August 01, 2013
1 Doctors evacuate a baby from a hospital when a fire breaks out in the center of Diyarbakir, Turkey.
2 Palestinian protesters run as Israeli border policemen fire a stun grenade during a demonstration to show solidarity with Bedouin citizens, near the West Bank village of Hizma, south-east of Ramallah. Some 60 protesters demonstrated against an Israeli cabinet plan to relocate some 30,000 Bedouin citizens who live in unrecognized villages in Israel's southern Negev desert and relocate them to towns built by the government.
3 Sailors set up an emergency aircraft barricade during flight deck training drills aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is conducting a tailored ship's training availability and final evaluation problem in the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brian Stephens)
4 Over 400 hot-air balloons take off in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, July 31, 2013, in an attempt to set a world record for a collective taking-off during the event "Lorraine Mondial air ballons", an international hot-air balloon meeting.
5 Muslim children learn to read the Koran at the Gaabow Islamic school, also known as a madrassa, during the holy month of Ramadan in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
6 An Afghan policewoman beats a woman as she waits for a donation of food during the month of Ramadan in Kabul.
7 Hong Kong's business district is seen after the Hong Kong Observatory has issued a strong wind signal number three as Tropical Storm Jebi edges closer to Hong Kong.
8 Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dexter McCluster (22) makes a catch while covered by defensive back Greg Castillo (45) during NFL football training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
9 Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Karen L. Nyberg of NASA took this photograph of a sunrise viewed from the International Space Station. As the space station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, traveling at about 17,500 miles per hour, the crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets daily.
10 A worker takes a rest on the exterior of newly built building in Beijing, China.
11 Children play with soap bubbles made by a busker on the South Bank on a hot day in central London.
12 A Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu, suspended with hooks pierced through his body, carries a child while participating in the Vel Hinduism festival in Colombo.
August 02, 2013
1 Ruling and opposition lawmakers fight each other on the legislature floor in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and thrown water at each other ahead of an expected vote authorizing a referendum on whether to go ahead with the construction of a fourth power plant.
2 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry participates in an impromptu soccer game with staff as he waits for his plane to refuel between Islamabad and London, at Vienna Airport, Austria.
3 A firefighter shouts at a colleague as he tries to extinguish a bushfire at Markopoulo region a few miles southwest of Athens, Greece.
4 A worker rests on the roof of a building surrounded by sand as a result of desert encroachment at Ogrein Railway Station at the Red Sea State, Sudan, Aug. 1, 2013.
5 Dramatic clouds hang overhead as England plays Australia during day two of the third Ashes Test match held at Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester, England.
6 A woman reacts to the arrival of Colonel Mamadou, commander of the 42nd battalion of the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), as he tries to disperse a demonstration in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
7 Colorful umbrellas are seen in Getafe, on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Aug. 1, 2013.
8 A fisherman holds his rod as the sun sets on Havana's seafront boulevard 'El Malecon', Cuba, Aug. 1, 2013.
9 A man on a boat looks at a competitor jumping into the water during a cliff diving competition near the central Bohemian village of Hrimezdice, Czech Republic.
10 Two-year-old Laura sits in front of the polar bear enclosure at the zoo in Stuttgart, southern Germany, while a polar bear looks through the glass pane.
11 Tyler Clary of the U.S. swims in the men's 200m backstroke final during the World Swimming Championships at the Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona, Spain.
August 03, 2013
1 War veterans and commanding officers, who took part in a military parade held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the truce of the Korean War, clap and cheer in an undisclosed location in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.
2 A demonstrator from the group called Black Bloc throws a taxi sign at military policemen during a protest against Sao Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
3 PC-9 type aircrafts of the Croatian Air Force, the 'Wings of the storm', perform during the opening of the International Air Show at the Hungarian Air Force base in Kecskemet, southern Hungary.
4 Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig can't make the diving catch on a double hit by Chicago Cubs' Cole Gillespie during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Chicago, USA, Aug. 2, 2013.
5 People stage a protest for Taiwanese soldier Hung Chung-chiu who died in early July after being forced to perform a vigorous regime of calisthenics in sweltering heat, in front of President Office in Taipei, Taiwan.
6 A young Sudanese boy holds a goat out of flood waters are he makes his way to higher land in Khartoum, Sudan.
7 A man waves a rainbow flag during the annual Canal Parade at Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Rainbow flags are flying from scores of buildings as tens of thousands of festival-goers, many dressed in pink or wearing studded leather, party it up at one of the city's biggest events: the annual Gay Pride celebration.
8 A photographer reacts after a pup dog jumped on his back during a pup dog meeting in Berlin, Germany. Some 40 pup dogs and their owners met in Berlin for the "4th International Pup Dog Meeting" including a dog race.
9 Shepherd Bernd Angelroth leads a herd of sheep during the regional Shepherds Championships of Thuringia in Hohenfelden, central Germany.
August 05, 2013
1 The world's first lab-grown beef burger is seen after it was cooked at a launch event in west London.
2 A man sits with a national flag as paramilitary police officers block thousands of people outside the Silivri jail complex in Silivri, Turkey.
3 Devotees raise their hands and chant religious slogans as they worship newly installed 'lingam', representing Hindu deity Shiva on the banks of the river Yamuna in Agra, India.
4 A girl embraces a panda bear sculpture in Berlin, Germany.
4 China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) walks past Vietnam's Communist Party's General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong upon his arrival for the meeting at the party's head office in Hanoi, Vietnam.
5 A Greek firefighter runs to safer ground as a forest fire rages in Marathon near Athens, Greece.
7 A member of staff poses with a robot called 'Cygan' at Christies auction house in central London, England. It was one of the most sophisticated robots of its time with an ability to accept spoken commands and respond to light rays.
8 Bangladeshi rickshaw pullers rest inside a cable reeler in Dhaka.
9 A sales assistant (back) helps a customer to select Dumex milk powder at a supermarket in Hefei, Anhui province. New Zealand's Fonterra apologized for a milk powder contamination scare in China that has raised safety concerns.
10 Workers wait in line with their motorcycles and scooters to enter Spain at its border with the British territory of Gibraltar, south of Spain.
11 A boy makes an effigy of demon Ghantakarna before it is burned to symbolize the destruction of evil during the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal.
12 Protesters take cover as riot police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse them in Silivri,Turkey.
13 Riva Lemanski, 6 poses on a giant two-story rocking horse outside Christie's auction house in London, England.
August 06, 2013
1 Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying the Buddha portrait, during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.
2 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's helicopter destroyer DDH183 Izumo, the largest surface combatant of the Japanese navy, is seen during its launching ceremony in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.
3 A construction vehicle lies where it was swallowed by a sinkhole on Saint-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, Canada, Aug. 5, 2013.
4 Bangladeshi Muslims overcrowd ferries to head home ahead of Eid al-Fitr in Dhaka.
5 An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad.
6 Hundreds of Indonesians wait to receive "zakat", or alms, given to poor people during Ramadan at a tobacco factory of Gudang Garam, Indonesia's biggest clove cigarette manufacturer, in Kediri in East Java province.
7 A Sudanese homeless family rest near a highway in Khartoum. Floods that hit different areas in Sudan this week have led to destruction of hundreds of homes, death of scores and dozens injured.
8 A villager fishes on a platform at the Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan province, China.
August 07, 2013
1 A Congolese girl, displaced by recent fighting in North Kivu, holds a doll at the child friendly space (CFS) within Mugunga III camp for the internally displaced people near Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
2 Reporters photograph goats as they are released from a trailer at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. More than 100 goats will be taking over the cemetery to help clean up brush in an area away from the graves. The goats will graze 24 hours a day for six days to eliminate vines, poison ivy and weeds, while also "fertilizing the ground."
3 Flames and black smoke billow from the burning Jomo Kenyatta international airport, Nairobi, Kenya. A massive fire shut down Nairobi's international airport with flights diverted to regional cities as firefighters battled to put out the blaze in east Africa's biggest transport hub.
4 A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber aircraft approaches the rear of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft before refueling during a training mission over the Midwest. The B-2's unique design enables it to travel into enemy territory to deploy ordnance without being detected by radar. (DoD photo by Airman 1st Class John Linzmeier, U.S. Air Force/Released on Aug.7, 2013)
5 Damaged residential houses of the Indian army are seen after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Tihra Lines near the northern hill town of Dharamsala.
6 People try to stop pigs from running away next to a van which overturned while carrying 12 pigs on a highway in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. One of the pigs died from the heat after the accident as temperature in Fuzhou reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), according to local media.
7 Dry sunflowers are pictured on a field near Grossengersdorf in Lower Austria province.
8 An anti-government protester wearing a mask painted in the colors of the Thai national flag looks on as riot police officers stand guard outside the parliament in Bangkok. Thailand's parliament was due to debate a political amnesty bill as anti-government protesters marched to try to get it scrapped, saying it could let ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra return from exile without having to serve a jail sentence.
9 A Pakistani beautician applies a traditional henna design to the hand of a customer ahead of the Muslim festivities of Eid al-Fitr, in Karachi.
10 A girl plays a piano in the park in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. A group of young enthusiasts bought an old Soviet-made piano, adjusted it, painted white and placed in a park for free use by all visitors.
11 'Black Jesters' from the London Dungeon pose for pictures with a set of what the attraction describes as the world's biggest playing cards, during a photocall in London. The cards, which are 2.1m-tall and 1.5m-wide, will feature in the attraction's 'Jestival Season'.
12 A horse and rider perform during a "sneak peek" performance of Cavalia's show "Odysseo" in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, Aug. 6, 2013. The show, which features 63 horses and 47 human artists, acrobats, riders and performers, opens its Boston-area performance on Aug. 7, 2013
13 People enjoy a foam party in a disco, in the Tuscany region sea resort of Castiglione della Pescaiadella Pescaia, Italy.
August 08, 2013
1 Sloane Stephens of the U.S. serves to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland during the women's tennis match at day four of the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto, Canada.
2 Students hold four wreaths as they march to mark the 25th anniversary of the democratic uprising, also known as "8888", in Rangoon, Burma. Thousands of people, including students and Buddhist monks, were killed or injured during the crackdown on August 8, 1988.
3 A Bangladeshi passenger climbs on top of a train as other passengers (R) look on from a compartment window as they rush home to their respective villages to be with their families ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, in Dhaka.
4 Participants play traditional Mongolian instruments during a performance at the opening ceremony of Nadam Fair in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
5 A U.S. Air Force Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-6) mission lifts off on a ULA Delta IV rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Aug. 7, 2013. The unmanned Delta 4 rocket carried a communications satellite for the U.S. military and its partners, including Australia, which paid for the spacecraft and launch services.
6 A long ribbon of gas called the the Magellanic Stream (in pink), stretches nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy (in blue). New Hubble observations reveal most of the gas was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, and a second region of the stream originated more recently from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
7 An opponent of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi wears a toy knife on his head in Cairo's Tahrir Square following dawn prayers marking the Eid al-Fitr feast at the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan.
8 Boys sit in the trunk of a car in Sana'a, Yemen.
9 Driving along the road to Hana near the coast of Maui, Hawaii, USA (Alison Klein/VOA)
10 Snowmobile racer Levi LaVallee jumps his snowmobile as executives from Fox Factory Holding Corp. ring the opening bell for the Nasdaq Market to celebrate the company's IPO in New York.
11 Wind-blown embers fly from an ancient oak tree that burned in the Silver Fire near Banning, California, USA, Aug.7, 2013. The fire broke out near a back-country road south of Banning, about 90 miles (145 km) outside Los Angeles in Riverside County, and within hours had blackened more than 5,000 acres, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlandt said.
12 Students arrange themselves into the formation of a dove to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
13 Zookeeper Nadezda Radovic feeds watermelon to female hippo Julka in Belgrade Zoo, Serbia. Hot weather has set in with temperatures rising up to 38 Celsius (105 Fahrenheit) in Belgrade.
August 09, 2013
1 Firefighters attempt to extinguish the fire at Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport in Somalia after an Ethiopian Air Force aircraft crashed upon landing. (Photo provided by AMISOM)
2 Members of the Meyboom brotherhood plant the Meyboom tree in central Brussels, Belgium.
3 Belgian artist Beatrice Van Landeghem poses with two of her life-like "Reborn Baby" dolls, named Sofia and Loan (R), at her workshop called "La nurserie des Tis Lous De Bea" in La Louviere, southern Belgium, Aug. 8, 2013. The cost of a "Reborn Baby" varies between hundreds to thousands of euros and takes around 25 hours to be assembled together depending on the level of precision requested by people who "adopt" the dolls.
4 People walk along a street in front of the Rock of the British territory of Gibraltar (rear), a monolithic limestone promontory, next to the border in La Linea de la Concepcion, southern Spain.
5 Customs officers check wolf skins at the Customs Inspection Center in Beijing Capital International Airport, Aug. 8, 2013. A trading firm in Beijing is suspected of smuggling a total of 645 pieces of wolf skins from Greece.
6 An Afghan circus performer rides a motorcycle on the " Wall of Death" at a fair on the second day of Eid al-Fitr in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
7 The sun sets over Johannesburg, South Africa, as the country celebrates Women's Day.
8 A man carries his child in a bag as he crosses a street in Bhubaneswar, India.
9 A woman takes photos of an art installation titled "United 65" by Singaporean artist Ryf Zaini at a mall in Singapore. The work comprises 100 red suspended umbrellas each containing a secret symbol which viewers are invited to decipher, according to local media.
10 Workers climb onto equipment to perform maintenance work at an electric power transformation substation in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
August 10, 2013
1 The silhouette of a child is visible in a water slide at an open air swimming pool in Mainz, Germany.
2 Men search for survivors amid debris of collapsed buildings after what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province, eastern Syria.
3 An Indian policeman fires a teargas shell during a clash between protesters and police officials in Jammu. A town in the south of Indian Kashmir was under curfew for a second day after two people were killed and dozens wounded in Hindu-Muslim clashes in the disputed Himalayan region, police said.
4 The remains of a plane is seen next to a damaged home after it crashed in East Haven, Connecticut, USA, Aug. 9, 2013. Two bodies have been located after a small plane crashed into two houses and the death toll could rise, Governor Dannel Malloy said.
5 Natalia Korenkova participates in a competition to roll a 180 kg (397 lbs) truck tire along a 20-meter (66-foot) course during the "Strongest Women of Russia 2013" tournament in the Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
6 A member of the Red Cross tends to a would-be immigrant wrapped in a blanket at the Red Cross premises at Tarifa's harbor, Italy, after 86 would-be immigrants were rescued across the Straight of Gibraltar.
7 Mahesh Chaturvedi (R), 63, who dresses up like Mahatma Gandhi, sits near protesters during his day-long protest against the recent corruption scandals in India, in New Delhi, Aug. 9, 2013.
8 A child takes a picture with a mobile phone at an Eid al-Fitr party for Syrian and Iraqi refugee children injured during violence in their countries organized by the French humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Amman, Jordan.
9 Members of Ghost of a Dream go into the sea after taking part in the second annual Artist Sandcastle Competition in Rockaway, New York, Aug. 9, 2013.
10 Runners go through a "color station" during a five-kilometer run in Beijing, China. Participants go through a "color station" every kilometer during the run.
11 Men, dressed in folk costumes, ride on horses during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Benghazi, Libya, Aug. 9, 2013.
August 12, 2013
1 Employees of Cochin Shipyard stand beside India's Indigenous Aircraft Carrier P-71 'Vikrant' built for the Indian Navy during its launch in the southern Indian city of Kochi, India.
2 A streak appears in the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower above a roadside silhouette of a Spanish fighting bull, conceived decades ago in Villarejo de Salvanes, Spain.
3 Chinese women look at a 3D painting of a dragon at Qianmen Street, a popular tourist spot in Beijing, China, August 11, 2013.
4 Colombian dancers Xiomara Rivas and Luis Solano (bottom) participate in an exhibition dance during the 8th World Salsa Festival in Cali, Colombia, August 11, 2013.
5 A Jewish woman looks after children at a playground in the Jewish settlement of Beitar Elit at the Israeli occupied West Bank.
6 Children sift through floating garbage as they collect recyclable items to sell while strong waves crash along the shores of Manila Bay, near a slum area in Manila, Philippines.
7 U.S. President Barack Obama reacts after missing a putt on the first green at the Farm Neck Golf Club at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 11, 2013.
8 A South Korean boy lies down flat in a fountain to cool off during a heat wave in central Seoul.
9 A Turkish peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) closes a gate of the Turkish Engineering Construction Company (TURKCOY) of UNIFIL in the village of Shaaytiyeh, southern Lebanon.
10 Paul Kipsiele Koech of Kenya jumps a water obstacle in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase heat during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia.
11 Jason Dufner kisses the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament at Oak Hill Country Club, in Pittsford, New York, August 11, 2013,
12 A woman cools off under scorching heat at a park in Shanghai, China.
13 A boy stands as waves hit a wall at a park in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines.
14 A multiple exposure picture shows a Perseids meteor shower in the sky, near the municipality of La Hiruela, on the mountains of the Sierra Norte de Madrid, Spain, August 11, 2013.
August 13, 2013
1 A general view of Stonehenge during the annual Perseid meteor shower in the night sky in Salisbury Plain, southern England. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle.
2 The Milky Way in the clear night sky near Rangoon, Burma
3 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) has her picture taken with a pupil as she arrives for a visit to the Heinz Schliemann grammar school in Berlin.
4 A portion of a building is in a sinkhole in Clermont, Florida, USA, Aug. 12, 2013. The sinkhole, 40 to 50 feet in diameter, opened up overnight and damaged three buildings at the Summer Bay Resort.
5 An Indian policewoman helps her comrade who fainted during the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai. India commemorates its Independence Day on Aug. 15.
6 Silke Spiegelburg of Germany competes in the women's pole vault final during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia.
7 A rooftop villa complete with rocks and flora is built on top of a high rise residential building in Beijing, China. Beijing authorities are planning to demolish the rooftop villa that allegedly was built illegally atop a 26-story apartment block in the capital.
8 A nearly 100-meter-tall and 60-meter-wide column of water rises up as a World War II mine explodes during a mine sweeping operation in the Kanmon Strait off Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan.
9 Foundation piles for the wind park "Baltic 2" are loaded onto a transport ship at the EEW Special Pipe Construction GmbH in Rostock, Germany.
10 People dance in a pool party during the gay and lesbian Circuit Festival in Vilassar de Dalt, near Barcelona, Spain.
August 14, 2013
1 A paramilitary policeman crawls with his comrades in the sand during heat endurance training in Hefei, Anhui province, China. The temperature in Hefei reached 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 degrees Fahrenheit).
2 A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th October bridge by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt.
3 A worker carries a ladder through floral and topiary installations as he prepares for the opening of the first annual Floralientime event on the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium. Internationally renowned landscape architects and floral artists will showcase their work in the square and the city hall for four days.
4 A male albino caiman alligator called "Bino" receives acupuncture treatment at Sao Paulo aquarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 13, 2013. "Bino" is receiving weekly applications of acupuncture for the treatment of scoliosis and kyphosis.
5 South Koreans take part in a candlelight demonstration demanding resignation of President Park Geun-Hye and calling for reform of national spy agency in central Seoul.
6 A motorcyclist wades through a flooded street after a heavy downpour in Lahore, Pakistan.
7 Britain's Prince William takes part in a falconry display at the Anglesey Show, in Gwalchmai, North Wales.
8 A boy is silhouetted as he jumps into the sea at a beach in the city of Durres, some 40 km (25 miles) from Tirana, Albania, Aug. 13, 2013.
9 African penguin "Ao" from the Shinagawa Aqua Stadium aquarium stands beside penguin ice sculptures to attract summer vacationers in Tokyo, Japan.
10 George Kitchens of the U.S. competes in the men's long jump qualifying round during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia.
11 An aerial view shows tourists walking in the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover, central Germany.
August 15, 2013
1 A supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi holds up his photo while standing at the top of lamp post during a march in Sana'a, Yemen, to show solidarity with his supporters in Egypt.
2 A woman cries at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon. The powerful blast engulfed several cars in flames and also trapped people in a nearby building.
3 A visitor pretends to fight with Charging Bull statue created by Italian-American artist Arturo Di Modica in Shanghai, China.
4 People paddle their boat during the sunset near the village of Toroni, northern Greece, Aug. 14, 2013.
5 Participants listen to South Korean President Park Geun-hye's speech on small screens during a ceremony in Seoul, to mark the South Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945.
6 The Moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage as birds fly over the parking lot at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA.
7 An Indian army officer performs a stunt on a motorcycle during a function to mark India's Independence Day in Bangalore, India.
8 A road to Hana near the coast of Maui, Hawaii (Alison Klein/VOA)
9 Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a galaxy about 60 million light years from Earth.
10 Ivan Ukhov of Russia clears the bar in the men's high jump final during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia.
11 Competitors take the start of the swimming event during the 30th edition of the Embrunman triathlon in Embrun, southeastern France. The Embrunman is considered as one of the hardest triathlon events with a swim of 3.8km followed by a 188-km cycle ride and a 42-km marathon.
August 16, 2013
1 Giant panda Yuan Yuan sleeps next to her baby panda at the Taipei City Zoo, Taiwan.
2 With the U.S. Navy's well deck ship USS Arlington stationed against its pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, divers in small boats approach a test version of NASA's Orion crew module during the stationary recovery test. The test is helping to ensure that when Orion returns from deep space missions and splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
3 Men help evacuate civilians at a site hit by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr district.
4 Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top and next to their armored vehicles while guarding an entrance to Tahrir square, in Cairo.
5 The MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, the world's biggest container ship, arrives at the harbor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The 55,000-ton ship, named after the son of the founder of the oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk, has a length of 400 meters and cost $185 million.
6 Chickens perch on the roof of a hennery to escape rising floodwaters after Typhoon Utor hit Maoming, Guangzhou province, China, Aug. 15, 2013.
7 A worker cleans the glass facade of a mall in Singapore.
8 A car drives past a crack in a road after an earthquake on the outskirts of the town of Seddon in the Marlborough region on New Zealand's South Island. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck south of New Zealand's capital, sending panicked Wellington workers and residents into the streets, but caused little major damage.
9 A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter attached to the 2nd Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, Utah Army National Guard collects water from a reservoir while fighting a wildfire in Summit County, Utah, USA, Aug. 15, 2013. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Ileen Kennedy)
10 Netherlands' Princess Mabel (2nd L-2nd R), accompanied by her daughters Luana and Zaria, and Princess Beatrix lead the Dutch royal family as they arrive for the funeral service of Beartix' son Prince Friso at the Stulpkerk church in Lage Vuursche. Friso, the brother of the new Dutch king, died on Aug. 12, 2013, in a royal palace in The Hague, 18 months after a skiing accident left him in a coma.
11 Sean Tucker spirals downward in the Oracle stunt plane before the 55th Chicago Air and Water Show, near Gary, Indiana, USA, Aug. 15, 2013. The Chicago Air and Water Show will be held on the weekend.
12 Visitors stand on the roof of a skyscraper as the moon rises over the skyline of Lujiazui financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China.
13 The reflection of horses, their keepers, and an umbrella-toting pedestrian is seen in a puddle of water following heavy monsoon rains in the northern hilltown of Shimla, India.
August 17, 2013
1 A cluster of life rafts floats near the cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete a day after it collided with a passenger ferry off the waters of Talisay city, Cebu province in central Philippines. Divers combed through a sunken ferry to retrieve the bodies of more than 200 people still missing from an overnight collision.
2 Participants struggle during a greased pole climbing competition held as a part of Independence Day celebration at Jaya Ancol Dream Park in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia is celebrating its 68th independence from the Dutch colonial rule.
3 Danish scientist Henrik Scharfe (R) poses with his Geminoid-DK robot during its presentation at the National Robotics Olympiad in San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 16, 2013. The Geminoid-DK is a tele-operated Android in the geminoid series and is made to appear as an exact copy of its creator, Professor Scharfe.
4 Spectators arrive in the early morning for the second day of competition in the Solheim Cup golf tournament, in Parker, Colorado, USA.
5 Indian school students watch as a girl performs a rope balancing act for alms, on a street in Hyderabad.
6 Aymara Indian Carmelo Flores gestures before chewing coca leaves in his hometown of Frasquia, 110km (68 miles) north of La Paz, Bolivia, Aug.t 16, 2013. According to Flores' identification card, he was born in 1890 and celebrated his 123rd birthday last month, making him the world's oldest man.
7 Participants cheer at the finish area of The Color Run on the island of Sentosa in Singapore. The Color Run is a five-kilometer, untimed race, held in cities across the U.S. and also worldwide, with the aim of promoting healthy living, and to benefit a charity that organizers choose in each of the cities the run visits.
8 A man competes in the Splashdiving World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Contestants were judged by the jump's degree of difficulty and the volume of splashing water.
9 Alphorn players blow their instruments in an attempt to break the world record for the largest ensemble of people playing the alphorn, on the Gornergrat in front of the Matterhorn mountain near Zermatt, 3,089 metres (10,135 feet) above sea level in Switzerland.
10 Supporters cheer while watching a broadcast of Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the women's 200 meters final during Moscow's IAAF World Athletics Championships, in Kingston, Russia, Aug. 16, 2013.
11 Tanks of (back L-R) Belarus, Russian, Kazakh and Armenian teams line up as they compete during ‘tank biathlon’, a new paramilitary sport about armor races and precision gunnery near Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia.
12 A boy takes a picture with a Soviet-made film camera of an art installation on a bank of the Yenisei River in the village of Ovsyanka, some 24km (15 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
13 New Zealand's Israel Dagg, right, is tackled by Australia's James O'Connor, left, and Ben Alexander during the Bledisloe Cup rugby union match in Sydney, Australia.
August 19, 2013
1 A truckload of stranded commuters cross a flooded street in Manila, Philippines.
2 Selim Caliskan, Germany head of human rights organisation Amnesty International, and other activists hold up masks of Nefertiti, the wife of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, and posters reading "Egypt: Stop Further Bloodshed!" as they demonstrate against violence in Egypt, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.
3 Members of an international religious movement called the White Brotherhood perform a ritual dance near Babreka lake, Rila Mountain, south of Sofia, as part of celebration of their New Year.
4 Indonesian soldiers stand guard as inmates line up before being transferred to other prisons, at Labuhan Ruku prison that was burnt after a riot, Batubara, North Sumatra.
5 A girl (C) reacts as she watches an aerial view film, flying high over mountains, during the opening of the new visual entertainment museum Orbi Yokohama in Yokohama near Tokyo, Japan.
6 Police detain an anti-fracking demonstrator outside a drill site run by Cuadrilla Resources, near Balcombe in southern England.
7 Steve Westnedge plays his saxophone for a Leopard Seal known as "Casey" as part of a study on the animal's reactions to different sounds at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Australia.
8 A woman and her pet participate in a parade in support of a bill penalizing cruelty against domestic and wild animals waiting to be discussed by the Legislative Assembly, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 18, 2013.
9 Luna Rossa Challenge sails near the Golden Gate Bridge before their race against Team Emirates New Zealand in the second race of their Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series yacht race in San Francisco, California, Aug. 18, 2013.
10 A cloud partially covers the Rock of the British territory of Gibraltar at sunrise from La Atunara port before Spanish fishermen sail with their relatives to take part in a protest at an area of the sea where an artificial reef was built by Gibraltar using concrete blocks, Algeciras bay, La Linea de la Concepcion, southern Spain, Aug. 18, 2013.
August 20, 2013
1 Syrian refugees take a rest as they cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk. Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
2 Dark clouds hang over the Reichstag, the German parliament Bundestag building, in Berlin.
3 A handout picture released by Kensington Palace shows Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their newborn baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, at the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, in early August, 2013.
4 A Bedouin man jumps over camels during the Sana'a Summer Festival in Sana'a, Yemen. The two-week festival aims to stimulate domestic tourism and reassure local and international tourists about Yemen's stability.
5 This image made available by the European Southern Observatory using radio and visible light frequencies shows the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47. The orange and green, lower right, of the newborn star reveal a large energetic jet moving away from the Earth. To the left, in pink and purple, the visible part of the jet is seen, streaming partly towards the Earth.
6 Brianna Goodwin, 9, reaches out to touch Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he greets children from a summer camp in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Aug. 19, 2013.
7 Bo, left, and Sunny, the Obama family dogs, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
8 A woman listens to music as she sits on a bench during a hot summer day at Madrid's El Retiro park, Spain.
9 An airline's jet plane approaching Los Angeles International Airport crosses the moon as seen from Palm Park in Whittier, California, USA, Aug. 19, 2013.
10 Children learn to sail on the Galgenweel lake in Antwerp, Belgium.
11 Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force armored tanks fire during an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba, west of Tokyo.
August 21, 2013
1 An African Bullfrog is placed on a weighing scale during the London Zoo's annual weigh-in in London.
2 Members of conservative civic groups (not pictured), which consists of North Korean defectors living in South Korea, release balloons towards North Korea in Yeoncheon, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, north of Seoul.
3 Indian laborers carry a giant basket of vegetables to a wholesale market in Kolkata.
4 Saidi, a former fisherman, collects plastic cups for recycling at Pluit lake in Jakarta, Indonesia.
5 A cameraman films the figures of Soviet soldiers at the base of the Soviet Army monument painted in pink in Sofia. Unknown artists have painted the nine soldiers in pink during the night and wrote "Bulgaria apologizes" both in Bulgarian and Czech language in what appears to be an artistic apology for Bulgaria's support in smashing the Prague Spring uprising against the Communist rule in August, 1968.
6 Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 20, 2013.
7 Students play with their iPads at the Steve Jobs school in Sneek. The Steve Jobs schools in the Netherlands are founded by the O4NT (Education For A New Time) organization, which provides the children with iPads to help them learn with a more interactive experience.
8 People in costumes parade in the street during the annual Badagry festival in Lagos, Nigeria, Aug . 20, 2012. This year festival is in honor of Marcus Garvey, a proponent of "Back to Africa" movement in the United States.
9 Visitors play "Sims 4" at the Electronic Arts EA exhibition stand during the Gamescom 2013 fair in Cologne, Germany.
10 Pelicans are being fed in their enclosure at the bird park in Marlow, north-eastern Germany.
11 Massive waves from approaching Tropical Storm Trami slam into breakwaters near Toucheng, north eastern Taiwan.
12 Super heated exhaust is a byproduct of engine testing in the Engine Research Building (ERB) at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
13 A beach along the coastline of Arnhem Land, east of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory. Geologists say the Northern Territory, which is the size of South Africa, has abundant diamond, gold and uranium reserves.
August 22, 2013
1 Volker Bouffier, state premier of the western federal state of Hesse and top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for regional elections, fixes an election poster with his own image in Wiesbaden, western Germany.
2 Journalists film a screen displaying a court's microblog page showing disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai standing trial, in Jinan, Shandong province. Bo appeared in public for the first time in more than a year to face trial in eastern China, the final chapter of the country's most politically charged case in more than three decades.
3 Egyptian medics and police escort former President Hosni Mubarak into an ambulance after he was flown by a helicopter to the Maadi Military Hospital from Torah prison in Cairo. The ousted leader has been released from jail and taken to a military hospital.
4 Visitors look at a spillway at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro electric power station, 520 km (323 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
5 Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer for David Miranda, makes a statement to members of the media outside the High Court in London. The British authorities can sift through documents seized from the partner of a reporter, who wrote about the leaks by Edward Snowden, to protect national security and investigate any possible links to terrorism, a court ruled.
6 Fire consumes trees along U.S. highway 120 as the Rim Fire burns out of control in Buck Meadows, California, USA, Aug. 21, 2013. The Rim Fire continues to burn out of control and threatens 2,500 homes outside of Yosemite National Park.
7 A Greenpeace activist dressed as an oil company worker pours oil on other activists during a protest in Warsaw, Poland, against oil search drilling in the Arctic Sea.
8 A man looks back at a surging wave as Typhoon Trami approaches China, in Wenling, Zhejiang province, Aug. 21, 2013.
9 A visitor walks near "The largest portrait of Putin in the world" by Konstantin Altunin at an exhibition in the recently opened Museum of Authorities in St. Petersburg, Russia.
10 A man rides a trishaw loaded with bananas in Bogor fruit market in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia (Photo by Davide Rosa/VOA reader)
11 An Indian villager smokes tobacco as he joins other economically backward protesters during a rally demanding pension for elderly poor citizens in New Delhi.
August 23, 2013
1 North Korean Poongsan dogs, Chongju (R) and Anju, are seen near CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, about 60 km (37 miles) northeast of Seoul, South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un gave the dogs to late evangelist Reverend Moon Sun-myung and his widow Han Hak-ja this February as birthday gifts.
2 A gallery assistant views pastel portraits in the "Bob Dylan: Face Value" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. New pastel portraits by American singer Bob Dylan will go on show for the first time at London's National Portrait Gallery from August 24 to January 5.
3 A Portuguese firefighter fights to extinguish a fire in Adsamo, near Vouzela, Portugal. More than 600 firefighters were battling six new wildfires a day after one firefighter was killed and nine others injured when gusting winds winds caused a fire to change direction.
4 A woman looks at flood-damaged ladies footwear on sale for 10 pesos (22 cents) a pair at a slum area in Manila, Philippines.
5 Smoke is seen above people gathering outside a mosque on the site of a powerful explosion in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Two powerful explosions killed several people: one rocked the city center near the home of outgoing Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the second one struck near the port of the restive city with a Sunni Muslim majority.
6 An Indian nomad herder leaps off the back of a water buffalo into the flooded waters of the River Tawi on the outskirts of Jammu.
7 People struggle as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province, as Typhoon Trami landed in eastern China.
8 Wolodja, a young male polar bear plays in its enclosure at the animal park in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, Germany.
9 Tadahiro Kanemasu a.k.a the "Carry-Your-Pram-Ranger" carries a woman's shopping cart at the station in Tokyo, Japan. In a green outfit with silver trim and matching mask, a superhero waits by the stairs of a Tokyo subway station, lending his strength to the elderly, passengers lugging heavy packages and mothers with baby strollers.
10 Los Angeles County firefighters hike in on a fire line on the Rim Fire near Groveland, California, USA, Aug. 22, 2013. The wildfire raging out of control near Yosemite National Park in northern California ballooned to nearly 54,000 acres, more than tripling in size from the day before, forest officials said.
11 Performers from France's Compagnie Retouramount are suspended during during the annual Night Festival at the Singapore Museum in Singapore.
12 Artist Manny Ford performs with soap bubbles in New York City's Central Park.
13 A woman and a child cast shadows as they ride their bicycles on a sunny day in Vienna, Austria.
14 One Direction members, from right, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Harry Styles, perform on NBC's "Today" show in New York.
August 24, 2013
1 A girl spins pinwheels at a peace park, which was built to deliver the peace between North and South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea.
2 The Washington Monument is reflected in a pool early in the morning before the start of the ceremony honoring the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, D.C., USA.
3 Students of Howard University march from the campus to the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the Realize the Dream Rally for the 50th anniversary of the March in Washington, D.C., USA.
4 People dressed in embroidered national costumes march during a parade in Kyiv’s downtown to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of Urkaine's independence.
5 Workers move waste containing radiated soil, leaves and debris from the decontamination operation at a storage site in Naraha town, which is inside the formerly no-go zone of a 20 km (12 mile) radius around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and currently a designated evacuation zone, in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.
6 In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, a Syrian army soldier walks on a street in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus.
7 Competitors start the swimming course during the ITU World Triathlon elite race for women in Stockholm, Sweden.
8 Participants run as they carry their sheep during a "Running with Sheep" race, which is a part of a harvest celebration activity, in Yiwu county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
9 Angry residents take to the streets to protest recent violence in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
10 Worshipers pray to the Osun goddess and other spirits at the Osun River in Osogbo, Nigeria, Aug. 23, 2013. Many of the worshippers observing the centuries-old ethnic Yoruba celebration in southwestern Nigeria are Christians and Muslims.
11 A boy tries to push a sumo wrestler during an exhibition titled "Sumo Tournament In Jakarta," at Istora stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia.
12 Indians stand and watch floodwaters in Panskura, near the East Midnapore district in the eastern state of West Bengal.
13 Shih Tzu dog 'Pan Hou' sits in a remote-controlled electric car at the international dog and cat show 'Hund und Katz' in Leipzig, central Germany. 6,000 dogs and 300 cats from all over the world are shown at the event.
August 26, 2013
1 A woman walks by a pawn shop in central Athens, Greece.
2 A member of the panda team at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo performs the first neonatal exam on a panda cub, Washington, D.C., Aug. 25, 2013. The cub, born Friday, appeared to be in excellent health.
3 An Israeli man shows his children how to adjust a gas mask at a distribution center at a shopping mall in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. Thousands of Israelis lined up for masks at centers or phoned in orders fearing a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria may wind up ensnaring their own nation in conflict.
4 A Palestinian boy rests among suitcases as he waits to cross into Egypt at Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday after four days of closure.
5 From left, Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, of 'N Sync, at the MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Aug. 25, 2013.
6 Men sit on the roof of a house which is submerged in the floodwaters of the River Ganges after heavy monsoon rains in Salori, India.
7 Members of the Maasai Warrior team leave the pitch after a friendly match against the Charity VIII team during opening ceremony activities of the 'Last Man Stands' World Championships at Lords Nursery ground in London, Aug. 25, 2013.
8 Police officers and rescue workers stand next to the overturned carriages of a derailed train in Huimanguillo, in the Mexican state of Tabasco, Aug. 25, 2013.
9 A journalists monitors a blog providing details of the trial of former politician Bo Xilai outside the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Jinan in eastern China's Shandong province.
10 A worker pastes up an election poster showing Rainer Bruederle, the top candidate of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the upcoming German general elections, in Berlin.
11 A Palestinian tunnel worker is lowered on a rope into a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip. Egyptian security forces have cracked down on the tunnels since July.
12 Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army's guard of honor hold flags in front of Beijing's Tiananmen Square during the official welcoming ceremony for Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic outside the Great Hall of the People.
13 A child wearing a wig looks at the stage after finishing the Colour Run at Centennial Park in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 25, 2013.
August 27, 2013
1 Rescuers work amid the rubble of a building in construction that collapsed killing a least six people and injuring at least 22 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2 An Indian day laborer struggles to unload a 60 kg bag of rice at a grains depot near New Delhi.
3 A Free Syrian Army fighter looks outside while holding his weapon as he takes cover inside a damaged shop in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.
4 Protesters throw stones at a police vehicle in Ubate, north of Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 26, 2013. Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in support of farmers who had being blockading highways for a week for an assortment of demands that include reduced gasoline prices, increased subsidies and the cancellation of free trade agreements.
5 People launch a 30-meter-diameter paper lantern at Xiapo village, Qionghai, Hainan province, China. The lantern, made of 72 smaller lanterns, was designed for a local ritual ceremony to mark the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as Yu Lan, a traditional Chinese festival on the 15th night of the seventh month of the Chinese calendar.
6 A performer participates in the Notting Hill Carnival in west London, Aug. 26, 2013.
7 A dust storm approaches Phoenix before the MLB game between the San Diego Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 26, 2013.
8 A waitress presents the official Oktoberfest beer mugs during a presentation in Munich, Germany. Oktoberfest, the world's biggest beer festival, runs from Sept. 21 until Oct. 6 this year.
9 From more than 40 countries and 30 U.S. states, people around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission. That event on July 19, 2013, marked the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture as part of a larger mosaic of the Saturn system. The images came via Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Google+ and email. As a tribute to the people of Earth, the mission has assembled this collage from the shared images, using an image of Earth as the base image. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
10 Children and volunteers help make a 120-meter long (393 ft) roll sushi to serve local people at an event in Tokyo, Japan.
11 Revelers play with fireworks in an enclosed area on the main street of the village of Paterna, near Valencia, during the annual "Corda" festivity in Spain, Aug. 26, 2013.
12 A Black Crowned Crane stands on one of his legs as he sleeps, at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany.
August 28, 2013
1 Members of Civil Defense and Forest Brigade of Riveira work at the site of a wildfire in Riveira, near La Coruna, Spain.
2 A ferry boat made to look like a roast duck plies on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China.
3 A building and a pickup truck damaged by the Rim Fire in this United States Forest Service handout photo near Yosemite National Park, California, USA.
4 This Hubble picture captures the irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389 (in the foreground seen here as a cloud of stars) covering its neighboring galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117, which appears edge-on as a streak. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)
5 Yukiko Ebata of Japan spikes against Italy's blockers during the World Grand Prix Finals woman's volleyball match in Sapporo, northern Japan. Japan won 3-0.
6 Two Pakistani men chat while crossing a stream that divides a neighborhood, using a rope-operated bridge, on the outskirts of Islamabad.
7 Dancers Guido Palacios, right, and Florencia Castilla, from Argentina, perform to win the 2013 Tango Dance World Cup stage finals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 27, 2013.
8 Revelers take part in the annual "Tomatina" festivities in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain. Twenty thousand revelers hurled 130 tons of squashed tomatoes at each other, drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish food fight.
9 A Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jet performs during a demonstration flight at the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia.
10 A professional lumberjack cuts a tree, branch by branch in Hanau, 30km south of Frankfurt, Germany.
11 A man reacts as a performer dressed in a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costume walks next to him during a publicity event in central Sydney, Australia.
August 29, 2013
1 An unmanned Delta 4 Heavy rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA, to put a classified satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.
2 A U.N. chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus. A team of U.N. experts left their Damascus hotel for a third day of on-site investigations into apparent chemical weapons attacks on the outskirts of the capital.
3 People look at a SUV submerged in floodwaters in Bamako, Mali. Torrential rains caused flash floods, washing away homes in several neighbourhoods, a government minister said.
4 A woman walks past a wall covered with Chinese characters from chapters of John Rawls' book "A Theory of Justice" outside an art gallery in Beijing.
5 Israeli soldiers drive a tank at a staging area in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syria.
6 Asha Foundation Animal Shelter and Hospital founder and coordinator Harmesh Bhatt poses with a rescued wine snake and its young at the shelter in the village of Hathijan, some 20 kms from Ahmedabad, India.
7 Larisa Bordovskaya, chief curator, right, and Iraida Botti, deputy director of Yekaterininsky Palace Museum, display a portrait of a boy, who is believed to be Prince Alexei Romanov, in Yekaterininsky Palace in the Tsarskoye Selo, suburb of St.Petersburg, Russia.
8 A beluga whale sprays water onto visitors at a summer attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, Japan.
9 Flood-affected villagers use a temporary raft as they navigate through the floodwaters of River Ganges to move to safer grounds, after heavy rains at Patna district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
10 Houston Rockets basketball player Jeremy Lin (2nd R) holds a giant panda at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province, China.
11 Marina Ripa di Meana wears a bird-cage head dress as she arrives for the screening of the opening film 'Gravity' at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
August 30, 2013
1 A fisherman arranges fishes kept for drying at a fishing harbor in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
2 A lobster boat and a sailboat head out to sea past Ram Island Ledge Light at the mouth of Portland Harbor, off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA.
3 Turkish soldiers carry a giant banner bearing a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, during a parade marking the 91st anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara.
4 A Congolese armed forces (FARDC) tank fires a shot as soldiers battle M23 rebels in Kibati, outside Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
5 A protester kicks a tear gas canister during clashes with riot police launching water canons in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 29, 2013.
6 Four caracal cubs sit in a basket at the Animal Park zoo in Berlin, Germany.
7 A participant bicycles away from the effigy of the Man (R, top) at the 2013 Burning Man arts and music festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, Aug. 29, 2013. The federal government issued a permit for 68,000 people from all over the world to gather at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 27th year, to spend a week in the remote desert to experience art, music and the unique community.
8 Street artists perform in downtown Rome, Italy.
9 Calligrapher Zhang Kesi dips his brush with ink as he works on a giant calligraphy in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. Zhang, best known for his giant Chinese calligraphy works written with oversized writing brushes, finished a new calligraphy. It will be presented as a gift to the upcoming National Games to be held in the city from Aug. 31 to Sept. 12.
10 Hot air balloons fly over the Loire during the 39th French Air-Balloon Championship in Brissac-Quincé, Western France. Ninety-two hot-air balloons compete until Aug. 31.
11 Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive at Breakwater Country Park for the start of the Ring O' Fire Anglesey Coastal Ultra Marathon, a three-day, 135-mile foot race around the rugged coast of Anglesey, Wales. Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, made her first public appearance since the birth of Prince George as she joined husband Prince William at the event.
August 31, 2013
1 Paramilitary policemen dance with fans during a massive performance to mark the opening ceremony of the 12th Chinese National Games at the Olympic Sports Center in Shenyang, Liaoning province.
2 Federal police surround the Congress building in Mexico City, Mexico. According to local media, government authorities sealed off Congress within the framework of opening a new year of legislative session as well as the sending of the first government annual report by President Pena Nieto on Sep. 1.
3 Late summer plankton blooms across much of Lake Ontario, one of North America's Great Lakes, in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station. Microscopic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can reach such large concentrations and color the water to such an extent that the change is visible from orbit. (Courtesy of NASA)
4 Chile President Sebastian Pinera (R) falls on debris at a demolition site as Chilean National Renovation (RN) party member and the mayor of Puente Alto, German Codina, tries to assist, in Santiago, Aug. 30, 2013.
5 A Sukhoi Su-27 jet fighter of the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerobatic team performs during a demonstration flight at the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.
6 Internally displaced Afghan refugee children carry water in plastic bottles after being filled at a communal pump in Rodat district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.
7 Firemen in protective suits walk near the site of an amonia leak at a cold storage unit in Baoshan district of Shanghai, China. The ammonia leak killed 15 people and sickened dozens, the city government said.
8 A Portuguese firefighter, surrounded by smoke, uses a hose to fight against a wildfire in Caramulo, north Portugal, Aug. 30, 2013. Portugal asked other European countries to send two more water-dropping aircraft as wildfires continue to scorch areas of forest.
9 Swiss Alpine wrestlers Christian Stucki (top) fights with Martin Koch during the Federal Alpine Wrestling Festival in Burgdorf. Swiss Alpine wrestling, called "Schwingen", is the oldest sport in Switzerland.
10 A boy releases a kite during the annual Singapore Kite Festival in the central business district area of Marina Bay in Singapore.
11 The Russian team performs during the 32nd rhythmic gymnastics world championships, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
12 Malaysian students perform during the 56th National Day celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur.
13 Models dressed as astronauts jump during a selection process, dubbed Apollo national challenge, at a park in Manila, Philippines. The selection was trimmed from around 28,000 applicants to 400, where the best two were selected. In December, the winners will be sent to Axe Apollo space camp in the U.S. for astronaut training, along with over a hundred other candidates from all over the world.
14 Manchester City's Spanish midfielder Jesus Navas vies with Hull City's Honduran defender Maynor Figueroa (L) during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Hull City at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, northwest England. Manchetser City won the game 2-0.
