Photos of the Day: The US Embassy and Rose Petals

Essex, UK

Liberal Democrat former deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg, Conservative ex-education secretary Nicky Morgan and Labour former foreign secretary David Miliband launch a cross-party Brexit campaign at a rice mill in Rainham
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Baghdad, Iraq

Followers of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr celebrate in Tahrir Square. Iraq’s electoral commission has said Sadr is the front runner in national elections with official results in from just over half of the country’s provinces
Photograph: Hadi Mizban/AP