July 25, 2014

Men watch the runway on the morning of the final MH17 flight arriving at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Malaysia Airlines retired flight number MH17 after its Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur flight was shot down over the Ukraine.

Palestinian children, some flashing the V-sign, play with the photographer at a United Nations school where hundreds of families have sought refuge after fleeing their homes following heavy Israeli forces' strikes, in Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip.

Relatives of Lebanese passenger Mohamed Akhdar, 23, who was aboard the Air Algerie plane that crashed over Mali on Thursday, mourn at the family's home in the village of Zrairiyeh in south Lebanon.

Syrian civil defense workers rescue a man from under the rubble after a Syrian government helicopter allegedly dropped a barrel bomb on the Sakhour eastern neighborhood, in the northern city of Aleppo.

Sailors of the Russian Black Sea Fleet march as they prepare for Navy Day celebrations in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Russia announced Wednesday that it had begun expanding and modernizing its Black Sea fleet based in Crimea with new ships and submarines.

A relative carries a portrait of a passenger who died in a TransAsia Airways plane crash Wednesday, at a funeral home on Taiwan's offshore island of Penghu.

An Iranian man and woman sit under a mural bearing the holy Kaaba of Mecca and Dome of the Rock of Jerusalem at Palestine square as they wait for the weekly friday prayers during a demonstration in Tehran to mark Quds (Jerusalem) Day.

A giant dog is steered through the center of Liverpool, England as she and two other giants, a girl, left, and a grandmother parade for three days telling the story of the city's involvement in World War I.

A Muslim woman prays after the last Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) in the old quarters of Delhi, India.

Tourists cover their bodies with black mud before taking a mud bath at a swimming resort in Suining, Sichuan province, China. The temperature in Suining reached 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday.

A herd of goats graze at the almost dried out Maria Cristina reservoir near Castellon. Spain's southeast is suffering the worst drought after the driest winter in 150 years.

Pedestrians look at tropical fish displayed in a fish tank in the window of Sony's showroom in Tokyo's shopping district Ginza. Some 1,000 fish, brought in from the waters around Japan's southern island of Okinawa, will be displayed in the tank through Aug. 31.

Laura Halford of Wales jumps during her hoop routine as she competes in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

Tourists crowd Palma de Mallorca's Arenal beach on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca. Spain was host to 28 million foreign tourists in the first half of 2014, a 7.3 percent increase over the same period in 2013, according to figures from the Spanish Institute for Tourist Studies.