Photo highlights of the day

This is the scene in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, early this morning following multiple explosions from an underground gas leak last night. Several gas explosions ripped through Taiwan’s second-largest city, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets. Photograph: AP

Here a fire engine lies overturned in a crater caused by the explosions. Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

As another late afternoon cold front passes over the St.Kilda foreshore in Melbourne, Australia, kite Surfers make most of the conditions. Photograph: Michael Dodge/Getty Images

A massive jam disrupts rush-hour traffic into Singapore as bus drivers staged a strike this morning. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

Sunrise over Gaza City as a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced. Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Corbis

Palestinians return to the heavily bombed Gaza City neighbourhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, but the three-day Gaza cease-fire that began this morning has quickly unraveled. Photograph: Dusan Vranic/AP

Ah bliss: a child lies in a cooling pool of water in central Seoul. South Korea’s state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul for the first time this year, the daytime high is expected to stay above 35C. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

Looking more like a river than a road, Indian commuters make their way along a flooded street after a heavy downpour in Amritsar. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

My what big teeth you have! A Flying fox hangs from a tree in Baden Wurttemberg zoo, Germany. Photograph: Action Press/Rex

A man tends a sarcophagus in the shape of a buffalo during a Balinese Hindu mass cremation in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. More than 100 corpses were cremated in the ceremony known as Ngaben Masal. Taking place every 4 years in Singakerta Village, it is an important ceremony for Balinese Hindu people. Photograph: Agung Parameswara/Getty Images

A Chelsea Pensioner walks amid ceramic red poppies in the moat at the Tower of London. The moat is slowly turning red as some 888,246 ceramic poppies are planted in memory of the British and Commonwealth dead from World War I. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

It’s a tense day for traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Following a huge sell off yesterday, the Dow opened down over 20 points in morning trading. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Gold medal-tastic, Claudia Fragapane of England competes during the Women’s Floor Final at Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won four gold medals. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Long shadows are cast as athletes compete in the Men’s 10,000 metres final at Hampden Park during day nine of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images