August 18, 2015

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Type-89 armored combat vehicles flare up a smoke screen during an annual live firing exercise at Higashi Fuji range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo.

A Yemeni boy rolls a canister of gas he bought, after waiting for hours in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-imposed blockade has created severe shortages of gas, petrol, and other goods, causing prices to skyrocket.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, sits onboard a bathyscaphe as it plunges into the Black sea along the coast of Sevastopol, Crimea, to see the wreckage of a sunken ancient merchant ship which was found at the end of May.
 

Divers recover pieces of evidence after a man threw an explosive from a bridge at Sathorn pier in central Bangkok, Thailand, a day after a bomb at a city shrine killed 22 people, including nine foreigners.

Ants carry a leaf with a slogan reading "Merkel, Help!", a reference of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the zoo in Cologne. Some of the zoo's 500,000 leaf-cutting ants carry laser-cut leaves with slogans during a campaign to protect the Amazon rain forest, organized by the German branch of World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Cologne Zoo.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared this photograph on social media, taken from the International Space Station, Aug. 15, 2015. Kelly wrote, "#Aurora trailing a colorful veil over Earth this morning. Good morning from @space_station!"

A Chelan County Public Utility District worker walks past a burned structure along State Route Alt. 97 highway outside of Chelan, Washington, Aug. 17, 2015. Big wildfires threatened the Lake Chelan resort region of central Washington after driving away tourists, destroying a warehouse filled with nearly 2 million pounds of apples and forcing thousands of residents to flee.

An Indian Parsi girl prays near relief figures of knights at a fire temple on the Parsi New Year 'Navroze' in Mumbai. Parsis, followers of Zoroastrianism, a small religious community which exists largely in Mumbai, were exiled from Iran in the 7th century AD during religious persecution by the Muslims. The Indian followers of Zoroastrianism are called Parsis because the religion arrived in India from Persia.

A foreign fishing boat confiscated for illegal fishing is blown up by the Indonesian Navy off of Lemukutan Island, West Kalimantan, Indonesia in this photo taken by Antara Foto.

Dancers from the Legend Lin Dance Theatre perform "Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent, Anthem to the Fading Flowers" - classic work of the artistic director and choreographer Li-chen Lin - during a rehearsal at the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

A man is reflected in a puddle as he walks across Moscow's Red Square, Russia.