Photo highlights of the day

Today’s cute animal picture is of Chester Zoo’s latest arrival, Zathras, the baby tapir. Photograph: Steve Rawlins/ChesterZoo/PA

Seen from space: Typhoon Halong moves towards southern Japan as viewed from NASA’s International Space Station 225 miles above earth. Photograph: NASA/Rex Features

A traditional Kagura, or a scared dance is performed in Tokyo. Kagura dances have been performed for Shinto gods for more than 1000 years in Japan. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Dark clouds gather over high-rise buildings in Kowloon and Hong Kong island, China. Photograph: Jerome Favre/EPA

Feline therapy: elderly women stroke Mogli the cat during his weekly visit to the Lutherstift care facility in Berlin, Germany. Mogli’s owner says the weekly visits are vital therapy and spark the curiosity, communication and delight of the residents. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

People enjoy ‘Spectra’, an art installation by Ryoji Ikeda as it lights the night sky in London. The artwork commemorates the centenary of Britain’s entry into the First world war is on till Monday. Photograph: Joseph Okpako/Getty Images

Khmer Rouge survivors Soum Rithy and Chum Mey embrace each other after verdicts were announced at the war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Khmer Rouge ended, two top leaders of the former regime were sentenced to life in prison. Photograph: Heng Sinith/AP

What’s the best way to transport a rhino? Upside down by helicopter it seems. The animal was air lifted to a new 34,000 hectare home in Kwa Zulu Natal, as part of the Black Rhino Range Expansion Project in South Africa. Photograph: Green Renaissance/Barcroft Media

Oscar Pistorius outside Pretoria High Court in South Africa, where the closing arguments for his trial will begin today. Pistorius stands accused of the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on 14 February 2014. Photograph: Gallo Images/Rex Features

Dutch DJ Martin Garrix on stage on the first day of Sudoeste Festival in Odemira, Portugal. Photograph: Tiago Canhoto/EPA

The largest kite in the world, Hohhot, is flown in Inner Mongolia, China. The octopus shaped kite weighs around 200kg and covers an area of 1,500 square meters on the ground. Photograph: Imaginechina/Rex Features

Tony Abbott, prime minister of Australia talks during a memorial service for the victims of flight MH17 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia. The Australian government declared today as a national day of mourning. Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images

Dancers from the Australian Ballet are pictured inside an empty Bondi Icebergs oceanside pool in Sydney. Just add water for synchronised swimming? Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Buddhist monks clean the 15m tall Great Buddha at the Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan. Each year about 100 Buddhist monks prepare the statue for the festival of ‘Obon’, which starts on 15 August, when Japanese Buddhists honour the spirits of ancestors. Photograph: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images

In a makeshift dugout, Iraqi security forces defend an area north of their country’s capital city as militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), move south across Iraq. Photograph: Reuters

Sir John Everett Millais’ Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia goes back on display at Tate Britain after an international tour that included US, Russia, Japan and Italy. Photograph: Sarah Lee for The Guardian

A Palestinian man takes advantage of the temporary ceasefire with Israel to move his sheep, walking them through the debris of destroyed buildings in the town of Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Photograph: Ahmed Hjazy/Pacific/Barcroft

Trouble flares up once again in the Maidan, Kiev as self-defence activists clash with fighters of Kiev-1 volunteer battalion as Kiev’s municipal services tried to remove tents from the city’s central Independence Square. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

Watch out, cybermen about at the Cardiff premiere of Doctor Who. Photograph: Adam Gasson/Getty Images