September 1, 2015

First graders take part in a ceremony to mark the start of a school year in Kyic, Ukraine.

A woman salvages a mattress from a pile of furniture left in a street of the popular downtown district of Hillbrow, South Africa, following an eviction of an occupied building.

Indonesian trade union supporters march towards the Presidential Palace in Jakarta to protest against job cuts and call for higher wages.

Earth's thin atmosphere stands out against the blackness of space in this photo shared by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on board the International Space Station.

The TePee wildfire is seen burning at the Manning Bridge as it crosses the Salmon River near Riggins, Idaho, in this U.S. Forest Service picture taken Aug. 29, 2015. An 18-mile (29-km) portion of the Salmon River east of the Oregon border was closed to boating and fishing due to the Tepee Springs fire, which has charred more than 78,000 acres (316 square km) of the Payette National Forest and surrounding timber.

This combination of two satellite images provided by UNITAR-UNOSAT shows before (below) and after (top) a massive explosion was set off near the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, occupied by Islamic State militants.

A woman swims with a dog in the waters of the Yenisei River in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Aug. 31, 2015.

Police arrest a Hindu activist as demonstrators try to break through to a cordoned-off area near parliament in Kathmandu during a protest demanding that Nepal be declared a Hindu state.

Bibi rides her bike on the Playa during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA, Aug. 31, 2015. Approximately 70,000 people from all over the world are gathering at the sold-out festival to spend a week in the remote desert to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.

Austin Cable rides past an art installation during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, USA, Aug. 31, 2015.