People run away as waves caused by a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China...Reuters...People fall to the ground after being knocked over by waves caused by the tidal boreReutersA man walks down a flooded road in Islip, New York, after more than a foot of rain hit parts of Long Island, triggering flash floods and swamping cars on major roads that were turned into rivers during the morning rush hourReutersLightning strikes during a summer storm in Monterrey, MexicoReutersLava flows from Mount Etna on the southern Italian island of Sicily. Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of activityAFPPolice and rescue workers help after a passenger train derailed into a ravine near Tiefencastel in a mountainous region of southeastern Switzerland after a mudslide on the tracksReutersA security guard checks a coach of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) for injured passengers after it derailed at the train station in Pasay city, metro Manila, PhilippinesReutersAn armed pro-Russian separatist points at a bus riddled with bullet holes at a checkpoint on the outskirts of DonetskReutersA protester throws back a smoke bomb at police in Ferguson, Missouri. Police fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse protesters on the fourth night of demonstrations over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old teenager Michael Brown by a police officerReutersA US Marine instructs members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in the use of Non-Lethal Weapons at the Philippine Marine Corps' headquarters in Taguig city, metro ManilaReutersTwo boys walk past destroyed homes in the northern Gaza strip a few miles away from the border with IsraelAFPA Palestinian man rests inside a makeshift shelter next to the remains of his house, which witnesses said was destroyed in the Israeli offensive, in Khan YounisReutersVolunteers sit in wooden boxes on Parliament Square in London, to represent living conditions in Gaza. Some 150 men, women and children crammed themselves into boxes in a bid to illustrate the conditions faced by the people of Gaza trapped by the blockade, in an event organised by OxfamReutersA girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in FishkhabourReutersMo Farah of Britain celebrates winning the men's 10,000 metres final in front of compatriot Andy Vernon and Ali Kaya of Turkey during the European Athletics Championships at the Letzigrund Stadium in ZurichReutersCity employees position stickers urging tourists to stop clipping padlocks, or love locks, onto the railings of the Pont de l'Archeveche in ParisAFPExpert swordsman Isao Machii takes on Fruit Ninja in real life at The Grove in Los Angeles to promote Toaster StrudelGetty
