Photos of the Day: A Rocket Booster and a Wreck

New York, US

People tour the inside ‘The Vessel,’ a large public art sculpture made up of 155 flights of stairs, during the grand opening of the The Hudson Yards development, a residential, commercial, and retail space in Manhattan.

Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

 

Sinjar district , Iraq

Yazidis take part in a ceremony during the exhumation of a mass-grave of hundreds of people killed by Islamic State militants in the northern Iraqi village of Kojo.

Photograph: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP/Getty Images

 

New York , US

A long-missing tomahawk peace pipe which George Washington gave to the Seneca Indian leader Cornplanter in the late 18th century has been reunited with the tribe after an anonymous collector returned the artifact.

Photograph: Philip J Pantano/AP