Reid Wiseman, an astronaut on the International Space Station, took this photo of an aurora dancing around the Earth's atmosphere. 'Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this,' he tweeted@astro_reid
An aerial view shows a flooded highway after heavy rainfall hit Lishui, Zhejiang province, China(Reuters)
A young man rescues a stranded pig on a makeshift raft after heavy rainfall hit Lishui, Zhejiang province, China(Reuters)
Firefighters and police officers search for survivors at a site where a landslide swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan(Reuters)
A giant inflatable rubber duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman floats through the Port of Los Angeles as part of the Tall Ships Festival, in San Pedro, California(Reuters)
A man takes a selfie as he stands with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star retouched with blue paint so it resembles the yellow-and-blue national colours of Ukraine, atop the spire of a building in Moscow(Reuters)
Bottles of human breast milk are pasteurised at the general hospital in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. The region's first Human Milk Bank opened recently, with the aim of reducing the mortality rate in premature infants(AFP)
A nurse holds the hand of a premature baby, born at five months, after feeding it with expressed breast milk on the first day of donation at a hospital in Medellin, Colombia(Reuters)
Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body at Duwala market in Monrovia. To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicentre of the virus, evoking the 'plague villages' of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world(Reuters)
Liberian security forces stand in front of protesters after clashes in the West Point slum in Monrovia. Police fired live rounds and teargas to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood(Reuters)
Indonesian police fire a tear gas canister as they try to disperse supporters of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a protest near the Constitutional Court in Jakarta. Losing candidate Prabowo has asked the Constitutional Court to overturn the election result, saying the vote in the world's third largest democracy was tainted by mass fraud(Reuters)
Security forces charge demonstrators after being hit by water bottles during a protest against the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri(Reuters)
A demonstrator protesting against the shooting death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri carries a sign reading: 'Go kill Isis and leave us alone'(AFP)
Shi'ite volunteers, who joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, take part in field training in Najaf(Reuters)
Tarek al-Rifi, the father of one of the three children from the Al-Rifi family killed in an Israeli military strike, reacts at Gaza city's Al-Shifa hospital(AFP)
An Israeli firefighter extinguishes fire after rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza strip hit a field near the southern Israeli city of Sderot(AFP)
A pro-Palestinian flag is seen hanging from the Manhattan Bridge in New York. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators also marched across the Brooklyn Bridge(Reuters)
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