Wednesday: The day in photos

Graduates of Cadet Military Lycee throw up their service caps during a graduation ceremony in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.  (Alexander Khudoteply / AFP / Getty Images)

Police officers remove activists of Greenpeace staging a protest blocking the entrance to the venue where the Federal Assn. of Energy and Water are holding a meeting in Berlin. The activists unloaded drums from a truck, one of which they claimed contained earth from near Chernobyl, Ukraine.  (Berthold Stadler / AFP / Getty Images)

Russia’s Maria Sharapova returns the ball to Argentina’s Gisela Dulko during their women’s singles, second-round match on the Centre Court at Wimbledon.  (Owen Humphreys / Associated Press)

Two ostrich chicks hatch out of their eggs at Mhou ostrich farm in Ruelzheim, Germany. The Mhou farm is the biggest ostrich breeding farm in Europe. From April to September, about 1,500 chicks hatch on the farm.  (Ronald Wittek / EPA)

A girl in a wedding dress attends the celebrations of the Orthodox feast Eniovden (Midsummer Day) in the town of Asenovgrad, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Every year the young girls from the town and neighboring villages gather to celebrate the holiday by wearing wedding dresses, according to tradition.  (Petar Petrov / Associated Press)

A child uses a bucket to push a sibling across the flooded courtyard of their house in the Adjouffou shanty area of Abidjan. The Ivory government intends to relocate about 10,000 people living in areas where floods and mudslides killed 21 people on June 12 after torrential rain. The Ivory economic capital and port is surrounded by slums at constant risk of mudslides.  (Kambou Sia / AFP / Getty Images)

Francis Roucou, second from right, captain of the Indian Ocean Explorer captured by Somali pirates in March 2009, is embraced by his family after he and his crew of six Seychelles nationals arrived back at the capital of Victoria 80 days after their vessel was captured. The seven crew members announced as released on Monday by Seychelles authorities were flown back home from Somalia via Kenya after the pirates declined to release their vessel, which is still anchored off the coast of central Somalia. A government representative denied having traded the seven for previously captured Somali pirates held on the island nation or even paid ransom.  (AFP / Getty Images)

A devotee, locally known as children of mud with their bodies covered in mud and donning banana leaves, attends a mass during a religious festival in Aliaga, north of Luzon. Hundreds of devotees marking the feast of St. John the Baptist attended the annual religious festival.  (Ted Aljibe / AFP / Getty Images)

Members of the Israeli dance and percussion group Sheketak perform onstage during a dress rehearsal in Berlin. The group’s show opens on the same day in the German capital.  (Felix Abraham / AFP / Getty Images)