Notting Hill Carnival, flooding in Manila, aftermath of airstrikes | August 25
The day in photos around the world.
- A Palestinian man stands amid the rubble of a mosque that was partially damaged by an Israeli airstrike on August 25, 2014 in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
- Palestinian men stand in the rubble of a mosque targeted in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on August 25, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
- Indian schoolchildren use a bamboo bridge to cross floodwaters in Morkata village in the Morigoan district of Assam on August 25, 2014. Floods and landslides in Nepal and India have killed nearly 200 people and scores more are missing. (BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images)
- Palestinians walk through the rubble of a house after it was hit in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 25, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)
- Men hitchhike on a passenger jeep as it makes its way travels through flood water during a sudden heavy rain shower in Manila on August 25, 2014. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- Performers in a costume take part in the parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in London on August 25, 2014. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
- Performers in costumes take part in the parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in London on August 25, 2014. Heavy rain continued throughout the day, dampening many feathered costumes and performers. The Notting Hill Carnival honors London’s Afro-Caribbean culture in an area which was home to thousands of immigrants to Britain from the Caribbean in the 1950s onwards. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
- Britain’s Mo Farah celebrates after winning the men’s 2-mile race during the Diamond League Athletics meeting in Birmingham on August 24, 2014. (CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)
- Children play on shelves at a park in Manila on August 24, 2014. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- Homeless people sleep on the ground at a park in Manila on August 24, 2014. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)
- A child flies a kite in Cartagena, Colombia on August 24, 2014. (Joaquin SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty Images)
- Two Palestinians walk between destroyed buildings hit three weeks ago by Israeli military strikes in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun on August 24, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
- A car sits atop an embankment after losing control and skidding up the concrete retaining wall on South La Brea Ave in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles on August 24, 2014. The driver and his passenger escaped injury. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
- Beyonce performs on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA), August 24, 2014 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
- USA’s Kelly Slater rides a wave during the third day of the 14th edition of the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event, part of the ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) world tour, on August 24, 2014 in Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. (GREGORY BOISSY/AFP/Getty Images)