Record flooding on the East coast, European Athletics Championships, Gaza, Yazidis in Iraq, DFL Supercup

A pig is seen in an enclosure on the waters edge in the coastal area renamed by residents ‘ Yolanda Village’ in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. Tacloban residents continue to focus on rebuilding their lives nine months after Typhoon Haiyan struck the coast on November 8, 2013, leaving more than 6000 dead and many more homeless. With many businesses and government operations back up and running and with the recent start of the years typhoon season, permanent housing continues to be the main focus with many families still living in temporary accommodation. As well as continuing recovery efforts Leyte is preparing for the arrival of Pope Francis, who will visit the region from January 15- 19. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

An underage balloon seller sits watching pigeons in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After months of negotiations Australia and Cambodia look set to agree on a deal which will see 1000 refugees transferred from Australia to Cambodia. The discussions have been met with intense opposition as people fear the deal could overwhelm Cambodia’s refugee infrastructure. In return for almost emptying Australia’s Nauru Island detention center, it has been reported that Australia will pay the Cambodian government $40 million. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)

A man walks down a flooded road in Islip, New York. More than a foot of rain hit parts of New York’s Long Island on Wednesday, enough to set a preliminary state record, triggering flash floods and swamping cars on major roads that were turned into rivers during the morning rush hour. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Adelmo Perez uses a truck and plow to push water out of a housing complex parking lot in North Babylon, New York. More than two months worth of rain fell in two hours in New York’s Long Island suburbs on Wednesday, causing flash flooding and swamping cars on major roads that were turned into rivers during the morning rush hour. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Displaced Iraqi Yazidis, who fled a jihadist onslaught on Sinjar, gather to collect bottles of water at the Bajid Kandala camp in Kurdistan’s western Dohuk province. Scores of young men and children held a protest demanding more aid at the Bajid Kandala camp that is hosting thousands of desperate Iraqi Yazidis. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Getty Images)

A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province. (Youssef Boudlal/Reuters)

A US soldier, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), mans a machine gun onboard a Chinook helicopter over the Gardez district of Paktia province. All NATO combat troops will be out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, though some US special forces are set to stay on to conduct discreet strikes against Al-Qaeda remanents. (Marai Shah/Getty Images)

People wait for the bus in a flooded bus stop during heavy rain in Minsk. (Sergei Gapon/Getty Images)

Lightning strikes during a summer storm in Monterrey, Mexico. (Daniel Becerril /Reuters)

Dortmund captain Sebastian Kehl lifts the trophy following his team’s 2-0 victory during the DFL Supercup between Borrussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Muenchen at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany. (Lars Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images)

Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (with Spiderman mask) and Matthias Ginter celebrate a goal against Bayern Munich during their SuperCup 2014 soccer match in Dortmund . (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)

A Palestinian woman uses a piece of rebar she found amid the rubble, for support as she walks past destroyed homes in a street in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Strip. As Gaza’s residents ventured out to try to piece together their battered lives, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators sat down for a second day of indirect talks aimed at finding a durable end to the five-week confrontation. The UN estimates that about 10,000 homes were destroyed in the fighting between Israel and Hamas since July 8. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

A man carries goods out of his burned shop after shelling in the town of Yasynuvata near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk . (Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty Images)

View of the waters of the Sonora River where five days ago a copper mine leaked 40 thousand cubic meters of sulfuric acid seriously polluting it, in the Ures community, Sonora state,Mexico . The chemical caused an orange stain along a 60-kilometer (37-mile) stretch of the river bordered by the towns of Arizpe, Banamichi, Vabiacora, Aconchi, Cananea, Ures and Hermosillo. (Hector Guerrero/Getty Images)

Mohamed Farah of Britain (C) celebrates winning in front of compatriot Andy Vernon (L) and Ali Kaya of Turkey (R) in the men’s 10000 metres final during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

Ukraine’s Hanna Ryzhykova (R) crashes out in the women’s 400m hurdles heats during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich. (Olivier Morin/Getty Images)

Kenya’s Birech Jairus Kipchoge (2L), Kenya’s Muia Jonathan Ndiku (3L), Morocco’s Chemlal Jaouad (L), Ethiopia’s Dette Kemal Nesredin (2R), Kenya’s Kamboi Ezekeil (R) compete in the men’s 3,000m Steeplechase during the 19th Africa senior Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh. (Fadel Senna/Getty Images)

Ukraine’s Anna Voloshyna competes to finish third in the synchronized swimming solo technical routine event at the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships in Berlin. (Damien Meyer/Getty Images)

Kochi women carry rubbish on their heads along the Kabul-Bagram road, north of Kabul. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (Shah Marai/Getty Images)

An Indian policeman looks on as colleagues from the recently formed southern Indian state of Telangana take part in a full dress rehearsal for the 68th Independence day celebrations at Golkonda Fort in Hyderabad. India celebrates its anniversary of Independence from Britain each August 15 with great pomp and ceremony. (Noah Seelam/Getty Images)

Rescue workers investigate at the scene after an overhead commuter train (C) overshot the last station, causing it to derail and smash through a wall in Manila. Authorities said no one was killed but about 30 people were taken to hospitals afterwards, mainly due to leg injuries resulting from the accident. The train travels through Manila’s main thoroughfare and is a vital form of transport for millions of Filipino commuters. The Transport Department said the accident was caused by a “technical problem” but did not elaborate. (Jay Directo/Getty Images)

A man with his dog walk past a mural depicting actor Robin Williams in downtown Belgrade. Unknown artists drew the Academy Award-winning actor and comedian below a Belgrade bridge to pay a tribute following the news that he had been found dead of an apparent suicide at the age of 63. (Andrej Isakovic/Getty Images)

A member of Spanish Red Cross feeds an African immigrant’s baby next to other African migrants as they rest inside a paddle court inside a sports centre after arriving on a rescue ship at the southern Spanish port of Tarifa, near Cadiz, southern Spain. Spanish emergency services picked up some 920 immigrants travelling in about 81 rafts across the Strait of Gibraltar on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Spanish Red Cross said. (Jon Nazca/Reuters)

Spanish Guardia Civil watch as would be immigrants from Africa sit atop a wire-meche fence after scrambling over two other border barriers on Spain’s tiny north African territory of Melilla. Some 600 people tried to scale the triple-layer six-metre-high (20-foot) razor-wire barrier that separates Morocco from Melilla in a pre-dawn assault today, said Irene Flores, spokeswoman for the Spanish government in Melilla. More than 60 of them had perched on the top of the border fence, she told AFP. (Jose Colon/Getty Images)

A general view of the crowded beach is seen in the city of Durres. Albania has been gripped by hot weather with temperatures reaching 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit). (Arben Celi/Reuters)

People shield themselves from the rain with umbrellas as they cross an intersection in Hong Kong. An active southwesterly airstream associated with a trough of low pressure is bringing thundery showers to the south China coast, the Hong Kong weather observatory reported. (Dale de la Rey/Getty Images)

Newlyweds Regina and Vadim Medvedev from Riga in Latvia, take selfies on the Pont de l’Archeveche bridge, which is covered with thousands of padlocks, called love locks, near the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris . On the pavement is a large red heart with the message “Our bridges can no longer withstand your gestures of love” as the French capital launches a campaign to dissuade people from placing the locks on the metal fences of its bridges. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)

A Palestinian boy carries his brother next to the remains of their house, which witnesses said was destroyed in the Israeli offensive, during a 72-hour truce in Khan Younis the southern Gaza Strip . The threat of renewed war in Gaza loomed on Wednesday as the clock ticked toward the end of a three-day ceasefire without a sign of a breakthrough in indirect talks in Cairo between Israel and the Palestinians. Israeli negotiators returned to Egypt after overnighting in Israel, with the truce in the month-old hostilities that have killed 1,945 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 67 on the Israeli side due to expire at 2100 GMT (5 p.m. EDT). (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

The mother-in-law of Palestinian translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash, whom medics said was killed when unexploded munitions blew up, mourns over his body during his funeral in Gaza City . An Italian journalist, three Palestinian bomb disposal experts, Abu Afash and another person were killed in Gaza on Wednesday when unexploded munitions blew up, medical officials and police said. The explosion occurred in Beit Lahiya, a town in the northern Gaza Strip that had been the scene of fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants during a month-long war. (Ahmed Zakot/Reuters)

A Palestinian shepherd leads his flock of sheep past an apartment complex that was heavily damaged in fighting between Israel and Hamas during over 4 weeks of fighting in northern Gaza strip a few miles away from the border with Israel. The UN estimates that about 10,000 homes were destroyed in the fighting that began on July 8. Indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis for a truce in Gaza resumed on Wednesday, a Palestinian official said, as the clock ticked towards the midnight expiry of a three-day halt to hostilities. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Chris Nelson #1 of the San Diego Padres flips into the stands as he makes the catch on a foul ball hit by Charlie Blackmon #19 of the Colorado Rockies during the eighth inning of a baseball game at Petco Park in San Diego, California. (Denis Poroy/Getty Images)

Police and rescue workers help after a passenger train derailed into a ravine near Tiefencastel in a mountainous region of southeastern Switzerland after encountering a mudslide on the tracks . Several passengers were injured after at least three train carriages came off the tracks near Tiefencastel, a village less than 50 km (31 miles) northwest of the ski resort St. Moritz. (Kantonspolizei Graubunden/Reuters)

A man jumps into the waters of the Black Sea, with a Russian warship seen in the background, in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin, senior government officials and many lawmakers will visit Crimea this week, two sources told Reuters, in a defiant show of support for Russia’s annexation of the Black Sea region despite tough new Western economic sanctions. A source from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party said most of the 450 lawmakers from the State Duma lower house of parliament were expected to join Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Crimea for talks on August 14. Crimea, famed for its lush climate, summer resorts and rich literary associations, is largely populated by ethnic Russians. Moscow presented the region as a gift to Ukraine from Russia in the 1950s when both were firmly united within the Soviet Union. (Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)

An armed pro-Russian separatist points at a bus riddled with bullet holes at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Donetsk, . Twelve Ukrainian nationalist fighters, battling a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine, were killed early on Wednesday and an unknown number taken captive when rebels ambushed their bus, a spokesman for their group said. The separatists opened fire on the bus, that was taking the men to fight just outside the rebel-held city of Donetsk, at the nearby village of Mandrykino, said a spokesman for Right Sector, extreme nationalists who are supporting government forces. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Police officers keep watch while demonstrators (not pictured) protest the death of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Police said Brown, 18, was shot in a struggle with a gun in a police car but have not said why Brown was in the car. At least one shot was fired during the struggle and then the officer fired more shots before leaving the car, police said. But a witness to the shooting interviewed on local media has said that Brown had been putting his hands up to surrender when he was killed. The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the racially charged case and St. Louis County also is investigating. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

Record flooding on the East coast, European Athletics Championships, Gaza, Yazidis in Iraq, DFL Supercup | August 13

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