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