Photo highlights of the day

Good sport: David Beckham with his children, Cruz and Romeo, get slimed onstage during Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports Awards in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

A piece of flight MH17 lies in the grass as a group of Ukrainian coal miners search the site near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine, where the Malaysian plane came down killing all 298 aboard. Follow events in our live blog. Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

A woman grieves for victims of the crash near the floral tributes placed at the the Dutch embassy in Moscow, Russia. More images in our gallery. Photograph: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA

Mud, glorious mud: a man plays in the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon South Korea. Photograph: Kim Hong-ji/Reuters

Did the storm wake you up last night? Lightning strikes over the tidal island of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall during a summer thunderstorm. Photograph: Lee Searle/Demotix/Corbis

The storm hasn't the stopped the temperatures reaching 30c today, so this giraffe at London Zoo cools off with a fruit ice block. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

Cute animal picture of the day comes courtesy of the Kuziomski Igliwiak Foundation care centre for hedgehogs in Krakow, Poland. They take care of sick and injured hedgehogs. Photograph: Bartosz Siedlik/AFP/Getty Images

Jana Witkowski, a lifeguard at the Leavenworth swimming pool in Washington, cleans ash and burned embers from the bottom of the pool that fell from the Chiwaukum forest fire. Photograph: Don Seabrook/AP

A Palestinian family who have fled their home seek shelter in a UN school in Khan Younis, central Gaza. Israel have launched a ground offensive and you can follow events in our live blog. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

A Palestinian boy holds his sister in the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The girl suffered shrapnel injuires after a tank fired at their home in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood of east Gaza this morning. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

Storm clouds still linger for Zach Johnson of the United States on the third hole during the second round of the 143rd Open Championship in Hoylake, England. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images

Super typhoon Rammasun has made landfall in Wenchang City in China's Hainan province today. Rammasun is expected to be the strongest typhoon to hit Hainan Province in 40 years. Photograph: Zhu Mao/Sipa Asia/ZUMA Press/Corbis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets ready for her close up during her annual summer press conference ahead of her holidays. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

The pack with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, passes a field with sunflowers during the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP