Photo highlights of the day

Students’ painted faces on the eve of India’s Independence Day in Mumbai today. Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

The French synchronised swim team compete in the European swimming championships in Berlin. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images

A girl with a painted face watches a marriage ceremony at a UN centre for Palestinian refugees at Al-Shati Camp, Beit Lahia during a further ceasefire in Gaza. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

High tide: people scramble out of the way to avoid a high wave from Qiantang River in Hangzhou, China. Photograph: Xu Kangping/EPA

Wash out: the after effects of the huge wave. Photograph: Imagine China/Rex Features

A woman walks under an artificial waterfall outside the Oceanarium in Lisbon, Portugal. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP

Earth and dust spills after and earthquake of 5.1 degrees in Catequilla, Ecuador. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

Hands up: a community yoga class in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters

Ceelo Green performs during the Beer Fest in Belgrade. Photograph: Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images

Fire crews view the Lodge Fire, started by lightning strikes on 30 July in California. Photograph: Zuma/Rex Features

Police line the roads after another night of unrest in Ferguson, St. Louis. Demonstrations have been taking to the streets after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown on Saturday. Photograph: Sipa USA/Rex Features

A girl drags her goat home through a main road on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

A flooded road in Islip, New York after more than a foot of rain hit parts of Long Island on Wednesday. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters