1. Fulton Hotshot Michael Turowski lights a controlled burn on the so-called "Rough Fire" in the Sequoia National Forest, Calif., on Aug. 21, 2015. In California, suffering its worst drought on record, about 2,500 people were forced to flee Christian camps east of Fresno at Hume Lake as the fire crossed Highway 180, officials said.
2. Children cry as migrants waiting on the Greek side of the border break through a cordon of Macedonian special police forces to cross into Macedonia, near the southern city of Gevgelija, on Aug. 21. Macedonian police clashed with thousands of migrants attempting to break into the country after being stranded in no-man`s land overnight, marking an escalation of the European refugee crisis for the Balkan country.
3. WDBJ news morning anchor Kimberly McBroom gets a hug from visiting anchor Steve Grant as meteorologist Leo Hirsbrunner reflects after their early morning newscast at the station on Aug. 27 in Roanoke, Va. Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed during a live broadcast the previous day, while on assignment in Moneta.
4. A Palestinian protester throws a bottle filled with paint at an Israeli army bulldozer during clashes following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Aug. 21.
5. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after his rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. on Aug. 21. The Trump campaign moved the rally to a larger stadium to accommodate demand.
6. One of two twin giant panda cubs is examined by veterinarians after being born at Smithsonian`s National Zoo on Aug. 22, in Washington. The smaller of the cubs born over the weekend to giant panda Mei Xiang died on Wednesday afternoon.
7. Lebanese activists shout anti-government slogans as they are sprayed by riot police using water cannons during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, on Aug. 23.
8. Lebanese protesters clash with riot police following a demonstration, organized by the "You Stink" campaign, to protest against the ongoing country`s trash crisis on Aug. 23, in the capital Beirut.
9. Migrants cross a wire fence at the border between Hungary and Serbia near Roszke, Hungary, on Aug. 26.
10. A little girl from Syria looks out of a bus as the ferry she arrived in is reflected in the window at the port of Piraeus, Greece, on Aug. 25. About 2,400 Syrian refugees stranded on Lesbos were on the ferry – which they reached in small boats from nearby Turkey – due to a dearth of ferry tickets in the high holiday season. Greece has been overwhelmed this year by record numbers of migrants.
11. A bridge passes over Lake Pontchartrain on Aug. 24 in New Orleans. The waters from the lake inundated New Orleans following the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed at least 1836 and is considered the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, is Aug. 29.
12. A Ukrainian government soldier rests in a shelter at his positions near Avdiivka, outside Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on Aug. 23. Ukraine`s military said Monday that the rebels violated a cease-fire 82 times overnight in the eastern part of the country, in some cases with large-caliber weapons that should have been withdrawn in line with a truce signed in February.
13. A man carries a refrigerator while crossing the Tachira river border with Venezuela into Colombia, near Villa del Rosario village on Aug. 25. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has blamed many of recession-hit Venezuela`s problems on Colombians, sparking a spat between the two South American neighbors who share a long and porous border plagued by drug trafficking, paramilitaries, left-wing guerrillas and smugglers.
14. A man carries his niece after he lost his sister, her mother, following air strikes in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria on Aug. 24.
15. A Syrian refugee woman tends to her daughter while cooking inside her tent at an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, on Aug. 26.
16. A young Syrian girl is wrapped with a thermal blanket at the port of the Lesbos island in Greece, following a rescue operation, on Aug. 21. Nearly a quarter of a million migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe this year, according to the International Organization for Migration. About half have come to the Greek islands, with numbers surging in the summer when calmer weather makes the voyage marginally less risky.
17. A worker sweeps the red carpet laid for head of the states and leaders from Pacific Island countries at Rambagh Palace in Jaipur, India, on Aug. 21. The Pacific Island leaders are in Jaipur to participate in the Forum for India-Pacific Island Countries (FIPIC) Summit.
