Photos of the Day: Water Jets and Wild Horses

Jerseydale, US

Firefighters work to contain a fire that has claimed the life of one firefighter and injured two others near Yosemite national park. The fire has almost doubled in size in three days

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Greenwich, UK

Curator Dr Sarah Moulden gives the Nautilus cup a final dust before it goes on display at Ranger’s House in Greenwich, London, home to the Wernher collection. The collection, which contains more than 700 works of fine and decorative art amassed by the diamond magnate Julius Wernher in the late 19th century, opens to the public for the first time after a re-presentation project

Photograph: Jim Holden/English Heritage/PA

Taipei, Taiwan

People posing on the Six Giant Rocks on Elephant Mountain

Photograph: Daniel Shih/AFP/Getty Images