Sawdust carpets in Spain, Bavarian beer for breakfast, MERS fear in Korea | June 7
The day in photos around the world.
- People work on sawdust carpets (Alfombras de Serrin) along the streets during the Corpus Christi feast on June 7, 2015 in Elche de la Sierra, near Albacete, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi, started on 1964 inspired on carpets of flowers from Catalonia. The sawdust carpets lasts until the Corpus Christi procession walks through them. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- A woman works on a sawdust carpet (Alfombras de Serrin) in the early hours along the streets during the Corpus Christi feast on June 7, 2015 in Elche de la Sierra, near Albacete, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi, started on 1964 inspired on carpets of flowers from Catalonia. The sawdust carpets lasts until the Corpus Christi procession walks through them. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- A child plays with sawdust after a procession walked over the sawdust carpets (Alfombras de Serrin) during the Corpus Christi feast on June 7, 2015 in Elche de la Sierra, near Albacete, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi, started on 1964 inspired on carpets of flowers from Catalonia. The sawdust carpets lasts until the Corpus Christi procession walks through them. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- Boys and girls wearing white dress from the communion stand around a sawdust carpet (Alfombras de Serrin) during a procession for the Corpus Christi feast on June 7, 2015 in Elche de la Sierra, near Albacete, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi, started on 1964 inspired on carpets of flowers from Catalonia. The sawdust carpets lasts until the Corpus Christi procession walks through them. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- People work on a sawdust carpets (Alfombras de Serrin) depicting ‘Don Quixote’ along the streets during the Corpus Christi feast on June 7, 2015 in Elche de la Sierra, near Albacete, Spain. The festival, held on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi, started on 1964 inspired on carpets of flowers from Catalonia. The sawdust carpets lasts until the Corpus Christi procession walks through them. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
- A group of students wearing face masks pose for a “selfie” as they sit on a street in the popular student area of Hongdae in Seoul on June 7, 2015. South Korea reported its fifth death from MERS as the government on June 7 vowed “all-out” measures to curb the outbreak that was threatening to spread nationwide, including tracking mobile phones of those in quarantine. (Ed Jones/Getty Images)
- US President Barack Obama holds a glass of beer at a breakfast meeting with the German chancellor and local citizens in Kruen near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on June 7, 2015 before the start of a G7 summit. Germany hosts a G7 summit at the Elmau Castle on June 7 and June 8, 2015. (Daniel Karmann/Getty Images)
- U.S. President Barack Obama shares a Bavarian breakfast with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer prior the summit of G7 nations on June 7, 2015 in Kruen, Germany. In the course of the two-day summit G7 leaders are scheduled to discuss global economic and security issues, as well as pressing global health-related issues, including antibiotics-resistant bacteria and Ebola. (Steffen Kuglerl/Getty Images)
- An anti G7-protester protects a policemen from the sun with an umbrella during a rally on a road to Elmau, near in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany on June 7, 2015, where to a G7 summit takes place. Germany hosts a G7 summit at the Elmau Castle near Garmisch-Partenkirchen on June 7 and June 8, 2015. (Philipp Guelland/Getty Images)
- A handout picture released by Kensington Palace and taken by Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in May, 2015 shows Prince George of Cambridge (L) and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (R) at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, eastern England. The Duke of Duchess of Cambridge released four official photographs taken by the Duchess of Prince George and one-month-old Princess Charlotte together at their country retreat in Sandringham. (Getty Images)
- Drivers of Belarus tractors brand MTZ rush through a burning gate during the “Bison Track show 2015″on June 7, 2015, at a tractor ground outside Rostov-on-Don. (Sergey Pivovarov/Getty Images)
- People enjoy sprinkling themselves with coloured powder during an annual Festival of Colours in Minsk on June 7, 2015. (Andrey Vasilevich/Getty Images)
- A man, whose face is completely covered with tattoos, poses during the three-day annual tattoo festival on June 6, 2015 in the coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Some 50 tattoo artists, Israelis and foreigners, take part in the festival to show their skills. (Menahem Hahana/Getty Images)
- Servicemen of Ukrainian volonteers battalion of Donbass rest in the village of Shirokine, Donetsk region on June 6, 2015. US President Barack Obama urged fellow leaders of the G7 to stand up to “Russian aggression in Ukraine” as he enjoyed a traditional Bavarian welcome ahead of their summit in Germany. (Aleksey Chernyshev/Getty Images)
- A man who was wounded during the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party HDP rally’s attack on June 5, casts his vote on June 7, 2015 in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. The attack in Diyarbakir on June 5 killed two, left dozens more wounded and added to already simmering tensions ahead of June 7 tight legislative polls. (Ilyas Akengin/Getty Images)
- People walk on the Champs Elysees made pedestrian for the day and where a food and fresh products marketplace stands, on June 7, 2013 in Paris. (Thomas Samson/Getty Images)
- Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka hits a return to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic during their men’s final match of the Roland Garros 2015 French Tennis Open in Paris on June 7, 2015. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images)
- Men carry Sabahattin Tekci, 59 years old, who was wounded during the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party HDP rally’s attack on June 5, and arrives on a wheelchair to cast his vote on June 7, 2015, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. The strike in Diyarbakir on June 5 killed two, left dozens more wounded and added to already simmering tensions ahead of June 7 tight legislative polls. (Ilyas Akengin/Getty Images)
- A Chinese rescue worker throws flowers in the river to pay respect to the victims after a memorial service in front of the raised Chinese cruise ship, in Jianli on June 7, 2015. Rescuers extended their search for victims of a Chinese cruise ship sinking to include a vast stretch of the Yangtze river Saturday, as the confirmed death toll rose to 396, marking the country’s worst shipping disaster in nearly 70 years. (Johannes Eisele/Getty Images)
- American rower Sonya Baumstein, from Orlando, Fla., rows a boat as she leaves Choshi Marina in Choshi, a port east of Tokyo, headed for San Francisco Sunday, June 7, 2015. Baumstein hopes to finish the 9,600-kilometer (6,000-mile) journey by late September and become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific in the 23-foot (7-meter) -long vessel. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)