Picture desk live: the day's best news images

Fancy seeing you here! A young man dressed as Spider-Man surprises a giraffe in the feeding area at Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, Germany, in a promotional stunt to mark the opening of the movie The Amazing Spider-Man a week ago in German cinemas Photograph: Emily Wabitsch/DPA/Press Association Images

People sit in a cage during a demonstration in support of Pussy Riot bandmembers detained by police at the Tagansky district court in Moscow Photograph: Karpov Sergei/ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis

Celebrations for US Independence Day are under way in … India. A boy gets his picture taken as he poses in a cutout of Uncle Sam at the American Center in New Delhi Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Surely the most uplifting picture of the day. An Indian Hindu holy man is carried down a trail during the traditional journey to the Amarnath cave, near Panjtarni in India. Thousands of pilgrims go each year to the remote Himalayan shrine of Amarnath to worship an icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP

A woman shelters with her child in a boat during heavy rains at a flooded village in Kurigram, Bangladesh. At least 100 people have died and hundreds of thousands are marooned as floods triggered by heavy rains spread across the country Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is photographed arriving at parliament today, where he is expected to be questioned by the Treasury select committee about the interbank interest rate-fixing that caused the bank to be fined £290m. How we wish we'd had this picture for this morning's front page, but he was keeping a low profile yesterday Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images

There is such a wide variety of collections on show during the haute couture fall-winter 2012-2013 season in Paris. This is a creation by On Aura Tout Vu, including that vital canine fashion accessory Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images

Franck Sorbier's design presentation is quite stunning but requires a handy projector to complete the effect Photograph: Thomas Padilla/AP

Lebanese designer Elie Saab's show is a glittering example of elegance Photograph: Stephane Reix/EPA

The Duchess of Cambridge feels the tension on Centre Court during the men's quarter-final tennis match between Roger Federer of Switzerland and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia at Wimbledon Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Members of the European parliament make their feelings known with 'Hello democracy, goodbye ACTA' placards as they vote on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Strasbourg Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images

Why did the pandas cross the road? To get to the photocall to mark the launch of Panda Awareness Week, which is being pioneered by China's Chengdu panda base, a breeding and research base for giant pandas Photograph: Alessandro Abbonizio/AFP/Getty Images

British physicist Peter Higgs was met with a standing ovation at a scientific seminar following the claim of the discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson, known popularly as the 'God particle'. Explanations of the discovery we have heard on our live blog include: 'It's like zoologists trying to determine if they've discovered a new species of butterfly by looking at a meadow through binoculars from 16 miles away' Photograph: Denis Balibouse/AP

Protesters in central Kiev got their own back on riot police, spraying them with teargas at a demonstration in front of the Ukrainian House cultural centre. Opposition activists have clashed with riot police during a protest against a controversial bill that would allow the use of Russian in official settings in Russian-speaking regions Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

A truck driver sleeps on the roof of a fuel tanker carrying supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan, parked with hundreds of others at a roadside in Karachi. Pakistan and the US have reached a deal to reopen land routes that Nato uses to supply troops in Afghanistan, ending a seven-month crisis that has complicated the US-led Afghan war effort Photograph: Athar Hussain/Reuters

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of female Russian punk band Pussy Riot, sits inside a defendant's cage in a Moscow court. Three members of the band were detained two months ago, after they climbed on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral and sang a song they called a Punk Prayer Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images

Alanna and Jared Jochim play in front of a rainbow after a heavy rainfall in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Their delight is all the more significant as the change in weather brings relief from the conditions that have hampered efforts to control wildfires devastating the area Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

Children queue up for a medical examination after being rescued from a sari embroidery factory in Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, Nepal. According to reports, 150 child labourers, found in squalid living and working conditions, were rescued from several embroidery factories in the area Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Performers in medieval costumes take part in the Ommegang procession in Brussels, Belgium. Ommegang is a traditional pageant to re-enact the entry of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V into Brussels in 1549 Photograph: Julien Warnand/EPA

Team Sky rider Mark Cavendish of Britain looks rather down in the mouth after a fall during the fourth stage of the Tour de France Photograph: Pool/Reuters