Security officers try to control the crowd gathering to see Kobe Bryant, during a 'meet the fans' event in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. NBA basketball player Bryant is on his goodwill tour in China after the London Summer Olympics. AP
A boat is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat on Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in East China Sea. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea used the occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. Masataka Morita/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP
Horses continue running after losing their riders during the Madonna dell'Assunta (Virgin of the Assumption) ancient Palio, the famous break-neck bareback horse race run in the main square in Siena, Italy. Paolo Lazzeroni/AP
Students from Pashupatinath Veda Vidya Ashram, a school on Hindu religious teaching, look out from a window of their class in Katmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Passengers sit on top of an overcrowded train as it heads for Jamalpur from Dhaka. Millions of residents in Dhaka are traveling home from the capital city to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Andrew Biraj/Reuters
Kashmiri Muslim woman shop ahead of Eid in Srinagar, India. Mukhtar Khan/AP
Visitors play 'Starcraft' during the Gamescom 2012 fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from Aug. 16 - 19. Ina Fassbender/Reuters
Elvis Presley fans visit his grave at Graceland, Presley's Memphis, Tenn. home on the 35th anniversary of Presley's death. Mark Humphrey/AP
Verity Green, Hebe Foster, Tatiana Barnes, and Katherine Backler (l.-r.) react on viewing their A level results outside St Paul's Girls School in west London. Olivia Harris/Reuters
A girl is helped by a firefighter to hose during a firefighting drill in Tokyo. Shizuo Kambayashi/AP
A young hippopotamus follows its mother by a river in Grumeti in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Noor Khamis/Reuters
Women select jewellery before buying it from a vendor ahead of the Eid-al-Fitr festival in Srinagar. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
People browse books at a giant outdoor library, an installation by Italian artist Massimo Bartolini, in the vineyard of the Saint-Peters Abbey in Ghent, Belgium. Virginia Mayo/AP
An Afghan refugee girl plays with her sister on a wooden cart parked in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A student runs away from riot police during a demonstration against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. Carlos Vera/Reuters
A dancer jumps as he practices for a Chinese national dancing competition, at an art school in Hefei, Anhui province. Reuters
Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus Nebula is 170,000 light-years from Earth. NASA/Reuters
Monsoon clouds hover over India Gate monument as an Indian government official car Ambassador drives past, in New Delhi, India. Manish Swarup/AP
Commuters line up at Lima's busway Metropolitano during a public transportation workers' strike in Lima, Peru. Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters
A man rides a bicycle in front of a bus that was burnt by a mob on the national highway near Rongia town in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Utpal Baruah/Reuters
Retired basketball player Yao Ming of China, looks at a cheetah alongside the director of the Kenya Wildlife Society, Julius Kipn'getich, and an unidentified official at the orphanage, at the Nairobi Park Orphanage, in Nairobi, Kenya. Ming is visiting Kenya on his first-ever visit to Africa to film a documentary aimed at reducing poaching of wildlife. Sayyid Azim/AP
Firefighters protect a home threatened by the Taylor Bridge Fire outside of Cle Elum, Washington. Robert Sorbo/Reuters
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Saudi woman scales Everest with group of 64 climbers Saturday. Raha Moharrak, a 25-year old graphic designer, is the first Saudi woman to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.
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