Best Photos of the Day

BERLIN.- Grouped at Checkpoint Charlie, the famous crossing of the Berlin Wall and now a tourist attraction, protestors hold a banner reading "Yes, We Scan" and posters reading "Stasi 2.0" depicting US President Barack Obama wearing headphones, in allusion of a film poster of the movie "The Lives of Others" talking about spying and monitoring practices of the former Eastern German secret police "Stasi", on June 18, 2013 in Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on June 17, 2013 she was surprised by revelations of mass US online surveillance and that she would call for "transparency" on its scope in talks with President Barack Obama this week. Merkel said Germans wanted to know if their online data was being sniffed out by the US National Security Agency (NSA). AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE.

DUSSELDORF.- Visitors try out the interactive installation titled "in orbit" by Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno at the K21 Staendehaus museum in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on June 19, 2013. The steel wire construction spanning the museum's glass coupola on three different levels will open for the public on June 22, 2013. AFP PHOTO / FEDERICO GAMBARINI

SIEM REAP.- Irina Bokova (C), director general of UNESCO, listens as Cambodian Ly Vanna (R), director of Preah Norodom Sihanouk Angkor Museum, explains during her visit to Angkor Wat complex in Siem Reap province, some 300 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh on June 19, 2013. Six ancient Syrian sites as well as Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be listed as endangered by UNESCO, which on June 16, began its annual session to decide which global cultural and natural treasures merit World Heritage status. Around 1,300 delegates were due to attend the ten day conference in Cambodia, which officially opened in the capital Phnom Penh late June 16. The closing ceremony is to be held in the country's own heritage site, the temple complex of Angkor in Siem Reap. AFP PHOTO.

WASHINGTON.- The Frederick Douglass Statue in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitors Center, at the U.S. Capitol, on June 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Congressional leaders dedicated the statue during a ceremony on Wednesday. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP.

BABYLON.- Workers chip away at the concrete laid as the plinth for a the Lion of Babylon, at the ancient archaeological site of Babylon, south of Baghdad, that was put in place during its renovation under Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein's rule on May 19, 2013. An American non-governmental organisation is attempting to restore the ancient city, that was once one of the seven wonders of the world, after it was damaged during the war in Iraq and by the construction of Saddam Hussien, to renew its place in the heritage of humanity. AFP PHOTO / ALI AL-SAADI.

NEW YORK.- A installation piece "Ringo" by artist Reina Kubota at the Art Students League of New York sculpture unveiling at Riverpark on June 19, 2013 in New York City. Rob Kim/Getty Images/AFP.

SOFIA.- A protester holds a banner, reading in Bulgarian "Resign," as he climbs on June 17, 2013 on a monument in front of the parliament in the center of Sofia. Thousands of angry Bulgarians took to the streets on June 17 in a fourth day of protests demanding the resignation of new Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski after a political blunder sparked public outrage. Less than three weeks after being named premier of a Socialist-backed technocrat government, Oresharski is facing calls to step down over his appointment of a controversial media mogul as national security chief. AFP PHOTO / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV.

MAINCY.- A woman wearing costume posses in Vaux-Le-Vicomte castle during "the great century day" on 16 June 2013 in Maincy. This event aims at recreating the atmosphere of the 17th century in the castel and its gardens designed by André Le Nôtre, King Louis XIV gardener, born 400 years ago . AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE.

BERLIN.- German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks below the monument for the victims of the 17 June, 1953 uprising during a 60th anniversary ceremony at Seestrasse cemetary in Berlin on June 17, 2013. In June 1953, Berlin construction workers went on strike against pay cuts which triggered widespread protests against the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The uprising was violently suppressed by the eastern German police (Volkspolizei) and Soviet Forces. Until the German reunification, the date of June 17 was established as a national holiday in Western Germany in commemoration of the 1953 rebellion in the East. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ODD ANDERSEN.

PRAGUE.- A model of new Shoa memorial by Czech artist Ales Vesely is seen at the exhibition 'Kaddish' in the old and idle railway station Bubny on June 18, 2013 in Prague. During WWII, Jewish death transports departed from Bubny station and carried almost 50,000 people to concentration camps, mainly Theresienstadt. AFP PHOTO / MICHAL CIZEK.