Jul 30, 2015

The day in photos from around the world.

: Activists hang from the St. Johns bridge in an effort to block the Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker Fennica from leaving for Alaska in Portland, Ore., Thursday, July 30, 2015. The icebreaker, which is a vital part of Shell’s exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska’s northwest coast, stopped short of the hanging blockade, turned around and sailed back to a dock at the Port of Portland. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

: Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker Fennica heads back to the Portland of Portland, at left, after it was blocked on its way to Alaska by activists hanging from the St. Johns bridge in Portland, Ore., Thursday, July 30, 2015. The icebreaker is a vital part of Shell’s exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska’s northwest coast. Environmental activists on St. Johns Bridge and kayakers on the Willamette River below have been blocking the icebreaker from heading to the Arctic for a drill operation. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

: British actress Helen Mirren looks at one of three wax figures of herself, made in celebration of her recent 70th birthday, at Madame Tussauds in central London, Thursday, July 30, 2015. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

: Confederate flags sit in the back of a police car as tourists walk by Ebenezer Baptist Church Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Atlanta. U.S. authorities are investigating after several Confederate battle flags were discovered near the church and a civil rights center named after Martin Luther King, an iconic leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Thursday morning. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

: Air conditioners and power generators are displayed on a street in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 30, 2015. Scorching temperatures are normal this time of year, but an unprecedented heat wave prompted Iraqi authorities to declare a mandatory four-day holiday beginning Thursday. For some Iraqis, heat waves mean big business. With rampant power cuts, some generators, which could sell anywhere from $200 to $800, are flying off the shelves. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

: Plainclothes Israeli police detain an ultra-Orthodox Jew after he attacked people with a knife during a Gay Pride parade Thursday, July 30, 2015 in central Jerusalem. Israeli police said several people were stabbed. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

: People react after an ultra-Orthodox Jew attacked people with a knife during a Gay Pride parade Thursday, July 30, 2015 in central Jerusalem. Israeli police said several people were stabbed. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jew Yishai Schlissel walks through a Gay Pride parade and is just about to pull a knife from under his coat and start stabbing people in Jerusalem Thursday, July 30, 2015. Schlissel was recently released from prison after serving a term for stabbing several people at a gay pride parade in 2005, a police spokeswoman said.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

: An Arab man cools off under a waterfall at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean in Israel on Thursday, July 30, 2015. The temperature there reached 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 F). (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

: Palestinian fishermen sail into waters of the Mediterranean Sea at sunset in Gaza in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

: Mohammed al-Masri cools off his family horse near the ruins their house, which was destroyed in the last summer’s Israel-Hamas war, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 30, 2015, where the high temperature was 36 degrees Celsius (97F). Chronic electricity and water cuts in conflict-ridden countries make heat waves like the present one even more unbearable particularly for the more than 14 million people displaced by violence across the Middle East region. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

: Actress Angelina Jolie Pitt, left, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, visits Jan Mai Kaung refugee camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar, Thursday, July 30, 2015. The refugees have fled fighting between the Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Army since 2011. (AP Photo/Hkun Lat)

: Washington Nationals’ Michael Taylor (3) beats the throw to Miami Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria, left, to steal second in fifth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

: Nepalese army and police rescues team recover a dead body of a victim from the debris after a landslide in Lumle village, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, July 30, 2015. Landslides in a mountain area of Nepal buried three villages Thursday, killing several people, authorities said.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

: A Pakistani man takes a nap at waterside during a hot afternoon in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

: New England Patriots fans wait for practice to complete, while standing behind a sign supporting quarterback Tom Brady, during an NFL football training camp in Foxborough, Mass., Thursday, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady wipes the sweat from his head during an NFL football training camp in Foxborough, Mass., Thursday, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

: Malaysias bronze medalist Pandelela Pamg competes in the women’s 10m platform diving final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, July 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

: Terina Allen, sister of Samuel DuBose, sits with family members as she reacts in the courtroom following the arraignment of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing at Hamilton County Courthouse for the shooting death of motorist DuBose, Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Cincinnati. Tensing, who was indicted and fired from his job on Wednesday, shot and killed Dubose on July 19. Tensing pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and involuntary manslaughter. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

: Former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, second from left, appears before Judge Megan Shanahan at Hamilton County Courthouse for his arraignment in the shooting death of motorist Samuel DuBose, Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Cincinnati. Tensing pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and involuntary manslaughter. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Platform diving, horse in a heatwave, Nepalese landslide | July 30