August 01, 2014
1 A Dutch policeman, a member of a group of international experts, visits the site where the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.
2 Rescue personnel survey the wreckage after an explosion in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. The explosion caused by a gas leak killed 22 people, injured 270 and sent flames shooting 15 stories into the air.
3 Lithuanians take "selfies" as they eat Polish apples in front of the Russian Embassy in Vilnius, showing support for Poland, on the day after Russia restricted apple imports from Poland.
4 A child lies in a pool of water to cool down in central Seoul, South Korea. The state weather agency issued a heat wave warning for Seoul for the first time this year, advising people to stay indoors.
5 Villagers watch a rescue operationat the site of a landslide that engulfed the entire village of Malin, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Heavy rains hampered efforts by rescue workers digging through heavy mud and debris, as the death toll passed 50.
6 Palestinians carry their belongings after salvaging them from their destroyed houses in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce.
7 A Polish priest sits in front of the Warsaw Uprising monument in Warsaw. On the 70th anniversary of the uprising, Poland is honoring the fighters and victims of the rebellion against Nazi Germans by laying wreaths, sounding sirens and singing insurgent tunes.
8 A Kuwaiti young boy, Mohammad, poses amid baskets of shrimps at the main fish market in Kuwait City. Shrimp fishing resumed in Kuwaiti waters after a break of six-and-a-half months in order to allow the species to reproduce in territorial waters.
9 Kyrgyz soldiers of the Rapid Deployment Forces of Central Asian nations take part in joint military exercises "Indestructible Brotherhood - 2014" at the Ala-Too training ground, some 20 km outside the capital, Bishkek. The exercise gathers members of CSTO, a military alliance which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, that Moscow has touted to be a counterweight to the NATO.
10 A wall decorated with paintings by children are seen in a bomb shelter in the Israeli southern city of Ashkelon, July 31, 2014. The words in Hebrew read, "Protective Edge."
11 A Hindu devotee pours milk on a snake as an offering during the annual Hindu Nag Panchami festival, dedicated to the worship of snakes, in Allahabad, India.
12 A performer places a burning stick to his tongue during a show for visitors to a beach carnival in Beijing, China.
13 England's Jack Laugher (L) and Chris Mears compete in the men's synchronized 3m springboard final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
14 An Aymara priest raises his glass of beer at the end of an offering ceremony to "Pachamama," or "Mother Earth," on La Cumbre, a mountain that is considered scared ground, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia. The month of August is the time people gather in the mountains to make offerings in honor of the earth goddess and ask for good fortune.
15 An art installation, a 'sunken' house, is photographed in the pond of the' Kunsthalle Rostock' museum in Rostock, Germany. The installation 'Atlantis' by Tea Makipaa is part of the exhibition 'Nature and More' with contemporary art from Finland, that will run until Sept. 14, 2014.
August 03, 2014
1 An Israeli drone circles over Gaza City.
2 A Palestinian boy, who was wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, sits on the floor as he waits to be treated at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital, in Beit Lahiya.
3 Paramilitary policemen carry an injured woman with a stretcher after an earthquake hit Ludian county of Zhaotong, Yunnan province. The magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck southwestern China, killing at least 175 people and leaving more than 180 missing and 1,400 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province, causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse, Xinhua News Agency reported.
4 Ceramic poppies are placed as part of an art installation in the dry moat of the Tower of London. The installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, entitled "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Read" will be unveiled on Aug. 5 to mark the centenary of World War I.
5 Tiger Woods makes an awkward follow through after hitting from the lip of a fairway bunker on the second hole during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, USA.
6 Women wearing traditional Breton costumes parade during the Lorient InterCeltic Festival in Lorient, Brittany, in France.
7 Family members cry at a caring centet for relatives of victims of a factory explosion, in Kunshan, Jiangsu province. China suffered its worst industrial accident in a year when an explosion killed at least 69 people and injured more than 120 at a factory that makes wheels for U.S. carmakers, including General Motors.
8 A damaged car is removed from the wreckage after an explosion in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, Aug. 2, 2014. A series of explosions caused by a gas leak killed 25 people and injured 267 in Taiwan's second city, sending flames shooting 15 stories into the air, setting ablaze entire blocks and reducing small shops to rubble.
9 Children play with soap foam bubbles during the fair in honor of "Nuestra Senora de los Angeles" in the village of Las Pinedas near of Cordoba, Spain.
10 A parade of hundreds of classic cars makes its way along the Champs Elysee Avenue in Paris, France, during the Summer Crossing Paris 2014 event.
11 Houston Astros right fielder Robbie Grossman (19) competes with fans for a long ball robbing Toronto Blue Jays' Juan Francisco of a home run in the eighth inning of a baseball game in Houston, Texas, USA, Aug. 2, 2014.
August 04, 2014
1 Local residents ride a boat on a flooded road overflown by the Bago river at a low-lying part in Bago, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Myanmar.
2 Bangladeshi woman Munni, whose daughters are missing, cries as rescuers search the River Padma after a passenger ferry capsized in the Munshiganj district.
3 Legislators from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party and the opposition Nationalist Action Party brawl at the parliament in Ankara, during a debate on whether parliament should open an inquiry into Islamic militants joining the fighting in Iraq and Syria, using Turkey’s territory.
4 Algae is seen near the City of Toledo water intake crib in Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio, USA. More tests are needed to ensure that toxins are out of Toledo's water supply, the mayor said, instructing the 400,000 people in the region to avoid drinking tap water for a second day.
5 An injured man looks up as he walks past debris after an earthquake hit Ludian county, Yunnan province, China. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck southwestern China on Aug. 3, 2014, killing at least 398 people in a remote area of Yunnan province, and causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse, Xinhua News Agency reported.
6 A tank drives through a water obstacle on the course of the Tank Biathlon world championship in Alabino outside Moscow, Russia.
7 A Palestinian man reacts after the body of his mother was removed from the rubble of their house which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
8 Some 600 balloons emblazoned with a poppy and the name of a fallen soldier flutter in the sky during the "Short Step" ceremony, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in Folkestone, southern England.
9 (L-R) French President Francois Hollande, Belgium's Queen Mathilde and King Philippe attend a ceremony at the Cointe Inter-allied Memorial to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in Liege, Belgium.
10 Kanwarias or devotees of Hindu god Lord Shiva fill their pots with the water from the river Ganga in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.
11 A field of sunflowers is seen at the site of the downed Malaysian airliner MH17 near the village of Rozsypne in the Donetsk region, Ukraine.
12 Competitors stand on their windsurfing board at the women's RS-X sailing class during the first test event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 3, 2014.
13 Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue performs during the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014, at Hampden Park stadium, in Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 3, 2014.
14 A Malaysian girl is seen in front of a mural at an alley in Shah Alam.
August 05, 2014
1 A severely injured person is carried through a window onto a train at a railway station in Zhaotong, Yunnan province, heading to Kunming to receive better medical treatment after earthquake struck southwestern China on Aug. 3.
2 An Indian rickshaw-puller transports goods along a road in heavy rain in Kolkata.
3 The faithful celebrate before a meeting with Pope Francis in St Peter's square at the Vatican.
4 Oakland Athletics first baseman Stephen Vogt (21, left) dumps Gatorade on catcher Derek Norris (36, right) after Norris hit the game-winning RBI-single during the 10th inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at O.co Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Aug. 4, 2014. (Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
5 Rescue workers try to help a driver out of his car, after the vehicle was stuck over an alley in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, Aug. 4, 2014. The car rolled off the edge of a road after the driver was late to brake, according to local media.
6 A boy sits on his father's shoulders as they cool down in the hot weather at a fountain in Tokyo, Japan.
7 Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, plants a ceramic poppy watched Prince William and Richard Dannatt (R) at the Tower of London's '"Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" poppy installation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I.
8 A firefighter with the Anderson Fire Protection District douses hot spots left behind by the Eiler Fire along Highway 89, Aug. 4, 2014, near Burney, Calif. Firefighters were focusing on two wildfires near each other in Northern California that have burned through more than 100 square miles of terrain.
9 An elephant immerses behind a window in the elephants' indoor pool at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany.
10 Orangutan Bimbo chews a stick as it relaxes at the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany.
11 Martin Mrazek carries his surfboard along the Elbe river's channel with artificial waves in Brandys nad Labem, Czech Republic.
August 06, 2014
1 A Chinese boy looks at a dinosaur model as he poses for a photo in a Beijing mall.
2 A frame grab from a video from the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia shows commuters pushing a train to free a passenger's leg trapped between the train and the gap in Perth.
3 Ammunition and sunglasses are placed on a stone at a checkpoint controlled by the Ukrainian army near the town of Debaltseve, Donetsk Region.
4 A member of the Police Sports Club stands by a horse during a parade, held in conjunction with an Arabian horse festival to celebrate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's re-election in Damascus, Syria.
5 A keeper feeds an orphaned baby elephant at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage within the Nairobi National Park near Kenya's capital Nairobi.
6 People release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.
7 College students cool themselves inside an inflatable pool during the summer heat at their dormitory in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, August 5, 2014.
8 A child, cuddling a cat, rests under a shelter at the earthquake zone in Ludian county, Zhaotong, Yunnan province, China, August 5, 2014.
9 An aerial view shows houses cut-off by monsoon floods in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India.
10 A woman displays a body-painting of her eye on the back of her hand after Japanese body-painting artist Hikaru Cho painted it at an art event called "Future en-nichi" in Tokyo.
August 07, 2014
1 Aid workers and doctors transfer Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia, from a plane to an ambulance as he leaves the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase, near Madrid, Spain. (Photo provided by the Spanish Defense Ministry)
2 Clouds gather over the Suleymaniye Mosque during a storm in Istanbul, Turkey.
3 Cambodian former Khmer Rouge survivors, Soum Rithy, left, and Chum Mey, right, embrace each other after the verdicts were announced at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh. The tribunal sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in the country's terror period in the 1970s.
4 The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captures natural-color images of two hurricanes Iselle and Julio en route to Hawaii.
5 A traditional Chinese Opera actor applies make-up before performing in a special Ghost Month production entitled "Fantasy of Selling Ghosts" at the Guo Guang Opera Company in Taipei, Taiwan.
6 Women paint paper replicas of soldier's hats for the Vu Lan Festival at Dong Ho village, outside Hanoi. Vietnam is celebrating the month-long festival of the hungry ghosts, also known as Vu Lan festival, where many Taoists and Buddhists believe that the living are supposed to please the ghosts by offering them food and burning paper effigies of homes, maids, and other daily items for spirits to use in the afterlife.
7 Activists shout during clashes with forces from the Kyiv-1 volunteer battalion on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. Demonstrators confronted city workers attempting to clear the central square, lighting tires on fire in protest against the city government's move.
8 Fans line the fourth fairway to watch Tiger Woods during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Aug. 6, 2014,
9 Buddhist monks and volunteers clean the 15-meter-tall great Buddha statue during the annual Ominugui ceremony at Todaiji Temple in Japan's ancient capital Nara.
10 A man takes a walk with dogs in Berlin, Germany.
August 08, 2014
1 Kurdish peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants on the front line in Khazer. U.S. warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq's Kurdish capital after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent "genocide".
2 Displaced Palestinians stand in the hallway of a U.N. school where families are taking refuge during the war, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.
3 An Indian boatman rows passengers from submerged huts of 'sadhus' - holy men - on the flooded banks of the river Ganga after water levels rose, in Allahabad. Heavy rain in several areas of north India has caused rivers to reach dangerous levels.
4 A supporter waves flags during a gathering in support of Turkey's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. Erdogan is set to secure his place in history as Turkey's first popularly-elected president on Sunday.
5 Pakistani workers make a huge national flag ahead of forthcoming celebrations of the country's Independence Day in Karachi. Pakistan will celebrate its Independence Day on August 14.
6 Syrian refugees, fleeing the recent fighting in Arsal, wait by trucks in Majdel Anjar in the Bekaa Valley, near the Lebanese border with Syria. The refugees, who had sought shelter in Arsal, were attempting to head back to Syria; however, they say authorities at the border rejected them until their identities and statuses were verified.
7 Samir Hineidi, of Fairfax, Virginia, left, and a demonstrator who chose not to be identified, participate in a Middle East demonstration outside the White House in Washington.
8 Soldiers light candles in memory of the Georgian soldiers killed during Georgia's conflict with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia in 2008, at the memorial cemetery in Tbilisi.
9 A man wearing traditional Serbian clothing is surrounded by a band during the 54th annual brass band festival in the Serbian village of Guca. Every year Guca is swamped by thousands of people taking part in the celebration of brass band music.
10 Balloons rise into the sky at the International Balloon Fiesta near Bristol in western England.
11 Women shop at a stall selling Rakhis, traditional Indian sacred threads, at a market in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
12 People share a meal under umbrellas at the Augsburg Peace Festival in Augsburg, southern Germany. The festival is celebrated every year on August 8 and is a public holiday.
13 Athlete and powerlifter Ivan Savkin pulls a train with several carriages, weighing 120 tons in total, in the Russian far eastern city of Vladivosotk.
14 A family runs around the "Bird's Nest", also known as the National Olympic Stadium, during a night running party to mark the six-year anniversary since the Beijing Olympic Games, in Beijing.
15 A boat commutes across the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Mekong is the world's 12th longest river running from the Tibetan Plateau through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
August 10, 2014
1 The full moon descends behind Nossa Senhora da Penha Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At this time of the year the orb is at the closest point to the Earth. Experts name this phenomenon the supermoon or perigee.
2 Women struggle with strong winds and rain caused by Typhoon Halong in Tokyo. Typhoon Halong killed one person in Japan and injured 33, media said, as authorities ordered 1.6 million people out of the path of the storm that battered the west of the country with heavy rain and wind.
3 Runners start the 44th annual City2Surf fun run down Sydney's William Street, Australia. Around 80,000 people participated in the run, which covers a distance of 14km (8.7 miles) from the city to Bondi Beach.
4 NATO troops arrive at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul. A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of foreign forces in the capital, killing at least four Afghan civilians, including children, and wounding dozens, Afghan security officials said.
5 Ethnic-Chinese Indonesians arrange offerings for their ancestors' souls during the "hungry ghost" festival in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
6 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the front-runner in the country's presidential election, shakes hands with cheering supporters at a polling station in Istanbul.
7 Spectators watch as a diver Sali Riza Grancina, winner of the competition, performs the winning jump from the Ura e Shenjte bridge during the traditional annual high diving competition, near the town of Gjakova, 100 km south of the Kosovo capital Pristina. A total of 27 divers from Kosovo competed, diving from the 22-meter-high bridge into the Drini i Bardhe River.
8 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State (IS) militants on the front line in Makhmur, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2014.
9 Xavier Simeon, of Belgium, crashes during Indianapolis Moto 2 motorcycle race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
10 Two men give finishing touches to a huge model of a ‘rakhi’, or a wrist band, during the "Raksha Bandhan" festival in Ahmadabad, India. Women tie the ‘rakhi’ on the wrist of their brothers during this festival that celebrates the brother-sister relationship.
11 Citroen owners take part in a 2CV parade during the "Euro Citro 2014", on the circuit of Le Mans, western France. Almost 2,500 Citroen cars - DS, Traction Avant, TUB, 2 CV - took part in the event dedicated to French carmaker Citroen's fans and car owners.
12 Young Hindu priests take a holy bath together as part of a ritual at the Janai Purnima Festival (Sacred Thread Festival) on the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
13 Students from Tagou martial arts school perform during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in the Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, Aug. 9, 2014.
14 Manchester City's Gael Clichy (top) leaps above Arsenal's Santi Cazorla during their English Community Shield soccer match at Wembley Stadium in London.
August 11, 2014
1 A boy dressed as a holy cow participates in a parade to mark the Gaijatra festival also known as "cow festival," in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hindus in Kathmandu celebrate the festival to ask for salvation and peace for their departed loved ones.
2 Doctor for tropical medicine Florian Steiner (L) cleans ward physician Thomas Klotzkowski in a disinfection chamber at the quarantine station for patients with infectious diseases at the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany.
3 Fireworks streak past in front of the supermoon outside the town of Mosta, celebrating the feast of its patron saint, in central Malta, Aug. 10, 2014.
4 Would-be immigrants rest at Tarifa's harbor after being rescued off the Spanish Coast. Spain's coastguard rescued more than 200 sub-Saharan African migrants crossing the Strait of Gibraltar on small boats.
5 A Palestinian relative of Zakariah al-Aqrah, 21, who was killed during an operation by Israeli troops, speaks to soliders in the West Bank village of Qabalan near Nablus. The Israeli military said it killed Al-Aqrah, a suspected Palestinian militant, after he opened fire on an Israeli force.
6 American actor Mickey Rourke wears a T-shirt with an image depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin at GUM department store in central Moscow, Russia.
7 Flower growers known as silleteros carry their flower arrangements during the annual flower parade in Medellin, Colombia, Aug. 10, 2014.
8 Bullfighter's banderillero Vicente Cabanes is tossed by a Guardiola Fantoni ranch fighting bull during a bullfight at Las Ventas bullring, in Madrid, Spain, Aug. 10, 2014.
9 Chinese artist Zhou Jie takes a nap on an unfinished iron wire bed, one of her sculpture works, after lunch at Beijing Now Art Gallery, China.
10 A tightrope walker performs between two spheres of the Atomium monument in Brussels, Belgium. The 102-meter-tall (335-feet-tall) structure and its nine spheres, which was designed for Expo 58, is in the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal, magnified about 165 billion times.
11 Indian nursing students participate in a face painting competition with the theme of 'Preserving the Nature' at Vijay Marie College of Nursing in Hyderabad on the occasion of the country's upcoming Independence Day celebrations.
12 Umbrellas are suspended to mark the first anniversary of the Comix Home Base, an event space for comic illustrators and animators, and venue for workshops and screenings, at the Comix Home Base arts centre in Hong Kong.
August 12, 2014
1 Two unnamed female Sri Lankan baby leopards (Panthera pardus kotiya) are seen in a zoo in Maubeuge, France.
2 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with five-year-old Dara Edwards, the daughter of an American staffer at the U.S. Consulate in Sydney, Australia, as he meets embassy and consular staff.
3 A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State, walks towards the Syrian border with feet wrapped in rags, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate, Aug. 11, 2014.
4 The high level isolation unit which would be used if it becomes necessary to treat patients suffering from Ebola, is seen at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England.
5 A Yemeni health worker gives the polio vaccine to a child during a house-to-house polio immunization campaign in Sana'a.
6 Newborn giant panda triplets, which were born to giant panda Juxiao (not pictured), are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
7 Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, Aug.11, 2014. Authorities have made several arrests in Ferguson, where crowds have looted and burned stores, vandalized vehicles and taunted police after a vigil for an unarmed black man who was killed by police.
8 Flowers are placed in memory of actor and comedian Robin Williams on his Walk of Fame star in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, USA, Aug. 11, 2014. Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova died in an apparent suicide at his San Francisco Bay area home. He was 63.
9 The moon rises in the sky as seen through the Four Towers or C.T.B.A. (Cuatro Torres Business Area), one of the main symbols of Madrid, Spain, Aug. 11, 2014.
10 A group of Myanmar rice-field workers cover themselves in plastic sheets as monsoon rains pour down in Naypyidaw, Aug 11, 2014.
11 Journalists and crews gather in the TV Tribune prior to the opening of the the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, Switzerland.
12 Hamza Alic of Bosnia and Herzegovina competes in the men's shot put qualifying round during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, Switzerland.
13 A child plays in a public fountain at a park in Bucharest as temperatures reach 37°C (98.6°F) in southern Romania.
14 People run away from a tidal bore as it surges past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.
August 13, 2014
1 A man with his dog walk past a mural depicting actor Robin Williams in downtown Belgrade, Serbia. Unknown artists drew the academy award-winning actor and comedian below a bridge to pay a tribute following the news that he had been found dead of an apparent suicide at the age of 63.
2 A meteor streaks over the sky during the Perseid meteor shower at a windmill farm near Bogdanci, south of Skopje, Macedonia, in the early morning.
3 A squirrel approaches Indian soldiers who rehearse for the Independence Day celebrations in New Delhi, India.
4 A partially submerged car sits on a flooded section of Interstate 695 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, after heavy rains fell across the Mid-Atlantic region, Aug. 12, 2014.
5 Workers place a large red heart with the message "Our bridges can no longer withstand your gestures of love" on the pavement of the Pont de l'Archeveche bridge, near the Notre Dame Cathedral, which is covered with thousands of padlocks, called love locks in Paris, France.
6 A massive, dramatic dust storm moves toward a barn near Harrington, Washington, USA, Aug. 12, 2014.
7 Police and rescue workers help after a passenger train derailed into a ravine near Tiefencastel in a mountainous region of southeastern Switzerland after encountering a mudslide on the tracks. Several passengers were injured after at least three train carriages came off the tracks near Tiefencastel, a village less than 50 km (31 miles) northwest of the ski resort St. Moritz.
8 Italy's Linda Cerruti competes in the synchronized swimming solo technical routine event at the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany.
9 NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) captures an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.
10 Visitors play the "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn" video game at an exhibition stand during the Gamescom 2014 fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from Aug. 13 to 17.
August 14, 2014
1 A competitor throws the weight in the Ballater Highland Games, in Monaltrie Park, Ballater, Scotland.
2 This picture taken with an underwater camera shows the German team competing in the synchronised swimming duet free preliminary event at the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships in Berlin.
3 Some 150 men, women and children cram into boxes at Parliament Square in London, in a bid to illustrate the conditions faced by the people of Gaza trapped by the blockade, duing a protest organized by Oxfam.
4 A South Korean security guard peers out of a glass door during Pope Francis and South Korean President Park Geun-hye's meeting at the presidential house in Seoul.
5 A giant flower carpet is seen at Brussels' Grand Place, Belgium. This year's theme for the flower carpet is Turkey and around 750,000 begonias were used to create the 1,800 square meter flower carpet design, according to the event organizers.
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7 A protester throws back a smoke bomb while clashing with police in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, Aug. 13, 2014. Police in Ferguson fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse protesters, on the fourth night of demonstrations over the fatal shooting last weekend of an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, 18, by a police officer after what police said was a struggle with a gun in a police car.
8 The RAF Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows perform at the Eastbourne airshow, 'Airbourne' off the coast at Eastbourne, southern England.
9 Visitors run away as waves caused by a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 13, 2014.
10 In this photo released Aug. 14, fireworks explode in front of the supermoon outside the town of Mosta, celebrating the feast of its patron saint, in central Malta, Aug. 10, 2014.
August 15, 2014
1 A woman, who lost her father in World War II, holds a dove before releasing it as she prays for the war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 69th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
2 A picture of a fire-damaged book by the Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, part of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, is shown prior to a news conference in Weimar, Germany. The directorship of the Anna Amalia Library was badly damaged by a fire on Sep. 2, 2004.
3 The faithful take part in a mass outside the 400-year-old Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. Chinese Catholics on Friday cheered Pope Francis’ visit to neighboring South Korea, saying they hoped his trip to their region would help end the estrangement between Beijing and the Vatican.
4 Willie James Franklin looks into the Civil Rights Memorial fountain in Montgomery, Alabama during a moment of silence to remember teenager Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by police in a St. Louis suburb, Aug. 14, 2014.
5 An Indian school student salutes as he holds his hand-made national flag during celebrations of the 68th Independence Day at his school in Kolkata.
6 Workers stand next to a truck stuck in a large pit caused by a cave-in on a street in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
7 People take pictures of a sculpture named 'Alpha Turtle' as it floats in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge. The sea turtle featuring a black and white rendering of coral reef structures was floated past the iconic Sydney landmarks on Friday to promote an undersea art exhibition at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium.
8 A stuffed toy mascot in the likeness of a wallaby is seen at the feet of Australia's Wallabies Rugby Union team captain Michael Hooper in Sydney.
9 Kathy Ong of Malaysia poses for photos in her floral display creation 'Reflection of Autumn', exhibited in the Singapore Garden Festival, which runs from August 16, to 24 in Singapore.
10 A thirteen-week old white lion cub lies next to his father Yabu at the zoo in La Fleche, western France.
August 17, 2014
1 A competitor leaps up the air during a bridge jumping competition in Kanal ob Soci, Slovenia.
2 A Bangladeshi youth dressed as the Hindu god Lord Krishna takes part in a procession during celebrations for the Janmashtami festival in Dhaka.
3 Palestinians ride a donkey cart past the ruins of houses which witnesses said was destroyed during the Israeli offensive in Johr El-Deek village near the central Gaza Strip.
4 A protester reaches down to throw back a smoke canister as police clear a street after the passing of a midnight curfew meant to stem ongoing demonstrations in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
5 The faithful greet Pope Francis upon his arrival for the Closing Holy Mass of the 6th Asian Youth Day at Haemi Castle in Haemi, south of Seoul, South Korea.
6 An Indian man stands holding his handmade traditional umbrella and keeps watch on his buffaloes as he grazes them at a field on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
7 Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2nd L) holds the infant son of late presidential candidate Eduardo Campos as he talks with Campos' widow Renata, during the wake inside the Pernambuco Government Palace in Recife. The Brazilian Socialist Party leader, 49, was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 13.
8 An Afghan resident walks along a road in Herat province, Aug. 16, 2014.
9 One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographs this nighttime image showing city lights in at least half a dozen southern states from some 225 miles above the home planet. Lights from areas in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, as well as some of the states that border them on the north, are visible.
10 Participants react as they hold on to a greased pole during the "Panjat Pinang" event organized in celebration of Indonesia's 69th Independence Day at Ancol Dreamland Park in Jakarta.
11 Mohamed Farah of Britain kneels on the track as he celebrates after winning the men's 5000 meters final during the European Athletics Championships at Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, Switzerland.
12 Revelers relax inside a 3-D Luminarium inflatable installation by British designer Alain Parkinson during Budapest's Sziget music festival on an island in the Danube River, Hungary, Aug. 16, 2014.
13 A man takes pictures of a sculpture of a Chinese cabbage outside an ecological agriculture company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, Chian, Aug. 16, 2014.
14 Members of the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band react to winning the annual World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green, Scotland, Aug. 16, 2014.
15 A participant takes a selfie as she runs through a "color station" during the five-kilometer color run event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
16 Festival-goers are splashed with water during a summer festival at Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in downtown Tokyo, Japan..
August 18, 2014
1 Dr. Michael Baden, right, speaks as the Brown family's attorney Benjamin Crump, left, holds a diagram produced during a second autopsy done on 18-year-old Michael Brown. in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA. The independent autopsy shows Brown was shot at least six times.
2 Newborn panda triplets, which were born to giant panda Juxiao (not pictured), are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, Aug. 17, 2014.
3 Men and supporters react after a bunch of balloons burst in the air on-stage where Mohammad Tahir ul-Qadri (R, on table), Sufi cleric and leader of political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), was addressing the crowd during the Revolution March in Islamabad.
4 Hungary's Katinka Hosszu competes in the 400m Medley women preliminary event at the 32nd LEN European swimming championships in Berlin, Germany.
5 Palestinians watch through a large Hamas poster at a rally in support of the armed Palestinian factions, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 17, 2014.
6 Venus (L) and Jupiter (R) rise together in a rare conjunction over the Hell Gate (rear) and Robert F. Kennedy (front) Bridges in the early morning in New York.
7 Kyle Larson exits his car as it catches fire after a crash in Turn 4 during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, USA, Aug. 17, 2014.
8 A woman pulls weeds in a field of sunflowers in Lomianki,near Warsaw, Poland.
9 Workers hang outside the clock face as they clean the Big Ben clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London.
10 Indian devotees make a human pyramid to reach and break the “Dahi Handi,” an earthen pot filled with yoghurt, as they celebrate Janamashtami in Mumbai. Janmashtami is the festival that marks the birth of Hindu god Krishna.
August 19, 2014
1 A Kashmiri fisherman rows his Shikara, or traditional boat, during sunset at the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India.
2 Local performers display dragon laterns during a media preview of the upcoming mid-autumn festival in Singapore.
3 A Ukrainian soldier gives sweets to children in the small eastern city of Popasna, Lugansk region, recently freed by Ukrainian forces from pro-Russia militants.
4 Renzo, 11, somersaults at a traffic junction in the San Borja district in Lima, Peru, Aug. 18, 2014.
5 Kurdish Peshmerga forces stand guard near the town of Makhmur, south of Irbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan after the Islamic State insurgents withdrew, Aug. 18, 2014.
6 A tornado is seen approaching the costal city of Genoa, in Northern Italy.
7 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Type-89 armored combat vehicles flare up a smoke screen during an annual live firing exercise at Higashi Fuji range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo.
8 A boy rows a makeshift raft carrying a child through the flooded areas of Lakhimpur district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Aug. 18, 2014.
9 USA's C. J. Hobgood rides a wave during the 14th edition of the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event, part of the ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) world tour, in Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island Tahiti, Aug. 18, 2014.
10 A woman sits in a beach chair on the beach in Sellin on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, northeastern Germany.
August 20, 2014
1 SoftBank Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son dumps a bucket of ice water onto himself as he takes part in the ALS ice bucket challenge at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
2 Located in the Brabazon Range of southeastern Alaska, Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest retreating glaciers in the world. It is the primary outlet for the 810-square kilometer (310-square mile) Yakutat ice field, which drains into Harlequin Lake and, ultimately, the Gulf of Alaska.
3 A Palestinian woman inspects her house that witnesses said was damaged during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
4 Villagers use a makeshift bamboo bridge to move across flooded areas of Morigaon district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The latest heavy rains have caused landslides and floods in many parts of India and Nepal, where at least 90 people have been killed
5 A worker takes a selfie before removing a yellow and blue Ukrainian flag attached by protesters atop Stalin-era skyscraper in Moscow, Russia. Protesters scaled one of Moscow's famed Stalin-era skyscrapers and painted the Soviet star on its spire in the national colors of Ukraine.
6 Frantisek Trunda, 67, moves himself into his Elbee vehicle while seated on a wheelchair in Brno, Czech Republic. The Elbee is a vehicle designed specifically for wheelchair-bound people, and allows them to drive the vehicle without needing to get off their wheelchair or receive assistance from another person.
7 An aerial view shows a landslide that swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan. (Photo provided by Kyodo)
8 A man is doused with milk and sprayed with mist after being hit by an eye irritant from security forces trying to disperse demonstrators protesting against the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, USA.
9 A member of the grounds crew works on the field after a heavy rain soaked Wrigley Field during the fifth inning of a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Aug. 19, 2014.
10 In this before-and-after composite image, (Top) Full water levels are visible in the Bidwell Marina at Lake Oroville in Oroville, California, July 20, 2011. (Bottom) Low water levels are visible in the Bidwell Marina at Lake Oroville, Aug. 19, 2014.
11 The eye of a horse seen in the light of the rising sun in Sehnde near Hanover, central Germany
12 A man and a pig make their way through flood waters on a makeshift raft in Lishui, east China's Zhejiang province after days of heavy rain.
13 Hot air balloons land during the 40th French Hot Air Balloon Championship in Sable-sur-Sarthe, western France.
14 A model displays a creation by a Gen Next designer during the first day of the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India.
15 A giant inflatable rubber duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman floats through the Port of Los Angeles as part of the Tall Ships Festival, in San Pedro, California, USA.
August 21, 2014
1 Pakistani security personnel are seen near a burning NATO supply oil tanker following an attack at Sor Kamar in the Khyber tribal district, some 25 kilometers west of Peshawar. At least two people were killed when gunmen in northwest Pakistan opened fire on tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
2 An Indonesian policeman argues with a supporter of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a protest near the Constitutional Court in Jakarta. Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters outside the country's top court in Jakarta, as judges started delivering their verdict into last month's disputed presidential election.
3 Italian sculptor Francesca Romana Di Nunzio works on a bust depicting retired footballer and AS Roma midfielder Francesco Totti at her studio in Rome. The bust will be used by the Museo delle Cere (Wax Museum) in Rome to create a wax figure of the iconic AS Roma captain.
4 A Squirrel Monkey peers into a photographer's lens during a photocall at the London Zoo.
5 Zookeeper Chris Michaels weighs a Mossy frog at the London Zoo.
6 A jogger runs past a mural on a wall in Vienna, Austria.
7 British actor Rowan Atkinson (front), dressed as his popular television character Mr. Bean, dances with Chinese performers during the filming of a promotional video in Shanghai, Aug. 20, 2014.
8 A police officer halts traffic as delegates to the Eurofurence, Europe's biggest furry convention, arrive at the conference hotel in Berlin, Germany.
9 Men sit in an inflatable tub along a flooded street as heavy rainfall hits Lishui, Zhejiang province, China, Aug. 20, 2014.
10 A boy runs by one of the exhibits during the Dinosaurs exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia.
11 People look at French artist Clement Briend's photographic light installation "Divine Trees", which features images of divine figures highly revered in Asian cultures projected on trees towering over bystanders, during a media preview of the Singapore Night Festival in Singapore.
August 22, 2014
1 Malaysia Army soldiers carry a casket with one of the bodies from downed flight MH17 on arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. The bodies of 20 victims' of the ill-fated flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine last month, returned home from Amsterdam.
2 A supporter of Imran Khan, the Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) political party, with a party flag wrapped around his face stands during what has been dubbed a "freedom march" in Islamabad.
3 Trucks move toward a border-control point between Russia and Ukraine in the Russian Rostov-on-Don region, near the Donetsk region, Ukraine. The first trucks of the Russian aid convoy crossed the Ukrainian inspection zone Friday morning.
4 A tree laden with pears is seen during a harvest in an orchard in Hannut, near Liege, Belgium. EU fruit and vegetable growers will get financial aid of up to 125 million euros ($167 million) to help them cope with Russia's ban on most Western food imports, which has created a glut of produce in peak harvest time.
5 Police officers search for survivors at a site where a landslide swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan. Heavy rain delayed a search on Friday for more than 50 people believed buried under the debris.
6 Palestinian protesters use slingshots to hurl stones at Israeli troops following a demonstration against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
7 Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi group pray during a rally to denounce fuel price hikes and to demand for the resignation of the government in Sanaa, Yemen.
8 An exhibit is displayed at a regional museum of local lore, which was damaged by a recent shelling by Ukrainian forces according to locals, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
9 A visitor passes an image of the Virgin Mary, as thousands of Egyptian Copts celebrate the Feast of Assumption at the Virgin Mary Church in Mostorod, east of Cairo. The Feast of Assumption marks the Virgin Mary's ascension into heaven.
10 A man with tattoo on his head sits inside a booth at the International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention. The territory held its second international tattoo convention, hoping to change the perception of tattoos in a city where inked skin is still strongly associated with triads and criminals.
11 A pro-independence demonstrator passes by a Coca-Cola poster as he helps to carry a big Ikurrina (Basque flag) to protest in favor of the Basque flag and against the Spanish flag during local festivities in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao.
12 Rev. Mpho Tutu (C), CEO of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation and daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, covers her face as she participates with foundation staff in the Ice Bucket Challenge in Cape Town, South Africa. The Ice Bucket Challenge is an initiative to raise awareness and funds for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also known as Motor Neuron Disease (MND).
13 An eight-week-old leopard cub looks out from a basket as it is unveiled to media and the public at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany. The Java-leopard was born in the zoo on June 17 to mother Shinta. The cub has yet to be named.
14 A boat cruises the Moselle River near Trier, western Germany.
15 Jugs are displayed on sale at a pottery workshop in the southern Lebanese village of Rashaya al-Foukhar.
August 24, 2014
1 Taipei's Chang Wei-Lin competes during the men's 10,000m race walk at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
2 Napa County firefighters spray foam on hot spots from a fire at a mobile home park following a reported 6.0 earthquake in Napa, California.
3 Ukrainian soldiers march down Kyiv's main street during a military parade on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the country's independence, in the capital.
4 A villager uses a boat to cross flooded areas of Morigaon district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
5 Malaysian Army soldiers carry a coffin containing the body of Mohd Ghafar Abu Bakar, a Malaysia Airlines in-flight supervisor who was among the victims onboard Flight MH17, upon arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang.
6 Panda cub Bao Bao hangs from a tree in her habitat at the National Zoo in Washington on her first birthday, Aug. 23, 2014.
7 Rain clouds gather over the lower Manhattan skyline, in New York, Aug. 23, 2014.
8 Policemen look at a wax figure of Rowan Atkinson, dressed as his popular television character Mr. Bean, on display outside a wax figure museum in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
9 Simon Reynolds competes in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships at Waen Rhydd bog on the outskirts of Lanwrtyd Wells, Powys, Wales, Britain.
10 Multi-colored dyes are thrown in the air by participants during Sydney's Color Run, Australia.
11 Young divers hang from a steel bar during a training session at a sports school in Hefei, Anhui province, China, August 23, 2014.
12 A cruise ship sails some 60 kilometers south of Athens, Greece, Aug. 23, 2014.
13 Hungary’s David Verraszto competes to win in the men's 400m Medley final of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany.
August 25, 2014
1 Inmates stand on the roof of the penitentiary in Cascavel, Parana state, Brazil. Inmates rioting for better facilities in the jail killed four fellow prisoners, decapitating two of them, and took two guards hostage, officials said.
2 A supporter (C) of Tahir ul-Qadri, Sufi cleric and leader of political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), holds an umbrella to avoid sunlight while getting a shave in front of the parliament lodges building during the Revolution March in Islamabad.
3 A guard of honor is seen before a welcome ceremony for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.
4 Cellar worker Daniel Nelson looks over toppled barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon following an earthquake at the B.R. Cohn Winery barrel storage facility in Napa, California, Aug. 24, 2014.
5 A wild elephant crosses a highway in search of dry land after floods hit Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India.
6 A car sits atop an embankment after losing control and skidding up the concrete retaining wall on South La Brea Ave in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, USA, Aug. 24, 2014. The driver and his passenger escaped injury.
7 A woman touches noses with a kitten during a stray cat adoption event organized by the Streetcats volunteer association in an attempt to reduce the number of abandoned cats roaming the streets of Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 24, 2014.
8 A villager carrying a child uses a makeshift bamboo bridge to cross a flooded area in the Jorhat district, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
9 Jessie J performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, California, Aug. 24, 2014.
10 A couple sits on the sand of Sydney's Manly Beach, Australia, late at night as they watch blue bioluminescent waves. According to local media, millions of tiny single-cell dynamos, called dinoflagellates, are causing the colored waves as result of warm ocean currents and favourable coastal winds, with the waves providing the agitation needed to trigger the luminescent glow.
11 Performers in costumes take part in a parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in London.
12 Buddha images, carved into cliffs are seen at Akauk Taung (Tax Mountain) on the bank of the Irrawaddy River outside Htonebo, Bago division, Myanmar.
13 A man slips off the "gostra", a pole covered in grease, during the week-long celebrations for the religious feast of St. Julian, patron of the town of St Julian's, outside Valletta, Malta, Aug. 24, 2014.
14 Peder Mondrup, 34, is seen on a rubber boat being pulled by his twin brother Steen as they compete in the swimming portion of the KMD Ironman Copenhagen challenge, Denmark, Aug. 24, 2014. Both were born three months prematurely but Peder suffered from a lack of oxygen, which left him with the medical condition of spasticity.
15 Doll restorer Kerry Stuart rubs a filling compound into the cracked head of a plastic doll at Sydney's Doll Hospital, Australia.
16 Britain's Josh Collins riding Spook a Little competes in the team reining competition and 1st individual qualifying at the World Equestrian Games at the d'Ornano stadium in Caen, France.
August 26, 2014
1 Palestinian children hold guns in Gaza City as they celebrate with others what they said was a victory over Israel, following a ceasefire. Israel has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a Gaza ceasefire, a senior Israeli official said.
2 In this aerial photo made available by the Turkish Military, some 6,000 people form a large portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey at his mausoleum in Ankara.
3 Rebel fighters walk in front of damaged buildings in Karam al-Jabal neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.
4 A man moves a bicycle loaded with plastic boxes as he passes a woman cleaning the street in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
5 Children play in a fountain in the late afternoon sun in the Lower Manhattan borough of New York, Aug. 25, 2014.
6 In this photo released today shows the sun emitting a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT on Aug. 24, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the flare, which erupted on the left side of the sun.
7 Uzbekistan's Shakhodat Djullibaeva (L) and Egypt's Habiba Ismail grapple during their women's freestyle 52 kg qualification match at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
8 Billy Crystal takes the stage to pay tribute to the late Robin Williams during the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Aug. 25, 2014.
9 (from left) Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, Jesse Plemons, Laura Fraser, RJ Mitte and Vince Gilligan pose in the press room with the award for outstanding drama series for "Breaking Bad" at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, Aug. 25, 2014.
10 Australia's Kai Otton is seen down the wave as Australia's Dion Atkinson (top) is seen on the line up during the finale of the 14th edition of the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event, part of the ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) world tour in Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. Aug. 25, 2014.
11 Young members of a local Kyokushin Karate federation perform during an exercise session at a summer training camp in Taiga district on a bank of the Yenisei River near the town of Divnogorsk, outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
August 27, 2014
1 Russia's team competes during the rhythmic gymnastics group all-around final match at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
2 Airport and airline employees walk the fifth runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to clear debris in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The annual Foreign Object Debris Walk drew approximately 100 airline and airport employees volunteering to find and remove debris that could be hazardous to aircraft.
3 A gust of wind blows Pope Francis' mantle during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.
4 Photographer Maria Pirsch falls on the road after being hit by anti-riot policemen during a protest staged by state workers who were seeking to block a road in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Opposition labor unions have planned a 24-hour strike across the country on Aug. 28, 2014, to press President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration for wage increases in line with inflation rate and to reduce the tax income in salaries.
5 A ski jumper made of pumpkins is seen at the Experience Farm in Klaistow, Germany during a traditional pumpkin exhibition.
6 Banana leaves filled with offerings of food are placed at the base of a tree during the annual northeast Thai festival of Boon Khao Pradub Din, Thailand, Aug. 24, 2014. The ritual pays homage and respect to the earth and soil and the spirits of departed loved ones. (Photo taken by Matthew Richards/Thailand/VOA reader)
7 A boogieboarder rides a wave at the wedge in Newport Beach, California. Southern California beach-goers experienced much higher than normal surf, brought on by Hurricane Marie spinning off the coast of Mexico.
8 A man lays in a puddle of squashed tomatoes, during the annual "tomatina" tomato fight fiesta in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain.
9 Greater adjutant storks stand on garbage at a landfill site in Gauhati, India.
10 In the grasp of the Japanese robotic arm, the CubeSat deployer (upper right) releases a pair of NanoRacks CubeSat miniature satellites (bottom center) in this NASA image.
August 28, 2014
1 Malmo supporters hold flares as they celebrate after winning their Champions League playoff second leg soccer match against Salzburg in Malmo, Sweden, Aug. 27, 2014.
2 A swarm of locusts invades the center of Madagascar capital Antananarivo.
3 Police temporarily block demonstrators from walking across a bridge that leads to the capital during a strike on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Opposition labor unions are demanding more jobs, better salaries and tax cuts with protests and a 36-hour strike that started on Aug. 27, 2014.
4 The Tungurahua volcano blows steam and ash, seen from Guadalupe, Ecuador
5 A patient surnamed Hu goes through a medical check before a surgery at a hospital in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, Aug. 27, 2104. The hospital is preparing to place a titanium mesh produced by a 3D printer into Hu's head to help him rebuild the shape of his head. Hu was injured after he fell from the third floor of a building, according to local media.
6 An aerial view of the Burning Man 2014 "Caravansary" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA, Aug. 27, 2014.
7 A goat named 'Barney' from Vauxhall City Farm, walks through a ticket barrier with morning commuters at Vauxhall Underground Station in London, during a photocall to launch Transport for London's first 'above ground map' of the Victoria line, in a bid to encourage people to explore more of the city.
8 Soldiers of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) display their skills during a passing out parade on the outskirts of Srinagar.
9 One-month-old triplet panda cubs receive a body check at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province.
10 Thirty-one stunt riders balance on a motorcycle during dress rehearsals for the upcoming Independence Day celebrations in Kuala Lumpur.
11 Performers dance during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
August 29, 2014
1 Mt. Tavurvur erupts in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air, forcing evacuation of local communities and international flights to be re-routed. Mt. Tavurvur destroyed the town of Rabaul when it erupted simultaneously with nearby Mt. Vulcan in 1994. (AFP/Oliver Bluett)
2 Armed police officers hold guns as they stand on Downing Street, in central London. Britain raised the country's terror threat risk level to "severe" due to fears over the situation in Iraq and Syria.
3 A health worker, wearing a protective suit, disinfects a house during an Ebola prevention drill in Monrovia, Liberia. The World Health Organization said Thursday that the number of Ebola cases was increasing rapidly and could exceed 20,000 before the virus is brought under control.
4 Protesters burn portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a rally in support of Ukraine in Tbilisi, Georgia.
5 A rendering of a house is seen on a wreath during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial in New Orleans, Louisiana. The sky is reflected on an unmarked mausoleum that contains unidentified bodies of people who died in the storm nine years ago.
6 A man walks past burnt vehicles in a square near a railway station after recent shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
7 Farm workers in the Lee Vineyard drop grapes into a bin during the first day of harvest at Saintsbury winery in Napa, California. The winery, in the Carneros appellation, began its harvest four days late after sustaining earthquake damage on Sunday.
8 Hindu devotees take pictures of an idol of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha at a worship venue on the first day of the Ganesha Chaturthi festival in Kolkata, India.
9 Slovak honor guard soldiers wait to rise the flag to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Slovakia's National Uprising in Banska Bystrica. In a two-month period during World War II nearly 60,000 soldiers and 18,000 guerrillas were defending a compact region in Central Slovakia against German troops.
10 A North Korean boy arm wrestles with former NFL player Bob "The Beast" Sapp in Pyongyang, North Korea. Sapp and a group of brawny pro wrestlers led by a Japanese politician took their oddball attempt at sports diplomacy to the streets of Pyongyang, staging a tug-of-war and arm wrestling competition with local children before a large and somewhat bewildered crowd of spectators.
11 Wax models of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have confetti thrown on them after being presented with a wedding cake in celebration of their recent wedding, at the Madame Tussauds in Sydney, Australia. The couple married in France last weekend, ending nearly a decade of fevered tabloid speculation over whether "Brangelina" would ever tie the knot.
12 A couple takes a selfie in front of trees covered with "love locks" at N Seoul Tower located atop Mt. Namsan in central Seoul, South Korea. The terrace has become famous for padlocks left by couples to symbolize their affection.
13 A participant experiences the effect of air pressure during a performance for schoolchildren organized by members of the "Newton Park" interactive museum of science in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
14 A worker cleans a window on a building in a business district in Beijing.
August 31, 2014
1 An Iraqi militia fighter from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Saraya al-Salam's Peace Brigade, fires a mortar during heavy clashes with Islamic State fighters in Tuz Khurmatu in Salaheddin province about 88 kilometres (55 miles) south of Kirkuk.
2 A royal supporter places flowers on the gates of Kensington Palace in London as a tribute to Britain's Princess Diana, marking the 17th anniversary of her death.
3 A Somali government soldier holds his fighting position against suspected militants during an attack at the Jilacow underground cell inside a national security compound in Mogadishu. Islamist rebels blew up a car bomb and gunmen attacked the national intelligence site in the capital where suspected militants are held. The assault left 11 people dead, government officials and the rebel group said.
4 A girl calls for assistance after she is trapped by the water on a flooded Ryparken train station during a heavy rainstorm in Copenhagen, Denmark.
5 Malaysian students perform during the 57th National Day celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpu.
6 Protesters wave their mobile phones and other electronic devices as they take part in a pro-democracy rally next to the Hong Kong government complex. China announced rules giving it control over who can stand in Hong Kong's next leadership election, triggering tears and fury in the city where democracy activists vowed to stage a mass sit-in.
7 Firefighters carry a body found in the rubble of a four-story residential building which collapsed following a blast in Rosny-sous-Bois in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.
8 A competitor runs through a foam tunnel during the Brutal Run extreme obstacle course race in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 30, 2014.
9 Legendary acrobatic pilot Zoltan Veres of Hungary on his MXS aircraft demonstrates his skills with his F-16 at the Slovak International Air Fest SIAF 2014 at the Slovak Airforce Base of Sliac, Aug. 30, 2014.
10 Thousands of rubber ducks float in the Danube river in front of the Parliament in Budapest, Hungary.
11 Tungurahua volcano erupts near Banos, Ecuador.
12 Sweden's HMS Helsingborg, Denmark's HDMS Niels Juel and Finland's Rauma head to Turku during the Northern Coasts 2014 international naval exercise in Finland. Thirteen nations, including 56 vessels and 2,800 personnel participate in the naval exercise.
13 Fireworks light the sky above Saint Basil's Cathedral during the "Spasskaya Tower" international military and music festival on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 30, 2014.
