Photos of the Day: A Fire Performance and Horse Racing
California, US
A mountain lion stuck in a tree outside a home in the City of Hesperia. The animal was perched 50 feet up when wildlife personnel tranquilized the big cat and firefighters then lowered it to the ground using a rescue harness.
Photograph: Rick Fischer/AP
Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
People watch the targeted detonation of the Gustav Knepper coal-fired power station
Photograph: Marcel Kusch/AFP/Getty Images
St Moritz, Switzerland
Horses race during the GP Moyglare Stud flat race at the White Turf horse racing event
Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile via Getty Images