August 19, 2015

School children try to touch a snake during an awareness program on Naag Panchami festival in Mumbai, India. The Hindu festival of Naag Panchami is a day dedicated to the worship of snakes.

Members of an international religious movement called the White Brotherhood perform a ritual dance on the top of the Rila Mountain, near Babreka lake, Bulgaria.

A Greek plain clothes policeman chases away Pakistani migrants as they started shouting while waiting to be registered near a police station at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece.

Portaits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il glow on the facade of a building as the Juche Tower, top left, one of the city's landmarks, is seen in the background at dawn in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Children sign their names and draw on a giant board during the Vacation for Everyone day event at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

Lebanese activists are sprayed with water as they try to cross to the government house, during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut.  Lebanon's Health minister says the country is on the brink of a "major health disaster" unless an immediate solution is found for its mounting trash problem.

A H-2B rocket carrying cargo for the International Space Station (ISS) called Kounotori No.5 blasts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, Kagoshima prefecture, southwestern Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo.

Columbian tall ship ARC Gloria is escorted by small boats as it arrives to participate in SAIL Amsterdam 2015, a five-yearly festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s maritime history that is expected to draw some 2 million visitors, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

A burning pile of marijuana and other drugs are being incinerated at a camp of the Mexican Army's 28th infantry battalion in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 18, 2015.

Smoke billows following an airstrike by U.S.-led international coalition forces targeting Islamic State (IS) group in Mosul, Iraq.

Flames are seen coming out of the exhaust pipes of a Hurricane aircraft as the engine is started before taking off from Biggin Hill airfield in Kent, Aug.18, 2015. World War II aircraft including 18 Spitfires and six Hurricanes flew over southeast England to mark the 75th anniversary of the "hardest day" of the Battle of Britain.
 

Employees prepare spacesuits at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Denmark's astronaut Andreas Mogensen from the European Space Agency, are scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 2, 2015.

Tourists and members of the Tengger tribe climb mount Bromo during the Yadnya Kasada Festival in Probolinggo, Indonesia.

A bonnet macaque sits on consecrated idols of snakes as it eats a pomegranate fruit left behind as an offering by devotees during the Nag Panchami festival inside a temple on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India.