July 17, 2015

A young boy salutes at a makeshift memorial near the scene where four U.S. Marines were gunned down at an Armed Forces Career Center/National Guard recruitment office on Thursday, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Sharon Behn/VOA)

An airplane of firefighters flies over smoke billowing over Athens as firemen were battling a brushfire in northeastern Athens and another wildfire in the southern Pelopponese peninsula that prompted the evacuation of five villages.

Family members and friends of victims gather in front of a "hedge of compassion," made of thousands of soft toys, during a commemoration ceremony for the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Nieuwegein, near the central city of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Young Kosovo Muslims take part in a prayer during a celebration of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan at the Sulltan Mehmet Fatih mosque in Pristina.

Exiled Tibetan protesters shout slogans against China during a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India. They were protesting over the untimely death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan spiritual teacher in a Chinese prison this week.

Grounds staff sweep floodwater into the Swilcan Burn after heavy rain delayed the start of the second round of the British Open Golf Championship at the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland.

People hold up photos of victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center on the 21st anniversary of the terror attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association killed 85 people in 1994 and remains unsolved.

Kenyan artist Evans Yegon alias "Yegonizer" works on a portrait of U.S. President Barack Obama at a studio inside the Go-Down Art Center in Nairobi. Kenya is preparing for a visit by Obama in the coming week.

This image of the sun was taken on July 15, 2015, with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft, which collects images in several wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye. This image shows the sun in wavelengths of 171 angstroms, typically colorized in blue. Image released, July 17, 2015.

A worker adjusts plants to set up a labyrinth made of some 8,000 sunflowers in Mons, Belgium, as part of the city's celebrations as European capital of culture. The sunflowers were chosen to honor Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh's well-known painting, and cover 3,000 square meters on the city's main market square.

Lucia Popian, president of G&L Popian, cleans and polishes the crucifix on the main altar, as part of the of the ongoing $177 million restoration of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The renovation, done in three phases over three years, started in 2012 and is slated to be finished before Pope Francios' visit in September 2015.

Russia's Ekaterina Dyachenko (L) competes against Ukraine's Olga Kharlan during their women's team saber final at the World Fencing Championships in Moscow.

Cosplay fan Mohibur Rahman poses as Manga character Tobi at the London Film and Comic-Con in London.

A boy cools off at a weir of the Berounka river as temperatures reached 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in the village of Zadni Treban near Prague, Czech Republic.