September 16, 2014

Lava flows out of the Bardarbunga volcano in southeast Iceland. The Bardarbunga volcano system has had hundreds of tremors -- or shaking -- daily since mid-August.
 

Members of the anti-war activist group CodePink interrupt a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

A young Syrian refugee eats inside his family's tent at an informal settlement in Deir al-Ahmar, Bekaa valley, Lebanon.

A woman from the Burji ethnic tribe gets water from a well near Marsabit, in northern Kenya.

Children are seen on the hills around Kathmandu, Nepal.

Shi'ite fighters, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, take part in field training in the desert in the province of Najaf.

Shofar horns are seen in Shimon Keinan's shofar manufacturing workshop, located in Givaat Yoav, in the Israel occupied Golan Heights. People of Jewish faith blow the shofar before important religious holidays. Shimon Keinan used ram and antelope horns imported from Africa.

 

Members of the military police march during an Independence Day parade in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Sri Lankan dancers perform a traditional dance during a welcome ceremony following the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake.

A jet tanker drops a load of substance used to prevent or stop fires, near Pollack Pines, California. A fire there has forced dozens of people to leave their homes.

A child looks for metal scraps among cables on a boat in Manila, Philippines.