This photo taken on August 13, 2015 shows rows of burnt out cars after a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse hit the city of Tianjin, in northern China. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical experts began work on August 14 at the site of two massive explosions in the city of Tianjin, state media said, as pressure grows for authorities to explain the cause of blasts that left 50 dead. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO
Cyclists pass a bridge during the 213,5 km first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway with start and end point in Harstad, northern Norway, on August 13, 2015. The Arctic Race of Norway takes place in northern Norway until August 16. AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND
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Cyclists pass a bridge during the 213,5 km first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway with start and end point in Harstad, northern Norway, on August 13, 2015. The Arctic Race of Norway takes place in northern Norway until August 16.
AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND
This photo taken on August 13, 2015 shows rows of burnt out cars after a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse hit the city of Tianjin, in northern China. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical experts began work on August 14 at the site of two massive explosions in the city of Tianjin, state media said, as pressure grows for authorities to explain the cause of blasts that left 50 dead. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO
A Indian vendor selling stickers depicting various religions, gods and godesses waits for customers at the corner of a crossroads in Mumbai on August 11, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
A flood-affected resident swims in floodwaters at Kyaut Ye village near the Hinthada town in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy region on August 11, 2015. Myanmar’s president called for the evacuation of low-lying areas as the Irrawaddy river threatened to breach embankments, leaving villagers with just sand-bags to hold back churning waters that have hit much of the country. AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU
A resident riding a tricycle negotiates floodwaters after a sudden heavy downpour inundated streets in the financial district of Manila on August 12, 2015, stranding thousands of commuters and office workers. Hundreds of people are killed in natural disasters each year in the Philippines, which is battered by an average of 20 typhoons and tropical storms annually. AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE
Workers set up a dais at the US embassy during preparations for its inauguration, on August 12, 2015. The former US Interests Section became an embassy on July 20, but no US flag flies over the building until US Secretary of State John Kerry visits Cuba on August 14 and formally inaugurates it. AFP PHOTO/YAMIL LAGE
An employee shows a figurine of South-Korean singer Psy found during a search of employees of environmental protection and coastal cleanup organisations for debris from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on a beach in Sainte-Marie de la Reunion, between Champ Borne and the Rivière du Mât river, on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on August 10, 2015. ‘A thorough search’, as announced by the city of Saint-André, started on Monday morning along the coastline of this small town on the French island of Reunion, where a fragment of a wing belonging to the MH370 flight was found. The tiny French Indian Ocean territory has been under intense scrutiny since a beach cleaner found a washed-up wing part, which Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak later declared was part of the Boeing 777 that mysteriously vanished 17 months ago. AFP PHOTO / RICHARD BOUHET
USA’s Jessica Hardy competes in the semi-finals of the women’s 50m breaststroke swimming event at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan on August 8, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT
Participants covered in coloured powder gather in central Madrid on August 8, 2015 during the second edition of Mossoon Holi Madrid, a commercial festival losely based on the Holi celebrations also called the Festival of Colours in India and Nepal, that see in spring at the end of a winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month, which usually falls in the later part of February or in March. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN
An indigenous child dressed for the Dance of the Conquerors poses during the annual fair in honor of the “Virgen del Transito” (Transit Virgin), in Joyabaj municipality, Quiche departament, 220 km northwest of Guatemala City on August 8, 2015. Hundreds of indigenous people celebrated Saturday a fair in honour of the patron saint of Joyabaj with ancestral Maya dances representing the fight between good and evil. AFP PHOTO/Johan ORDONEZ
A dinghy carrying migrants crosses the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece off the Greek island of Kos on August 13, 2015. Greece sent extra riot police to Kos as tensions mounted over a huge influx of migrants. The Greek government said it was “immediately” dispatching a ship to Kos to double up as an accommodation and processing centre for up to 2,500 people as around 7,000 migrants wait to apply for immigration papers. AFP PHOTO / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS
A boy takes part in the closing of the ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, on August 10, 2015. AFP PHOTO / INTI OCON
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. AFP PHOTO/NOAH SEELAM
USA’s Jessica Hardy competes in the semi-finals of the women’s 50m breaststroke swimming event at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan on August 8, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT
