Photos of the Day 8/24

Mexico's Jose Angel Leal pitches during the first inning of an international elimination baseball game against Australia at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa., on Wednesday. Gene J. Puskar/AP
People cool off in a fountain in a park as hot summer temperatures hit Paris on Wednesday. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Congolese soldiers arrest a civilian protesting against the government's failure to stop the killings and inter-ethnic tensions in the town of Butembo, in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Wednesday. Kenny Katombe/Reuters
Children learn how to play instruments at a music school in Basra, Iraq, on Tuesday. Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters
A man covered with a shawl waits for public transport at a bus stop during heavy rainfall in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Anjum Naveed/AP
A bee feeds on a lavender plant in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday. Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Rescuers work on a collapsed building following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy, on Wednesday. Ciro De Luca/Reuters
Relatives hold photos of soldiers killed in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the country's east as they attend a rally for Independence Day in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Wednesday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP
A Humboldt penguin jumps off a scale during the annual weigh-in at London Zoo on Wednesday. Neil Hall/Reuters
People enjoy a waterslide at a public pool in Hameln, northern Germany, on Wednesday. Julian Stratenschulte/dpa/AP
Australian swimming instructor Fadila Chafic, who is Muslim, wears her full-length 'burkini' swimsuit during a swimming lesson with her children Taaleen (l.) and Ibrahim at a swimming pool in Sydney on Tuesday. Jason Reed/Reuters
School children raise their hands to receive flowers during Janmashtami celebrations at a school in Ahmadabad, India, on Wednesday. Janmashtami is an annual celebration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna. Ajit Solanki/AP
Soldiers take part in the annual Han Kuang military drill, simulating the China's People's Liberation Army invading the island, outside Hsuehshan tunnel in Yilan, Taiwan, on Wednesday. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
TV cameramen are silhouetted while they wait for the arrival of the Olympic flag at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Wednesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
A recovered hedgehog is held in gloved hands before its release near Kecskemet, Hungary, on Wednesday. Some forty previously injured and rehabilitated animals belonging to the protected species were released into the wild as a result of the joint efforts of the Kecskemet Zoo and Kiskunsag National Park. Sandor Ujvari/MTI/AP
Indonesia's Rio Olympics medallists ride in an open-top bus with coaches and officials on their way to meet with President Joko Widodo in Jakarta on Wednesday. Darren Whiteside/Reuters
Swimmers take part in the annual Lake Zurich swimming event in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday. Participants swim across the lake, a distance of 1,500 meters (4,921 ft.) Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
Archaeologist Dr. Medhat Abdallah uses a microscope on a wooden sarcophagus in the Wood Laboratory of the conservation center at the Grand Egyptian Museum on the outskirts of Cairo. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak attends Ukraine's Independence Day military parade in central Kiev on Wednesday. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Members of the Four Paws International team examine monkeys at a zoo in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip before they are taken out of Gaza on Tuesday. The organization called the Khan Younis zoo "the worst zoo in the world." Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Locals cover their faces during a protest by opposition youths who were demonstrating against alleged brutality by security agents in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday. Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters
A car is crushed by a felled tree in Omaha on Wednesday. Thunderstorms lashed several parts of eastern Nebraska, leaving thousands of people without power and some stranded by street flooding and storm debris. Nati Harnik/AP
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is pictured through a curtain as he speaks at a campaign rally in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Nathaniel Plant raises his sail as he prepares to go windsurfing at dawn at North Shore Park in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Wednesday. Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/AP
Journalists use their phones to light the way as they walk though a 'media village' during an extended black-out in Rio de Janeiro during the early hours of Sunday. Dylan Martinez/Reuters
The Ford GT40 'Victory at Le Mans 50th Anniversary' class sits under plastic in the early morning hours of the Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach, Calif., on Sunday. Michael Fiala/Courtesy of The Revs Institute/Reuters
People cover from rain as a low level cloud formation hovers over New York's Empire State Building and the skyline of midtown Manhattan as seen across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., on Sunday. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
A student participates in celebrations ahead of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna in Mumbai, India on Tuesday. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Industrial climbers salvage a children's bicycle from the aluminium artwork 'Molecule Man' at the river Spree in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday. The salvage operation on Tuesday on the 30-metre-high artwork took around one and a half hours. The climbing experts climbed up on the holes of the artwork with a rope and sawed off the bicycle. Kay Nietfeld/dpa/AP
Couples compete in the first qualifying round of the World Tango Championship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Monday. Close to 500 couples, representing Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Russia, Italy and other countries are expected to compete during the Buenos Aires Tango Festival. Jorge Saenz/AP
One year old female giant panda cub Nuan Nuan, plays at the Giant Panda Conservation Center during Liang Liang's 10th birthday celebration at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday. Two giant pandas have been on loan to Malaysia from China for 10 years since May 21, 2014 to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Joshua Paul/AP
Israeli soldiers wear a night vision device just outside the Israeli-Gaza border near kibbutz Nir Am, Israel on Tuesday. Amir Cohen/Reuters
A woman hangs her laundry as another one passes next to a statue with a broken head at the old international airport, which is used as a shelter for over 2,700 refugees and migrants, in southern Athens, on Tuesday. Since the European Union-Turkey deal came into effect last March, the flow of arrivals has slowed down but over 58,000 people remain stranded in the country, most in army-built camps on the mainland. Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
People leave for safer places due to the flooding in the river Ganges in Allahabad, India on Tuesday. Days of heavy rain have caused the Ganges River and its tributaries to rise above the danger level during the past 48 hours in about 20 districts of the states of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
Women arrive at the entrance gate to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) for the trial hearing on evidences of forced marriage and rape during the Khmer Rouge regime, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Tuesday. Samrang Pring/Reuters
The sun sets over the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli border, Israel on Tuesday. Amir Cohen/Reuters
A man enjoys sunrise on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Tuesday. Christian Hartmann/Reuters
A woman sits on a ferry boat as she waits to transfer onto the next boat to continue travelling on Hlaing river in Yangon, Myanmar on Tuesday. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
A North Korean woman walks past by a donkey pen at the newly opened Pyongyang Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's latest gift to the lucky residents of Pyongyang, the renovated central zoo, is pulling in thousands of visitors a day with attractions ranging from such typical zoo fare as elephants, giraffes, penguins and monkeys to a high-tech natural history museum. Dita Alangkara/AP
South Korean police officers wearing gas masks conduct an anti-terror drill as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise, at Yoido Subway Station in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday. South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korea's threat of nuclear strikes in response to the exercises that it calls an invasion rehearsal. Ahn Young-joon/AP
Sunrise silhouettes the US Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, Va. on a cloudless summer morning in the Nation's Capital area on Tuesday. J. David Ake/AP
Cows are driven down to the valley during the traditional 'Alpfahrt' - the ceremonial driving down of cattle from the alps to the valleys in autumn - from the 'Soll' alp, in Ruete, canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland on Tuesday. Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone/AP
Inmates wearing traditional Andean clothing wait to perform at en event marking Folklore Day, inside the Sarita Colonia Prison in Callao, Peru, Monday. Prison authorities say the event is part of a program that aims to help inmates adjust to life outside prison, after their release. Martin Mejia/AP
Mason Alper walks past an air rifle in his flood damaged house in Prairieville, Louisiana on Monday. Jonathan Bachman/Reuters
An activist with her hand painted black to symbolize the contamination of oil, takes part in a protest performance demanding measures to prevent oil spills, outside the national oil company in Lima, Peru on Monday. The state oil company Petroperu confirmed Monday that there was another oil spill, the fifth so far this year, in the old and extensive pipeline that transports the oil from the Amazon to the Pacific coast. Rodrigo Abd/AP
A firefighter takes part in an anti-terror drill as a part of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is seen on stage dressed as Super Mario at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics on Sunday. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
Uniformed soldiers of the King of Norway's Guard parade for inspection by their mascot, king penguin Nils Olav, at Edinburgh Zoo on Monday. It was announced that the penguin who had previously been knighted has been promoted and given the new title of 'Brigadier Sir Nils Olav.' Jane Barlow/PA/AP
People watch a water show at Wynn Palace, US casino tycoon Steve Wynn's newest resort, during its opening in Macau, China on Monday. Bobby Yip/Reuters
A worker sorts soccer balls at the newly opened Pyongyang Sports Equipment Factory in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday. Despite claiming only two gold medals in Rio, North Korea is as determined as ever to fulfill one of leader Kim Jong Un’s primary goals: to become an international sports superpower. Dita Alangkara/AP
Afghan women carry children as they walk along a street, in the Guldara district of Kabul Province, Afghanistan, on Monday. Rahmat Gul/AP
Chinese employees watch a grand opening ceremony for an Audi transmission plant at Volkswagen Automatic Transmission Tianjin in northern China's Tianjin Municipality on Monday. German automaker Audi opened its first transmission manufacturing plant in China on Monday to supply parts for its Chinese-manufactured vehicles. Mark Schiefelbein/AP
A boy somersaults off a boat under maintenance in a dry dock in Mumbai, India, on Monday. Shailesh Andrade/Reuters
A staff sits in a casket next an altar decorated with flowers and balloons as she demonstrates Okuribito funeral's funeral service at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo on Monday. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Women perform yoga on a dried river bank in Yunyang county, Chongqing Municipality, China, on Sunday. China Daily/Reuters
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