Mud bath on the Dead Sea, heavy rainfall in India, swimming championships | August 18
The day in photos around the world.
- A Palestinian boy makes his way through the rubble of the destroyed and deserted terminal of the Gaza strips former international airport in the southern city of Rafah on August 18, 2014. Egyptian-brokered indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are taking place during a five-day lull in the fighting that is due to expire at midnight (2100 GMT). (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
- Indian Hindu devotees gesture before attempting to form a human pyramid in a bid to reach and break a dahi-handi (curd-pot) suspended in air during celebrations for the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth of Hindu god Lord Krishna, in Mumbai on August 18, 2014. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Syrian man kisses the body of his brother who was reportedly killed in a Syrian army airstrike on August 18, 2014 at a hospital in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus. Douma is a rebel bastion northeast of Damascus, which has been under suffocating army siege for more than a year. (ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images)
- Law enforcement fires tear gas on protesters on West Florissant Road in Ferguson, Missouri on August 17, 2014. (Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cyclists ride during the 165 km fourth and last stage of the Arctic Race of Norway between Tromso and Tromso in Norway on August 17, 2014. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian bride, who lost her home during fighting between Hamas and Israel, poses during her wedding ceremony, along with two other couples, at a UN school in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip on August 17, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
- Spain’s team performs their routine in the free combination final in the synchronised swimming event of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships on August 17, 2014 in Berlin. Ukraine took Gold, Spain silver and Italy bronze. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian man looks on from the roof of a damaged building in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood on August 17, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
- Palestinian boys play amid the rubble of destroyed house in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood on August 17, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
- Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and boys cover their bodies with mineral-rich mud during their vacation at a men’s-only beach on the shores of the northern part of the Dead Sea on August 17, 2014. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
- Wang Yan of China competes on the floor during the qualification round of the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on August 18, 2014. More than 3,700 competitors aged 15 to 18 were expected to participate in the games, with many hoping to build towards a place at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
- Israeli bride Morel Malcha is pictured ahead of her wedding ceremony to Arab Israeli Muslim groom, Mahmoud Mansour (unseen), in Mahmoud’s family home in the Jaffa district of Tel Aviv on August 17, 2014. The union of Mahmoud and Morel was marred by the shouts of hundreds of young Israeli protesters responding to the call of the extreme right-wing Organization for Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land (LEHAVA), which militates against the “Jewish assimilation and intermarriage.” (Daniel Bar-On/AFP/Getty Images)
- This picture taken with an underwater camera shows Ukraine’s Andriy Govorov competing in the heats of the men’s 50m Butterfly event of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships on August 18, 2014 in Berlin. (DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images)
- Venus (left) and Jupiter rise together in a rare conjunction over the Hell Gate (rear) and Robert F. Kennedy (front) Bridges in the early morning of August 18, 2014 in New York. The two planets were separated by about 0.25 degrees as viewed from Earth. They will appear farther apart each day but still relatively close together about 45 minutes before sunrise this week. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
- A refugee from eastern Ukraine walks in a refugee camp near the Russian city of Donets’k, Rostov region, about 15 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border. Some 285,000 people have already fled their homes due to the conflict in east Ukraine, it is estimated, with many leaving for other parts of the country, but close to 168,000 seeking sanctuary in Russia. (DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV/AFP/Getty Images)
- Refugees from eastern Ukraine queue to get food in a refugee camp near the Russian city of Donets’k, Rostov region, about 15 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border. Some 285,000 people have already fled their homes due to the conflict in east Ukraine, it is estimated, with many leaving for other parts of the country, but close to 168,000 seeking sanctuary in Russia. (DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV/AFP/Getty Images)
- Pakistani supporters of Canada-based preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri wave flags as they listen to speech his speech during a protest march against the country’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led government in Islamabad on August 18, 2014. Qadri, a dual national Pakistani-Canadian, has called for Sharif’s arrest over what he alleges was the murder of his supporters, and for the installation of an interim national government. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Indian villager paddles a boat through floodwaters and past partially-submerged farmland at Buraburi village in the Morigaon district of the state of Assam on August 18, 2014. Heavy rainfall has claimed at least 24 lives in India. (BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images)