Aug. 31, 2014. A mother says goodbye to her son, a volunteer in the Kurdish peshmerga forces, as he prepares to leave home for the front line near Tuz Khurmatu, northeast of Tikrit city.
YOSHIKAZU TSUNO—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Sept. 1, 2014. Elementary school children take cover under their desks during an earthquake drill at a school in Tokyo on. Nationwide anti-disaster drills were held on September 1 on the anniversary of the massive 1923 earthquake which killed more than 140,000 people in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Sept. 1, 2014. First grade students during a class in one of the local schools at the start of a new school year on Knowledge Day in Ivanovo.
Sept. 1, 2014. Students walk up the stairs to their classrooms inside the Angela Landa elementary school the Old Havana, Cuba. Monday marks the first day back to class for students across Cuba.
Aug. 30, 2014.An Egyptian court security member looks on during a sentencing for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohamed Badie, at a court in Cairo.
Sept. 2, 2014. The Colombian team performs during the Squad Compulsory Vaulting competition at the World Equestrian Games at the Zenith in Caen.
JUAN KARITA—AP
Aug. 31, 2014. French cyclist Claude Bares, rides on his bicycle at the Alto Irpavi velodrome in La Paz, Bolivia. Bares, 75, raced 36 kms., 402 mts, and 55 cms. in an hour, trying to break his own world record in the 75-80 years category that he set last April in France.
Sept. 1, 2014. A cheerleader for the Edmonton Eskimos goes flying through the air while they played the Calgary Stampeders during their CFL football game at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
ULISES RUIZ BASURTO—EPA
Aug. 31, 2014. Fishermen, firefighters, and Agriculture, Cattle, Rural Development, Fish and Food Secretary personnel collaborate in the cleaning of dead fish in the Cajititlan lake, Tlajomulco town, Mexican state of Jalisco. Close to 50 tons of fish have died over the last six days from unknown causes.
WONG MAYE-E—AP
Sept. 1, 2014. A North Korean waitress is silhouetted as she pushes a trolley of noodles at the Ongyugwan dining hall of a popular noodle restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea. The restaurant, built in 1960 at the instructions of the late leader Kim Il Sung, claims to serve 10,000 lunches a day. |