Kabul, Afghanistan
July 20, 2015
A boy plays on a hilltop merry-go-round.
Gevgelija, Macedonia
July 19, 2015
A Syrian man carries his 42-day-old son as they wait for the train at the city’s train station, near the border with Greece. The European Union failed to reach a deal to resolve a migration crisis in the Mediterranean, and instead set talks to reach an agreement on how to redistribute 40,000 asylum-seekers in Italy and Greece.
Bujumbura, Burundi
July 19, 2015
Cyclists hang on to the back of a truck outside the capital city, as the country awaits presidential elections. Each day scores of cyclists make the 45-kilometer downhill journey at breakneck speed from Bugarama to sell bananas, often hanging from the back of trucks for the return uphill trip.
Diyarbakir, Turkey
July 23, 2015
A Turkish police officer questions a young Kurdish boy after an attack against Turkish police officers. A Turkish police officer was shot dead and a second one wounded in the mainly Kurdish city in the latest in a series of attacks that began with a suicide bombing blamed on ISIS.
Valparaiso, Chile
July 23, 2015
A student is hit by a water cannon from a riot truck during a rally to demand changes and new reforms in the education system in front of the national congress.
Athens
July 17, 2015
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire. Greece appealed for EU help to battle wildfires raging on the outskirts of capital and in the southern Peloponnese region that forced the evacuation of several villages.
Birmingham, England
July 22, 2015
Marie Sviergula, conservator of the University of Birmingham, holds a Quran mauscript that has been carbon-dated to close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, making it one of the oldest in the world. The two leaves of parchment, filled with “surprisingly legible” text from Islam's holy book, have been dated to around the early seventh century, the university said.
Sao Paulo, Brazil
July 19, 2015
A cosplay enthusiast poses as Serasu Vikutoria of the Hellsing anime series during the Anime Friends annual event, one of Brazil's biggest celebrations of anime, manga, and Japanese culture.
Belgrade, Serbia
July 21, 2015
A seal cools off at the Belgrade Zoo during a heat wave. Serbia issued health warnings as extremely hot weather, with temperatures as high as 102 degrees Fahrenheit, blanketed the region.
Kogelo, Kenya
July 16, 2015
Seven-year-old Barack Obama, named after U.S. President Barack Obama, walks to the Senator Obama primary school in the village west of Nairobi. President Obama is visiting Kenya and Ethiopia this week. Kogelo, where the president's father is buried, is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, his step-grandmother.
July 23, 2015
An artistic illustration compares Earth (L) to a planet beyond our solar system that is a close match to Earth, dubbed Kepler-452b, in this NASA image. The planet, which is about 60 percent bigger than Earth, is located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, the scientists told a news conference.
