Photo highlights of the day

An election commission worker stands among ballot boxes to be taken to a counting centre at a warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images

Bomb disposal experts search near the remains of a car after a car bomb exploded outside a Bank of Greece building in central Athens, causing some damage but no injuries. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

A team member from Van Amsterdam University checks a robot at a match against Leipzig University during the RoboCup Iran Open 2014 in Tehran. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images

A woman carrying her baby stands in front a barricade outside the regional state administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images

Bottles stand on a table in an abandoned cafe in the United Nations buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

Men pose in a cistern in an abandoned building occupied by squatters, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thousands of people have laid claim to a compound of abandoned office buildings owned by the private telecommunications company Oi. Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP

Different types of bullets after impact are displayed on a flak jacket at a security expo in Mexico City. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

Artist Gerry Judah's first world war memorial installation sculptures go on show in the nave of St Paul's Cathedral in London. The two white cruciform sculptures, each over six metres high, have been installed to commemorate the 2014 centenary of the beginning of the great war. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

A riot policeman hugs an activist during the National Day of Remembrance and Solidarity with Victims of the Armed Conflict, in Bogota, Colombia. Photograph: Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images

A tourist walks along a branch of a Yoshino cherry tree near the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Policemen and traders take part in prayers for the victims of a bomb blast at a fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images

Aspiring politician Gaurav Shamra climbs a building dressed as Spider-Man to canvas voters at their windows in Mumbai, India. Photograph: Sumesh Rajan/Barcroft India

Male mallard ducks on the lake in Dublin's Phoenix park. Photograph: Art Widak/Demotix/Corbis

A worker takes a break in Beijing, China. Photograph: Andy Wong/AP

A spectator in the crowd photobombs Andrew Garfield as he poses for the press pack at the world premiere of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 screened at The Odeon, Leicester Square, London. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

Here's one with an aah factor, Jimmel, an owl-faced monkey, protects her one-month old baby at the zoo in Antwerp. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

The lengths some people go to get in the newspapers.... She Ping, a 34 year-old beekeeper from Chongqing, China, covered himself a swarm of bees numbering more than 460,000 bees and weighing 45.65kg within 40 minutes, a local newspaper reported. See our gallery for more pictures. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The sun sets of the ancient ruins of Chersonesus Taurica (Khersones Tavrichesky) National Conservancy Area, in the Black Sea resort of Sevastopol, Crimea. Photograph: ITAR-TASS/Barcroft Media

Living amongst old and wrecked airplanes, an internally displaced woman carries her child in a camp for internally displaced people at Bangui International Airport, Central African Republic. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters