Best Photos of the Day

NEW YORK.- "Tilted Column", a sculpture by artist Albert Paley, part of "Paley on Park Avenue" an exhibition of 13 new sculptures seen July 1, 2013 mounted on the median on Park Avenue in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA.

SANTA MONICA.- Two men build a turtle sand sculpture at Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, California, June 30, 2011, as crowds escape the heat wave gripping the southwest US. AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN ALCORN.

KIEV.- A British pilot of Soviet fighter Yak-3,reacts after landing at the Aviation Museum in Kiev, on July 1, 2013. Members of the British aircraft aviation club "Air Squadron" part in the Festival of Retro Planes in the Ukrainian capitall. 27 aircraft, one of the best Soviet fighters of WWII Yak-3, the best US fighter of the same period P-51D «Mustang', training aircraft of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain DH-82 "Tiger Moth 'educational combat aircraft-Soviet Yakovlev Yak-11, passenger biplane DH-84 "Dragon" and the other aircraft will be demonstrated for public during the next four days. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY.

DAR ES SALAAM.- US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) and Tanzanian First Lady Mama Salma Kikwete shake hands with a young girl after laying flowers at a memorial to those killed in the 1998 US embassy bombing during a ceremony at the National Museum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on July 1, 2013. AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON.

LAUSANNE.- The statue of Lady Justice is seen without a sword in her right hand on July 1, 2013 in the centre of Lausanne. For the third time in four years, the sword of the statue of Lady Justice, which overlooks the fountain Palud facing the Town Hall of Lausanne, has disappeared, reports the local daily "24 Heures". The statue of a woman armed with a sword and a balance is a copy of an original, made in 1535. The thieves had stolen for the first time in 2009 the steel sword made by a local blacksmith. A copy in aluminum was later stolen in 2011, and another copy in recent days despite a CCTV recently installed on the facade of the town hall. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI.

NEW YORK.- People walk past the Alma Mater statue on the Columbia University campus on July 1, 2013 in New York City. An interest rate hike kicks in today for student loans, an increase for 7 million students. Congress left town at the end of last week failing to prevent rates on new Stafford student loans increasing from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP.

ALLAHABAD.- A giant statue of Hindu god Lord Shiva is partially submerged in floodwaters near the Ganges river as the water level of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers rises in Allahabad on July 1, 2013. Construction along river banks will be banned in the devastated north Indian state of Uttarakhand amid concerns unchecked development fuelled June's flash floods and landslides that killed thousands, the state's top official said July 1. AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA.

TROYES.- A visitor looks at a stained-glass window on July 1, 2013 during the permanent exhibition at "La Cité du Vitrail" (stained-glass center) at the Hotel-Dieu-le Comte in Troyes, in the French eastern department of Aube, highlighting a medieval heritage which gathers one of France's most valuable collections of ancient stained-glass windows, mainly dated from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. AFP PHOTO FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI.

BAYREUTH.- A first color pattern can be seen on some sculptures of German artist Ottmar Hoerl's new installation, consisting of 500 sculptures of German composer Richard Wagner, on July 1, 2013 in Bayreuth, southern Germany. The 500 figures are scheduled to be installed from July 23 to August 28, 2013 in the center of Bayreuth and in the festival park of the famous Bayreuth music festival. This year's festival will open on July 25, 2013 with the staging of "The Flying Dutchman". AFP PHOTO / DPA / DAVID EBENER.

ROME.- This file picture taken on May 2, 2013 in Rome shows a couple chating outside Colosseum during a preview of the night tour "The moon over the colosseum". Italy's culture minister assured UNESCO on June 30, 2013 that efforts were being made to restore the long-neglected Roman city of Pompeii, after the United Nations organisation urged the country to speed up repairs. Long-delayed repairs to the 2,000-year-old Colosseum in a project funded by Italian billionaire Diego Della Valle to save the crumbling monument didn't start so far. AFP PHOTO / FILES / GABRIEL BOUYS.