Best Photos of the Day

Turner Prize winning artist, Jeremy Deller poses for a photograph during the launch of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' album, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', in Liverpool, northern England on June 1, 2017. The Beatles' home city is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic band's era-defining "Sgt. Pepper" album with a cultural festival bringing each of its songs to life again through art. Oli SCARFF / AFP

The Washington National Cathedral is lit up by orange lights as the bourdon bell tolls 93 times in honor of the average number of American killed by guns every day June 2, 2017, in Washington, DC, calling attention to gun violence across the US by Gun Violence Prevention group and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. PAUL J. RICHARDS / AFP

Artist Joe Mangrum creates a sand painting during the World Science Festival 2017 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 30, 2017 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images/AFP

Performance artist Annie Saunders performs in Times Square in Holoscenes, a tank that rapidly fills with water and engulfs the performer, as part of the World Science Festival on May 31, 2017 in New York City. As part of the tenth World Science Festival, Holoscenes developed out of a concern that water from itensifying floods, rising seas, and longer droughts will be a central issue of the 21st century. Holoscenes is performed in a twelve ton glass aquarium and will be performed from 6pm to 11pm, June 1 - 3. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP

A picture taken on May 31, 2017 in Paris, show the Pantheon. JOEL SAGET / AFP

The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as a sail boat and airplane pass by on June 02, 2017 in New York City. Michael Heiman/Getty Images/AFP

This picture taken on May 29, 2017 shows statues standing semi-submerged in mud, a symbol of the human toll of the 2006 disaster, at the mud volcano incident area in Sidoarjo, East Java. A mud volcano that erupted in central Indonesia a decade ago and swallowed entire villages is still oozing its all-consuming sludge, but for some entrepreneurial locals it has provided an unlikely business opportunity. "Mud tourism" is booming, as visitors flock to see rooftops poking above the giant bubbling lake, life-size statues made of mud and haunting memorials to one of the country’s worst environmental disasters. JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP

A statue of a cow is seen during a protest and fast by Indian Hindu devotees against the slaughter of a cow in the southern state of Kerala, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 1, 2017. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP

A statue of the Virgin Mary is seen on top of the of Mart Shmoni in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on May 31, 2017. SAFIN HAMED / AFP

This picture taken on May 29, 2017 shows members of Orquestra Mare do Amanha, an orchestra based on a social project founded in 2010 in one of the most violent favelas in Brazil, performing at the bottom of the statue of Christ the Redeemer before attending mass in Rio de Janeiro. Just rehearsing could get them shot. But for the youth musicians of one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent slums, their bravery will pay off on June 3 with a concert in front of the pope. Twenty-six amateur musicians aged between 14 and 19 will perform for Pope Francis and an audience also including 400 children brought from areas of central Italy devastated in earthquakes. Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP