August 13, 2015

A photographer prepares to take pictures of the annual Perseid meteor shower in the village of Crissolo, near Cuneo, in the Monviso Alps region of northern Italy. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year when the Earth passes through the cloud of debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle.

A man dives into the sea in Beirut, Lebanon.

A survivor talks on his mobile phone at the site of the explosions at the Binhai new district in Tianjin. Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 44 people, including at least a dozen firefighters, and injuring at least 700 people, officials and state media said.

Smoke billows out from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the port city, officials and witnesses said.

Snow leopard mother Siri stands next to her male cub Barid at the zoo in Cologne, western Germany.

The Los Angeles Reservoir is covered with over 90 million black plastic balls in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, Aug. 12, 2015. The city has completed a program of covering its open-air reservoirs with floating, 4-inch diameter "shade balls" to protect water quality by blocking sunlight from penetrating the 175-acre surface of the reservoir, preventing chemical reactions that can cause algae blooms and other problems.

People protect themselves from a snowstorm in La Cumbre, near La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 12, 2015.

A woman looks at South Korean national flags hanging on trees in downtown Seoul, to celebrate the upcoming 70th anniversary of Independence Day.

A man rows his boat in a flooded avenue in front of the Basilica of Lujan, near Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2015.