Ferguson, Missouri
July 24, 2015
Chocolate, 36, an activist who wants to be identified by only her nickname, waves an upside-down American flag while posing for a portrait. When asked how the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown death affected her life, Chocolate said, "My life won't ever be the same. It has changed me to become an activist and protester. It has made me to get more involved with my community and especially with youth. When you ask a kid these days what they want to be when they grow up, their answer is ‘I want to be alive.’” The message on the flag reads: Hands up, don't shoot. Lost voices. Mike Brown means we got to fight back!
Ayutuxtepeque, El Salvador
August 6, 2015
Suspected members of the 18th Street Gang are seen at a crime scene. A policeman and three gang members were killed in a gang attack when the policeman was helped by his comrades to move out of his home. Forty policemen have been killed in 2015, according to local media.
Cleveland
August 6, 2015
Candidate and businessman Donald Trump reacts near the end of the first Republican presidential debate after realizing that a slew of criticisms spoken by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (not pictured) were not aimed at him, but at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Harda, India
August 5, 2015
Two Indian passenger trains lay next to each other following a derailment after they were hit by flash floods on a bridge in Madhya Pradesh state. At least 27 people were killed in the latest deadly accident on the nation's crumbling rail network.
Wuhan, China
August 4, 2015
Giant panda Weiwei leans on ice blocks to cool off inside an enclosure at a zoo in Hubei province. Local temperatures hit nearly 97 degrees Fahrenheit.
Messina, Italy
August 4, 2015
A migrant waits to disembark from a coast guard ship in a Sicilian harbor. Some 300 migrants were taken to safety after being rescued at sea near Libya. The migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa had been rescued Monday after traveling on two dinghies sailing toward Europe.
Gevgelija, Macedonia
July 30, 2015
Migrants clamber onto a train, close to the border with Greece. Tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, use the Balkans route to get into the European Union, passing from Greece to Macedonia and Serbia and then to western Europe. After walking across the border into Macedonia to the small local station of Gevgelia, migrants pile onto an overcrowded four-carriage train in sweltering heat, young infants among them, to travel about 200 km north. Their aim: to enter Serbia on foot, another step in their uncertain search for a better life.
Beijing
August 7, 2015
A woman whose relative was aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, holds a placard that reads, "Mom is always here waiting for you, never will give up", as she cries next to family members and kneels down in front of media ahead of a briefing given by the carrier. China called on Malaysia to continue investigating what happened to a missing flight after Kuala Lumpur said a piece of a wing that washed up on an Indian Ocean island beach last week was part of the plane's wreckage.
August 4, 2015
Kazan, Russia
Germany's Anna Natascha Bader dives during the women's 20-meter high dive event at the Aquatics World Championships.
Brasilia
August 2, 2015
A man jumps as he attempts an obstacle during the Bravus Race, which challenges competitors to overcome several obstacles over a course as long as 9 miles.
Rafah, the Gaza Strip
August 6, 2015
A Palestinian man stands next to four bodies in a morgue following an explosion that ripped through a house in the nearby Al-Shabura refugee camp. The blast killed at least four people and wounded several others, an official said, but the cause of the blast was unclear.
Washington, D.C.
August 4, 2015
Vice President Joe Biden (C) stands behind reporters as President Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon make statements after their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House.
