Tomatina festival, Gaza City ceasefire, world’s oldest priest, a 6000 people portrait| August 27

Actor Dachi Orvelashvili poses during the photo call for the movie “The President” at the 71st Venice Film Festival. (Tony Gentile/Reuters)

Russian’s Irina Annenkova competes during the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final match at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. (Aly Song/Reuters)

An Indian one-horned rhinoceros and its calf wade through flood waters at a submerged area of the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in India’s northeastern Assam state. About 80 percent of the sanctuary is currently under flood waters caused by the overflowing Brahmaputra river. Forest authorities have strengthened security as poachers take advantage of the floods to hunt animals, particularly one-horned rhinos which, during the floods stray outside the park perimeter. Nearly 1.2 million people are currently affected by the floods. (Biju Boro/Getty Images)

Father Jacques Clemens reads at a mass at St. Benoit church in Nalinnes. Clemens, who celebrated his 105th birthday on July 11, may be the world’s oldest living priest who still holds a regular service, the Belgian Catholic Church said. Clemens was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1909 and later moved to Belgium where he was ordained a priest in 1936. Seventy-eight years later, he still holds a regular mass in his parish in the village of Nalinnes, in southern Belgium, in front of 80 faithful. “I used to make the service in a barn and in a cellar before the St. Benoit church was built in 1957,” he said. When he was about to retire at the age of 75, the local bishop asked him to remain in service until they found a successor. Forty years later, Clemens is still in his job and nobody is there to succeed him. Clemens said he was happy to continue as long as his health permitted it. Waking up every day at 0530 and going to bed at 2100, Father Clemens believe he owes his long life to a strict routine. “I always eat at the same hour every day,” he said. Everyday at 1100, Clemens drives his car for a few kilometres to the village of Gerpinnes to share a lunch with other members of the congregation. (Yves Herman/Reuters)

6000 fans of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish Republics founder, gather to form a giant Ataturk portrait at Ataturk’s mausoleum during the week of Turkish Victory Day (30 August), in Ankara. (Getty Images)

Pope Francis drinks a traditional South American drink called mate offered by the faithful as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Max Rossi//Reuters)

Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Max Rossi/Reuters)

Revellers take part in the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia. Some 22,000 revellers hurled 130 tonnes of squashed tomatoes at each other drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish food fight known as the Tomatina. (Gabriel Gallo/Getty Images)

Revelllers pour tomato pulp onto a man during the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia. Some 22,000 revellers hurled 130 tonnes of squashed tomatoes at each other drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish food fight known as the Tomatina. (Gabriel Gallo/Getty Images)

Revelllers dance during the annual “tomatina” festivities in the village of Bunol, near Valencia. Some 22,000 revellers hurled 130 tons of squashed tomatoes at each other drenching the streets in red in a gigantic Spanish food fight known as the Tomatina. (Gabriel Gallo/Getty Images)

Israeli beach-goers are seen on the shore of the Mediterranean sea at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor emerged. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

A Palestinian man straps his belongings to the roof of his car as he and his family prepare to return home from the UN school in Gaza City, following the long-term truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinians. After seven weeks of the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian violence in a decade, a long-term ceasefire took hold at 1600 GMT on August 26, sparking festivities around the Gaza Strip. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

A Palestinian girl walks on the rubble strewn ceiling of her family’s home after she and other members of her family returned to their partially destroyed house early in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighbourhood which was one of the hardest hit by the fighting. The skies over the Gaza Strip were calm as a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians took hold after 50 days of the deadliest violence in a decade. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Palestinian men walk in a street among houses destroyed in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighbourhood, which was one of the hardest hit hit by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants. The skies over the Gaza Strip were calm as a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians took hold after 50 days of the deadliest violence in a decade. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

A Palestinian family drinks coffee amidst the rubble of their destroyed home upon their return in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun. The skies over Gaza remained calm as a long-term ceasefire took hold, ending the deadliest violence in a decade with Israel and Hamas both claiming ‘victory’ in the 50-day war. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)

A Palestinian man pushes a bicycle past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Shejaiya. The residents of the Shejaiya neighborhood had all but emptied their neighborhood to stay with friends or with family elsewhere as they fled the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants. The skies over Gaza remained calm as a long-term ceasefire took hold, ending the deadliest violence in a decade with Israel and Hamas both claiming ‘victory’ in the 50-day war. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Relatives mourn during the funeral of two brothers 16-year-old Omar and 12-year-old Mohammed Breem, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike yesterday ahead of long-term truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinians, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The skies over Gaza remained calm as a long-term ceasefire took hold, ending the deadliest violence in a decade with Israel and Hamas both claiming ‘victory’ in the 50-day war. (Said Khatib/Getty Images)

Cambodian security officers carry a woman during a protest near the National Assembly in Phnom Penh. Boeung Kak lake residents and other communities who are embroiled in land disputes gathered near the National Assembly to appeal for help from the government. (Samrang Pring/Reuters)

Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh holds a gun as he appears for the first time since the start of a seven-week conflict during a rally by Palestinians celebrating what they said was a victory over Israel, in Gaza City. An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a costly conflict with Palestinian militants in which no clear victor emerged. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

Palestinians sit on a couch as they return to the remains of their house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli offensive, after a ceasefire was declared, in the east of Gaza City. The open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and the Palestinians held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in his country’s newspapers over a campaign in which no clear victor emerged. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

Druze men look at smoke rising on the Israeli-controlled side of the line dividing the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria following fighting near the Quneitra border crossing. Al Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamist fighters have taken control of the border crossing, a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Wednesday. The fighters captured the Quneitra post on the Syrian side from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad after fierce clashes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The crossing is monitored by the United Nations, which oversees traffic between the two enemy countries but the distance between the two warring adversaries’ posts is some 200 meters (yards). During the fighting, a stray bullet wounded an Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights and Israel responded with artillery fire at two Syrian army positions, the Israeli military said. It was the latest spillover of violence from the three-year conflict. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)

Kurdish Peshmerga forces stand guard at the Bakirta frontline near the town of Makhmur, south of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. (Youssef Boudlal/Reuters)

Train wagons are seen on the destroyed railway bridge which collapsed during the fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists, over a main road leading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, north of Donetsk city. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

A group of Russian servicemen, who are detained by Ukrainian authorities, attend a news conference in Kiev. Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces had captured a group of Russian paratroopers who had crossed into Ukrainian territory on a “special mission” – but Moscow said they had ended up there by mistake. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Tomatina festival, Gaza City ceasefire, world’s oldest priest, a 6000 people portrait| August 27

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