Comet closeup, Gaza City destruction, China quake aftermath, women’s rugby, hitchBOT on the road

Palestinian men inspect destruction in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighborhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. The ceasefire, which came into effect on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after one month of fighting killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

The hitchBOT is seen posed next to Highway 17 north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway August 5, 2014. The hitch-hiking robot is now at the halfway point in its journey across Canada. (Kenneth Armstrong/Reuters)

A woman displays body-paintings of her eye and her mouth on the back of her hands after Japanese body-painting artist Hikaru Cho (unseen in this picture) painted at an art event called “Future en-nichi” in Tokyo on August 6, 2014. En-nichi is a popular Japanese summer festival and 12 contemporary artists exhibit through to August 10. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images )

A beluga whale sprays water onto visitors at a summer attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on August 6, 2014. Tokyo’s temperature climbed over 35 degree Celsius on August 6 following a heatwave in the area. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images )

A handout photo of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosettas OSIRIS narrow-angle camera from a distance of 285 km (177 miles), made available by the European Space Agency (ESA) August 6, 2014. European spacecraft Rosetta became the first ever to rendezvous with the comet on Wednesday as part of a decade-long deep space mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system. Rosetta, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2004, will accompany comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on its trip around the sun and land a probe on it later this year in an unprecedented manoeuvre. The image resolution is 5.3 metres/pixel. (ESA/Reuters)

College students cool themselves inside an inflatable pool during the summer heat, at their dormitory in Wuhan, Hubei province. (Reuters)

German altar servers raise their hands during an open-air meeting with Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican on August 5, 2014. (Alberto Pizzoli/Getty Images)

French fans cheer for their team before the 2014 Women’s Rugby Union World Cup pool C match between France and South Africa in Marcoussis in the southern suburbs of Paris. (Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images)

French Christelle Le Duff scores a try during the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2014 Pool C between France and South Africa on August 5, 2014 in Marcoussis, near Paris. (Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men use a candle light to read from the book of Eicha (Book of Lamentations) during the annual Tisha BAv (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. Religious Jews in Israel and around the world began traditional prayers and fasting today to commemorate the destruction of the First and Second holy temples in Jerusalem. Commemorated under the Hebrew calendar as the Ninth of Av, worshippers will gather all night long at the Wailing Wall, the last remaining vestige of the Second Temple, in Jerusalem Old City. (Menahem Kahana/Getty Images)

Israeli prison guards escort Yosef Ben David (C), one of three Israeli suspects in the murder of Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khudair, at Jerusalem District Court. Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday remanded Ben David in custody until the end of his trial, Israel’s court authority said. Israel arrested three Jewish suspects in the abduction and killing of 16-year-old Abu Khudair whose death touched off violent protests in Jerusalem and in Israeli Arab towns last month. Investigators believe Abu Khudair was killed because of “nationalist motives”. Palestinians suspect that far-right Jews carried out a vengeance killing after three Jewish teens who were abducted while hitchhiking in the occupied West Bank on June 12. Abu Khudair’s burnt body was discovered in a Jerusalem forest on July 2, a day after their burial. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)

A child, cuddling a cat, rests under a shelter at the earthquake zone in Ludian county, Zhaotong, Yunnan province, August 5, 2014. An earthquake in China on the weekend triggered landslides that have blocked rivers and created rapidly growing bodies of water that could unleash more destruction on survivors of the disaster that killed 410 people, state media reported on Tuesday. (Reuters)

Local residents collect their belongings from the debris of their damaged houses in Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China’s Yunnan province. The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. (Getty Images)

A rescue worker tries to help his colleague to get out from under the debris of a house at the earthquake zone in Longtoushan town, Ludian county, Zhaotong, Yunan province, August 6, 2014. An earthquake in China on the weekend triggered landslides that have blocked rivers and created rapidly growing bodies of water that could unleash more destruction on survivors of the disaster that killed 410 people, state media reported on Tuesday. (Wong Campion/Reuters)

A team of rescuers (bottom) walk in a disaster-hit town in Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China’s Yunnan province. The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. (Getty Images)

Rescuers sleep on the ground in Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China’s Yunnan province. The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. (Getty Images)

This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) inspecting the Chonji Lubricant Factory at an unconfirmed location. (Getty Images)

Palestinians salvage items from the rubble of destroyed buildings in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighborhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. The ceasefire, which came into effect on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after one month of fighting killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

A Palestinian boy writes on a shrapnel riddled backboard at the heavily damaged Sobhi Abu Karsh school in Gaza City’s al-Shejaea neighborhood on August 5, 2014, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip after a month of fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces. Hamas may have hemorrhaged rockets and fighters, but its latest war with Israel has boosted its popularity in the Gaza Strip even if long-term gains look remote, analysts say. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)

A Palestinian woman walks through the rubble of destroyed buildings in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighborhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. The ceasefire, which came into effect on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after one month of fighting killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

Palestinians salvage items from the rubble of destroyed buildings in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighborhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. The ceasefire, which came into effect on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after one month of fighting killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

One-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan (L), whom medics said was wounded in an Israeli air strike, lies in a bed as he receives treatment at a hospital in Gaza City August 6, 2014. Figures issued on Wednesday by UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, showed that 419 Palestinian children have been killed in the nearly month-long Gaza war. That compares with 350 children who died in Israel’s three-week ground offensive in the enclave five years ago. At least six Israeli children were reportedly injured due to rocket fire from Gaza in the past month, according to preliminary UNICEF figures. Since then, Gaza has been quiet as Palestinians and Israelis observe a 72-hour ceasefire which, it is hoped, will lead to a more durable truce after a war that has devastated much of the densely populated enclave. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

A Palestinian youth carries items salvaged from the rubble past destroyed buildings in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighborhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. The ceasefire, which came into effect on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after one month of fighting killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

Comet closeup, Gaza City destruction, China quake aftermath, women’s rugby, hitchBOT on the road | August 6

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