September 29, 2014

A Ukrainian serviceman gets a haircut at a military camp near the town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine.

A Turkish Kurd protester runs away from tear gas fired by riot police near the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province.

U.S. actor George Clooney and British lawyer Amal Alamuddin arrive at the palazzo Ca Farsetti in Venice, for a civil ceremony to make their wedding official.

A soccer fan cheers Japanese women's soccer team with a national flag during the women's semi-final soccer match against Vietnam at the Incheon Football Stadium during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

A dog wipes out at the 6th Annual Surf City surf dog contest in Huntington Beach, California, USA.

A dog is carried back into the water after riding a wave at the 6th Annual Surf City surf dog contest in Huntington Beach, California.

Visitors look at a blooming Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), one of the world's largest and most rare tropical flowering plants, at Basel's Botanical Garden, Switzerland. The flower smells like rotting meat, and dries up and dies after two days.

A diver floats to the surface of the water during a practice at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

Men build a traditional swing using bamboo poles during the Dashain, Hinduism's biggest religious festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

A sculpture of a giant hippopotamus, "HippopoThames", built by artist Florentjin Hofman is towed up the Thames past the Houses of Parliament in central London.

A Thai woman laughs as she is asked how old she is. At 105-years-old, she is still able to make others around her smile as she sits in the shade on a bamboo bed in the village of Satuek, Buriram province, northeast Thailand. (Photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014, by Matthew Richards/VOA reader/Thailand)

South Korea's Lee Seungchul (BLUE) competes against Uzbekhistan Jamshid Kenjaev (RED) in the men's freestyle 61kg wrestling round 1 event during the 2014 Asian Games at the Dowon Gymnasium in Incheon, South Korea.

A scorpion fish is pictured on the seabed of the Plane Island near Marseille, southern France.

Meerkats look at visitors in Erfurt's zoo in Germany.