California wildfires, flooding in Myanmar and Pakistan, Pride parade in Vietnam| August 2
The day in photos from around the world.
- A firefighting air tanker flies in front of the setting sun while battling the Rocky Fire on August 1, 2015 near Clearlake, California. Over 1,900 firefighters are battling the Rocky Fire that burned over 22,000 acres since it started on Wednesday afternoon. The fire is currently five percent contained and has destroyed at least 14 homes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
- A resident makes his way through floodwaters in Kalay, Sagaing Region, Upper Myanmar on August 1, 2015. Government declared Sagaing, Magway, Rakhine and Chin States as disaster zones on 31 July 2015. Severe flooding across Myanmar hampered rescue efforts on Saturday as thousands sheltered at monasteries after rising waters triggered by torrential rains killed at least 27 people, officials said. (Sai Zaw/Getty Images)
- Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa competes in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals on day nine of the 16th FINA World Championships at the Kazan Arena on August 2, 2015 in Kazan, Russia. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
- Supporters of LGBT community ride bicycles during the fourth gay pride parade on August 2, 2015 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Hundreds of demonstrators march through the streets of the Vietnamese capital urging an end to discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community as homosexuality remains a taboo in Vietnam. (Borja Sanchez-Trillo/Getty Images)
- A “Toro embolado” (fire bull) with balls of flammable material attached to its horns charges down a street during a “Pena Taurina” where bull fighting aficionados gather to chase bulls through the streets in Meliana, near Valencia on August 1 , 2015. (Jose Jordan/Getty Images)
- Norway’s Gerd Anne Solibakke (R) figths for the ball with Germany’s Marion Schlue (C) during their 10th CMAS Underwater Rugby World Championship final match at the Alberto Galindo Herrera swimming pool in Cali, Colombia, on August 1, 2015. Germany won the first place in the category of women and Norway won the first place in the men’s category. (Luis Robayo/Getty Images)
- A person who identifies themselves as “Miss Lola”, of Long Beach, Calif., attends the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, August 2, 2015. Organizers expected hundreds of thousands of people to take part in the parade. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
- Cal Fire firefighters prepare to use a flare to start a backfire ahead of the Rocky Fire on August 2, 2015 near Clearlake, California. Over 1,900 firefighters are battling the Rocky Fire that burned over 22,000 acres since it started on Wednesday afternoon. The fire is currently five percent contained and has destroyed at least 14 homes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
- Cal Fire firefighters walk along Highway 20 as the Rocky fire burns near Clear Lake, California on August 2, 2015. The fire has charred more than 27,000 acres, and is currently only 5% contained. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)
- Oceanside Fire Department captain Greg DeAvila shoots a flare into dry brush during a burn operation to head off the Rocky Fire on August 2, 2015 near Clearlake, California. Over 1,900 firefighters are battling the Rocky Fire that has burned over 46,000 acres since it started on Wednesday afternoon. The fire is currently five percent contained and has destroyed at least 14 homes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Former Russian paratroopers celebrate the Paratroopers’ Day in the Fountain Friendship of Nations in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Paratroopers are an elite unit of the Russian Army.
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Tampa Bay Rays left fielder Mikie Mahtook leaps but can’t get to an RBI double by Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz during the third inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015.
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- Pakistani villagers use a boat to carry their belongings from flooded homes caused by heavy rains on the outskirts of Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Floodwater inundated hundreds of villages, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless, authorities said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
- Aaron Wilson (1931) and other competitors start the 2015 Ironman Boulder at the Boulder Reservoir, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, in Boulder, Colo. (Cliff Grassmich/Daily Camera via AP)
- Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon argues a call with umpire Hunter Wendelstedt during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
- Switzerland’s Nino Schurter celebrates his victory in the men’s cross-country at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
- An Afghan Kochi nomad boy plays with a tire outside his tent on the outskirts of Kabul on August 2, 2015. (Wakil Kohsar/Getty Images)
- Israeli security forces block Palestinian protesters from using a road leading to the annexed east Jerusalem Al-Aqsa mosque compound on August 2, 2015 as they take part in a demonstration against the death of the 18-month-old child killed in an arson attack in the occupied West Bank earlier in the week. Clashes broke out across the country two days after a Palestinian toddler was burned alive in a firebombing by suspected Jewish extremists. (Ahmad Gharabli/Getty Images)
- Police officers leave the scene with container holding metallic debris found on a beach in Saint-Denis on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on August 2, 2015, close to where where a Boeing 777 wing part believed to belong to missing flight MH370 washed up last week. A piece of metal was found on La Reunion island, where a Boeing 777 wing part believed to belong to missing flight MH370 washed up last week, said a source close to the investigation. Investigators on the Indian Ocean island took the debris into evidence as part of their probe into the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, however nothing indicated the piece of metal came from an airplane, the source said. (Richard Bouhet/Getty Images )
- A Balinese man is in state of trance stabs his chest with a short sacred ceremonial dagger called ‘keris’ during a sacred ritual of Ngerebong at Petilan Temple on August 2, 2015 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. This traditional ritual is said to achieve harmony between humans, nature and God. The event signifies the anniversary of the royal temple of the kingdom of Kesiman in East Denpasar, Pura Dalem Petilan Pengerebongan Kesiman. Balinese Hindus evoke spirits to put them in a trance like state during which many will push daggers into their chest and neck. (Agung Parameswara/Getty Images)
- A Balinese woman is in state of trance cries during a sacred ritual of Ngerebong at Petilan Temple on August 2, 2015 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. This traditional ritual is said to achieve harmony between humans, nature and God. The event signifies the anniversary of the royal temple of the kingdom of Kesiman in East Denpasar, Pura Dalem Petilan Pengerebongan Kesiman. Balinese Hindus evoke spirits to put them in a trance like state during which many will push daggers into their chest and neck. (Agung Parameswara/Getty Images)
- Kibrom Kasta leads an Orthodox service for Ethiopian and Eritrean worshippers at a church in a make shift camp near the port of Calais on August 2, 2015 in Calais, France. Hundreds of migrants are continuing to attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel and onto trains heading to the United Kingdom. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)