A glowing display of military training, cleaning Big Ben, inside a wave | August 19
The day in photos around the world.
- Police officers point their weapons at demonstrators protesting against the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 18, 2014. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters on Monday after days of unrest sparked by the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman. (REUTERS/Joshua Lott)
- Tracer bullets ricochet off their targets as Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force tanks fire their machine guns during a night session of an annual training exercise at Higashifuji training field near Mount Fuji in Gotemba, west of Tokyo, August 19, 2014. Japanese battle tanks, helicopters and elite troops stormed the foothills of Mount Fuji Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind display of the tactics and equipment the nation’s military could use to defend or retake islands in and around the East China Sea. (REUTERS/Yuya Shino)
- Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force armoured tanks fire during an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba, west of Tokyo, August 19, 2014. (REUTERS/Yuya Shino)
- Cleaners abseil down one of the faces of Big Ben, to clean and polish the clock face, above the Houses of Parliament, in central London August 19, 2014. A week has been set aside for the cleaning of what is officially known as the Great Clock, which is set in the Elizabeth Tower. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)
- USA’s C. J. Hobgood rides a wave on August 18, 2014 during the 14th edition of the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event, part of the ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) world tour, in Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island Tahiti. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Gregory Boissy)
- Palestinians flee their destroyed neighbourhood to head to a United Nations school to take refuge for the night in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun, on August 18, 2014. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel will hit back hard if Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza resume, speaking just hours before the midnight expiry of a five-day ceasefire. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Thomas Coex)
- Lukas Michul, a member of the ‘dream walker’ group jumps from atop the rugged rocks overlooking the azure waters of Navagio beach, one of the Greece’s most renowned leisure spots on the popular tourist island of Zakynthos on June 23, 2014. This is rope jumping — part diving, part rock climbing, with a touch of engineering. The aim of the project is to dream jump in 80 places with most ravishing nature and architecture all over the world .They plan to stage their next leaps at a cave complex in Croatia, a French viaduct, skyscrapers in Las Vegas and Johannesburg, and the Grand Canyon. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Louisa Gouliamaki)
- High school students gather around a burning effigy representing Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet during a rally in front of Santiago’s town hall, August 19, 2014. The rally was held after the Santiago Court of Appeals ruled in favor of prohibiting the occupations of educational institutions by students. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado)
- Health inspection officers help a mock patient (C) get into a negative pressure isolation stretcher, during a drill to demonstrate the procedures of transporting an Ebola victim, at Shenzhen Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province August 14, 2014. China’s quarantine authority has intensified inspections at customs to prevent the deadly Ebola virus, which killed over 1,000 people in Africa, from entering the country, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken August 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)
- Train wagons are seen on the destroyed railway bridge which collapsed during the fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists, over a main road leading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, north of Donetsk city, August 19, 2014. (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel tastes soup during her visit to a mobile kitchen of humanitarian aid organization ‘Malteser’ at the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) in Bonn August 19, 2014. (REUTERS/Ina Fassbender)
- Russia’s Ekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina compete in the 10m Synchronised Platform women Preliminary event at the 32nd LEN European swimming championships on August 19, 2014 in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Tobias Schwarz)
- Lebanon’s Eric Melki (L) fights against Gabon’s Davy Endamne Dzime during their men’s -55kg round of 16 taekwondo match at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, August 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
- Eleven-year-old Renzo somersaults at a traffic junction in the San Borja district in Lima August 18, 2014. Renzo and his 9-year-old brother Gianpierre perform on streets to make a living from tips given by drivers, make an average of $7 a day between the two brothers. They work on the streets after school to help their parents, whom they live with, with household expenses. (REUTERS/Mariana Bazo)
- Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez plays during the 49th Joan Gamper Trophy football match FC Barcelona vs Leon Club at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on August 18, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Jose Plago)
- A Bangladeshi rickshaw puller makes his way through the rain in Dhaka on August 19, 2014. Seven rivers in Bangladesh are flowing above the danger mark after heavy rains. (AFP PHOTO/Getty Images/Munir uz Zaman)
- A Palestinian fighter from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, gestures inside an underground tunnel in Gaza August 18, 2014. A rare tour that Hamas granted to a Reuters reporter, photographer and cameraman appeared to be an attempt to dispute Israel’s claim that it had demolished all of the Islamist group’s border infiltration tunnels in the Gaza war. Picture taken August 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)
- Sterlet, a breed of sturgeon, swim in a tank at the Beloyarsky state fish hatchery in the village of Izykhskiye Kopi in Khakassia region, August 18, 2014. The hatchery was built to replace fish stocks in the Yenisei River depleted after construction of a hydro-electric dam, which blocked their migration route. The hatchlings are loaded into container trucks, and then released back into the Yenisei river about 800 km downstream from the hatchery. The hatchery will this year release 800,000 sturgeon fry back into the river, employees said. Picture taken August 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)