Today in Pictures, June 17, 2016

"Pepper", a humanoid robot designed to care for patients in a Belgium hospital, and newly ordained monks taking photos during a ceremony of Upasampada, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. These and more from around the world in Today in Pictures.

Updated
Jun 17, 2016, 04:05 PM
Published
Jun 17, 2016, 03:10 PM
New recruit "Pepper" the robot, a humanoid robot designed to welcome and take care of visitors and patients, holds the hand of a new born baby at AZ Damiaan hospital in Ostend, Belgium on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Buddhist monks take pictures of newly ordained Buddhist monks during a ceremony of Upasampada, a Buddhist rite of higher ordination by which a novice becomes a monk, or bhikhu, at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Pope Francis caresses a young tiger during a meeting with the participants in the Jubilee of the World of Travelling Shows at the Paul VI audience hall in the Vatican on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
A firefighter battles flames from the Sherpa Fire in Santa Barbara, California, US in this handout photo taken and released to Reuters on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Pandemonia, the creation of an anonymous London-based artist, poses with a visitor at the show Unlimited of the international art show Art Basel, in Basel, Switzerland on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: EPA
A group of people pray next to crosses at a memorial site to honour the victims of the Orlando mass shooting near the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, USA on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: EPA
A docker holds a flare as he demonstrates with hundreds of others against low wages, collective layoffs and insecurity at the workplace in Lisbon on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
Boys holding weapons during a demonstration against the removal of the Saudi-led coalition from the United Nations annual child rights blacklist, outside the United Nations offices in Sanaa, Yemen on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
A fan is seen before the match between the Germany and Poland at the Euro 2016 in Stade de France, Saint-Denis near Paris, France on June 16, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman waits for food at the Bokitas free community soup kitchen in a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 10, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

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