Week In Photos August 30 2014
Regis Duvignau/Reuters
Sydney
August 24, 2014
Multi-colored dyes are thrown in the air by participants in Sydney's Color Run. Inspired by the Hindu Holi festival, athletes run a five-kilometer course dotted with locations where colored powders are thrown in a carnival atmosphere.
Jason Reed/Reuters
Kiev, Ukraine
August 24, 2014
Border guards march in Ukraine's Independence Day military parade. Armored vehicles and soldiers, some of them hardened in battle, paraded on Kiev's main square in a defiant show of the military force that Ukraine's government hopes will defeat pro-Russian separatists in the east.
Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories
August 24, 2014
A boy looks out a car window driving past the rubble of a residential tower, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a long-term truce on Tuesday.
Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Inglewood, California
August 24, 2014
Beyoncé smiles with Jay Z and their daughter, Blue Ivy, after accepting the Video Vanguard Award on stage during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Banos, Ecuador
August 24, 2014
The Tungurahua volcano erupts. The mountain's name, which means "Throat of Fire" in the local Quechua language, has been classified as active since 1999.
Carlos Campania/Reuters
Dohuk, Iraq
August 25, 2014
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, wait for aid at an abandoned building that they are using as their main residence.
Youssef Boudlal/Reuters
New York City
August 25, 2014
Children play in a fountain in the late afternoon sun in Lower Manhattan.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Caen, France
August 25, 2014
Britain's Josh Collins riding Spook a Little competes in the team reining competition and 1st individual qualifying round at the World Equestrian Games at the d'Ornano stadium.
Regis Duvignau/Reuters
Tripoli, Libya
August 25, 2014
Public-service workers bag bodies of migrants that drowned off the coast.
Aimen Elsahli/Reuters
London
August 25, 2014
Revellers adjust their outfits during the rain at the Notting Hill Carnival in West London.
Toby Melville/Reuters
Sydney
August 27, 2014
A surfer looks at waves as storm clouds move in from the Pacific Ocean at Manly Beach. The Australian Weather Bureau reported that despite ocean temperatures remaining at neutral levels, models suggest El Nino development remains possible during the coming months.
David Gray/Reuters
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