Nathaniel Nakasa funeral, Arsenal and Crystal Palace, Jesse Jackson | August 16
The day in photos around the world.
- Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson (C) greets members of the “Outcast” motorcycle club before a vigil in the neighborhood where teenager Michael Brown was shot, in Ferguson, Missouri, August 16, 2014. Tensions had temporarily cooled on Thursday night but by Friday evening, protesters were again swarming through a residential and retail district in the small town outside St. Louis that has become the site of repeated clashes between protestors and police forces. The unrest erupted after Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, 28, shot and killed Brown shortly after noon last Saturday as Brown and a friend walked down a street that runs through an apartment complex where Brown’s grandmother lives. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
- Iraqi volunteers from the Yazidi sect gather during a training camp at the Serimli military base, which is controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on the border with Kurdistan August 16, 2014. The YPG is training 55 Yazidi recruits with skills to help them fight against the Islamic State militant group. Proclaiming a ‘caliphate’ straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, the radical Islamists have swept across northern Iraq in recent weeks, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
- Iraqi volunteers from the Yazidi sect gather during a training camp at the Serimli military base, which is controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on the border with Kurdistan August 16, 2014. The YPG is training 55 Yazidi recruits with skills to help them fight against the Islamic State militant group. Proclaiming a ‘caliphate’ straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, the radical Islamists have swept across northern Iraq in recent weeks, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
- Team Spain performs in the synchronised swimming team free routine final at the European Swimming Championships in Berlin August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
- Match referee Jon Moss reacts as foam sprays out from its canister during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Crystal Palace at the Emirates stadium in London August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
- Argentina’s Juan Martin (R) tackles South Africa’s captain, Jean de Villiers during their Rugby Championship match at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
- Pope Francis kisses a child as he greets Catholic faithful from his Popemobile upon arriving for Holy Mass at Gwanghwamun square in Seoul August 16, 2014. Francis on Saturday celebrated a huge open-air Mass in the centre of Seoul, where he denounced the growing gap between the haves and have nots, urging people in affluent societies to listen to “the cry of the poor” among them. REUTERS/Korea Pool/Yonhap
- Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling, is held by his aunt as he receives psychological care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City August 14, 2014. In a ward at Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small brothers, Omar and Mohammed, aged three and 18 months, hoping for some words or perhaps a smile. For seven straight minutes the children, peppered with burns and shrapnel wounds sustained in Israeli shelling that hit their home in north Gaza, stare at him blankly, emotionless. Omar and Mohammed are just two of the 400,000 Gazan children the United Nations estimates are in need of psychological care as a result of not just the latest war in the territory but the three previous conflicts fought with Israel since 2006. The most recent conflagration has been the deadliest, with 1,945 Palestinians killed, many of them civilians and including an estimated 457 children. On the other side of the border, some 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed. Picture taken August 14, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
- A scout inspects a spider web in Jezzin, south Lebanon August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
- Carlo Sanna, the jockey of “Valdimontone” or Ram parish, crashes at the San Martino curve during the Palio of Siena horse race in Siena August 16, 2014. Each July 2 and August 16, almost without fail since the mid-1600s, 10 riders have hurtled bareback around Siena’s shell-shaped central square in a desperate bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
- A competitor strikes a boule as he attends the square boules world championship in Cagnes, August 16, 2014. 330 competitors of different countries compete in this unique two days championship. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
- Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed celebrates his century during the third day of their second and final test cricket match against Sri Lanka in Colombo August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
- A member from the Belarussian pro-government youth organisation takes aim at balloons with an air gun during their annual meeting in a forest, near the village of Dumanovshchina, southeast of Minsk, August 16, 2014. Through this camp, the group aims to promote patriotism and instil moral values into youth. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
- Bjorn Blauwhof of the Netherlands leaves his blocks at the start of the re-running of their 4 x 400 metres relay heat as cleaners work in an empty stadium during the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, August 16, 2014. The Netherlands quartet had to run their heat again at the end of the session after successfully appealing an earlier disqualification. REUTERS/Phil Noble
- Sergey Kucheryanu of Russia competes in the men’s pole vault final during the European Athletics Championships in Zurich August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble