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Heavy flooding in Xiangyang city in north-east China's Heilongjiang province
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A survivor from what activists say is a gas attack rests inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus. Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a chemical attack that killed more than 200 people.
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A Parma wallaby cub called E.T. is fed while resting in a substitute pouch in Klingenbach, Germany. A private breeder plans to raise the young kangaroo after it was rejected by its mother three weeks earlier.
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A music lover has created the world's biggest headphones that you can sit inside. The 6ft-tall, 7ft-wide speakers cradle the listeners, who sit between the ears. Inventor Dallyn Rule, from Ontario, claims it is a breakthrough for people who want top quality without cutting yourself off
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Barney Smith has spent 40 years creating the largest collection of toilet seats in the world. Mr Smith, a retired plumber, has been collecting the unusual items for more than 40 years and puts his artistic touch onto the seats he collects, using them as a blank canvas for his art. Barney displays his 1,100 seat collection in his garage which doubles as a museum in San Antonio, Texas, which he is more than happy to open up for free. He takes the wooden toilet seats, which over the years he has had easy access to due to his job in plumbing, and he decorates them
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Nicholas Watts, owner of Vine House Farm, Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, in one of his fields of 140 acres of sunflowers grown for their seed for wild birds. Mr Watts is the UK's biggest sunflower grower.
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Visitors photograph Romero the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the titan arum) blooming at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pa.. Named Romero - after George Romero - it blooms for about 48 hours and when it blooms, it exerts a very strong odor, like rotting flesh
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Test pilot Dr. Lionel Alford undertakes a pre-flight check before embarking on the first flight of the production Beechcraft AT-6 aircraft, the attack version of its T-6 trainer
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Audience members prepare to watch an open-air screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the courtyard of Somerset House in London. The 'Film4 Summer Screen' open-air cinema, projected in the 18th century courtyard of Somerset House, has run for 14 nights with the final screening taking pace on August 21, 2013.
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Police officers watch thousands of people protest against the new Russian law on homosexuality in Copenhagen, Denmark. The protest march went from Christiansborg Castel to the Russian Embassy in Copenhagen
Gas attack in Syria
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Girls who survived from what activists say is a gas attack rest inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, August 21, 2013
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Sheriff's Deputy John Conley tries to calm Aaliyah Battle who points at her mother while on a bus at a local Walmart following an shooting incident at McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, August 20, 2013
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Mayflies are pictured above a river at dusk in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, China, August 19, 2013.
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An Infovalley staff member shows the digital autopsy forensic application, which possesses three-dimensional capabilities to view and dissect the digital body in high definition visuals, at the company's office in Kuala Lumpur June 13, 2013. Malaysian entrepreneur Mathavan Chandran wants to revive the moribund post-mortem by replacing the scalpel with a scanner and the autopsy slab with a touchscreen computer. Infovalley's iGene 3D imaging software is, Chandran says, the first to package the autopsy process and offer it commercially as a suite of services that stretches from the moment of death to the delivery of a post-mortem report.
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British citizen Melissa Reid (front C) and Belfast resident Michaella McCollum Connolly (back C) are escorted by police after leaving the public prosecutor's office at Callao, August 20, 2013. McCollum Connolly and Reid were detained in Lima last week, accused of trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine to Europe. The two women have protested their innocence, saying they were forced to carry items in their luggage at gunpoint. Peruvian officials say the two women were en route to Madrid and Majorca on August 6 when airport officials discovered almost 12 kilos (26 lbs) of cocaine hidden inside food packages in their luggage. The cocaine was said to have a street value of some two million U.S. dollars
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Professor Karl Oldhafer, chief physician of general and visceral surgery at the Asklepios Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek, performs liver surgery, one of the first surgeries of its kind in Germany with the support of a tablet computer to access and visualize planning data, August 15, 2013. The tablet computer uses augmented reality, which allows the liver to be filmed with an iPad and overlaid during an operation with virtual 3D models reconstructed from the real organ. Developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, this procedure helps locate critical structures such as tumors and vessels and is expected to improve the quality of transferring pre-operational resection plans into actual surgery.
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A Palestinian woman and girls watch from a window during the funeral of Majed Lahlouh in Jenin refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Jenin August 20, 2013. Israeli soldiers shot dead Lahlouh and wounded two others during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday, Palestinian medical officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said security forces arrested a suspected militant in Jenin and, after being attacked, shot back. She said one Palestinian was apparently killed and two soldiers slightly hurt.
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Military policemen, firefighters, and a boy dressed as a military policeman demonstrate to call for increased wages, better working conditions and for the Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) 300 to be passed, at the National Congress building in Brasilia August 20, 2013
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Members of conservative civic groups (not pictured), which consists of North Korean defectors living in South Korea, release balloons towards North Korea in Yeoncheon, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, north of Seoul, August 21, 2013. The balloons contain soap, socks, condoms, rubber gloves, toothpaste, toothbrushes and leaflets denouncing the North Korean regime
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People cheer as a Lebanese bride and groom pose for pictures on August 18 at the site of an explosion in Beirut's Rouweis neighborhood that killed at least 27 people three days earlier.
The death toll from a car bombing that ripped through a stronghold of the Shiite movement Hezbollah was the deadliest in the city since Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
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Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, on Aug. 20, 2013.
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Thousands of Syrians streaming across a bridge over the Tigris River, entering Iraq at a point where movement is normally tightly controlled by both countries, on Aug. 15. "There were lots of smiles as people arrived. Many had waited for days in temperatures reaching 40 degrees and so there was a sense of relief," said UNHCR photographer Galiya Gubaeva.
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Marine experts think the common dolphin, which is usually more at home in the deep sea water of the Bay of Biscay, must have been chasing fish up the River Dee in North Wales. The disorientated dolphin was first spotted by the public in Connah's Quay docks in Flintshire, North Wales, on Monday but then swam up further up river to Saltney, near Chester, in Cheshire
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Ten chefs launched their bid to set a world record to cook the most dishes in one day from one single giant cabbage, at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show
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Is Madonna wearing jewellery or corrective braces on her teeth as she visits the Hard Candy Fitness center in Rome?
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An Andean condor, the world's largest bird of prey, flies away after being freed along with 14 other birds at Los Andes, Chile. The condors were found two weeks ago suffering from the effects of poisoning and were treated before being released back into the wild
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Showing how its done, Altair Kassymov of Kazakhstan, Tian Li of China, Chelsie Jangord of the US and Jason Farnan of the US pose for the cameras on the first day of the 18th Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland
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Best seat in the house. A cricket fan watches from a roof top during day one of the Fifth Ashes Test match at The Oval cricket ground, London
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The largest living wall in the UK is erected in London. Measuring over 68 ft the wall is designed to reduce urban flooding and is made up of 12 tons of soil and ten thousand plants
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A woman carries a bucket of water as local residents and firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire at Fornelo do Monte near Vouzela in central Portugal
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A couple wade through a waterlogged area after monsoon rains in Kolkata, India
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People inspecting bodies of victims laying on the ground after the toxic gas attack in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus
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Civilians carrying their belongings run for cover from snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the Karaj al-Hajez crossing
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Anti-fracking protesters arrive at the Cuadrilla site in Balcombe, Sussex
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Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys perform on the stage in concert at Shanghai Grand Stage in China
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People wait outside an office building after an evacuation due to an earthquake in Mexico City. The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centred on the Pacific coast, near the resort of Acapulco
Tropical Storm Trami
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Residents wade in waist-deep floodwaters brought by the monsoon rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, in Paranaque city, metro Manila, August 20, 2013.
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The mining town of Chiatura, Georgia, surrounded by steep cliffs, is criss-crossed by a network of aging Soviet-era aerial tramways that are still in use today. In the early 20th century, after the U.S.S.R. annexed Georgia, Soviet authorities were intent on extracting the vast manganese deposits beneath Chiatura. In the 1950s, planners began work on what locals call the "Kanatnaya Doroga," or "rope road," that still connects almost every corner of the town. Today, while some of the cars have rusted away, 17 of the aging tramways remain in service. Photographer Amos Chapple (who previously took us inside Iran and Turkmenistan) recently visited Chiatura, where he became fascinated with the cable cars and the locals who operate and ride them daily
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At the eastern edge of Chiatura, Georgia, this manganese processing plant, sited next to a mine shaft, operates 24 hours a day. Workers access the mine by taking two tramways up and over steep bluffs. The second tramway is visible at top left. The cable cars are part of a network of aerial tramways built in Chiatura during the Soviet era, used to this day as public transportation through the challenging terrain
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A woman passenger greets a friend inside an aerial tramway station in Chiatura. Infrastructure in many of Georgia's smaller towns dates back to the Soviet period. After communism collapsed, Georgia's long-awaited freedom from Russia was marred by a civil war which devastated the fledgling economy
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An operator of Tramway 25 pits cherries in the downtime between passengers. Operators usually wait until there are 3-4 passengers waiting at both stations before ringing the bell and commencing a trip.
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A mosaic of Lenin and Stalin, made of river stones, at the entrance to Chiatura's main aerial tramway station. Stalin's relationship with Chiatura dates to his days as a revolutionary fugitive hiding out in the mines above the town
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Left: Two locals look out over Chiatura from the Peace tramway. The cabins run without a braking system; if the haulage cable snaps, the cabins will roll straight back down the track cable. This happened to a tramway in Georgia's capital Tbilisi in 1990, killing twenty people. Right: A discarded piece of track cable. The cables weigh around 26lb (12kg) per meter
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Tramway commuters
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Then and now pictures of one of the tramways built in the 1960s. In 2008 the hauling rope of this tramway snapped with 12 passengers inside. Ramaz Khipshidze, the director of the Aerial Tramway Network says the automatic braking system worked "thanks to God." Chiatura didn't have the equipment needed to rescue the people inside. For 12 hours the passengers dangled above the town until a team from Tbilisi arrived with a rescue cabin. Although unwilling to specify amounts, Mr. Khipshidze says the passengers were paid compensation, and some accepted the company's offer of counseling.
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A local lost in thought as a cabin of Tramway 25 docks. Tramway 25 was the first passenger tramway in the USSR and has run almost continuously since its first run in 1954. If funding comes through it will be replaced in 2014
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Filipino residents affected by floods jostle for position to receive relief goods in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines on Aug. 21.
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A Filipino boy cleans dishes at a temporary evacuation center as rain pours in San Mateo, east of Manila, Philippines on Aug. 21.
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Greenpeace activists in Warsaw, Poland participate in a demonstration against Shell and Gazprom drilling in the Arctic
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Zimbabwean Honour Guards stand during veteran leader Robert Mugabe swearing-in ceremony in a stadium packed with jubilant supporters in Harare
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A warbler is weighed at a ringing hut. The BTO are currently in the process of recording migrating hirundines and other birds at the reserve.
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Mexican wave: sprawling aerial view of Mexico City, one of the most densely populated places in the world
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Paramilitary policemen help fishermen move an overturned boat after Typhoon Trami landed in Fujian province, China
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A reveller dances while taking part in a LGBT pride parade in Kathmandu
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A Kashmiri government employee is sprayed coloured water as police disperse people during a protest in Srinagar, India
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Joe Tindall lifts Halil Beydilli as they celebrate after opening their GCSE results outside the Ridings' Federation Winterbourne International Academy in Bristol.
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A petitioner lifts his shirt as he holds papers atop a pillar during a protest near the Jinan Intermediate People's Court, where the trial of Bo Xilai is held
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Nepalese Hindu boys in festival attire line up during "Gai Jatra," or Cow Festival, in Katmandu, Nepal
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Flooded blocks of houses in Shantou, China
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Disgraced former Chinese politician Bo Xilai before standing on trial in the Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, China. Xilai stands trial on charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power
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Medics and military policemen escort former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak into an ambulance after he was flown by helicopter ambulance to the Maadi Military Hospital from Torah prison
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'The largest portrait of Putin in the world' by Konstantin Altunin is exposed at an exhibition in the recently opened Museum of Authorities in St Petersburg.
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A sniper of Kazakhstan's Kazbrig brigade holds his 50 caliber long-range rifle during the Steppe Eagle international tactical military exercise at the Ili military range outside Almaty. The tenth annual NATO-backed Steppe Eagle aims to train Kazakh troops for future peacekeeping missions