Today in photos (June 5)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

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Wed., June 5, 2013

A horse gallops around the fourth turn of the 1 1/2 mile track during a morning workout at Belmont Park, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. The Belmont Stakes horse race is Saturday.

Mark Lennihan Associated Press
A view from Radobyl hill shows a highway and an exit to the village Mlekojedy flooded by the swollen river Elbe near Litomerice, 70 kilometres (43 miles) Northwest of Prague, taken on Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Heavy rainfalls caused flooding in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Radek Petrasek Ctk
Young Indian children play in pond water of a temple to beat the heat in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Many parts of India are experiencing severe hot weather.

Biswaranjan Rout Associated Press
Two-month-old orphaned baby elephant Ajabu is given a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, as she is too young to do it herself, at an event to mark World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Trust founder Daphne Sheldrick said at the event, which was attended by U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec, that they are seeing an upsurge in orphaned elephants because of the poaching crisis occurring across Africa.

Ben Curtis Associated Press
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, June 5, 2013, on the third day of his court martial. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison.

Patrick Semansky Associated Press
A child is carried by an adult in Khanaung Chaung Wa village, southeast of Yangon Myanmar, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

Gemunu Amarasinghe Associated Press