Pictures of the day: July 12, 2016

We look at 13 pictures of events from around the world

An airport firefighter's unit spray water in the national colours over the aircraft carrying Portugal's national football team members during a welcome at Lisbon airport. PHOTO: AFP

An Iraqi man holds a picture of victims of the Karrada suicide bomb attack at the site where the incident took place in Baghdad, Iraq. PHOTO: REUTERS

Solar Impulse2, a solar powered plane piloted by Swiss aviator Andre Boschberg, flies over the Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant in Seville, Spain after taking off towards Cairo, Egypt, from the San Pablo airport. PHOTO: REUTERS

People rest next to stacked sacks of onions at a wholesale vegetable market in New Delhi, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

A man and woman use their mobile phones as commuters walk past the columns of the Bank of England in the City of London. PHOTO: REUTERS

People standing on the edge of the crater while watching the eruption of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, Indonesia. PHOTO: REUTERS

Residents walk on a bridge after Typhoon Nepartak in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. PHOTO: REUTERS

The balloon of Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov is seen after it lifted off in his attempt to break the world record for a solo hot-air balloon flight around the globe near Perth, Australia. PHOTO: REUTERS

The sun sets over Manhattan, aligned exactly with the streets in a phenomenon known as "Manhattanhenge", in New York City. PHOTO: REUTERS

A boy holds a Union Jack flag in front of a bonfire burning in the Shankill Road area ahead of the Twelfth of July celebrations held by members of the Orange Order in Belfast, Northern Ireland. PHOTO: REUTERS

This file photo taken on September 16, 2010, shows the Mont-Blanc in the French Alps with, at right, the Mont Maudit and the Dome du Gouter. PHOTO: AFP

People walk along the Red Square with St Basil's Cathedral in the background in Moscow. PHOTO: AFP

The new multihull "Groupama Team France" is inaugurated on July 11, 2016 in Lorient, western France. PHOTO: AFP