Carrying tank shells, Tiger Woods, makeshift homes

Women paint paper replicas of soldier’s hats for the Vu Lan Festival at Dong Ho village, outside Hanoi August 7, 2014. Vietnam is celebrating the month-long festival of the hungry ghosts, also known as Vu Lan festival, where many Taoists and Buddhists believe that the living are supposed to please the ghosts by offering them food and burning paper effigies of homes, maids, and other daily items for spirits to use in the afterlife. (Kham/Reuters)

U.S. President Barack Obama walks over to sign H.R. 3230, the Veteran’s Access to Care through Choice, Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, while at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, August 7, 2014. (Larry Downing/Reuters)

Protesters hold a petrol bomb during clashes with pro-government forces at Independence Square in Kiev August 7, 2014. Tensions flared on Thursday on Kiev’s Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)

A protester runs during clashes with pro-government forces at Independence Square in Kiev August 7, 2014. Tensions flared on Thursday on Kiev’s Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)

Boys play a game of war between Ukrainian army and pro-russian separatists in eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk August 7, 2014. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

A woman looks out from a damaged window following what locals say was shelling by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk August 7, 2014. The Ukrainian government said on Thursday it was suspending a ceasefire with separatist rebels at the crash site of the Malaysian airliner after an international recovery mission had been halted. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

A vendor sells vegetables and fruits at the city market in St.Petersburg August 7, 2014. Moscow imposed a total ban on imports of many Western foods on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine, a stronger than expected measure that isolates Russian consumers from world trade to a degree unseen since Soviet days. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters)

The sun shines above the Agora structure at the Athens 2004 Olympic Complex in Athens July 27, 2014. Ten years after Greece hosted the world’s greatest sporting extravaganza, many of its once-gleaming Olympic venues have been abandoned while others are used occasionally for non-sporting events such as conferences and weddings. For many Greeks who swelled with pride at the time, the Olympics are now a source of anger as the country struggles through a six-year depression, record unemployment, homelessness and poverty. Just days before the anniversary of the Aug. 13-29 Games in 2004, many question how Greece, among the smallest countries to ever host the Games, has benefited from the multi-billion dollar event. Picture taken July 27, 2014. (Yannis Behrakis /Reuters)

An Israeli soldier carries a tank shell in a staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip August 7, 2014. Mediators worked against the clock on Thursday to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours. Israel has said it is ready to agree to an extension as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that devastated the Hamas-ruled enclave, while Palestinians want an Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza to be lifted and prisoners held by Israel to be freed. Gaza officials say the war has killed 1,874 Palestinians, most of them civilians. Israel says 64 of its soldiers and three civilians have been killed since fighting began on July 8, after a surge in Palestinian rocket salvoes into Israel (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Palestinians rescue Mahmoud al-Ghol from the rubble of a house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 3, 2014. Ten-year-old al-Ghol was pulled from beneath the rubble of a house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike that killed nine members of the al-Ghol family. Picture taken August 3, 2014. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A boy holds a Palestinian flag during a rally in support of Hamas, in Gaza City August 7, 2014. Mediators worked against the clock on Thursday to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours. Israel has said it is ready to agree to an extension as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that devastated the Hamas-ruled enclave, while Palestinians want an Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza to be lifted and prisoners held by Israel to be freed. Gaza officials say the war has killed 1,874 Palestinians, most of them civilians. Israel says 64 of its soldiers and three civilians have been killed since fighting began on July 8, after a surge in Palestinian rocket salvoes into Israel. (Siegfried Modola/Reuters)

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take refuge at Dohuk province, August 7, 2014. Islamic State militants extended their gains in northern Iraq on Thursday, seizing more towns and strengthening a foothold near the Kurdish region in an offensive that has alarmed the Baghdad government and regional powers. (Ari Jalal/Reuters)

Tiger Woods of the U.S. lets go of his club after his tee shot on the seventh hole during the first round of the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, August 7, 2014. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

A family relax in their ranch near San Antonio de los Banos village in Artemisa province August 6, 2014. (Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

The hat of Pakistan’s Umar Akmal flies off as he runs after the ball to stop a boundary hit by Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (not pictured) during the second day of their first test cricket match in Galle August 7, 2014. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

A worker uses a laptop inside his dormitory near a residential construction site in Hefei, Anhui province August 6, 2014. A raft of China data over the coming week will give the first indications of the economy’s third-quarter performance, after conflicting signals suggested that more stimulus measures may be needed to ensure a sustained recovery. (Reuters)

Shiyu, 1, the youngest child of a seven-children family, looks up as she rests on a bed at home with her brothers and sisters, in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, August 7, 2014. Migrant worker Yang Hongnian, 47, his wife Le Huimin, and their seven children share a 20-square-metre makeshift house on the outskirts of Jinhua, and live on around 3000-4000 yuan ($486.8-$649) which Yang earns from working at a construction site. Except for one daughter Le had with her ex-husband, the couple have given birth to six children in 10 years. (William Hong/Reuters)

Tate staff pose with the painting “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais at the Tate Modern in London August 7, 2014. The painting returns home to Tate Britain following an international tour. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales (R) waves as he reviews the contingent during a military parade held to commemorate the 189th anniversary of the Bolivian Army in La Paz August 7, 2014. (David Mercado/Reuters)

Dancers from the Australian Ballet are pictured inside the Bondi Icebergs oceanside pool in Sydney, August 7, 2014. The dancers, taking advantage of the pool being emptied for cleaning, were on hand to promote their February 2015 production of Swan Lake at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

A U.S. Army detail carries a transfer case with the body of Major General Harold Greene during a dignified transfer at the Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, August 7, 2014. Greene was the most senior U.S. military official killed in action overseas since the war in Vietnam. (Jason Minto/Reuters)

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