Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Hundreds of yoga aficionados take part in a mass session at sunrise on the famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, a day after International Yoga Day.
Xichang (China) (AFP) – A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France lifted off from a space base in Xichang, in southwestern China. The launch took place around 3:00pm (0700 GMT). The satellite, dubbed the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), will seek out gamma-ray bursts, powerful cosmic explosions that offer clues about the history of the universe. IMAGES
Paris (AFP) – Robert Pattinson, Demi Moore… A host of celebrities turned out for the Dior men’s spring-summer 2025 collection show at Paris Fashion Week.
Diyarbakir (Turkey) (AFP) – Veterinarians treat injured animals after hundreds perished in a blaze that roared across the dry landscape, sending flames into the night sky and sweeping through several villages in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
Stonehenge (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge, the renowned prehistoric UNESCO world heritage site in southwest England, to celebrate the northern hemisphere’s summer solstice at dawn on 21 June 2024. The Neolithic monument, which is thought to have been erected around 2,500 BC, aligns with the rising sun on the morning of the summer solstice, which has drawn revellers to celebrate since prehistoric times.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) – In the desert of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, near the US border, migrants are risking their lives attempting the desert crossing to the United States in extreme temperatures. After the body of a migrant was recovered by Mexican civil protection officials, authorities are cautioning migrants to avoid the perilous journey. At a Catholic church community kitchen for US-bound migrants Venezuelan Bilmari Karin recounts her journey: “It’s a lot. A lot of suffocating heat, there’s the sand, you go through a lot of things in the desert.”
Pyongyang (AFP) – From a lavish welcome ceremony to feeding horses and driving limos, these are just a few of the highlights of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent trip to North Korea, during which the two leaders signed a mutual defence pact which has been widely condemned.
Srinagar (India) (AFP) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga alongside other participants as part of a 10th International Yoga Day event in Srinagar, India. Modi is in the disputed region of Kashmir to inaugurate development projects.
Vienna (AFP) – Former governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger opens the Austrian World Summit, an environmental summit held in Vienna. Schwarzenegger, who is also the founder of the conference, told attendees that time was running out to save the world.
Straddle a wooden stick decorated with a pretend, but laboriously decorated, horse’s head and off you go as if you were riding a real horse. Hobby horsing is an unofficial sport but one that is taken very seriously by thousands of enthusiasts around the world.
Acapulco (Mexico) (AFP) – Mexican army infantry soldiers aboard military trucks patrol the streets in the tourist port city of Acapulco, in Mexico’s Guerrero state, during a security operation in the face of a growing wave of violence. IMAGES
San Bernardo (Chile) (AFP) – A crane lifts one of the two trains that collided in the commune of San Bernardo on the outskirts of Chile’s capital, as railway company reported that two people were killed and several injured. IMAGES
