Wednesday: The day in photos
Karless Osby, left, Desiree Crossley, and Desiree Bell set up their tent on the side of the road near the gates of Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson’s former residence, where they spent the night after traveling from Lancaster to join the vigil for the dead entertainer. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Bulgarians wade into the Black Sea near the village of Asparuhovo, east of the capital Sofia, to meet the first July sunrise of the year. In a somewhat delayed tribute to the arrival of summer, free spirits in Bulgaria traditionally stay up all night June 30 to celebrate the July 1 sunrise. (Petar Petrov / Associated Press)
Rescue teams gather at Galawa Beach on the island nation of Comoros before resuming the search of the area where a Yemenia Airways jet crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday. (Sayyid Azim / Associated Press)
If the Scottish-flag face paint isn’t enough, a supporter of Britain’s Andy Murray spells out her preference in capital letters while waiting for the start of Murray’s match against Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain in the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tennis championships. Murray defeated Ferrero in straight sets. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)
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Nope, that’s not another sea turtle. It’s a man swimming in the Serpentine Lido in London, where temperatures have been soaring and the heat warning was raised from Level 2 to Level 3. (Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)
It’s bottoms up for contestants in a beer-drinking contest during a beer festival in Wuhan in central
A model presents a creation from the collection of Austrian designer Lena Hoschek during a show of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Mode Woche, in Berlin. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)
An exhibit of 40 portraits of children with Down syndrome, intended to show that children with the condition enjoy life, opened in The Hague, Netherlands. The installation is the work of photographer Eva Snoijink. (Ed Oudenaarden / AFP/Getty Images)
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Visitors walk over a display of Han dynasty animal terra cotta figures embedded in the floor at the National History Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The exhibit showcases more then two hundred pieces from the Han dynasty (188-141 BC). (Sam Yeh / AFP/Getty Images)
