Thursday: The day in photos

Flowers are placed in front of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where a security guard was killed Wednesday in Washington, D,C. An FBI official said the shooter had been preliminarily identified as James W. von Brunn, an 88-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist and Holocaust denier, who allegedly walked into the museum with a rifle and shot a security guard, who later died.  (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

A girl plays in an art furniture installation exhibition titled “Phantasy Landscape” by designer and architect Verner Panton of Denmark in the National Museum in Singapore. More than 100 of Panton’s chairs, lamps, textiles and sculptures are on display in the museum.  (How Hwee Young / EPA)

Window cleaners ascend from ropes as they clean the glass facade of the Sage Music Centre in Gateshead, Newcastle, England.  (Owen Humphreys / Associated Press)

Gay couples pose for photographers a day before their planned wedding in Tel Aviv, Israel. The yearly Gay Pride march in Tel Aviv is scheduled for Friday. The march will end with what is being called Israel’s first public, gay wedding ceremony.  (Ariel Schalit / Associated Press)

Israeli actors wearing illuminated period costumes from the early 1900s dance by the Old City walls of Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate during the Jerusalem Festival of Lights. The festival brings artistic lighting designers from around the world to illuminate the Jerusalem cityscape.  (Yossi Zamir / EPA)

A group of students tries to overcome a barrier, using smoke bombs and red paint, during a protest against the visit of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi as the first official cars arrive at Rome’s La Sapienza university. Kadafi had arrived the previous day for a historic three-day visit to Italy.  (Alessandro Di Meo / EPA)

A visitor views hydrangeas displayed at Hakusan Shrine in Tokyo. The hydrangea is traditionally a feature of the rainy season in Japan.  (Dai Kurokawa / EPA)

A Hindu holy man from the southern state of Tamil Nadu arrives with his monkeys for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage in Jammu, India. The pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled to begin on June 15.  (Channi Anand / Associated Press)

The yacht Puma Ocean Racing, skippered by Ken Read of the United States, finishes second on leg 8 from Galway, Ireland, to Marstrand, Sweden. Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles and visiting 11 ports over nine months, the Volvo Ocean Race is the world’s premier ocean yacht race for professional racing crews.  (Rick Tomlinson / EPA)