Picture desk live: the day's best news images

Children cool off by taking a shower with water leaking from a lorry belonging to the Bangladeshi water and sewerage authority in the outskirts of Dhaka. Water supply to residents in the city has dropped drastically in the last one month as a result of power cuts and the summer heat, local media reported Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas is mobbed by fans after they invaded the pitch at the end of a training session in Schruns, Austria Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images

Fred the ferret enjoys a meal during a news conference in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The animal is due to predict results from the Euro 2012 football tournament. Fred takes over from Paul the octopus who correctly predicted the outcome of eight matches in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa Photograph: Reuters

A teacher falls backwards from higher ground as students get ready to catch her during a pressure-releasing exercise before exams at a high school in Chongqing, China Photograph: Shi Tou/Reuters

A man places roses at the grave of a soldier at Arlington national cemetery in Virginia on Memorial Day Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP

A protester who interrupted Tony Blair at the Leveson inquiry is marched away from the Royal Courts of Justice by police officers. The man burst into court 73 and accused Tony Blair of war crimes over his involvement in the Iraq war Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA

People injured in an explosion in central Nairobi have their injuries tended. The blast ripped through a small shopping complex, leaving at least 20 people wounded. Kenya has recently been hit by a wave of grenade attacks the police have repeatedly blamed on Somalia's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab insurgents or its supporters Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

In this heartbreaking photograph a woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding centre at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sana'a, Yemen. Yemen is facing a food crisis of catastrophic proportions, with almost half the population going hungry and a third of children in some areas severely malnourished, aid agencies have warned Photograph: Mohamed Al-sayaghi/Reuters

How better to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee than to build a giant sand sculpture in Weston-super-Mare? Artist Nicola Wood is taking part in the sand sculpture festival that uses 4,000 tonnes of Weston beach sand and runs throughout the summer Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

You'd need a strong stomach for this restaurant located 50 metres above the ground. The new Dinner in the Sky restaurant allows diners to enjoy their meal on a dining table attached to a crane, offering spectacular views of Prague Photograph: Getty Images

Tony Blair isn't taking part in a catalogue fashion shoot – he's arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry. Blair appeared upbeat, even giving waiting photographers a wave Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Demonstrators weren't so keen to see him as they waited outside the high court, reminding him of some of his previous statements Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

People gather at a mass burial for the victims killed in an artillery barrage by Syrian forces in Houla. United Nations observers in Syria have confirmed that at least 108 people, including many children, were killed Photograph: Reuters

Briton Lindsay Sandiford, who is being held in Bali for allegedly smuggling cocaine, hides her face as she sits next blocks of the drug at a customs office in Denpasar. Indonesian customs officials say Sandiford was arrested after disembarking from a flight from Bangkok with 4.7kg of cocaine in a suitcase Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA

Who's looking at whom? A gorilla has a peek at the schoolboys visiting him at the Taipei zoo in Taiwan Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

Fireworks explode over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, California, which celebrates its 75th anniversary today. The 1.7-mile steel suspension bridge, one of the modern wonders of the world, opened to traffic on 27 May 1937 Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Duke the horse is airlifted to dry land after getting trapped in mud for several hours at the Hansen Dam aquatic centre in California. It took 40 firefighters and a helicopter to free Duke, who escaped with only minor injuries and is reported to be fine now Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features