14 August 2014

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Fan ambassador Justin Ikusebiala wheels a cart stocked with pillows and blankets belonging to a guest who just arrived to spend the night in the College Football Hall of Fame, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. One hundred contest winners who wrote an essay detailing their love of college football were selected to stay with a guest overnight in Atlanta’s College Football Hall of Fame before its grand opening and win a year’s supply of Chick-fil-A.
Fan ambassador Justin Ikusebiala wheels a cart stocked with pillows and blankets belonging to a guest who just arrived to spend the night in the College Football Hall of Fame, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Atlanta. One hundred contest winners who wrote an essay detailing their love of college football were selected to stay with a guest overnight in Atlanta’s College Football Hall of Fame before its grand opening and win a year’s supply of Chick-fil-A.  

Spectators watch as a diver Sali Riza Grancina, winner of the competition, performs the winning jump from the Ura e Shenjte bridge during the traditional annual high diving competition, near the town of Gjakova, 100 kms south of Kosovo capital Pristina on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Total of 27 divers from Kosovo competed diving 22 meters high bridge into the Drini i Bardhe river.
Spectators watch as a diver Sali Riza Grancina, winner of the competition, performs the winning jump from the Ura e Shenjte bridge during the traditional annual high diving competition, near the town of Gjakova, 100 kms south of Kosovo capital Pristina on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Total of 27 divers from Kosovo competed diving 22 meters high bridge into the Drini i Bardhe river.   
Villagers catch offering of a chicken thrown by Hindu worshippers into the crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Every year people gathered for the annual festival where offerings of rice, fruit, vegetables, livestock or money are made to Hindu gods at the active volcano to ask for blessings and assure a bountiful harvest.
Villagers catch offering of a chicken thrown by Hindu worshippers into the crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Every year people gathered for the annual festival where offerings of rice, fruit, vegetables, livestock or money are made to Hindu gods at the active volcano to ask for blessings and assure a bountiful harvest.  
Girls watch the super moon rising in the sky at the Kalemegdan citadel in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. The phenomenon, which scientists call a "perigee moon," occurs when the moon is near the horizon and appears larger and brighter than other full moons.
Girls watch the super moon rising in the sky at the Kalemegdan citadel in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. The phenomenon, which scientists call a "perigee moon," occurs when the moon is near the horizon and appears larger and brighter than other full moons.  
Flowers are placed in memory of actor/comedian Robin Williams on his Walk of Fame star in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Williams, a brilliant shapeshifter who could channel his frenetic energy into delightful comic characters like "Mrs. Doubtfire" or harness it into richly nuanced work like his Oscar-winning turn in "Good Will Hunting," died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay Area home Monday, according to the sheriff's office in Marin County, north of San Francisco.
Flowers are placed in memory of actor/comedian Robin Williams on his Walk of Fame star in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Williams, a brilliant shapeshifter who could channel his frenetic energy into delightful comic characters like "Mrs. Doubtfire" or harness it into richly nuanced work like his Oscar-winning turn in "Good Will Hunting," died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay Area home Monday, according to the sheriff's office in Marin County, north of San Francisco.  
A Palestinian youth wraps a bandolier of spent bullets leftover by the Israeli army, next to his destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014.
A Palestinian youth wraps a bandolier of spent bullets leftover by the Israeli army, next to his destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014.  
A reveler is covered in coloured powder, during a Monsoon Holi Festival in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. The festival is based on the Hindu spring festival Holi, also known as the festival of colors where participants color each other with dry powder and colored water.
A reveler is covered in coloured powder, during a Monsoon Holi Festival in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. The festival is based on the Hindu spring festival Holi, also known as the festival of colors where participants color each other with dry powder and colored water.  
A man watches as police walk through a cloud of smoke during a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with people lobbing Molotov cocktails at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
A man watches as police walk through a cloud of smoke during a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with people lobbing Molotov cocktails at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd.  
Indian protesters lie on the ground with a chalk outline drawn around them, symbolically representing those who have lost their lives, during a protest against Israel's attack on Gaza, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. The protesters demanded the Indian government cut off military relationship with Israel.
Indian protesters lie on the ground with a chalk outline drawn around them, symbolically representing those who have lost their lives, during a protest against Israel's attack on Gaza, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. The protesters demanded the Indian government cut off military relationship with Israel.  
An Iraqi Yazidi man visits the holy Lalish temple in the Mountains of Shikhan, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes to protect U.S. interests and personnel in the region.
An Iraqi Yazidi man visits the holy Lalish temple in the Mountains of Shikhan, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes to protect U.S. interests and personnel in the region.
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