This is a selection of photos that were taken today in order to keep you abreast of everything important that happened this day. Don’t miss this article, because it will give you a clue about the highlights of the day.

From smoke rings that bellow from a new sculpture by Studio Swine as it is unveiled at the Eden Project to pilgrims who gather around the statue of the Rocio Virgin during a Pentecostal procession, all these photos will leave you breathless.

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Cornwall, UK

Smoke rings bellow from a new sculpture by Studio Swine as it is unveiled at the Eden Project. Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers is a collaboration between Japanese architect Azusa Murakami and British artist Alexander Groves
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong

A child takes part in a parade during the Bun Festival, in which the Taoist God of the Sea, is worshipped and evil spirits are warded off by loud gongs and drums
Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

London, UK

A visitor is seen in the installation A Piece of Sky by Swiss architect Stephen Huerlemana at the launch of the Clerkenwell Design Week
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

Bangkok, Thailand

Photographers and journalists are blocked by policemen as they arrest protesters during a rally calling for a general election, on the fourth anniversary of the military coup
Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

Wiesbaden, Germany

Ocularist Jan Mueller-Uri blows an artificial eye in the workshop of F. Ad. Mueller Soehne, which has been making glass eyes since 1860
Photograph: Andreas Arnold/AFP/Getty Images

Berlin, Germany

Greenpeace activists take a walk through the streets of the Kreuzberg in an action to highlight vehicular pollution
Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images

Dhaka, Bangladesh

A man runs across a junction as the rains begin ahead of the monsoon season
Photograph: A.M. Ahad/AP

Damascus, Syria

A member of the Syrian government forces drives a motorbike down a destroyed street at the entrance of the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk
Photograph: Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images

Masaya, Nicaragua

A woman passes a barricade. The city, once a cradle of the Sandinista movement, is now a hotbed of resistance to President Daniel Ortega
Photograph: Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images

El Rocio, Spain

Pilgrims gather around the statue of the Rocio Virgin during a Pentecostal procession
Photograph: Europa Press/Getty Images