Image: Art exhibition for the 95th anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party

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Today in Pictures: June 30

China celebrates Mao, Times Square streaker, Milky Way in Slovakia and more of the best pictures of the day.

Image: Bugle Played At The Somme Battlefield Sounded At Centenary Service

Lance Sergeant Stuart Laing from the Welsh Guards rehearses the Last Post on a bugle that was sounded at the Battle of the Somme at Westminster Abbey in London.

— Jack Taylor / Getty Images

Image: US Customs and Border Protection officer Arrisia Sims sings the 'Star Spangled Banner' national anthem

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Arrisia Sims sings the 'Star Spangled Banner' national anthem during a press conference ahead of the Fourth of July weekend at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

— ERIK S. LESSER / EPA

Image: NYPD officers speak with a naked man atop the TKTS booth on Broadway at the north end of Times Square

New York Police Department officers speak with a naked man atop the TKTS booth on Broadway at the north end of Times Square in New York City.

— Rob Verger / Reuters

Image: A Sadhu prays before registering for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine

A Sadhu prays before registering for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine, at a base camp in Jammu, India.

— MUKESH GUPTA / Reuters

A visitor uses her phone to take a photo of artwork featuring Chinese former leader Mao Zedong. The piece is part of an exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing that celebrates the 95th anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party.

— WU HONG / EPA

Image: Spiral staircase at the Gottesaue castle

A woman walks down a spiral staircase at the Gottesaue castle in Karlsruhe, Germany.

— ULI DECK / EPA

Image: Elephant of Circus Busch on his daily walk in Berlin

Elephant Maja of Circus Busch walks with Circus ringmaster Hardy Scholl on the streets in Berlin.

— STEFANIE LOOS / Reuters

Image: Women pray during the funerals of Maryam Amiri, Karime Amiri, Zahra Amiri and Huda Amiri

Women pray during the funerals of Maryam Amiri, Karime Amiri, Zahra Amiri and Huda Amiri. They were killed two days prior by a suicide bombing and gun attack that targeted Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing 42 people.

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— OZAN KOSE / AFP - Getty Images

Henning Solberg of Norway drives his Ford Fiesta RS WRC during a shakedown of Rally Poland, Mikolajki, Poland.

— NIKOS MITSOURAS / EPA

A church silhouetted below a belt of the Milky Way at the Hungarian-Slovakian border village Gemersky Jablonec, or Gomoralmagy in Hungarian, in southern Slovakia.

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— PETER KOMKA / EPA

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