Photos of the Day: A Mercury Capsule and Canine Stars

Alabama, USA

A visitor tries her hand at the controls of a Mercury capsule at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, where the tourism industry is rooted in the space programme.

Photograph: Vasha Hunt/AP

Hasankeyf, Turkey

The Artuklu Hamamı, a centuries-old bath house weighing 1,600 tonnes, trundles along atop a wheeled platform to a new location to avoid being engulfed by floodwaters from a controversial dam project.

Photograph: Ilyas Akengin/AFP/Getty Images

California, USA

Some of the canine stars of the film Dog Days attend the world premiere in Los Angeles.

Photograph: Eric Charbonneau/Rex/Shutterstock