Police officers block the access to the Champs Elysees near the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris after a shooting on April 20, 2017. One police officer
was killed and another wounded today in a shooting on Paris’s Champs
Elysees, police said just days ahead of France’s presidential election.
France’s interior ministry said the attacker was killed in the incident
on the world famous boulevard that is popular with tourists.
Ludovic MARIN / AFP
A Nepali boy whose body is covered with mud looks on in his village on
the outskirts of Biratnagar after the area was hit by flood, some 240
kms from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, on August 16, 2017. At least 221
people have died and more than 1.5 million have been displaced by
monsoon flooding across India, Nepal and Bangladesh, officials said on
August 15, as rescuers scoured submerged villages for the missing. In
Nepal, severe flooding has left tens of thousands of homes totally
underwater in the populous southern lowlands, with nearly 20 percent of
the population affected.
PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP
People stroll amid flowers blooming in the Huasco region on the Atacama
desert, some 600 km north of Santiago, on August 26,2017. A gigantic
mantle of multicolored flowers covers the Atacama Desert, the driest in
the world. In years of very heavy seasonal rains a natural phenomenon
known as the Desert in Bloom occurs, making the seeds of some 200 desert
plants to germinate suddenly some two months after the precipitations.
MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP
Fighters of the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units) advance
through a street in the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, after the Iraqi
government announced the launch of the operation to retake it from
Islamic State (IS) group control, on August 26, 2017.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (L) and MMA figher Connor Mcgregor pose
during their weigh- in on August 25, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mayweather, the 40-year-old undefeated former welterweight boxing
champion, will face McGregor, a star of mixed martial arts’ Ultimate
Fighting Championship, in a 12-round contest under boxing rules on
August 26.
John GURZINSKI / AFP
A man walks past graffiti depicting US President Donald Trump on the
controversial Israeli separation barrier separating the West Bank town
of Bethlehem from Jerusalem on August 25, 2017.
THOMAS COEX / AFP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel chats with Nyima Jadama from Gambia
during a meeting of refugee students in Berlin, on August 25, 2017.
TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP
Gorilla “Mjukuu” and her baby “Alika” check out a measuring device in an
enclosure during a photocall at London Zoo on August 24, 2017, to
promote the zoo’s annual weigh-in event. During the weigh-in, animals
across the zoo have their vital statistics recorded including their
height and weight and the information is then shared with zoos across
the world to help zookeepers compare important information on thousands
of endangered species.
CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP
