August 17, 2014

A competitor leaps up the air during a bridge jumping competition in Kanal ob Soci, Slovenia.

A Bangladeshi youth dressed as the Hindu god Lord Krishna takes part in a celebrations for the Janmashtami festival in Dhaka.

Palestinians ride a donkey cart past the ruins destroyed during the Israeli offensive in Johr El-Deek village near the central Gaza Strip.

A protester reaches down for a smoke canister from the police during a protest in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

The faithful greet Pope Francis upon his arrival for the Closing Holy Mass of the 6th Asian Youth Day in South Korea.

An Indian man stands holding his handmade traditional umbrella and keeps watch on his buffaloes as he grazes them at a field on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2nd L) holds the infant son of late presidential candidate Eduardo Campos as he talks with Campos' widow Renata. Campos, the Brazilian Socialist Party leader, 49, was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 13.

An Afghan resident walks along a road in Herat province, Aug. 16, 2014.

An Expedition 40 crew member aboard the International Space Station photographs this nighttime image of the Earth. The lights from the U.S. Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are visible.

Participants hold on to a greased pole during the "Panjat Pinang" event organized in celebration of Indonesia's 69th Independence Day at Ancol Dreamland Park in Jakarta.

Mohamed Farah of Britain kneels on the track after winning the men's 5000 meters final during the European Athletics Championships at Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, Switzerland.

Revelers relax inside a 3-D Luminarium installation by British designer Alain Parkinson at Budapest's Sziget music festival in Hungary, Aug. 16, 2014.

A man takes pictures of a sculpture of a Chinese cabbage outside an agriculture company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, Aug. 16, 2014.

Members of the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band react to winning the annual World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green, Scotland, Aug. 16, 2014.

A participant takes a selfie as she runs through a "color station" during the five-kilometer color run event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Festival-goers are splashed with water during a summer festival at Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in downtown Tokyo, Japan.