Ferguson one year later, Michael Phelps and the Valley of the Saints | Aug. 8
it has been a year since Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson police officer, Michael Phelps swims, a modern-day Easter Island in France with the Valley of the Saints, and more, in the day in photos from around the world.
- Michael Phelps competes in the preliminary round of the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the the U.S. swimming nationals, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in San Antonio, Texas. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)
- The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany, France, with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- A sculpture of a Breton Saint on the site of the Valley of Saints (Vallee des Saints). The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- People stand near the statue of a Breton Saint in Carnoet, western France, on the site of the Valley of Saints (Vallee des Saints). The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- People admire the statue of a Breton Saint in Carnoet, western France, on the site of the Valley of Saints (Vallee des Saints). The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- A sculptor works on the statue of a Breton Saint in Carnoet, western France, on the site of the Valley of Saints (Vallee des Saints). The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- People walk by the statue of a Breton Saint in Carnoet, western France, on the site of the Valley of Saints (Vallee des Saints). The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- Sculptors stand on a scaffold next to the statue of a Breton Saint in Carnoet, western France, on the site of the Valley of Saints (Vallee des Saints). The Valley of Saints is a sort of contemporary Easter Island in Brittany with some 60 monumental sculptures of Breton Saints. 100,000 people visited this valley in 2014, which was inaugurated in 2012. (Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP-Getty Images)
- A Palestinian man throws a tear gas canister back during clashes with Israeli security forces following the funeral Saad Dawabsha, the father of a Palestinian toddler killed last week when their home was firebombed by Jewish extremists, on August 8, 2015 in the West Bank village of Duma. Dawabsha died in hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba where he was being treated for third-degree burns for the past eight days. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP-Getty Images)
- An Israeli border guard holds up his weapon during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers following the funeral Saad Dawabsha, the father of a Palestinian toddler killed last week when their home was firebombed by Jewish extremists, on August 8, 2015 in the West Bank village of Duma. Dawabsha died in hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba where he was being treated for third-degree burns for the past eight days. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP-Getty Images)
- Palestinian men carry the body of Saad Dawabsha, the father of a Palestinian toddler killed last week when their home was firebombed by Jewish extremists, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Duma on August 8, 2015. Dawabsha succumbed in hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba where he was being treated for third degree burns while his wife Riham and four-year-old son Ahmed are still fighting for their lives. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP-Getty Images)
- Palestinians carry the body of Saed Dawabsheh, 32, during his funeral procession in the West Bank village of Duma near Nablus on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. The father of a Palestinian toddler killed in a July 31 firebomb attack blamed on Jewish extremists has died of wounds sustained in the same incident, his family said Saturday. His 18-month-old toddler perished in the flames, while his 4-year-old brother and parents were seriously hurt. (Majdi Mohammed/Associated Press)
- Relatives and friends of Saad Dawabsha, the father of a Palestinian toddler killed last week when their home was firebombed by Jewish extremists, mourn during his funeral in the West Bank village of Duma on August 8, 2015. Dawabsha succumbed in hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba where he was being treated for third degree burns while his wife Riham and four-year-old son Ahmed are still fighting for their lives in a hospital. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP-Getty Images)
- Tahrir Hamad (L), the first Palestinian woman justice of the peace, pronounces Thaer (R) and Rawan (2-L) man and wife at the Islamic sharia law court in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 6, 2015. Hamad became the first, and so far the only, woman appointed as a “mazouna” – a Muslim official authorised to carry out marriage and divorce in the Palestinian territories. Until now in the Arab world only Egypt and Abu Dhabi have appointed women to the post. (Abbas Momani/AFP-Getty Images)
- Michael Phelps talks with the media after he competed in the preliminary round of the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the the U.S. swimming nationals, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in San Antonio. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)
- An Indian Lambadi tribal woman watches artists dance at a performance in Hyderabad on the eve of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 8, 2015. The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9 each year. (Noah Seelam/AFP-Getty Images)
- Michael Phelps talks with the media after he competed in the preliminary round of the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the the U.S. swimming nationals, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in San Antonio. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)
- Michael Phelps prepares to compete in the preliminary round of the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the the U.S. swimming nationals, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in San Antonio. (Eric Gay/Associated Press)
- Paper lanterns are placed for the victims of the atomic bombing on Nagasaki on the eve the 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, one on Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used. (Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press)
- A memorial in memory of Michael Brown is seen in a sidewalk near where Brown was shot and killed as a parade in honor of Brown passes by Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Sunday will mark one year since Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)
- People wait to take part during a parade in honor of Michael Brown near a memorial to Brown Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Sunday will mark one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)
- Children play as a part of a marching band during a march of solidarity on West Florissant Avenue on August 8, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. As the embattled community celebrates the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown Jr. by a Ferguson police officer, there are a wide range of social events and civil disobedience actions throughout the St. Louis, Missouri area. (Michael B. Thomas/AFP-Getty Images)
- Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, left, gets a hug from a person participating in a parade in honor of Michael Brown Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Sunday will mark one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)
- People march down West Florissant Avenue during a parade in honor of Michael Brown Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Jennings, Mo. Sunday will mark one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)
- Michael Brown Sr. stops to touch an adopt-a-highway sign as he takes part in a parade in honor of his son, Michael Brown, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Jennings, Mo. Sunday will mark one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)
- South Africa’s Pieter-Steph du Toit, top left, and Argentinas Tomas Lavanini, top right, miss catche the ball during the line out for their Rugby Championship match at Kings Park stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Argentina beat South Africa 37-25. (Themba Hadebe/Associated Press)
- A spectator uses a fan to keep himself cool in the heat before the Women’s East Asian Cup soccer match between North Korea and South Korea in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. North Korea beat South Korea, 2-0. (Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press)
- A police officer from Saint-Benoit’s gendarmerie looks for debris from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on a beach in Sainte-Marie de la Reunion, on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on August 8, 2015. France launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on August 7 in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation’s biggest mysteries. The tiny French Indian Ocean territory has been under intense scrutiny since a beach cleaner found a washed-up wing part last week, which Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak later declared was part of the Boeing 777 that mysteriously vanished 17 months ago. (Richard Bouhet/AFP-Getty Images)
- A woman walks at the beach as migrants demonstrate on top of a pier near the port, Calais, northern France, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Some thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the Channel Tunnel linking the two countries and boarding freight trains or trucks destined for Britain. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)