Photo highlights of the day

A member of staff poses for photographers with a miniature James Bond DB5 presented to Britain's Prince Andrew by the Aston Martin company in 1965, at Buckingham Palace in central London, during a preview for the forthcoming exhibition exploring 250 years of royal childhood.

A miniature James Bond DB5 presented to Prince Andrew by the Aston Martin company in 1965, at Buckingham Palace, during a preview for the forthcoming exhibition exploring 250 years of royal childhood. Have a look at our gallery here. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

Costume designer and viral marketer Chad Evett (R) and members of his family are dressed as the Mad Hatter outside the San Diego Convention Center on the first day of the 45th annual Comic-Con, in San Diego, California. The four-day pop culture extravaganza celebrates film, TV, video games, comic books, costumes and other popular arts.

Costume designer and viral marketer Chad Evett (right) and members of his family are dressed as the Mad Hatter outside the San Diego Convention Center on the first day of the 45th annual Comic-Con, in San Diego, California. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

A child rests on a hammock along a street in Manila. Optimism is soaring that the Philippines is finally becoming an Asian tiger economy, but critics caution a tiny elite that has long dominated is amassing most of the new wealth while the poor miss out.

String-bagged: A child rests in a hammock on a street in Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

Riders warm-up ahead of the morning session races in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

An Orthodox Jew takes part in a protest with Palestinian supporters in New York, demanding the end of the war by Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Photograph: VIEW press/Demotix/Corbis

Young Mongolians with their pets during the annual Mongolian Nadaam Festival in Chifeng, Mongolia. The festival features various Mongolian ethnic groups, nomads and wrestlers in traditional attire. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media

Members of Vila Franca forcados group perform during a bullfight at Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon. Forcados are traditional Portuguese bullfighters who catch bulls with their bare hands.

A bullfight at Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon featuring members of Vila Franca forcados. Forcados are traditional Portuguese bullfighters who catch bulls with their bare hands. Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters

A customer plays with a cat as she drinks a coffee at Cat Cafe Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Cat Cafe Melbourne is Australias first cat cafe and it has several cats from rescue shelters which live at the premises. Patrons can watch and play with the cats while enjoying a coffee.

A customer plays with a cat at the Cat Cafe Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Cat Cafe Melbourne is Australias first cat cafe and it has several cats from rescue shelters which live at the premises. Patrons can watch and play with the cats while enjoying a coffee. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Fireworks explode over an ancient cathedral during celebrations for St. James' day in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain.

Fireworks explode over the ancient cathedral during celebrations for St. James' day in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain. Photograph: Miguel Vidal/Reuters

Patricia Bezzoubenko of Canada produces a gold medal performance in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Central American immigrants await transportation to a US Border Patrol processing centre after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas. Thousands of immigrants, many of them families or unaccompanied minors, have crossed illegally into the US this year causing a humanitarian crisis on the US/Mexico border. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

Dutch and Australian investigators examine pieces of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the village of Rassipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP