Aug 24, 2015

The day in photos around the world.

: Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. The 90-year-old Carter gave one lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend. It was Carter’s first lesson since detailing the intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment planned to treat melanoma found in his brain after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

: A police motorcycle burns as Lebanese activists protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Lebanese riot police fired several rounds of tear gas and water cannons for the second consecutive day in downtown Beirut Sunday as they battled protesters with batons and stones _ a marked escalation of mass demonstrations against an ongoing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

: Lebanese activists hold up a makeshift shield as they are sprayed by riot police using water cannons during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Lebanese riot police fired several rounds of tear gas and water cannons for the second consecutive day in downtown Beirut Sunday as they battled protesters with batons and stones _ a marked escalation of mass demonstrations against an ongoing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

: Lebanese anti-government protesters throw stones against the riot policemen, not seen, as smoke rise from the tear gas canisters, during a protest against an ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, late Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Lebanese riot police battled in the streets of downtown Beirut for a second night Sunday after demonstrators rallied over government corruption and an ongoing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

: From left : French President, Francois Hollande, U.S. National Guardsman from Roseburg, Oregon, Alek Skarlatos, U.S. Ambassador to France Jane D. Hartley, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento University in California, pose for photographers as they leave the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, after being awarded with the French Legion of Honor by French President, Francois Hollande, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. French President Francois Hollande and a bevy of officials are presenting the Americans with the prestigious Legion of Honor on Monday. The three American travelers say they relied on gut instinct and a close bond forged over years of friendship as they took down a heavily armed man on a passenger train speeding through Belgium. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

: Police try stop a group of migrants as they try to storm into Macedonia from Greece on the railway tracks on the border line between the two countries, near southern Macedonia’s town of Gevgelija, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Thousands of migrants have poured into Macedonia and boarded trains and buses that are taking them a step closer to the European Union. Police are letting the migrants pass across the border Monday, directing them to the new transit center for migrants near the border line. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

: A woman migrant carries a boy who is crying, as they enter into Macedonia from Greece, on the border line between the two countries near southern Macedonia’s town of Gevgelija, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Thousands of migrants have poured into Macedonia and boarded trains and buses that are taking them a step closer to the European Union. Police are letting the migrants pass across the border Monday, directing them to the new transit center for migrants near the border line. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

: Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko hands over a flag of a military unit as a soldier kisses the flag before a military parade on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day in the capital Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Speaking at the parade, President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine would continue to increase its troop numbers in order to fend off the attacks of separatist rebels.(AP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko, Pool)

: France’s Renaud Lavillenie lands on the mat after clearing the bar in the menís pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

: Kenya’s Ezekiel Kemboi, centre, takes the water jump on his way to winning the gold medal in the menís 3000m steeplechase final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

: Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen competes in the womenís triple jump final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

: Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, middle, celebrates after winning the womenís 100m final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, left, finished second. Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown is at right. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

: Roberto Gonzalez, a former worker for Unicom and Conempa, Paraguayan contractors that helped build the Itaipu Dam, walks with others to the Labor Ministry wearing symbolic crucifixes in Asuncion, Paraguay, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Ex-dam workers like Gonzalez are demanding compensation benefits after the dam was completed in 2007. The Itaipu hydroelectric dam straddles the Brazil-Paraguay border on the Parana River, and its construction started in 1975. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

: A young migrant woman from Syria looks from a window onboard a train towards Serbia, at the new transit center for migrants on the border with Greece, near southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Thousands of migrants have poured into Macedonia and board trains and busses that are taking them a step closer to the European Union. Police are letting the migrants pass across the border Monday, directing them to the new transit center for migrants near the border line. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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