World Tango Championship, Putin in a submarine, Bangkok explosion | August 18
The day in photos around the world.
- Pendo Noni, left, and Kabula Masanja play a memory card game in New York on Tuesday, July 28, 2015. One out of every 1,400 citizens in Tanzania has albinism. Pendo and Kabula were attacked and dismembered in the belief that their body parts will bring wealth. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
- A couple competes in the salon category at the World Tango Championship first round in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. More than seven hundred couples from 43 countries around the world are competing in the championship’s two categories: salon, and stage. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
- Couples compete in the salon category at the World Tango Championship first round, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. More than seven hundred couples from 43 countries around the world are competing in the championship’s two categories: salon, and stage. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
- Attendants prepare to walk into the iconic Bird’s Nest National Stadium during a rehearsal of medal presentation ceremonies for the upcoming 15th IAAF Athletics World Championships in Beijing Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. The sport event will be held in Beijing from August 22 to 30. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, sits on board a bathyscaphe as it plunges into the Black sea along the coast of Sevastopol, Crimea, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. President Vladimir Putin plunged into the Black Sea to see the wreckage of a sunk ancient merchant ship which was found in the end of May. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, sits on board a bathyscaphe as it plunges into the Black sea along the coast of Sevastopol, Crimea, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. President Vladimir Putin plunged into the Black Sea to see the wreckage of a sunk ancient merchant ship which was found in the end of May. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
- Migrants wait near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. More than 135,000 migrants have arrived on Greek islands so far this year, hoping to head north to other more prosperous European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
- Syrian refugees warm up near fire as they wait near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. More than 135,000 migrants have arrived on Greek islands so far this year, hoping to head north to other more prosperous European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
- Unidentified relatives of policeman Fayaz Ahmad wail during his funeral procession at Wadoora, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Suspected rebels opened fire at a police post in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Tuesday, killing a police constable and a civilian, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
- A relative of Palestinian Mohammed Amsha, 25, cries during his funeral in the village of Kafr Rai near the West Bank city of Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Israeli authorities say Amsha was shot and killed after he stabbed a guard at a West Bank checkpoint, slightly wounding him. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
- A West Scranton High School football player briefly cools off at a water station during a break in practice on a hot and humid, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, at the West Scranton Intermediate School in Scranton, Pa. (Butch Comegys/The Times & Tribune via AP)
- Athletic Bilbao’s Aritz Aduriz celebrates after scoring his sides first goal during a second leg Spanish Super Cup soccer match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Aug.17, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
- A supporter of Sri Lanka’s ruling United National Party dances on a road amid exploding fire crackers as he celebrates the party’s election performance in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Sri Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has defeated the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa in parliamentary elections, blocking his attempted political comeback eight months after he lost the presidency. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
- Soldiers move onlookers back from the shattered windows of a Louis Vuitton shop at Gaysorn shopping plaza across from the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, as investigations continue the morning after an explosion. Thailand’s prime minister on Tuesday promised that authorities would quickly track down those responsible for the central Bangkok bombing, which he described as the country’s worst attack ever. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
- Police investigators work near the statue of Phra Phrom, which is the Thai interpretation of the Hindu god Brahma, at the Erawan Shrine the morning after an explosion in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. A bomb exploded Monday within a central Bangkok shrine that is among the city’s most popular tourist spots, killing a number of people and injuring others, police said. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)