Photo highlights of the day

Musicians get ready for the opening concert of the Berlioz music Festival inside the Girodon old factory in Saint-Simeon-de-Bressieux near La Cote-Saint-Andre, eastern France. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images

National Guard watch from a small hill top a couple blocks away as demonstrators protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Photograph: Larry W. Smith/EPA

Tattoo artists from around the world convene for the 2nd Hong Kong Tattoo Convention. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images

An eight week old leopard cub looks out from its basket at Tierpark zoo in Berlin. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Daniel Ricciardo of Australia sits in his car in the garage before the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty Images

American singer Kelis performs live on stage during a concert at C-Club in Berlin. Photograph: Stefan Hoederath/Redferns via Getty Images

Cirque Du Soleil rehearse Totem at Alexandra Park in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty Images

Children dance beneath fireworks during the Festa Major de Gracia in Barcelona. Photograph: Matthias Oesterle/Demotix/Corbis

A slum resident looks out on the second day of the government’s Ebola quarantine on their area of Monrovia, Liberia. See more images here. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

Jiang Changgen welds at his house in Nanchang, China. Jiang is a helicopter enthusiast who has been working on a homemade helicopter for 2 years. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media

People watch a plane land near Songshan Airport in Taiwan. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media

French artist Clement Briend’s light installation titled Divine Trees, where images of divine figures from Asian cultures are projected on trees in Singapore. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters