AWESOME photographs of the month: June

Some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of June

Above Image: A participant runs in high-heels as she competes in the Stiletto Run in Bucharest June 14. The annual 50 metres race requires participants to wear high-heels that are at least 7cm tall.

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Belarussian MiG-29 jet fighters take part in a rehearsal for a military parade in Minsk June 26, 2014. Belarus marked the 70th anniversary of the country's liberation from the Nazis on July 3.

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A member of the Thunderbolt Craziness band wearing a metal suit balances a soccer ball on his head as electricity is discharged from Tesla coils during a performance to celebrate the 2014 Brazil World Cup, in Changle, Fujian province June 12, 2014. The band specialises in producing electric arcs from Tesla coils that have been charged with one million volts of electricity.

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Festival goers splash through a muddy puddle at Worthy Farm in Somerset, on the third day of the Glastonbury music festival June 27, 2014.

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A young Palestinian crawls under an obstacle during a military-style graduation ceremony at Fajer Al-Entesar (dawn of victory) summer camp, organised by the Hamas movement, in Gaza City June 19. Hamas stages dozens of military-style summer camps for young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to prepare them to "confront any possible Israeli attack", organisers said.

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A relative of Palestinian member of Hamas' armed wing Ibraheem al-Arqan holds a weapon as others mourn during his funeral in Gaza City June 21, 2014. Hamas' armed wing in Gaza said at least six members of its group, one of them al-Arqan, were killed in the collapse of a tunnel the group had dug close to the border with Israel to infiltrate the Jewish state.

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Flight attendants wearing Brazil soccer team jerseys prepare to serve the passengers on an airplane travelling from Kunming to Hangzhou June 23, 2014. A Chinese airline company renovated the cabin of one of its flights then dressed the flight attendants with soccer jerseys as a way to celebrate the 2014 Brazil World Cup and hoping to attract more customers, local media reported.

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A female honour guard has lipstick applied as they prepare for an official welcoming ceremony for Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 11, 2014.

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A man washes his face using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station on a hot summer day in Allahabad on June 9, 2014.

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US President Barack Obama hugs UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma as team star Stefanie Dolson (left) falls off the stage in the background during a ceremony honoring the NCAA basketball champion University of Connecticut Huskies men's and women's basketball teams in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 9. Dolson was unhurt in the fall.

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Locals play with dirt before a dip to cool off in a nearby canal on a hot day in Lahore on June 8, 2014.

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A Free Syrian Army sniper sits in a shooting position in Old Aleppo June 7

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Sikhs wield swords during their clash inside the complex of the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple, in Amritsar on June 6, 2014. Sikhs wielding swords clashed inside the compound of their religion's holiest shrine during the 30th anniversary of a controversial raid by Indian security forces that flushed out separatist militants holed up in the temple.

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A Palestinian demonstrator falls next to Israeli border policemen after she was detained during a protest near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City June 5, 2014. Some 50 protesters took part in the demonstration marking the 47th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Golan Heights.

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Men work on repairs on the Christ the Redeemer statue with the Maracana stadium in the background, in Rio de Janeiro June 27

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An anti-government protester, covers himself with a shield during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas June 4, 2014. Rights groups and opponents of President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government say National Guard troops used excessive force to quell three months of near-daily protests that began in February. Officials, though, insist that security forces showed great restraint in the face of hooded protesters hurling rocks and gasoline bombs, and sometimes including gunmen. At least 42 people died and nearly 900 were hurt in the violence around the protests, with victims on both sides.

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Participants perform stunts in front of St Isaac's Cathedral during a festival of youth street culture in St Petersburg, Russia on June 28, 2014.

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An Indian peafowl spreads its tail feathers at a zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia June 5, 2014.

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A man holds an injured child at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the al-Kalaseh neighbourhood in Aleppo June 3

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A man prays for good weather as he walks in the rain before presidential candidate Joko Widodo arrives at a campaign rally in Bandung, West Java, June 11. 

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Volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh take part in a drill during a training camp in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh June 7

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Two ducks cross the Mall in front of members of the guards and household cavalry during pageantry for the State Opening of Parliament in central London June 4, 2014.

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A Seleka fighter adjusts a broken guitar in a village between Bambari and Grimari in Central African Region.

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A pro-Russian rebel from the Vostok Battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in Donetsk, Ukraine.

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Elisa Garcia, 28, poses for a photo, wearing a costume from the era of 18th century painter Francisco Goya, while a horse-drawn carriage passes along the "Puente Nuevo" (New Bridge) during the second edition of "Ronda Romantica" (Romantic Ronda) in Ronda, near Malaga, southern Spain.

Ronda Romantica is a cultural, historical and tourist event during the three days where thousands of people of Ronda and about fifty towns around of "Serrania de Ronda" (Ronda Mountain Ranges), dressed in traditional costumes, recreate the era of the bandits, drovers and romantic travellers in the nineteenth century.

They also recreate the war of Spanish Independence which started in 1808 with the invasion by French Napoleonic troops and lasted until 1814, when the French were defeated and expelled from the country. Picture taken May 31, 2014.

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Participants are covered in paint as they take part in the Color Run in London

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A giant statue of US actress Marilyn Monroe is seen at the dump site of a garbage collecting company in Guigang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, June 18.

The eight-metre-tall stainless steel statue, which weighs about eight tons, was made by several Chinese artists for over two years, based on the famous scene from her movie The Seven Year Itch.

The statue was transported to the garbage collecting company early this week for unknown reasons after being showed outside a business centre in the city for only 6 months, local media reported. 

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Swiss acrobat Freddy Nock balances on a cableway over a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Park in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, June 28, 2014. Nock attempted to walk along the 743 metre long cableway without protection but gave up after 420 metres, for fear of skidding due to the mountain's steep inclination, according to local media. 

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A diver swims near the bow of the wreck of the Baron Gautsch ship, near the Adriatic town of Rovinj June 22.

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Baron Gautsch, an Austro-Hungarian steamboat which sank in the northern Croatian Adriatic sea, will be marked on August 13, 2014.

The ship, originally used to service passenger lines, had been leased by the Austro-Hungarian Army following the July 1914 outbreak of World War One to transport troops, only to run into a friendly minefield off the Brijuni islands less than a month later. Estimates say between 240 and 390 people perished in the sinking, making it one of the biggest losses of life in World War One.

Today the shipwreck lies at a depth of 40 metres off the coast of Rovinj and is said to be the most popular site for divers in the Adriatic.

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A racegoer checks her mobile device in the Royal Enclosure on the second day of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival -- the most glamorous event in London's sporting calendar -- at Ascot, southern England June 18

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