (Clive Mason/Getty Images)
- Visitors walk around the U.S. Air Force Memorial, Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Arlington, Va. The summer solstice, which marks the beginning of summer, is the longest period of daylight between sunrise and sunset in the Northern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
- Nuns take pictures of the Pope arriving at Turin’s cathedral to pray in front of the holy Shroud, believed by some Christians to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, on June 21, 2015. (Alverto Pizzoli/Getty Images)
- Pope Francis prays in front of the Holy Shroud, the 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, on display at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, Sunday, June 21, 2015. Francis visited the long linen with the faded image of a bearded man, during his two-day pilgrimage to Turin. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
- Parishioners sing four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of Pinckney and eight others at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Chruch elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting death of nine of its members including its pastor earlier this week. (David Goldman-Pool/Getty Images)
- Parishioners embrace as they attend the first church service four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Chruch elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting death of nine of its members including its pastor earlier this week. (David Goldman-Pool/Getty Images)
- Pastor Dimas Salaberrios of the Infinity Bible Church in New York leads prayers outside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church where nine people were shot to death earlier this week June 20, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Suspect Dylann Roof, 21, was arrested and charged in the killing of nine people during a prayer meeting in the church, one of the nation’s oldest black churches in the South. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
- A man is told to leave his sign outside of the Sunday morning service at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Chruch elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting death of nine of its members including its pastor earlier this week. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
- Debra Johnson (R) of Atlanta, Georgia, sings gospel hyms with hundreds of others in front of the historic Emanuel African American Methodist Church during the Sunday morning service, four days after nine of its members were shot to death in the building, June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Church elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting, which was allegedly carried out by a 21-year-old white supremacist who wanted to start a ‘race war.’ (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
- Monte Talmadge walks past the memorial on the sidewalk in front the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church killed nine people on June 20, 2015 in Charleston, United States. Dylann Roof, 21 years old, has been charged with killing nine people during a prayer meeting in the church, which is one of the nation’s oldest black churches in Charleston. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
- The Rev. Norvel Goff, right, prays at the empty seat of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of Pinckney and eight others on Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool)
- People dressed in a character era costumes have a picnic in the grounds of the 17th century Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, in Maincy near Paris, on June 21, 2015 during the annual Grand Siecle day experience, a rendez-vous for costume passionates. The day also marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Nicolas Fouquet, a French parliamentarian who bought the chateau and transformed the grounds and the building into what it is today. (Francois Guillot/Getty Images)
- People dressed in a character era costumes have a picnic in the grounds of the 17th century Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, in Maincy near Paris, on June 21, 2015 during the annual Grand Siecle day experience, a rendez-vous for costume passionates. The day also marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Nicolas Fouquet, a French parliamentarian who bought the chateau and transformed the grounds and the building into what it is today. (Francois Guillot/Getty Images)
- Turkish riot police push anti-goverment protestors to disperse them on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on June 21, 2015. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protestors of the left-wing United June Movement (BHH) gathered to protest Turkey’s ruling Justice and Devolopment Party (AKP). (Ozan Kose/Getty Images)
- Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner, left, embraces Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer, who is covered with chocolate syrup, after Scherzer’s no-hitter baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Nationals Park, Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Washington. The Nationals won 6-0. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
- 81 year-old Italian nun Sister Maria Concetta (C) talks with mothers at Zongo Hospital where she works as a midwife in Zongo, a small village in the Equatorial region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 21, 2015. Concetta arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959 and works as a midwife at Zongo hospital, which is run by the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint-Joseph of Genoni from Italy. (Federico Scoppa/Getty Images)
- A Somali soldier stands guard next to the site where Al Shebab militants carried out a suicide attack against a military intelligence base in Mogadishu on June 21, 2015. Shebab militants launched a major suicide raid on June 21 against a military intelligence base in the capital Mogadishu, setting off a car bomb before storming inside, security officials said. Somalia’s interior ministry said the three attackers were all killed in the raid, and that Somali security forces who fought them suffered no casualties. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/Getty Images)
- Activists dressed as zombies to represent consumers of pro-Russian propaganda carry a multiple rocket launcher Grad made from copies of free pro-Russian newspaper “Vesti” distributed in Ukraine during their march and protest action in front of the Ukrainian Security Services building in Kiev on June 21, 2015. According to organizers, the action is an ironical way of “thanking” Ukrainian law enforcement agencies for their inaction in curbing pro-Russian propaganda in the country. (Sergei Supinsky/Getty Images)