Photos of the Day: Angela Merkel and Baby Turtles

Aceh Jaya, Indonesia

Children release baby turtles on Aroen Meubanja beach. The release of the turtle is an effort to save and restore the endangered population

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Manila, the Philippines

Residents stand around after a fire gutted a shantytown in the city’s suburbs. According to arson investigators from the fire protection bureau, at least 100 families were left homeless

Photograph: Francis R Malasig/EPA

London, UK

People look at the Opening of Waterloo Bridge by John Constable, left, and Helvoetsluys by JMW Turner, which have been reunited at the Royal Academy for the first time since the pair clashed at the Summer Exhibition in 1832

Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock