The day in pictures

July 18, 2024: Attendees and workers are seen on opening day at the Orange County Fair in Middletown, New York, July 18, 2024.

July 18, 2024: Ostriches, giraffes and kudus seek shady spots along the hillside at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, Calif., on July 18, 2024. Animals at The Living Desert are adaptive to hot desert climates.

July 18, 2024: Camels enjoy a frozen treat of grains, carrots and apples at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, Calif., on July 18, 2024.

July 18, 2024: Sun-powered stratospheric SolarStratos plane flies before landing in Sion airport with the Tourbillon Castle in the background. The stratospheric SolarStratos plane was moved to its new base in Payerne ahead of its 10,000-meter altitude world record attempt, the first time for a manned solar-powered airplane into the stratosphere. This record-breaking flight, a step towards the stratospheric flight, is planned for the summer of 2025.

July 18, 2024: UAE Team Emirates team's Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, cycles with the pack of riders (peloton) in the descent of the Col du Festre during the 18th stage of the 111th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 179,5 km between Gap and Barcelonnette, in the French Alps in southeastern France.

July 17, 2024: French swimmer Lilou Ressencourt takes part in France's swimming team's training session at the Aquatic Stadium swimming pool in Bellerive-sur-Allier near Vichy ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

July 16, 2024: A view of the aftermath of a tornado in Rome, NY.

July 15, 2024: A Palestinian youth carrying sacks of salvageable items walks past piles of waste as garbage collection and any other municipality services come to a halt due to the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at the al-Maghazi Palestinian refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.

July 14, 2024: Germany's Sandra Auffarth on Quirici H competes during the Agria Grand Prix during the Falsterbo Horse Show in Falsterbo, Sweden.

July 14, 2024: Colombian fans watch the CONMEBOL Copa America USA 2024 Final against Argentina broadcasted in the Movistar Arena in Bogota, Colombia.

July 14, 2024 : Spectators in an inflatble pool cheer as The lead breakaway cycles in the ascent of the Col de d'Agnes during the 15th stage of the 111th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 197,7 km between Loudenvielle and Plateau de Beille, in the Pyrenees mountains, southwestern France.

July 13, 2024 : Dina Coury, center, cries on the shoulder of Yammi Santa Cruz, next to Veronica Woshida after they watched a video of former President Donald Trump being shot in the ear at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The supporters gathered across the bridge from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

July 12, 2024: Bujang, a 35-year-old male orangutan rescued from a circus in Sumatra, washes his face on a sanctuary island surrounded by a river where non-releasable orangutans are protected for life at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Center run by the non-profit Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in Samboja, East Kalimantan.

July 12, 2024: Orangemen and band members participate in the annual Twelfth of July parade in Belfast, United Kingdom. The Twelfth of July, also known as "The Twelfth" or "Orangemen's Day," is celebrated in Northern Ireland to commemorate King William's victory over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne 334 years ago. The day features parades, bonfires, wreath-laying ceremonies, and performances. The Belfast parade attracts tens of thousands of spectators yearly. It is part of broader celebrations with demonstrations hosted in 18 locations across Northern Ireland, including Bangor, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Newtownards, and Derry.

July 11, 2024 : K’Sea Thomas flips her hair at Pratt Pool in Prattville, Ala.

July 11, 2024 : Dust from the Sahara Desert in northern Africa has recently affected Florida's air and is visible during sunset over the Manatee River in this photo, taken from above the Bradenton Riverwalk.

July 11, 2024: CenterPoint foreign assistance crews work to restore power lines in Houston, Texas. Nearly one million people still remain without electricity in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which was a category one hurricane that made a direct hit on Houston and surrounding areas on July 8, leaving more than two million people without power.

July 11, 2024: Hot-air balloons are pictured with the Montserrat mountain range in the background during the European Balloon Festival in Igualada, northeastern Spain.

July 11, 2024: Intermarche - Wanty team's Eritrean rider Biniam Girmay, wearing the sprinter's green jersey, sprints past the finish line to win the 12th stage of the 111th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 203,6 km between Aurillac and Villeneuve-sur-Lot, southwestern France.

July 11, 2024: An aerial view shows the beach of luxury hotel La Posta Vecchia in Marina di San Nicola, a short distance from Ladispoli, Italy on July 11, 2024.

July 10, 2024: Ladder trucks spray hundreds of gallons of water a minute on top of a scrap metal heap that lit on fire from the inside of a scrap metal yard in Providence, Rhode Island on July 10, 2024.

July 9, 2024: Cafe owner Heidi Wiegel is pushed away while trying to give Littlefoot a smooch at Whimsical Whiskers CatFae & Rescue, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Akron, Ohio.

July 8, 2024: Participants run ahead of "Cebada Gago" bulls during the "encierro" (bull-run) of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. Thousands of people every year attend the week-long festival and its famous 'encierros': six bulls are released at 8:00 a.m. every day to run from their corral to the bullring through the narrow streets of the old town over an 850 meters (yard) course. At the same time, runners ahead of them try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored.

July 8, 2024: Rescuers clear the rubble of the destroyed Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital following a missile attack in Kyiv. Russia launched more than 40 missiles at several cities across Ukraine in an attack that killed at least 20 people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv, officials said.

July 7, 2024: Boats sit in a marina before Tropical Storm Beryl arrived in Corpus Christi, Texas. Beryl weakened to a tropical storm on July 5 after hitting Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, with fierce winds causing material damage but no injuries along the touristic Yucatan Peninsula. Now headed for the Gulf of Mexico, Beryl is expected to intensify as it moves toward northeastern Mexico and the US state of Texas by the end of the weekend, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).

July 7, 2024: Mount Merapi spews lava onto its slopes during an eruption before dawn, as seen from Kaliurang Selatan, central Java.

July 7, 2024: The Mount Etna volcano erups on July 7, 2024 in Sicily, Italy.

July 7, 2024: Daniel Medina loads plywood into a vehicle in the Home Depot parking lot on Sunday morning in Corpus Christi, Texas. Medina said he's using the wood to board up a home ahead of Tropical Storm Beryl, which is forecasted to make landfall in Texas early Monday morning as a hurricane.

July 7, 2024: France's President Emmanuel Macron (C), flanked by his wife Brigitte Macron (L), stands in a polling booth, adorned with curtains displaying the colors of the flag of France, to vote in the second round of France's legislative election at a polling station in Le Touquet. France votes in legislative elections that will be decisive in determining its political future.

July 7, 2024: A Palestinian boy checks the damage in a house hit by Israeli bombardment in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip. Israel carried out deadly air strikes in the Gaza Strip as the war between Israel and the Hamas movement entered its 10th month, with fighting raging across the Palestinian territory and fresh diplomatic efforts underway to halt the violence.

July 6, 2024: People cooling off at a water park in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province.

July 6, 2024: Chessboxer Shayan Zarein Dolab (L) competes against Martin Neu at the Chox Con Chessboxing Festival held on the Worstead Estate in Smallburgh, near Norwich, east England. The hybrid sporting event, promoted by Chessboxing Nation, requires participants to compete in alternating 3 minute rounds of chess and boxing. The winner is determined by competitor who knocks out or checkmates their opponent first.

July 6, 2024: A man plays volleyball as Slovenia's capital Ljubljana hosts an international "Volleyball on Water" tournament where teams compete on a floating and partially submerged court in the city's Ljubljanica river.

July 5, 2024: People try to beat the heat at Whitewater Preserve in Whitewater, Calif.

July 5, 2024 Gardener Martino Reyes of Palm Springs prepares to take a break while working in extreme heat in Palm Springs, Calif.

July 5, 2024: Audrey L. Johnson Jr. and his wife Ashley look at his crushed car as a large Oak lays atop on Olive Street Friday July 5, 2024. An E1 tornado hit parts of west Louisville, Kentucky on July Fourth. Johnson Jr. was stopping by his parents house when the tornado hit; he managed to make it out the car when the tree fell on top of it.

July 5, 2024: A Germany fan inside the stadium before the Quarter Final match between Spain and Germany at Stuttgart Arena in Stuttgart, Germany.

July 4, 2024: Competitors compete for the women's title at Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2024 in New York City. Sixteen-time winner Joey Chestnut is banned from this year's contest due to his partnership with Nathan's competitor Impossible Foods, which sells plant-based hot dogs.

July 2, 2024: A night ops helicopter drops water on the Thompson fire in Oroville, California. A heatwave is sending temperatures soaring resulting in red flag fire warnings throughout the state.

July 2, 2024: People stand outside their flooded homes after a river swelled due to heavy rains following the passage of Hurricane Beryl on the road from Cumana to Cumanacoa, Sucre State, Venezuela. Hurricane Beryl churned towards Jamaica Tuesday after killing at least five people and causing widespread destruction across the southeastern Caribbean, threatening deadly winds and storm surge as it approached.

July 2, 2024: Silverio, a white rhino calf, is pictured next to its mother, Hannah, during a media call at Buin Zoo in Santiago. Born in captivity on June 20, Silverio is the third white rhino born in South America.

July 2, 2024: A child plays at a local water park amid an orange heat advisory in Keelung.

July 1, 2024: Residents clear the boat from the street as it gets flooded after Hurricane Beryl passes in the parish of Saint James, Barbados, near Bridgetown, Barbados. Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean early Monday as officials warned residents to seek shelter ahead of powerful winds and swells expected from the Category 3 storm.

July 1, 2024: Displaced Palestinians leave an area in east Khan Yunis after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.

July 1, 2024: Steve Bannon, the former Donald Trump White House strategist, addresses the media with U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by his side at the Federal Correctional Institution Danbury, where he is expected to begin his four-month sentence in Danbury, Connecticut. Bannon will be imprisoned for contempt of Congress, his conviction for not complying with issued subpoenas by the now-defunct House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Bannon attempted to avoid reporting to prison while challenging his conviction before the federal appeals court in Washington, DC, but was denied by the Supreme Court.

July 1, 2024: Workers carry vegetables as they wade through a flooded street at a market after a heavy rainfall in Lahore.

June 30, 2024: A helicopter sprays water above a military camp during a wildfire in Keratea, near Athens, on June 30, 2024. A new forest fire broke out in the Keratea region, some twenty kilometers south of the Greek capital. On the previous day, a major fire in the same area was brought under control, as was the fire on the island of Serifos on the same morning, which had caused extensive damage.

June 30, 2024: Shelby McEwen competes in the men's high jump final on Day Ten of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

June 30, 2024 : Astana Qazaqstan Team's Colombian rider Harold Tejada (C), flanked by Groupama - FDJ team's French rider Quentin Pacher (2nd L), Arkea - B&B Hotels team's French rider Kevin Vauquelin and Arkea - B&B Hotels team's Colombian rider Cristian Rodriguez leads a breakaway up the San Luca ascent near Bologna during the 2nd stage of the 111th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 199 km between Cesenatico and Bologna, in Italy.

June 29, 2024 : Sarasota's Project Pride SRQ was again part of history as the country's largest progressive pride flag (700 feet long) was marched to the middle of John Ringling Causeway Bridge. This powerful event was response to recent restrictions from Governor Ron DeSantis that prevented the bridge from being lit in rainbow colors for Pride Month, as well as in distinctive colors for Juneteenth, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and other important causes.

June 28, 2024 : Rescuers aid stranded Atlantic White Sided dolphins in Wellfleet, Mass.

June 28, 2024 : The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels compete against the Tampa Tarpons in a game at Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers, Fla.

June 28, 2024: Simone Biles competes on the beam during the U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center on June 28, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

June 28, 2024: Cool Ray is inflated at Harvey Chapel Missionary Baptist for the competition flight in Canton, Miss., on Friday, June 28, 2024.

June 28, 2024: Hailey Bozeman takes aim during archery Friday. A total of 95 campers between the ages of 7-13 took part in the final week of Camp Kiwanis, a traditional residential summer camp program in Marion County, Florida.

June 27, 2024: A plume of Saharan dust headed toward the Florida coast is visible during the sunrise at Midtown Beach in Palm Beach.

June 25, 2024: Jason Carlson and wife Ann use a boat to retrieve medications for a relative as the Little Sioux River floods homes in Smithland, Iowa, on June 25, 2024.

June 25, 2024: Nora White, 6, dumps a cup of water on her sister Kennedy White, 3, at Barnett Field Splash Pad in Edmond, Okla., Tuesday, June 25, 2024.

June 24, 2024 : A man mourns by the body of Palestinian doctor Hani al-Jaafarawi, Gaza's ambulance and emergency teams chief during his funeral at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital a day after he was reportedly killed in an overnight Israeli strike on al-Daraj clinic in Gaza City, amid the ongoing battle between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

June 23, 2024 : Fairgoers swing in the air in East Rutherford, N.J.

June 23, 2024 : Joan Visbal leaves her Locust Road home in North Salem after retrieving a few personal items shortly after a large tree crushed half of her home while she was in it Sunday evening. A powerful storm hit the Northern Westchester/Putnam area taking down many trees, utility poles and wires. Many roads were closed and several communities lost power.

June 23, 2024 : A child grabs the finger of a Tesla humanoid robot on display during the World Intelligence Expo in Tianjin, China.

June 21, 2024 : Spectators line the shoreline at Canova Beach Park in Indialantic, FL to watch the first full moon of Summer, called the Strawberry Moon, rise over the Space Coast Friday.

June 21, 2024 : Hot Air Balloons filled the sky as Simpsonville, S.C. hosted Balloon Fest at Historic Hopkins Farm.

June 22, 2024: A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France dubbed the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), lifts off from a space base in Xichang, in China's southwestern Sichuan province.

June 22, 2024: An aerial view shows people taking part in the "Yoga ao Sol Nascer" (Yoga at Sunrise) event at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

June 21, 2024: Black smoke billows following an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the Lebanese-Israeli border amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on June 21 that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah must not turn Lebanon into "another Gaza."

June 21, 2024: Wild Thang, a Pekingese dog, competes during the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Wild Thang, a Pekingese dog who had already entered the competition four times, finally won the 34th annual World's Ugliest Dog competition and was awarded $5,000.

June 20, 2024: Commuters wade through a flooded street in Sylhet. Torrential rains in Bangladesh have triggered landslides, burying alive at least nine people and forcing thousands to flee to higher ground, police and government officials in the low-lying nation said on June 19. In Sylhet, lashing rain and rivers swollen by flooding upstream in India also swamped heavily populated areas.