An activist of Youth Association of Nepal, a student organization of Communist Party of Nepal, wears a mask of Nepal's Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai as he waves the party flag during a protest to demand his resignation in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Visitors walk over the Holocaust memorial during warm and sunny weather in Berlin, Germany, Monday. Steffi Loos/dapd/AP
Table and chairs stand empty in Olympic Park in London, Monday, following the end of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Tim Ireland/AP
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Kuklici, known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones, near Kratovo, 49 miles east from the capital Skopje. The Perseids meteor shower is observed every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle. Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters
Free Syrian Army fighters sit behind a barricade on a street in Aleppo. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during the country's Heroes Day Commemorations, in Harare, Monday. Mugabe says his party's symbol of a raised fist was used to fight colonial-era white rule and is not a gesture of violence toward fellow Zimbabweans. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
Workers sew prayer caps in a factory ahead of Eid al-Fitr, in old Dhaka. Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday to mark the end of Ramadan, will be celebrated in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh during the third week of August. Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Residents watch army troopers carrying relief goods at a hardly hit residential area in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines, Monday. A new storm is forecast to dump more rain in the flood-battered northern Philippines a week after a monsoon deluge submerged half of the sprawling capital city. Aaron Favila/AP
Displaced people wait to leave La Gomera island. Wildfires spurred by high temperatures raged across Spain's Canary Islands of La Gomera and Alicante. Andres Gutierrez/AP
An Indian school boy shouts during a rehearsal for the Indian Independence Day celebrations in Jammu, India, Monday. India celebrates its 1947 independence from British colonial rule on Aug. 15. Channi Anand/AP
President Barack Obama salutes while walking off Marine One before leaving O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Paul Beaty/AP
A Kashmiri villager stands next to his swans at a field in Bandipora, north of Srinagar. Danish Ismail/Reuters
Officials stand next to copies of the report from the independent commission into the July 22, 2011 attacks in Norway In Oslo. The bomb attack on July 22, 2011 could have been prevented, said the report released on Monday by the independent commission investigating police response to the dramatic events. Berit Roald/NTB scanpix/AP
A supporter of US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stands during a campaign stop in St. Augustine, Florida. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Serena Williams of the US talks with the members of the media about her Olympic win at a news conference at the 2012 Cincinnati Open tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio. John Sommers II/Reuters
Children take a picture in front of a mural of Fidel Castro at an event honoring Castro's 86th birthday at the Ernesto "Che" Guevara Palace of Pioneers in Havana, Cuba. Ramon Espinosa/AP
France's Olympic medalists ride on open-air bus as fans gather on the Champs-Elysees in Paris to welcome them back. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
A chicken crosses the road, Monday, just north of Parker City, Ind. Chickens actually do cross the road but the answer as to why is still elusive. Kurt Hostetler/The Star Press/AP
President Barack Obama arrives to speak during a campaign event at Bayliss Park, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during a three day campaign bus tour through Iowa. Carolyn Kaster/AP
Argentina's Lionel Messi kicks a ball during a national soccer team training session in Frankfurt. Argentina will face Germany in a friendly soccer match on Wednesday. Alex Domanski/Reuters
Malyun Ali Kassin, center, of Burlington, Vt., takes the oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. Kassin, who immigrated from Somalia, was one of 54 people who became American citizens during a group ceremony on Monday. Toby Talbot/AP
A Jordanian security guard patrols the Zaatari Refugee camp in Jordan, after more than 50 Syrian youths tried to tear down an enclosure fence saying they wanted to flee the camp. More than 3,300 refugees have expressed dissatisfaction with its harsh conditions, as resource-poor Jordan struggles to deal with the influx of refugees from the Syrian civil war. Mohammad Hannon/AP
Police gather near the scene where a gunman opened fire on a police officer serving an eviction notice near the Texas A&M University on Monday, in College Station, Texas. Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle/AP
State Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, gives a thumbs down on a measure being voted on by the Senate at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Lawmakers have more then 800 bills to act on before the legislative deadline at the end of the month. Rich Pedroncelli/AP
Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. makes an appearance at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Monday. Conrad Schmidt/AP
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