A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 14, 2019
![Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from a boat as she starts her trip to New York, in Plymouth, Britain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/dc80e28d-6bd7-4f82-a9d0-3792cc266925_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from a boat as she starts her trip to New York, in Plymouth, Britain.
![People look at lava bursting from the Piton de la Fournaise or the Peak of the Furnace flowing down the east-south-east face on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Aug. 13, 2019.](https://gdb.voanews.com/2d9cd90d-7902-41b0-b81d-bef86dbbb425_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People look at lava bursting from the Piton de la Fournaise or the Peak of the Furnace flowing down the east-south-east face on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Aug. 13, 2019.
![A woman and a boy stand for pictures at Chkalovskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, in front of a work of art showing Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov. He took a non-stop flight over the Arctic and landed in the U.S. state of Washington in 1937.](https://gdb.voanews.com/76901059-d296-4d12-ba3f-30f449752f68_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman and a boy stand for pictures at Chkalovskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, in front of a work of art showing Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov. He took a non-stop flight over the Arctic and landed in the U.S. state of Washington in 1937.
![A thin, 70-year-old elephant named Tikiri eats at the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. After a social media firestorm over using a weak animal in a parade, officials withdrew her from the festival and permitted to rest and take medicines.](https://gdb.voanews.com/25172bad-02bd-47c0-9bfa-5c365baa5ca2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A thin, 70-year-old elephant named Tikiri eats at the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. After a social media firestorm over using a weak animal in a parade, officials withdrew her from the festival and permitted to rest and take medicines.