Washington wildfire, sea glass carousel, Uruguay teachers strike | August 20
The day in photos around the world.
- People gather near the scene where a bomb exploded early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, near a national security building in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo. For blocks around the blast site in the popular residential neighborhood, glass from blown-out windows could be seen on the street. (AP Photo/Brian Rohan)
- An Egyptian plainclothes policeman stands on the top of the damaged national security building after a bomb exploded early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in the Shubra el-Kheima neighborhood of Cairo, injuring several people, Egyptian security officials said. The statue represents an Egyptian farmer. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
- Samantha Rudin Earls and her daughter Elle, 3, take an inaugural ride on the SeaGlass Carousel at the Battery, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in New York. The ride will be open to the public seven days a week from 10 am to 10 pm. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
- Pakistani devotees light oil lamps to get their wishes fulfilled at the Barri Imam shrine in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
- A young woman cries at the scene of a shooting at the Boys and Girls Club on Genesee Street, early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in Rochester, N.Y. The gunman shot into a crowd that gathered outside the club after a basketball game, fatally wounding several people. (Lauren Petracca/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)
- A police officer speaks to bystanders at the scene of a drive-by shooting at the Boys and Girls Club on Genesee Street, early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in Rochester, N.Y. The gunman shot into a crowd that gathered outside the club after a basketball game, fatally wounding several people. (Lauren Petracca/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)
- Adam’s Market owner Sanad Motan stands inside his ransacked store, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in St. Louis. The store is near where officers arrested several people and deployed tear gas amid protests in St. Louis following the death of a black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police Wednesday after he allegedly pointed a gun at them while attempting to serve a search warrant in a crime-troubled section of the city’s north side. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
- Gao Yan Ping, from Jiangxi province, China, center, is overcome with emotion at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, after he arrived to claim the body and remains of his daughter and his wife who were killed in Monday’s bombing at the Erawan Shrine, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
- Migrants, including one carrying a crying infant, board a dinghy to begin their journey from near the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, to cross to the nearby Greek island of Kos, early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. With the shores of Kos – a gateway to Europe – just a few kilometers (miles) away, hundreds of migrants are piling into tiny inflatable dinghies each night and attempting to make the crossing powered by tiny outboard motors and plastic paddles. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
- Student’s desks sit in the street outside Zorilla High School, placed there by striking high school teachers in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Teachers unions are on strike before the nation’s budget is presented on Aug. 31, which will lay out Uruguay’s public spending plan for the next five years. Teachers are demanding raises and more funding for education. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
- A tanker begins to pull up after dropping a load of fire retardant along a smoldering hillside Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in Twisp, Wash.a day after three firefighters were killed fighting a wildfire near the town. Firefighters on several fronts are fighting against raging wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- Flames blanket the hillsides on Twisp River Road just outside of the town of Twisp, Wash., early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Firefighters on several fronts are fighting against raging wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times via AP)
- In this aerial photo, smoke from a wildfire rises above the North Cascades in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Firefighters on several fronts are fighting against raging wildfires advancing on towns in the north-central part of the state. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times via AP)
- A wildfire burns behind a home on Twisp River Road, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 in Twisp, Wash. Authorities on Wednesday afternoon urged people in the north-central Washington town to evacuate because of a fast-moving wildfire. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
- Army Sgt. 1st Class Krystle McGrath of Fort Bragg, N.C., stands in the distance at the grave of her friend Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew I. Leggett, to acknowledged the burial service for World War II U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Ward C. Swalwell, Jr., 21, of Chicago, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. McGrath was Leggett’s grave who died Aug. 20, 2014, a year ago today, in Kabul, Afghanistan, of injuries received when he was engaged by the enemy. McGrath was with Leggett when he died. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
- Cheerleaders are silhouetted as they rehearse on the track at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in preparation for the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Beijing Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
- Britain’s Jessica Ennis-Hill looks down at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing during a press briefing Thursday Aug. 20, 2015. Final preparations are being made for the World Athletics Championships which get underway on Saturday Aug. 22. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras , left, speaks with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, during their meeting in Athens, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Tsipras announced his governments resignation and called early elections Thursday, seeking to consolidate his mandate to implement a new three-year international bailout that sparked a rebellion within his radical left Syriza party. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
- Syrian migrant holds his daughter while rushing to shore upon their arrival on a dinghy in the village of Skala Sikaminea at the southeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Greece this year has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 landing so far. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
- A local helps a Syrian migrant child upon their arrival on a dinghy in the village of Sikaminies, at the southeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Greece this year has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 landing so far. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
- A Syrian migrant woman carries her child away upon their arrival by a dinghy at the southeastern Greek island of Kos, Greece, early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Greece this year has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 landing so far. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Syrian Refugees come out from a ferry carrying about 2,500 migrants from Greek islands to Greece’s main port of Piraeus near Athens, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Greece has been overwhelmed this year by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 arriving since January. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
- Migrant children watch a homeless kitten walking by as they rest while waiting to be registered at a police station at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece, early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Greece this year has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 landing so far. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- A Syrian migrant boy still wearing a swimming ring stands on the beach upon his arrival with other migrants by a dinghy at the southeastern Greek island of Kos, Greece, early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Greece this year has been overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants arriving on its eastern Aegean islands, with more than 160,000 landing so far.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
- Onlookers stand on vehicles and watch as a wild male elephant, who got separated from his herd, pulls itself out of muddy pit on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. The herd of wild elephants was coming down from a nearby hill of Indias northeastern state of Meghalaya on the outskirts of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state. As the pressure of population pushes human habitation closer to forests incidents of wild animals straying into cities is increasingly reported. No incident involving the wild elephant was reported. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
- A man walks along the litter strewn railway tracks at the railway station in the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Macedonian police stepped up the security at the border with Greece apparently trying to stem recent surge of migrants who are coming from Greece. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
- Blocked migrants wait by border stone with sign that reads: “Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” at the at no-man’s land between Greece and Macedonia near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Thousands of migrants were stranded Thursday on no-man’s land between Macedonia and Greece, from where they planned to catch trains that would take them to the Serbian border on their way to EU-member Hungary. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)