2015 - Pictures of the month: AUGUST -Aug 09 - Aug 15

2015
Pictures of the month: August
Aug. 09- Aug. 15
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2015
Pictures of the month: AUGUST
Aug. 09 – Aug. 15
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Photographer
Oswaldo Rivas
Location
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
Reuters / Sunday, August 09, 2015
A woman dressed as an indigenous
person walks outside a church during
celebrations honouring the patron
saint of Managua, Santo Domingo de
Guzman, in Managua, Nicaragua,
August 9, 2015. REUTERS/Oswaldo
Rivas
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Photographer
Oswaldo Rivas
Location
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
A devotee covered in motor oil
poses for a pictures during
celebrations honoring the patron
saint of Managua, Santo Domingo de
Guzman, in Managua, Nicaragua,
August 9, 2015. REUTERS/Oswaldo
Rivas
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Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
AMBOSELI, KENYA
Reuters / Sunday, August 09,
2015
An elephant walks through a
swamp in Amboseli National
park, Kenya, August 8, 2015.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Photographer
China Stringer Network
Location
NINGDE, China
2015
A town is seen submerged as it
is hit by Typhoon Soudelor in
Ningde, Fujian province, China,
August 9, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
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Photographer
Reuters Photographer
Location
HOUSTON, UNITED
STATES
Reuters / Sunday,
August 09, 2015
Neighbors gather
behind police barrier
tape at the scene of a
shooting during which
eight people were
killed, in Houston,
Texas, August 9, 2015.
Eight people, five of
them children, were
killed at a house in
Houston and a suspect
in the shooting
surrendered to police
after an hour-long
standoff, law
enforcement officials
said on Sunday.
REUTERS/Daniel
Kramer
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Photographer
Darrin Zammit Lupi
Location
Trapani, Italy
Reuters / Sunday, August
09, 2015
Migrants look out of a
window on the Medecins
Sans Frontiere (MSF) rescue
ship Bourbon Argos as it
arrives in Trapani, on the
island of Sicily, Italy, August
9, 2015. Some 241 mostly
West African migrants on
the ship arrived on the
Italian island of Sicily on
Sunday morning, according
to MSF. REUTERS/Darrin
Zammit Lupi
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Photographer
Stefan Wermuth
Location
KAZAN, Russia
Daiya Seto of Japan competes to place first in
the men's 400m individual medley final at the
Aquatics World Championships in Kazan,
Russia, August 9, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan
Wermuth
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Photographer
Akhtar Soomro
Location
KARACHI, Pakistan
Blindfolded men, who were detained
by paramilitary soldiers during a raid
on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
(MQM) political party's headquarters,
are led out of an anti-terrorism court
in Karachi, Pakistan, March 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
Jubilant Afghan migrants onboard an
overcrowded dinghy arrive at a beach on
the Greek island of Kos, after crossing a
part of the Aegean sea from Turkey,
August 9, 2015. REUTERS/ Yannis
Behrakis
Aug. 09, 2015

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
A woman casts her vote as children
peek through a window at a polling
station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
August 9, 2015. Haitians voted
Sunday for the first time in four years
in a test of stability for an
impoverished country continually
rocked by political turmoil.
REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Aug. 09, 2015

Photographer
Kevin Lamarque
Location
Singapore, SINGAPORE
Children wearing LED-lit costumes perform during
Singapore's Golden Jubilee celebration parade at
Padang near the central business district, August 9,
2015. Singapore marks 50 years of independence on
Sunday. An island of 5.5 million people that sits just
north of the equator, what was a post-colonial
backwater at independence from Malaysia in 1965
is now a global business hub whose economic and
social model is the envy of nations...more
Aug. 09, 2015

Photographer
Christinne Muschi
Location
SAINTE-PERPETUE, CAN
A participant dives for a pig in the
'greased pig contest" at the Festival
du Cochon (Pig Festival) in Sainte-
Perpetue, Quebec, August 8, 2015.
REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
Aug. 09, 2015

Photographer
Location
FUZHOU, China
A trapped car is pushed along a flooded
street after typhoon Soudelor hit Fuzhou,
Fujian province, China, August 9, 2015. The
typhoon battered China's east coast on
Sunday, killing eight people and forcing
authorities to cancel hundreds of flights and
evacuate more than 163,000 people.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 09, 2015

Photographer
MAXIM ZMEYEV
Location
Yeysk, Russia
2015
An Egyptian serviceman fires
an anti-aircraft missile with a
Russian-made Igla ground-to-
air launcher as he stands on
top of an armoured
personnel carrier during the
Air defense battle masters
competition as part of the
International Army Games
2015 in the port town of
Yeysk, Russia, August 9, 2015.
REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
Aug. 09, 2015

Aug. 10 , 2015

Cornel West, center, joins other protesters
sitting on the steps of the Thomas F.
Eagleton Federal Courthouse as members
of the Federal Protective Service stand
watch Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, in St. Louis.
Protesters have been arrested after
blocking the entrance to a St. Louis federal
courthouse while calling for more
aggressive U.S. government response to
what they call racist law enforcement
practices. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Aug. 10, 2015

A security guard walks by
the Temple of Debod as the
sun sets, in Madrid, Spain,
Monday, Aug. 10, 2015.
The ancient temple, which
was originally built in
Egypt, was dismantled and
relocated in Madrid as a
donation from the Egyptian
state to Spain in 1968. (AP
Photo/Francisco Seco)
Aug. 10, 2015

A victim of a child sex abuse scandal
stands in his house in Hussain Khan
Wala town, in Kasur district near
Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 10,
2015. In this dusty town near
Pakistan’s border with India, families
kept quiet for years about the
blackmail gang that locals believe
filmed some 270 children being
sexually abused, fearful the videos
could appear online or sold in
markets for as little as 50 cents.
Those living in Hussain Khan Wala
say the gang forced children at
gunpoint to be abused or drugged
them into submission. The
Associated Press does not identify
victims of sexual abuse. (AP
Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Aug. 10, 2015

An Afghan child hold a piece of bread at a
park where hundreds of migrants are
temporarily residing in Athens, Monday,
Aug. 10, 2015. Greece, in the throes of its
worst financial crisis, is straining to
accommodate the inflow of migrants. (AP
Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Aug. 10, 2015

An Indian artist
performs with fire
during a procession as
part of “Bonalu” festival
in Hyderabad, India,
Monday, Aug.10, 2015.
Bonalu is a month long
Hindu folk festival of
India’s Telangana region
dedicated to Kali, the
Hindu goddess of
destruction. (AP
Photo/Mahesh Kumar
A.)
Aug. 10, 2015

An Army carry team transports the
remains of Army 1st Sgt. Peter A.
McKenna Jr., of Bristol, R.I., upon
arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del.,
Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. The 7th
Special Forces Group to which he
was assigned said that McKenna died
Friday in Kabul, Afghanistan, during
an attack on a NATO facility.
McKenna was killed about a month
after he was honored at the historic
Fourth of July parade in his
hometown. (AP Photo/Jose Luis
Magana)
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Ammar Awad
Location
QATANA, Palestinian Territories
Reuters / Monday, August 10, 2015
Relatives of Palestinian Anas Taha mourn during his
funeral in the West Bank village of Qatana, near
Jerusalem August 10, 2015. Israeli troops shot dead
Taha who stabbed an Israeli man at a petrol station
in the occupied West Bank on Sunday along a main
highway near Jerusalem, police said.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Handout .
Location
MOHAVE VALLEY, UNITED STATES
The Willow fire is shown burning across
northwestern Arizona in this handout photo
August 8, 2015. Firefighters battling the major
wildfire in northwestern Arizona on Monday
reported progress in containing a blaze that
forced people out of about 1,000 homes and
charred nearly 6,800 acres. REUTERS/Incident
Air Attack/U.S. Forest Service/Handout via
Reuters
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Rick Wilking
Location
FERGUSON, UNITED STATES
Protesters prepare to march in downtown St. Louis
August 10, 2015. Authorities declared a state of
emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, after gunfire
erupted on the anniversary of a high-profile police
shooting and prosecutors on Monday charged an 18-
year-old man with assault on officers. The man,
Tyrone Harris, was critically wounded in an exchange
of gunfire with police on Sunday night as people
marked the shooting death one year ago...more
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Rick Wilking
Location
Reuters / Monday, August 10,
2015
A pool of congealed blood
marks the spot where police
arrested Tyrone Harris after
he was shot by police on
Sunday night, in Ferguson,
Missouri August 10, 2015.
Prosecutors on Monday
charged 18-year-old Harris
with assault on police officers
after an exchange of gunfire
Sunday night on the
anniversary of the shooting of
unarmed black man Michael
Brown by a white officer in
the St. Louis suburb of
Ferguson. REUTERS/Rick
Wilking
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Brian Snyder
Location
MANCHESTER, UNITED
STATES
Reuters / Monday, August
10, 2015
Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton
reaches out to shake a
supporter's hand as she
arrives for a campaign stop
in Manchester, New
Hampshire August 10, 2015.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Juan Medina
Location
CALAIS, FRANCE
2015
Faris, from Sudan, learns French
at "The New Jungle" camp in
Calais, France, August 8, 2015.
For most of the 3,000 inhabitants
of the "Jungle", a shanty town on
the sand dunes of France's north
coast, the climax of each day is
the nightly bid to sneak into the
undersea tunnel they hope will
lead to new life in Britain.
REUTERS/Juan Medina
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Rick Wilking
Location
Protesters yell at a police line shortly before
shots were fired in a police-officer involved
shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, August 9, 2015.
Two people were shot in the midst of a late-
night confrontation between riot police and
protesters, after a day of peaceful events
commemorating the fatal shooting of Michael
Brown by a white officer one year ago.
REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Mohsin Raza
Location
LAHORE, Pakistan
Children whose families say have been
abused, hide their faces while their
mothers are interviewed by a Reuters
correspondent in their village of Husain
Khan Wala, Punjab province, Pakistan
August 9, 2015. Parents at the center of a
growing child abuse scandal in Pakistan
have accused police of failing to do
enough to break up a pedophile ring in
Punjab province, the prime minister's
political heartland. Accounts of abuse in
Husain...moreSeptember 7, 2015 31
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Danish Ismail
Location
SRINAGAR, India
2015
Government employees are hit
by dyed water from a water
cannon used by Indian police
to disperse protesters during a
demonstration in Srinagar,
August 10, 2015. Indian police
on Monday detained dozens of
protesting government
employees in Srinagar who
were demanding their long
pending arrears and a
regularization of temporary
jobs, according to protesters.
REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Ahmad Masood
Location
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
2015
Policemen stand at the site of
a car bomb blast at the
entrance gate to the Kabul
airport in Afghanistan, August
10, 2015. A car bomb
exploded near the entrance to
Kabul airport and casualties
are feared, officials said on
Monday, days after series of
suicide attacks in the Afghan
capital killed dozens and
wounded hundreds.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Dado Ruvic
Location
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Downhill biker Kemal Mulic trains on the
disused bobsled track from the 1984
Sarajevo Winter Olympics on Trebevic
mountain near Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, August 8, 2015. Abandoned
and left to crumble into oblivion, most of
the 1984 Winter Olympic venues in
Bosnia's capital Sarajevo have been
reduced to rubble by neglect as much as
the 1990s conflict that tore apart the
former Yugoslavia. The bobsled and luge
track at Mount...more
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Dado Ruvic
Location
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Downhill bikers Kemal Mulic (C), Tarik Hadzic (L) and Kamer Kolar train on
the disused bobsled track from the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics on
Trebevic mountain near Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 8, 2015.
Abandoned and left to crumble into oblivion, most of the 1984 Winter
Olympic venues in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo have been reduced to rubble
by neglect as much as the 1990s conflict that tore apart the former...more
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
China Daily China Daily
Information Corp - CDIC
Location
PINGYANG, CHINA
An aerial view shows People's
Liberation Army soldiers and local
residents placing sand bags to
block floodwater after a dam
breached under the influence of
Typhoon Soudelor, in Pingyang
county, Zhejiang province, China,
August 9, 2015. Typhoon Soudelor
battered China's east coast on
Sunday, killing 14 people and
forcing the authorities to evacuate
hundreds of thousands more.
REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Stringer Shanghai
Location
LESBOS, Greece
A Frontex helicopter patrols over a Syrian
child that has just arrived at a beach at the
Greek island of Lesbos August 10, 2015.
Thousands of refugees and migrants are
stranded on Greek islands -- in some cases
for over two weeks -- waiting for temporary
documents before continuing their travel to
northern Europe. The United Nations
refugee agency called on Greece to take
control of the "total chaos" on
Mediterranean islands, where...more
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
An Iranian refugee and his daughter,
pending temporary documentation, sit
at the port of the Greek island of Kos
as a ferry departs for the port of
Piraeus near Athens August 10, 2015.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
A Syrian refugee child is covered by
thermal blanket in the port of Kos
following a rescue mission off the
Greek island August 10, 2015. An
Italian Coast Guard vessel rescued
60 Syrian refugees drifting on a
dinghy between Greece and Turkey.
United Nations refugee agency
(UNHCR) called on Greece to take
control of the "total chaos" on
Mediterranean islands, where
thousands of migrants have landed.
About 124,000 have arrived
this...more
Aug. 10, 2015

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who made a year-long mission on the international
space station, took dawn and posted on social network on August 10, 2015.
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Navesh Chitrakar
Location
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
2015
A Hindu devotee takes a holy
dip while participating in the
"Bol Bom" pilgrimage in
Kathmandu August 10, 2015.
The faithful, chanting the name
of Lord Shiva, run about 15 km
(9 miles) barefooted toward
Pashupatinath temple seeking
good health, wealth and
happiness. REUTERS/Navesh
Chitrakar
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Mohammad Ismail
Location
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
Reuters / Monday, August
10, 2015
Children look out from the
broken window of a house
near the site of a car bomb
blast at the entrance gate to
Kabul airport, Afghanistan
August 10, 2015. A car
bomb exploded near the
entrance to Kabul airport on
Monday, killing at least four
people and wounding 17,
days after a series of suicide
attacks in the Afghan capital
killed dozens and wounded
hundreds.
REUTERS/Mohammad
Ismail
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
KCNA KCNA
Location
PYONGYANG, North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greets North
Korea's female soccer team as they arrive at
Pyongyang International Airport on Monday after
winning the 2015 EAFF East Asian Cup, in this
undated photo released by North Korea's Korean
Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on
August 10, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
Satsumasendai, JAPAN
2015
66-year-old Mitsuro Sudo
poses for a photograph at the
protesters' campsite near
Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai
nuclear power station in
Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
prefecture, Japan, August 8,
2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Aug. 10, 2015

Photographer
Issei Kato
Location
Satsumasendai, JAPAN
2015
79-year-old Shouhei Nomura
transports items toward the
protesters' campsite on the sandy
beach near Kyushu Electric
Power's Sendai nuclear power
station in Satsumasendai,
Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, July
8, 2015. Japan is due to switch on
a nuclear reactor for the first time
in nearly two years as Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to
reassure a nervous public that
tougher standards mean the
sector is now safe after the
Fukushima...more
Aug. 10, 2015

Aug. 11 , 2015

The paragliding Bjoern Magne Bakke Bryn of Norway (above) meet up countryman
Espen Fadnes flying of wingsuit flying through the Tianmen mountain when they're in a
challenging, in Zhangjiajie city, Hunan province, China.
Aug. 11, 2015

A fisherman drop Kashmir region grid on Lake Dal in Srinagar, India.
Aug. 11, 2015

Golfer Webb Simpson rehearsing for PGA Golf Championship at Whistling Straits
in Haven, Wisconsin, town in the United States.
Aug. 11, 2015

A sister sit study on the taxi outside
of his shabby house on a street in
the city of Mumbai, India
Aug. 11, 2015

State media broadcast
pictures bulldozer crushed
cheese rolling is thought
to import illegally into
Russia. Aug 11
Aug. 11, 2015

The workers polishing a the shape of
a giant oil bubbles in a resort was
built near the first drilling of Karamay
oilfield in Xinjiang Uighur
Autonomous Region, China.
Aug. 11, 2015

A boy swimming in the flood waters in the village of
Kyaut near the town of Ye Hinthada in the Irrawaddy
River Delta in Myanmar.
Aug. 11, 2015

The stars appear as bright streaks when shooting with exposure techniques in
Obanos, Spain. The Perseid Meteor Shower was expected to reach a peak on the
night of Wednesday to Thursday morning.
Aug. 11, 2015

An officer on the Board of
the Hellenic Coast Guard
(left) talking with Syrian
refugees sit tight on the
boat drifting on the Aegean
between Turkey and Greece
after the engine is broken
off the coast of the Greek
island of Kos.
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
Reuters / Tuesday, August 11,
2015
A dinghy overcrowded with
Syrian refugees drifts in the
Aegean sea between Turkey and
Greece after its motor broke
down off the Greek island of Kos,
August 11, 2015. United Nations
refugee agency (UNHCR) called
on Greece to take control of the
"total chaos" on Mediterranean
islands, where thousands of
migrants have landed. About
124,000 have arrived this year by
sea, many via Turkey, according
to Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR
director...more
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
2015
A Syrian refugee family arrives in
front of a tavern at a beach on the
Greek island of Kos, August 11,
2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Aug. 11, 2015

Police used the spray fire to disperse
hundreds of immigrants out of a procedure
of registration in Kos town, Kos island
southeast of Greece.
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
Reuters / Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Syrian refugees pack the stands
inside the national stadium on the
Greek island of Kos August 11,
2015. Local authorities are
struggling to cope with the
increasing numbers of migrants
and refugees arriving in dinghies
from the nearby Turkish coast.
Police ushered most migrants into
the stadium, packing the stands, in
order to speed up the registration
process. Some migrants set up
tents while police stood guard in
riot gear....more
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
Syrian refugees clash during a registration
procedure in the national stadium of the
Greek island of Kos, August 11, 2015. Local
authorities struggle to cope with the
increasing numbers of migrants and refugees
arriving on dinghies from nearby Turkish
coast. REUTERS/ Yannis Behrakis
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
Syrian men form a safety passage for women following
clashes during a registration procedure in the national
stadium of the Greek island of Kos August 11, 2015. Local
authorities struggle to cope with the increasing numbers
of migrants and refugees arriving on dinghies from
nearby Turkish coast. REUTERS/ Yannis Behrakis
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Brendan McDermid
Location
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Tuesday, August
11, 2015
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry acknowledges
attendees with Reuters
Editor-at-Large Harold Evans
(R) during a Reuters
Newsmaker event on the
nuclear agreement with
Iran, in New York August 11,
2015. REUTERS/Brendan
McDermid
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Russell Cheyne
Location
PERTH, United Kingdom
Reuters / Tuesday,
August 11, 2015
Dairy cattle graze in a
field in Perthshire,
Scotland, August 11,
2015. REUTERS/Russell
Cheyne
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Vasily Fedosenko
Location
MINSK, BELARUS
11, 2015
People cool down in a
channel during a hot day in
Minsk August 11, 2015. Hot
weather hit Belarus as the
temperature rose to 91.4
degrees Fahrenheit (33
degrees Celsius), according
to local media.
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Stefanie Loos
Location
BERLIN, Germany
2015
Migrants rest in a tent in front
of the State Office for Health
and Social Affairs as they wait
to apply for asylum in Berlin,
Germany August 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Stefanie Loos
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Jitendra Prakash
Location
ALLAHABAD, India
A Sadhu or Hindu holy man rows a boat
near submerged huts on the flooded
banks of river Ganga after heavy
monsoon rains in the northern India
caused the rise in water levels, in
Allahabad, India, August 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Chaiwat Subprasom
Location
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand
2015
Mahouts and volunteers bathe
their elephants in the Pasak river
in the ancient Thai capital
Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok,
Thailand, August 11, 2015.
Thailand celebrates World
Elephant Day on August 12, an
annual event held to raise
awareness about elephant
conservation. REUTERS/Chaiwat
Subprasom
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Antara Photo Agency
Location
JAKARTA, Indonesia
Ten of thousands job seekers wait
outside Gelora Bung Karno stadium
to enter for a job fair in Jakarta,
Indonesia August 11, 2015 in this
photo taken by Antara Foto.
REUTERS/Akbar Nugroho
Gumay/Antara Foto
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Suhaib Salem
Location
BEIT HANOUN, Palestinian
Territories
A masked Palestinian boy takes
part with Hamas militants in an
anti-Israel military parade in Beit
Hanoun town in the northern Gaza
Strip August 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Ali Hashisho
Location
BEIRUT, LEBANON
Lebanon's Hezbollah members and
supporters carry a man that fainted
during the funeral of his friend,
Hezbollah fighter Ali Manana, in
Sarafand, southern Lebanon, August 11,
2015. Manana was killed during what
activists said were clashes between
Hezbollah fighters alongside the army of
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad against
Syrian Rebels in Syria. REUTERS/Ali
Hashisho
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Brian Snyder
Location
KEENE, UNITED STATES
11, 2015
U.S. Democratic presidential
listens during a community
forum about substance
abuse in Keene, New
Hampshire, August 11,
2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Grigory Dukor
Location
TBILISI, Georgia
Barcelona's Andres Iniesta holds up the
trophy near team mates as they celebrate
their victory over Sevilla in the UEFA Super
Cup soccer match at Boris Paichadze
Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi, Georgia, August 12,
2015. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
FERGUSON, United States
St Louis County police officers arrest an anti-police
demonstrator in Ferguson, Missouri August 11,
2015. Police in riot gear clashed with protesters
who had gathered in the streets of Ferguson early
on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the police
shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death
sparked a national outcry over race relations.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Lucas Jackson
Location
FERGUSON, United States
St Louis County police officers hold an anti-police
demonstrator in Ferguson, Missouri, August 10, 2015.
Police in riot gear clashed with protesters who had
gathered in the streets of Ferguson early on Tuesday to
mark the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed
black teen whose death sparked a national outcry over
race relations. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Aug. 11, 2015

Photographer
Ueslei Marcelino
Location
BRASILIA, BRAZIL
Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva
participates in the opening ceremony of
the March of the Daisies, calling for
improved rights for women working in
rural areas and forests, in Brasilia, August
11, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
Aug. 11, 2015

This Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 aerial
photo shows a deforested area
known as La Pampa, in Peru’s Madre
de Dios region. Alluvial mining, in
which small gold flecks are sifted out
of sandy sediments deposited by
runoff from the Andes over
centuries, is heavily dependent on
mercury and the surrounding jungle
has been poisoned by tons of the
toxic metal. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Aug. 11, 2015

Aug. 12 , 2015

Police officers place explosives
around an engine hidden
underground by small-scale
miner during an operation to
eradicate illegal mining in the
area known as La Pampa, in
Peru’s Madre de Dios region,
Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. Even
after their losses and with the
price of gold down, the work
remains profitable for
hardscrabble migrants from
Peru’s poor highlands. (AP
Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Aug. 12, 2015

Police stand next to a crater created by gold miners during a police operation to eradicate
illegal mining in an area known as La Pampa, in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, Wednesday, Aug.
12, 2015. This past week, Peruvian security forces cleared out nearly six square miles in a
crater-pocked jungle zone where some 10,000 people lived, blowing up more than one
hundred gasoline engines used to extract gold from the sandy soil. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Aug. 12, 2015

A makeshift camp dotted with blue tarps,
marking the area where miners reside, and
craters filled with water, caused by illegal gold
mining activities are seen from a police aircraft
over the area known as La Pampa, in Peru’s
Madre de Dios region, Wednesday, Aug. 12,
2015. According to official figures, at least five
percent of gold that Peru produced last year
came from illegal mining. (AP Photo/Rodrigo
Abd)
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
Reuters / Wednesday, August
12, 2015
A woman pushes a stroller as
she passes by a wall mural
depicting Havana, in Havana,
February 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Stoyan Nenov
Location
ODRINTSI, Bulgaria
Reuters / Wednesday, August 12,
2015
Bastian Hummes (R) teaches his
child to milk a goat in the village of
Odrintsi, Bulgaria, August 10, 2015.
A self-described shaman who
discovered the healing powers of
herbs while seeing visions on his
sickbed; a former consultant for IBM
who ditched PowerPoint
presentations to drive across Africa
and an artist from Luxembourg who
is a qualified plumber. They are
among a group of 22 people newly
settled in the crumbling village
of...more
Aug. 12, 2015

The water of the Cement Creek
flows down a valley a few miles
downstream from the Gold King
mine, where a wastewater
accident several days earlier has
raised alarm, outside Silverton,
Colo., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.
The Environmental Protection
Agency has taken full
responsibility for the mine waste
spoiling rivers downstream from
Silverton, but people who live
near the idled and leaking Gold
King mine say local authorities
and mining companies spent
decades spurning federal cleanup
help. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Aug. 12, 2015

The water flows through a series of retention pond
was dug to contain and filter out the heavy metals
and chemicals from the waste water of Gold Mine
crash King, making mine a quarter mile
downstream towards the durable, outside the town
of Silverton, Colorado, United States of America.
Aug. 12, 2015

A tourist goes between a lavender fields in
Shenyang city, Liaoning province, China.
Aug. 12, 2015

A model wears a creation of Kittie Yiyi in Kuala
Lumpur fashion week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Aug. 12, 2015

A workout session in the PGA golf
Championship at Whistling Straits in
Haven, Wisconsin, USA.
Aug. 12, 2015

Photo 5-8-2015 shows an Islamic State Warriors
stand beside Croatian Tomislav hostage Salopek
Aug. 12, 2015

Nepalese people
burn an effigy of
demon Ghantakarna
to represent
demolition of evil
during the
Ghantakarna festival
in Bhaktapur, Nepal,
Wednesday, Aug 12,
2015. The festival is
believed to ward off
evil spirits, and bring
peace and
prosperity. (AP
Photo/Niranjan
Shrestha)
Aug. 12, 2015

Indian women lead a march as they arrive to Quito during a protest called by the Confederation
of Indian Nationalities of Ecuador, in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. Demonstrators
converged on the Capital from around the country and will participate in a national strike on
Thursday to protest against policies of president Rafael Correa. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Aug. 12, 2015

Giant panda Bao Bao, who was born Aug.
23, 2013, spends time in his indoor habitat
at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in
Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.
The Zoo reports a confirmed secondary
rise in his mother Mei Xiang’s hormone
levels, that could be a pseudopregnancy or
result in a cub. The only way to definitively
determine if a giant panda is pregnant is to
detect a fetus on an ultrasound. Scientists
will do ultrasounds and continue to
monitor her hormone levels through daily
analyses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Aug. 12, 2015

Seattle Mariners starting
pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma
reacts after the final out
of his no-hitter against
the Baltimore Orioles in a
baseball game,
Wednesday, Aug. 12,
2015, in Seattle. The
Mariners won 3-0. (AP
Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Aug. 12, 2015

Carlos Sanchez waits for a boat to
take him home, on a flooded street in
Lujan, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug.
12, 2015. More than 11,000 people
had been evacuated by Tuesday from
parts of Argentina’s largest province
after heavy weekend rains caused
rivers to rise precipitously, a top
official said. (AP Photo/Natacha
Pisarenko)
Aug. 12, 2015

A general view of the stars above
Sycamore Gap prior to the Perseid
Meteor Shower above Hadrian’s Wall
near Bardon Mill, England, Wednesday,
Aug. 12, 2015. The annual Perseid
meteor shower reaches its peak on
Wednesday night, but much of the UK
is facing cloudy conditions. The best
places to view the event is in northern
England and Scotland. (AP Photo/Scott
Heppell)
Aug. 12, 2015

A sister Syrian were injured
in a hospital in the area
occupied by the rebels,
Douma in Eastern the capital
Damascus, followed the is
said the attack by forces
loyal to the regime. At least
27 civilians killed in air
strikes on the area east of
the Ghouta near Damascus,
according to a monitoring
group.
Aug. 12, 2015

Visitors inside an inflatable work of three-dimensional light of British designer
Alan Parkinson in the Sziget Music Festival on an island on the river Danube in
Budapest, Hungary.
Aug. 12, 2015

A migrant boy smiles as he
stands on a beach after crossing
with a dinghy from Turkey to the
southeastern Greek island of
Kos, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.
Dozens of people from the
Middle East reached the Greek
island of Kos from nearby Turkey
Wednesday, joining thousands
already camped in wretched
conditions on what is normally a
tourist playground known for its
sun and beaches. (AP
Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
2015
Amoun, 70, a blind Palestinian
refugee who lived in the town of
Aleppo in Syria, rests on a beach
moments after arriving along with
another 40 people on a dinghy in
the Greek island of Kos, crossing a
part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey
to Greece, August 12, 2015.
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
2015
Syrian refugees help a woman off a
dinghy as they arrive at a beach on
the Greek island of Kos, August 12,
2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Navesh Chitrakar
Location
BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL
Reuters / Wednesday, August 12, 2015
People set fire to the effigy of the demon
Ghantakarna, during the Ghantakarna festival
at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal August
12, 2015. According to local folklore, the
demon Ghantakarna is believed to "steal"
children and women from their homes and
localities. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
STRINGER Paraguay
Location
YBY YAU, PARAGUAY
2015
Paraguayan soldiers stand near the
smoldering remains of a small plane
that had crashed earlier in the rural
area of Yby Yau, Paraguay, August 12,
2015. Paraguay's former President
Juan Carlos Wasmosy and two other
passengers were on the plane when
they made an emergency landing, but
no fatalities have been reported,
according to local media. Wasmosy
was the first civilian president after
the end of the 1954-1989
dictatorship. ...more
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Danish Siddiqui
Location
MUMBAI, INDIA
2015
Workers shape an iron sheet into
a pan inside a workshop at an
industrial area in Mumbai, India,
August 12, 2015.
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Ahmad Masood
Location
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
12, 2015
An Afghan boy plays on a
trampoline along Qargha lake,
in Kabul, Afghanistan August
12, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad
Masood
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Kim Hong-Ji
Location
SEOUL, South Korea
12, 2015
A man attempts to put out
flames from another man
(bottom) who set himself on
fire during a weekly anti-Japan
rally to demand for an official
apology and compensation
from the Japanese government
in front of the Japanese
embassy in Seoul, South Korea,
August 12, 2015. A South
Korean man set himself on fire
at a protest in front of the
Japanese embassy in Seoul,
days before the Aug. 15th
anniversary marking 70 years
since the end of...mor
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Danish Ismail
Location
PULWAMA, India
2015
Relatives gather around the body
of a civilian, Bilal Ahmad Bhat, at
Padgampora village in Pulwama
district, south of Srinagar, August
12, 2015. Bhat was killed on
Tuesday after Indian security
forces allegedly opened fire on
protesters who were protesting
against the killings of two
suspected militants in an
encounter with Indian security
forces, local media reported.
REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Kim Kyung Hoon
Location
XIYAN, CHINA
12, 2015
Chinese former "comfort
woman" Zhang Xiantu rests
on a traditional brick bed in
her house in Xiyan Town,
Shanxi Province, China, July
18, 2015. Comfort women is
the Japanese euphemism for
women who were forced into
prostitution and sexually
abused at Japanese military
brothels before and during
World War Two. Xiantu is the
only surviving "comfort
woman" of the 16 plaintiffs in
Shanxi who sued the
Japanese government in
1995 for...more
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Beawiharta Beawiharta
Location
JAKARTA, Indonesia
12, 2015
Job seekers carry a woman
who fainted at the Indonesia
Spectacular Job Fair 2015 at
Gelora Bung Karno stadium in
Jakarta, August 12, 2015.
REUTERS/Beawiharta
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Olivia Harris
Location
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
12, 2015
A model wears a creation by
Maatin Shakir during the Kuala
Lumpur Fashion Week in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, August 12,
2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Yves Herman
Location
SINT-MARTENS-LATEM, BELGIUM
The world's oldest living twin brothers, Paulus (L) and
Pieter Langerock from Belgium, 102, toast while sitting in
their living room at the Ter Venne care home in Sint-
Martens-Latem, Belgium, August 11, 2015. Born on July 8
1913, they never married and until this day sleep side by
side in the same room. Eating in moderation, drinking a
glass of good wine every day and avoiding chasing women
are the secrets of a long life, Belgians...more
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Akhtar Soomro
Location
KARACHI, Pakistan
12, 2015
A hand of a slain policeman
sticks out from under a sheet
covering his body at a hospital
morgue in Karachi, Pakistan,
August 12, 2015. Local media
reported that at least four
police officers were killed when
unidentified attackers opened
fire on them while they were
having lunch in Karachi on
Wednesday. REUTERS/Akhtar
Soomro
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
China Daily China Daily Information
Corp - CDIC
Location
SHANYANG, CHINA
Rescue workers remove people from
the site after a landslide hit a mining
factory in Shanyang county, Shaanxi
province, August 12, 2015. According to
Xinhua News Agency, rescuers have dug
out four people from their dormitories
and houses buried in the landslide on
Wednesday. Around 40 people are still
missing. REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Pring Samrang
Location
UNKNOWN, Cambodia
2015
A Cambodian child poses with rats
he skinned after catching them in a
rice field in Takeo province, south
of Phnom Penh, August 11, 2015.
The many children catching rats in
this area say these rodents have
become an increasingly popular
free food in their area.
REUTERS/Samrang Pring
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
Reuters / Wednesday,
August 12, 2015
Psychologist Aliuska
Garcia, 26, poses for a
photo at the seafront
Malecon in Havana, July
18, 2015.
REUTERS/Alexandre
Meneghini
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
2015
A man hangs Cuban flags on a
building near the U.S embassy, (not
pictured) in Havana, Cuba, August
11, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry will travel to Cuba this
week to formally re-designate the
U.S. Interests Section as the U.S.
Embassy in Havana.
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
12, 2015
A woman who did not give
her name sits with her son to
watch the sunset in Havana,
August 5, 2015.
REUTERS/Alexandre
Meneghini
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
12, 2015
Dianet Tamayo, 10, (L), poses
for a photo with Carolina
Fernanda Alvarez, 5, at the
doorstep of her home in
downtown Havana, July 21,
2015. REUTERS/Alexandre
Meneghini
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
2015
Aylen Hernandez (C), 23, walks in
downtown Havana, July 21, 2015.
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Stringer China
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Vehicles are seen burning after blasts at
Binhai new district in Tianjin municipality,
China, August 13, 2015. Huge explosions hit
an industrial area in the northeast Chinese
port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday,
triggering a blast wave felt kilometers away
and injuring scores of people, Chinese media
reported. REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Stringer China
Location
TIANJIN, China
Damaged vehicles are seen under bridges
close to the site of the explosions at Binhai
new district, Tianjin, August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
People react near a street after a
blast at Binhai new district, in
Tianjin municipality, China, August
12, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
August 12, 2015
Smoke rises from shipping
containers after
explosions at Binhai new
district in Tianjin, China,
August 13, 2015. Two
huge explosions tore
through an industrial area
where toxic chemicals and
gas were stored in the
northeast Chinese port
city of Tianjin, killing at
least 50 people, including
at least a dozen fire
fighters, officials and state
media said on Thursday.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Stringer China
Location
TIANJIN, China
12, 2015
A man checks his mobile phone
near overturned shipping
containers after explosions hit
the Binhai new district, Tianjin,
August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© China Stringer Network / Reut
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Damaged cars are seen near the
site of explosions at the Binhai
new district in Tianjin August 13,
2015. REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
China Daily China Daily Information Corp - CDIC
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
People wearing masks look on near the site of the explosions at the Binhai new
district in Tianjin, China, August 13, 2015. Two huge explosions tore through an
industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast
Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen
fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday. REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© Jason Lee / Reuters
Damaged vehicles are seen at the
site of explosions at the Binhai new
district in Tianjin August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© Jason Lee / Reuters
Smoke rises over the site of the
explosions at the Binhai new district in
Tianjin August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© China Daily China Daily Infor
Damaged cars are seen as smoke rises from
the debris after the explosions at the Binhai
new district in Tianjin, China, August 13,
2015. REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© China Stringer Network / Reut
Firefighters work at a parking lot at the
site of explosions at the Binhai new
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© Stringer China / Reuters
A man takes pictures of a damaged
vehicle under a bridge near the site of
the explosions at the Binhai new
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
© China Daily China Daily Infor
Damaged cars are seen as smoke rises
from the debris after the explosions at
the Binhai new district in Tianjin,
China, August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
China Daily China
Daily Information
Corp - CDIC
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters /
Wednesday, August
12, 2015
Damaged cars are
seen through the
damaged window of
a building as smoke
rises from the
debris after the
explosions at the
Binhai new district
in Tianjin, August
13, 2015.
REUTERS/China
Daily
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
12, 2015
A man sleeps inside a
damaged vehicle on a highway
near the site of the explosions
at Binhai new district, August
13, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
August 12, 2015
Overturned containers are
seen near the site of the
explosions at the Binhai
new district, Tianjin,
August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
August 12, 2015
A driver is seen inside
a damaged car on a
highway near the site
of the explosions at
the Binhai new district
in Tianjin, August 13,
2015. REUTERS/Jason
Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
2015
Smoke rises from the site of the
explosions at the Binhai new
district, Tianjin, August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
12, 2015
Damaged vehicles are seen on
a highway near the site of the
district, Tianjin, August 13,
2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
12, 2015
Firefighters carry the body of
a victim onto a van after
August 13, 2015. Two huge
explosions tore through an
industrial area where toxic
chemicals and gas were
stored in the northeast
Chinese port city of Tianjin,
killing at least 50 people,
including at least a dozen fire
fighters, officials and state
media said on Thursday.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Handout .
Location
MID-SEA, ITALY
2015
A migrant is rescued by an Italian
Navy helicopter in the area where
his boat sank in the Mediterranean
Sea in this August 11, 2015 handout
courtesy of the Italian Navy. Up to
50 migrants went missing after a
large rubber dinghy sank in the
Mediterranean Sea, Italian rescuers
said on Wednesday, while more than
1,500 were picked up from other
vessels in the past 24 hours.
REUTERS/Italian Navy/Handout
Aug. 12, 2015

A man sailing on a road flooded
before the Cathedral of Lujan,
near the city of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on August 12, 2015.
Aug. 12, 2015

People shielding to avoid snow in La Cumbre, near the
city of La Paz, Bolivia, on August 12, 2015.Aug. 12, 2015

The Los Angeles reservoir is covered by more than 90 million black plastic ball in
the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, on August 12, 2015. The city has completed a
program covering the reservoir with floating balls to create the shade to protect
water quality by preventing sunlight penetrating the surface of the reservoir,
preventing the chemical reaction can cause algae to bloom and other problems.
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Heinz-Peter Bader
Location
GROSSMUGL, Austria
A meteor streaks across the sky over
Leeberg hill during the Perseid meteor
shower near Grossmugl in the early
morning of August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bade
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
2015
Costa Rica coach Paulo Wanchope
(R) is pictured fighting with a
security guard during the Olympic
qualifying match between Costa
Rica amd Panama at the Maracana
stadium in Panama City August 11,
2015. Wanchope resigned on
Wednesday after being involved in
a brawl with a security guard at
the end of an Olympic qualifying
match against Panama.
REUTERS/Roberto Cisneros-La
Prensa Panama
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Laszlo Balogh
Location
BUDAPEST, Hungary
August 12, 2015
Reveller relax inside a 3-D
Luminarium inflatable
installation by British
designer Alan Parkinson
during Sziget music festival
on an island in the Danube
River in Budapest, Hungary,
August 12, 2015.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Remo Casilli
Location
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN
12, 2015
A man carries a painting
depicting Pope Francis during
the Wednesday general
audience in Paul VI hall at the
Vatican, August 12, 2015.
REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Robert Galbraith
Location
LAKE COUNTY, UNITED STATES
2015
Firefighters look on during the
Jerusalem Fire along Morgan Valley
Road in Lake County, California,
August 12, 2015. A wildfire burning
in northern California grew rapidly
on Tuesday near another massive
blaze that has destroyed dozens of
buildings, forcing some residents
to evacuate their homes for the
second time in as many weeks. The
so-called Jerusalem Fire, sparked
on Sunday, has spread across
14,000 acres and was
burning...more
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Laszlo Balogh
Location
BUDAPEST, Hungary
A couple play in foam during the Sziget
music festival on an island in the Danube
River in Budapest, Hungary, August 12,
2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Remo Casilli
Location
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN
2015
Newly married couples take pictures
as Pope Francis arrives to lead his
Wednesday general audience in Paul
VI hall at the Vatican, August 12,
2015. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Location
CAIRO, Egypt
2015
A boy jumps into the river Nile
during hot weather on the outskirts
of Cairo, Egypt, August 12, 2015. A
heatwave killed at least 61 people
across Egypt from Sunday to
Tuesday and caused nearly 600
people to be admitted to hospital,
Egypt's health ministry said.
REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Aug. 12, 2015

Photographer
Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Location
CAIRO, Egypt
A boy plays with his dog along the beach at
the river Nile, to escape from the hot
weather, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt,
August 12, 2015. A heatwave killed at least
61 people across Egypt from Sunday to
Tuesday and caused nearly 600 people to be
admitted to hospital, Egypt's health ministry
said on state news agency MENA on
Wednesday. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El
Ghany
Aug. 12, 2015

Aug. 13 , 2015

A man jumped into the sea in Beirut, Lebanon
Aug. 13, 2015

A photographer preparing to photograph the Perseid Meteor Shower every year
in the village of Crissolo, near Cuneo, in the area of Mount Monviso in the Alps in
Northern Italy. The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs every year when Earth goes
through the cloud of debris left by the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
Aug. 13, 2015

Thea Jones, framed by
flowers, waves to her
grandchildren to come
and have their
photograph taken at a
good spot she found near
Washington Monument in
Washington, Thursday,
Aug. 13, 2015. Clear blue
skies and temperatures in
the eighties make for a
perfect day to visit the
National Mall. (AP
Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Aug. 13, 2015

Construction workers work on a steel joint of the retail building at Hudson Yards,
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Aug. 13, 2015

Jose Perez, of Miami, shakes his net on shore to release his catch of small bait fish
in the predawn hours, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Bal Harbour, Fla. (AP
Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
Reuters / Thursday, August
13, 2015
A dinghy overcrowded with
Syrian refugees approaches a
beach on the Greek island of
Kos after crossing a part of
the Aegean sea from Turkey
to Greece, August 13, 2015.
Aug. 13, 2015

Migrants family members hug each
other after successfully arriving at
a coast on a dinghy after crossing
from Turkey, in the southeastern
island of Kos, Greece, early
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Greece
has become the main gateway to
Europe for tens of thousands of
refugees and economic migrants,
mainly Syrians fleeing war, as
fighting in Libya has made the
alternative route from north Africa
to Italy increasingly dangerous. (AP
Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Alkis Konstantinidis
Location
KOS, Greece
Reuters / Thursday, August 13,
2015
A migrant child from Pakistan plays
with a ball as another migrant
sleeps at the terrace of a deserted
hotel on the Greek island of Kos,
August 13, 2015. The United
Nations refugee agency called on
Greece to take control of the "total
chaos" on Mediterranean islands,
where thousands of migrants have
landed. REUTERS/Alkis
Konstantinidis
Aug. 13, 2015

A woman looks at South Korean national flags hanging on trees to celebrate the
upcoming the 70th anniversary of Independence Day, Aug. 15, from Japanese
colonial rule at downtown Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. (AP
Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Aug. 13, 2015

Security forces stand behind a
burning road block set up by
indigenous protesters from
the highlands along the
Panamerican Highway during
a general strike in El Chasqui,
Ecuador, Thursday, Aug. 13,
2015. A strike by a broad
coalition upset with President
Rafael Correa virtually
paralyzed the capital,
provincial cities and stretches
of the Panamerican highway.
The protesters are indigenous
activists, unionists,
environmentalists and
members of the traditional
political opposition. (AP
Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Aug. 13, 2015

The Snow Leopard mom standing
next to the male the Barid quote Siri
at a zoo in the city of Cologne,
Western Germany.
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
KCNA KCNA
Location
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA
Reuters / Thursday, August 13, 2015
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field
guidance to Farm No. 1116 under the Korean
People's Army (KPA) Unit 810 in this undated
photo released August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/KCNA
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Handout .
Location
SAN RAFAEL DE ALAJUELA,
Costa Rica
13, 2015
A guard of the La Reforma
Penitentiary holds a pigeon
with a little bag filled with
drugs attached to its chest
in San Rafael de Alejuela, on
the outskirts of San Jose,
Costa Rica, August 11, 2015.
Guards captured the bird in
one of the patios of the
prison and found 14 grams
of cocaine and 14 grams of
marijuana in the little bag,
according to a press release
from the Ministry of Justice
and Peace. REUTERS/Costa
Rica Ministry of...more
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Stefanie Loos
Location
Berlin, GERMANY
Migrant boys play soccer in front of an
emergency accommodation shelter in a big
air-inflated tent for asylum applicants in
Berlin, Germany August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Stefanie Loos
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Siphiwe Sibeko
Location
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
A suspect (R) writhes in pain as he is
handcuffed to his accomplice after he
was shot while they attempt to break
into a house belonging to a police
officer couple, in the south of
Johannesburg, August 12, 2015. Local
media reported a rise in robbery and
housebreaking incidents in
Johannesburg. REUTERS/Siphiwe
Sibeko
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Handout .
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro (R),
Bolivia's President Evo Morales and
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro sit
together in a van in Havana, Cuba, August 13,
2015. Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th
birthday on August 13. Cilia Flores (rear L),
wife of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro
and Dalia Soto del Valle (rear R, seated behind
Castro), wife of Fidel Castro, are seated in the
back of the van. REUTERS/Agencia
Boliviana...more
Aug. 13, 2015

A youth points to children’s
drawings dedicated to Fidel
Castro’s 89th birthday inside the
art studio of Alexis Leyva,
known as “Kcho” in Havana,
Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015.
Children drew the artwork at
home and brought them to
Leyva’s studio where the artist
also served cake from a local
baker. (AP Photo/Desmond
Boylan)
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
Reuters / Thursday,
August 13, 2015
Joshua Reyes, 3, (C),
sleeps between his
parents during a
concert in honour of
Cuba's former
President Fidel Castro
for his birthday at the
Anti-Imperialist stage
in Havana, August 12,
2015.REUTERS/Alexan
dre Meneghini
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters / Thursday,
August 13, 2015
Firefighters work at the
site as smoke and fire rise
from the debris after the
district, August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
A general view shows smoke rising
from the debris near damaged
vehicles after the explosions at the
Binhai new district in Tianjin, August
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
Fire engines are seen at the
site of the explosions at the
Binhai new district, Tianjin,
August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
13, 2015
Damaged vehicles are seen
as smoke rises from the
debris after the explosions at
the Binhai new district in
Tianjin, China, August 13,
2015. The death toll from
two huge explosions that
tore through an industrial
area in the northeastern
Chinese port of Tianjin more
than doubled to 44, the
official Xinhua news agency
said on Thursday.
REUTERS/Stringer CHINA
OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR
EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
Aug. 13, 2015

A survivors talk through your
mobile phone at the site of the
blast in the city of Tianjin.
Aug. 13, 2015

A man with his wounds
bandaged eats a bun in a
hospital receiving victims
of an explosion in
northeastern China’s
Tianjin municipality,
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015.
Huge explosions in the
warehouse district sent
up massive fireballs that
turned the night sky into
day in the Chinese port
city of Tianjin, officials
and witnesses said
Thursday. (AP Photo/Ng
Han Guan)
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
Burnt cars are seen near the site
of the explosions at the Binhai
new district, Tianjin, August 13,
2015. Two huge explosions tore
through an industrial area where
toxic chemicals and gas were
stored in the northeast Chinese
port city of Tianjin, killing at least
44 people, including at least a
dozen fire fighters, officials and
state media said on Thursday.
Aug. 13, 2015

Smoke rises from where the explosion occurred
causing a parking with new cars burnt in the city
of Tianjin, China.
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
A damaged train stops at a railway
station, near the site of the
district, Tianjin, August 13, 2015.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
13, 2015
A man looks out from
inside a damaged
residential building near
the site of the explosions at
the Binhai new district,
Tianjin, August 13, 2015.
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
13, 2015
Firefighters take a break after
trying to put fire down at the
explosion site in Binhai new
district in Tianjin, August 13,
2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
13, 2015
A damaged road sign is seen
near the site of the
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
2015
Rescue workers wearing
chemical protective suits walk
at the site of the explosions at
the Binhai new district in
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, China
2015
People wearing mask leave their
home for temporary shelters near
the site of the explosions, at the
Binhai new district, Tianjin, August
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
A woman evacuated from a
residential area looks at a
large metal object that landed
and damaged the road about
two kilometres from the
explosion site in Binhai new
district in Tianjin, August 13,
2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
2015
Damaged buildings and cars are
seen near the site of the
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
13, 2015
Smoke rise from the site
of the explosions at the
Binhai new district,
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
Reuters / Thursday,
August 13, 2015
Firefighters carry the
body of a victim from the
site of the explosions at
the Binhai new district,
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Christian Hartmann
Location
ATHENS, Greece
2015
Greek Finance Minister Euclid
Tsakalotos reacts as deputies
attempt to disrupt his speech
during a night parliamentary
session in Athens, Greece, early
August 14, 2015. Greek
lawmakers debated a draft bill
on the latest bailout deal, which
the government hopes will be
approved ahead of a euro zone
finance ministers meeting in
Brussels on Friday.
REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Location
KHAN YOUNIS, Palestinian
Territories
13, 2015
Palestinians spray soap as
they celebrate during a mass
wedding for 53 couples in
Khan Younis in the southern
Gaza Strip, August 13, 2015.
The wedding was funded by
the Islamic Society.
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu
Mustafa
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
USA Today Sports
Location
Sheboygan, United States
2015
Aug 13, 2015; Sheboygan, WI,
USA; Lawn mowers work on the
11th fairway before the first
round of the 2015 PGA
Championship golf tournament at
Whistling Straits in Sheboygan,
Wisconsin, August 13, 2015. Brian
Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Amir Cohen
Location
MITZPE RAMON, Israel
A meteor streaks across the sky in the
early morning as people watching
during the Perseid meteor shower in
Ramon Carter near the town of Mitzpe
Ramon, southern Israel, August 13,
2015. The Perseid meteor shower is
sparked every August when the Earth
passes through a stream of space
debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Location
KHAN YOUNIS, Palestinian Territories
A young Palestinian crawls under a
barbed wire during a military-style
exercise at a summer camp organized
by Islamic Jihad movement, in Khan
Younis in the southern Gaza Strip,
August 13, 2015. REUTERS/Ibraheem
Abu Mustafa
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Olivia Harris
Location
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Reuters / Thursday,
August 13, 2015
Models get ready
backstage during the
Islamic Fashion Festival at
Kuala Lumpur Fashion
Week in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, August 13,
2015. REUTERS/Olivia
Harris
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
STRINGER Peru
Location
MADRE DE DIOS, PERU
Reuters / Thursday,
August 13, 2015
Peruvian police burn
illegal miners' camps
during an operation
against illegal gold
mining camps in La
Pampa, in the southern
Amazon region of
Madre de Dios, Peru
August 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Sebastian
Castaneda
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
STRINGER Peru
Location
MADRE DE DIOS, PERU
Reuters / Thursday,
August 13, 2015
View of destroyed illegal
gold mining camps after a
police operation in La
Pampa, in the southern
Amazon region of Madre
de Dios, Peru August 11,
2015. REUTERS/Sebastian
Castaneda
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
STRINGER Peru
Location
MADRE DE DIOS, PERU
2015
Peruvian police burn illegal
miners' camps during an
operation against illegal gold
mining camps in La Pampa, in
the southern Amazon region
of Madre de Dios, Peru August
11, 2015. REUTERS/Sebastian
Castaneda
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
STRINGER Peru
Location
MADRE DE DIOS, PERU
2015
Peruvian police burn illegal
miners' camps during an
operation against illegal gold
mining camps in La Pampa, in
the southern Amazon region of
Madre de Dios, Peru August 11,
2015. REUTERS/Sebastian
Castaneda
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Guillermo Granja
Location
QUITO, Ecuador
Demonstrators clash with the police during a march in Quito, Ecuador, August 13,
2015. Dozens of workers, union leaders and indigenous Ecuadorians on Thursday
blocked roads to Quito with branches and rocks to protest President Rafael Correa's
plans to hike taxes and reform the constitution to allow indefinite presidential re-
election. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja
Aug. 13, 2015

Photographer
Guillermo Granja
Location
QUITO, Ecuador
2015
Demonstrators clash with police
during a march in Quito, Ecuador,
August 13, 2015. Dozens of
workers, union leaders and
indigenous Ecuadorians on
Thursday blocked roads to Quito
with branches and rocks to
protest President Rafael Correa's
plans to hike taxes and reform
the constitution to allow
indefinite presidential re-
election. REUTERS/Guillermo
Granja
Aug. 13, 2015

Aug. 14 , 2015

A man selling Arabic dates from the back of his truck in the first day of the Festival
is in Buraydah, 400 km northwest of the city of Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia.
Aug. 14, 2015

A fair dropped "votes" for
the presidential candidate
of the Republican party,
Ben Carson, at the Iowa
State Fair in Des Moines,
Iowa.
Aug. 14, 2015

Supporters of the National
Unity Party of ruling Sri Lanka
prepares to drop a giant kites
bearing the colors and logo of
the party before the election
Congress in Gampaha, East of
the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The election is expected to be
held on Monday.
Aug. 14, 2015

A man read the book at one point exhibited street art in Moscow, Russia.
Aug. 14, 2015

Former US President
George w. Bush and wife
Laura shooting with two
new grandsons was
Poppy Louise (right) and
Mila Hager, after their
daughter Jenna Bush
Hager born in New York
City. Image by George w.
Bush's Office provided.
Aug. 14, 2015

A sister with the
Indian flag painted on
the side waiting for
performances in a
celebration at a
market on today
before national day in
the city of Jammu.
India celebrates
national day on
Saturday when he
declared
independence from
the British colonial
rule background in
1947
Aug. 14, 2015

The women crying for their loved
ones at a memorial to those who died
in the Georgian-Abkhazian war in a
ceremony celebrating the clashes in
Tbilisi, Georgia. The Georgian
Government forces fought with the
secessionist Abkhaz people in 1992-
1993, then this separatist territory
declared independence.
Aug. 14, 2015

Two veterans of the second world war Ray
and Ellie Williams to reproduce the
photograph "the Kiss" of famous
photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on Times
Square in New York City, United States of
America.
Aug. 14, 2015

Tibetan Buddhists and
tourists watching a
giant Thangka, is a
giant silk sheets
embroidered portrait
of Buddha, in the
Shoton Festival at
Drepung Temple in
Lhasa, Tibet
Autonomous Region,
China
Aug. 14, 2015

People protesting against the
Government near the residence of
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo,
Japan 70 years anniversary of end of
World War II, Abe expressed deep
regret about the war.
Aug. 14, 2015

A woman puts a candle
ceremony to pray for the
victims killed in the
explosion Thursday in the
city of Tianjin, China. Two
large explosions that killed at
least 56 people.
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Jason Lee
Location
TIANJIN, China
Reuters / Friday, August
14, 2015
Firefighters run as smoke
rises at the site of the
explosions at the Binhai
new district in Tianjin,
Investigators searched for
clues on Friday to identify
what caused two huge
explosions at a warehouse
storing volatile chemicals
at a busy port in northeast
China, as foreign and local
companies assessed the
damage to their
operations.
REUTERS/Jason Lee
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Stringer China
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters / Friday,
August 14, 2015
An aerial picture
shows damaged
trucks and a shipping
container near the
site of Wednesday
night's explosions at
Binhai new district in
Tianjin August 15,
2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Stringer China
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters / Friday,
August 14, 2015
An aerial picture shows
smoke rising from the
debris among shipping
containers at the site
of explosions at Binhai
new district in Tianjin,
China, August 15,
2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Stringer China
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters / Friday, August 14,
2015
An aerial picture shows
smoke rising from the
debris among shipping
containers at the site of
August 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
Smoke rises among shipping
containers next to damaged
vehicles as firefighters try to
put out a fire after
explosions on Wednesday
night, at Binhai new district
in Tianjin, August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters / Friday, August 14, 2015
People affected by a huge explosion at
the port in Tianjin, China sleep at the
school turned into shelter for
evacuated, August 14, 2015.
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
A firefighter walks past damaged
vehicles after explosions on
Wednesday night, at Binhai new
district in Tianjin, August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
China Daily China Daily Information
Corp - CDIC
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Damaged cars are seen near the
site the explosions at the Binhai
new district, Tianjin, August 13,
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Damir Sagolj
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Zhang Yibi holds a picture of her
son Lei Chi, 21, a firefighter who is
among those missing after the
huge explosion at the port in
Tianjin, as she visits a hospital
looking for him, August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Damir Sago
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Mohamed Al-Sayaghi
Location
Sanaa, Yemen
2015
People are pictured through a
damaged window of a house,
near the site of Thursday's car
bomb attack in Yemen's capital
Sanaa, August 14, 2015. There
were no casualties from the
blast which was located near a
mosque, according to police
and medics.
REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Amr Dalsh
Location
Fayoum, Egypt
2015
Coral reefs and marine fossils
lay on the rocks in the natural
reserve area of Wadi Al-Hitan,
or the Valley of the Whales, at
the desert of Al Fayoum
Governorate, southwest of
Cairo, Egypt, August 12, 2015.
Wadi Al-Hitan holds an
impressive collection of fossils
and bones, some of which
date back over 40 million
years. The entire site
resembles an open-air
museum with marked trails
and itineraries that visitors can
follow to admire...more
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Dinuka Liyanawatte
Location
GALLE, SRI LANKA
Reuters / Friday,
August 14, 2015
Sri Lanka's Jehan
Mubarak (L) and
India's Rohit Sharma
watch as a monkey
runs past them
middle of the ground
during the third day
of their first test
cricket match in Galle,
Sri Lanka, August 14,
2015.
REUTERS/Dinuka
Liyanawatte
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Thomas Peter
Location
TOKYO, JAPAN
2015
Businessmen are reflected in
a fountain as they stand
outside an office building in
Tokyo, August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Beawiharta Beawiharta
Location
JAKARTA, Indonesia
Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman
(R) hugs his wife Tracy in front of
the gate of Cipinang prison shortly
after he released from prison in
Jakarta, August 14, 2015. An
Indonesian court will free two
international school teachers who
were jailed for sexually abusing
students, the pair's lawyer and the
brother of one the teachers said
on Friday, in a case that critics say
was fraught with irregularities.
REUTERS/Beawiharta
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Mohammed Salem
Location
GAZA, Palestinian
Territories
Reuters / Friday, August
14, 2015
A building, that was
destroyed in past Israeli
shelling, is seen in the
background as
Palestinians swim in the
Mediterranean Sea in the
northern Gaza Strip,
August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Mohammed
Salem
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Enrique de la Osa
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
2015
Workers place the seal of
The United States of America
on the wall at the main
entrance of the U.S. embassy
in Havana, August 14, 2015.
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry travels to Cuba on
Friday to raise the U.S. flag
at the recently restored
American embassy in
Havana, another symbolic
step in the thawing of
relations between the two
Cold War-era foes.
REUTERS/Enrique de la Osa
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
POOL New
Location
Havana, Cuba
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stands
with other dignitaries as members of
the U.S. Marines raise the U.S. flag over
the newly reopened embassy in Havana
for the first time in 54 years, August 14,
2015. REUTERS/Pablo Martinez
Monsivais/Pool
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
POOL New
Location
Havana, Cuba
U.S. Marines, currently stationed
in Cuba, stand at the ready for
the raising of the U.S. flag over
the newly reopened embassy in
Havana, August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Pablo Martinez
Monsivais/Pool
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
2015
The U.S. flag flies at the U.S.
embassy in Havana, Cuba,
August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Yander Zamora
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
People gather underneath the seal
of the United States of America on
a staircase at the U.S. embassy in
Havana, Cuba, August 14, 2015.
REUTERS/Jorge Luis Banos
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Stringer Shanghai
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
U.S. marines raise the U.S. flag while watched
over by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C, at
lectern, back to camera) at the U.S. embassy in
Havana, Cuba, August 14, 2015. U.S. Marines
raised the American flag at the embassy in Cuba
for the first time in 54 years on Friday,
symbolically ushering in an era of renewed
diplomatic relations between the two Cold War-
era foes. REUTERS/Stringer
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, Cuba
People gather near flagpoles with a
single Cuban flag next to the U.S.
embassy (not pictured) during a flag-
raising ceremony at the embassy in
Havana, August 14, 2015.
Aug. 14, 2015

A child looks out a window from
inside the newly opened U.S.
Embassy overlooking the staging
area, at the end of a flag raising
ceremony of the newly opened
U.S. Embassy, in Havana, Cuba,
Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Washington's
top diplomat traveled to the Cuban
capital to raise the U.S. flag and
formally reopen the long-closed
U.S. Embassy. Cuba and U.S.
officially restored diplomatic
relations July 20. (AP Photo/Ramon
Espinosa)
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
POOL New
Location
Havana, Cuba
Members of the U.S. Marines
raise the U.S. flag over the newly
reopened embassy in Havana,
August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Pablo
Martinez Monsivais/Pool
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
Alexandre Meneghini
Location
HAVANA, CUBA
Medical student Electo Rossel, 20, wearing a shirt
with a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama, listens
to music at the Malecon seafront outside the U.S.
embassy (not pictured) in Havana, Cuba, August 14,
2015. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Aug. 14, 2015

Photographer
XXSTRINGERXX xxxxx
Location
RIZE, Turkey
A grouse sits on Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's
head as he visits a facility of the Forest and Water
Management Ministry in Rize, Turkey, August 14,
Aug. 14, 2015

A Bangladeshi activist holds
a candle, as they protest
against the killing of secular
blogger Niladri
Chottopadhay Niloy in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday,
Aug. 14, 2015. Two
suspected members of a
Bangladeshi Muslim militant
group, including one who
was out on bail on a charge
of attempted murder, were
arrested in the killing of the
secular blogger in the fourth
such deadly attack this year.
(AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
Aug. 14, 2015

Migrants and refugees wait to board an Athens-
bound ferry at the southeastern island of Kos,
Greece, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Late Friday,
about 1,900 Syrians, clasping their papers in
their hands, queued patiently in a fenced-off
part of Kos harbor to get on an Athens-bound
ferry - once all other passengers had boarded.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Aug. 14, 2015

Syrian refugee girl Wa'ad Khalid, 4, sits on the ground
at the entrance of her family's tent at an informal
tented settlement near the Syrian border on the
outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Aug. 14, 2015

Two migrants look toward a giant passenger ferry while
it arrives at the Greek holiday island of Kos, to provide
temporary accommodation for some thousands of
refugees sleeping rough after crossing clandestinely
from Turkey in flimsy boats, Greece, Friday, Aug. 14,
2015. The Eleftherios Venizelos, which can take up to
2,500 people, is due on Kos Friday afternoon, to
function as a refugee registration center, where
refugees, mostly Syrians, can stay as they wait for
temporary travel documents to leave the island. (AP
Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Aug. 14, 2015

Maria Lujan Birigaray and
her son Dylan stand inside
their home they had fled
because of severe flooding,
in Lujan, Argentina, Friday,
Aug. 14, 2015. The Argentine
Health Ministry released a
series of health warnings on
Friday for the hundreds of
people who are returning to
their inundated homes. The
ministry warned the
residents to be careful when
entering their homes,
keeping an eye out for
snakes and rats, as well as
making sure the electricity
and gas are turned off to
avoid fire, electrocution or
explosions. (AP
Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Aug. 14, 2015

Tina Kuenstner-Mantl of
Austria rides on horse Nu
Chexomatic during the Reining
team final at the FEI European
Championships in Aachen,
Germany, Friday, Aug. 14,
2015. (AP Photo/Martin
Meissner)
Aug. 14, 2015

A leaf sparkles with morning dew next to
a mound of mine tailings from an
abandoned mine, high in the San Juan
Mountains north of Silverton,
southwestern Colo., Friday, Aug. 14,
2015. The mines that settlers built in the
booms of the 19th century are an
everpresent part of the landscape in this
mineral-rich part of Colorado. (AP
Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Aug. 14, 2015

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a
statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the
end of World War II during a press conference
at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 14,
2015. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
acknowledged Friday that Japan inflicted
"immeasurable damage and suffering" on
innocent people in World War II, but stopped
short of offering his own apology and said
future generations of Japanese should not have
to make them either. (AP Photo/Eugene
Hoshiko)
Aug. 14, 2015

A fan uses an umbrella for shade
near the seventh hole during the
second round of the PGA
Championship golf tournament
Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, at Whistling
Straits in Haven, Wis. (AP Photo/Jae
Hong)
Aug. 14, 2015

Aug. 15 , 2015

People visit the temporary exhibition "Forests Underwater" by Japanese
aquascaper Takashi Amano at Lisbon's Oceanarium Friday, Aug. 15 2015. Amano's
"nature aquarium," that is 40 meters in length and holds 160,000 liters of fresh
water, is populated with over 10,000 tropical fish and 46 species of aquatic
plants. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Joshua Lott
Location
Des Moines, UNITED
STATES
Reuters / Saturday,
August 15, 2015
Republican presidential
candidate and former
Senator of Pennsylvania,
Rick Santorum grills pork
burgers at the Iowa
State Fair in Des Moines,
Iowa August 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Joshua Lott
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Joshua Lott
Location
Des Moines, UNITED STATES
Reuters / Saturday, August 15,
2015
candidate and Senator Bernie
Sanders (D-VT) speaks at the
Iowa State Fair in Des Moines,
Iowa August 15, 2015.
REUTERS/Joshua Lott
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Jim Young
Location
DES MOINES, United States
Reuters / Saturday, August
15, 2015
greets Louie Dixon as she
campaigns at the Iowa State
Fair in Des Moines, Iowa,
United States, August 15,
2015. REUTERS/Jim Young
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
A firefighter walks among
damaged vehicles as smoke rises
amidst shipping containers at the
site of explosions, at Binhai new
district in Tianjin, China, August
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
A damaged building is seen
among debris at the site of
explosions in Binhai new district
of Tianjin, China, August 15,
2015. REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
China Daily China
Daily Information
Corp - CDIC
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
Reuters / Saturday,
August 15, 2015
A damaged fire truck
is pictured at the site
of explosions in
Binhai new district of
Tianjin, China, August
15, 2015.
REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Location
TIANJIN, CHINA
2015
A photographer wearing a gas
mask walks out of a damaged
building at the site of explosions
in Binhai new district of Tianjin,
REUTERS/China Daily
Aug. 15, 2015

Photographer
Yannis Behrakis
Location
KOS, Greece
2015
A Syrian refugee holds her child
in her arms as she sits in the
port of the Greek island of Kos
waiting to be registered and
move with her family to the
"Eleftherios Venizelos" vessel
August 15, 2015.
Aug. 15, 2015
THE END
Aug. 09 – Aug. 15

2015 - Pictures of the month: AUGUST -Aug 09 - Aug 15

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