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Jul 27, 2015Coolest Pix Of 2015 Week 30

I might still be on vacation, but that doesn't mean the world stops turning and stuff keeps from happening.

People hold onto windows to avoid a bull during the 'Toro de Cuerda' festival in Grazalema JON NAZCA/REUTERS

A U.S. Air Force airman works at the 561st Network Operations Squadron (NOS) under the data wall with screens blanked during a reporter's visit at Petersen Air Force Base in Colorado Springs RICK WILKING/REUTERS

Seven-year-old Barack Obama Okoth, named after U.S. President Barack Obama, reaches for his book inside a classroom at the Senator Obama primary school in Nyangoma village in Kogelo THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS

Onlookers gather around the body of man in the streets of Bujumbura's Niyakabiga district on presidential election day in Burundi MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS

Fanning of Australia, who survived a shark attack, reacts during a media conference in Sydney DAVID GRAY/REUTERS

An old residential building is seen surrounded by a newly-built ring viaduct, in Guangzhou CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS

Participants of the World Congress of Santa Clauses 2015 take part in the annual swim at Bellevue beach, north of Copenhagen SCANPIX DENMARK/REUTERS

Toshiba Corp President and Chief Executive Officer Tanaka is surrounded by the media as he leaves a news conference at the company headquarters in Tokyo THOMAS PETER/REUTERS

People retrieve items from a store during a fire at a multi-storey shopping complex in Mumbai DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS

Livestock breeders block a road to the Mont Saint-Michel (background) in the northwestern region of Normandy, to protest against a squeeze in margins by retailers and food processors JACKY NAEGELEN/REUTERS

An aerial view shows a French farmer in his tractor making bales of straw after wheat harvest in his field in Coquelles near Calais PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/REUTERS

Rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, arrives at New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS

An aerial view shows a field named "new jungle" with tents and makeshift shelters where migrants and asylum seekers stay in Calais PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/REUTERS

Afghan boys are reflected as they ride on swings in Kabul, Afghanistan MOHAMMAD ISMAIL/REUTERS

Craftsmen adjust Il Garofalo's painting Ascension of Christ in Vienna's Art History Museum LEONHARD FOEGER/REUTERS

Obama appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in New York KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

BMX rider performs a trick at a skate park in Ciudad Juarez STRINGER/MEXICO/REUTERS

One-month-old baby drill monkey Pinto plays in his enclosure in Munich's zoo Hellabrunn MICHAELA REHLE/REUTERS

Children play in a inflatable pool filled with smashed watermelons to cool off, at an amusement park in Hangzhou CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS

Rescue workers inspect a damaged train carriage at the scene of a crash between high-speed train and a truck at a rail crossing in the town of Studenka, east of Prague STRINGER/REUTERS

A woman and a dog swim during hot temperatures down the Limmat river in Zurich ARND WIEGMANN/REUTERS

A fragment of a Koran manuscript is seen in the library at the University of Birmingham PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERS

A member from a German team adjusts a humanoid robot during the 2015 Robocup finals in Hefei JIANAN YU/REUTERS

Astana rider Nibali of Italy leads the group ahead of Team Sky rider Froome of Britain, the race leader's yellow jersey, during the 17th stage of the 102nd Tour de France cycling race STEFANO RELLANDINI/REUTERS

Armed man escorts others carrying the coffins of the victims of Monday's bomb attack in Suruc, during a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey MURAD SEZER/REUTERS

Kjell Lindgren of the U.S., a member of the International Space Station (ISS) crew, gestures to his family from a bus before departure for a final pre-launch preparation at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/REUTERS

A cooling tower of a coal-burning power plant topples during a controlled demolition in Guiyang CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS

Workers clear floating plants and garbage off the surface of the Yangtze River at a section in Chongqing municipality CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

French farmers block the A6 highway in Limonest, near Lyon, to protest against a squeeze in margins by retailers and food processors ROBERT PRATTA/REUTERS

Workers hang on ropes as they assist heavy machinery in arranging cargo containers at a shipping yard in Cavite city, south of Manila ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS

A pregnant woman lays on a bed without sheets as she recovers after labour at a maternity hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela STRINGER/VENEZUELA/REUTERS

A woman walks past a stranded car as she tries to cross a flooded tunnel after heavy rainfall hit Wuhan CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

Afghan men wash under a waterfall to cool off in Parwan province, Afghanistan AHMAD MASOOD/REUTERS

Afghan man harvests wheat on the outskirts of Kabul AHMAD MASOOD/REUTERS

Astana rider Fuglsang of Denmark speeds down during the break away in the 18th stage of theTour de France cycling race STEFANO RELLANDINI/REUTERS

A NASA illustration compares Earth to a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth called Kepler-452b NASA/REUTERS

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush poses for a photograph with a group of day care children during a campaign stop in Lancaster BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS

The Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire burns in Glacier National Park, Montana STRINGER/REUTERS

A man carries crutches as he walks on glass fragments inside a damaged hospital after what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and fell near the hospital in the town of Tel al-Shehab in Deraa, Syri STRINGER/REUTERS

A teacher shout slogans against the goverment next to a riot police during a rally to demand changes and new reforms in the education system in front of the national congress in Valparaiso RODRIGO GARRIDO/REUTERS

Ethnic Yao minority women brush their long hair near a creek, in Huangluo village of Guilin CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS

An exhibitor staff member uses an electronic cigarette at VAPE CHINA EXPO in Beijing JASON LEE/REUTERS

Athletes stand in front of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games emblems during an unveiling event at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo ISSEI KATO/REUTERS

Hindu priests pull a chain of wooden beds which are tied through the flooded banks of river Ganga after heavy monsoon rains in the northern India caused the rise in water levels, in Allahabad JITENDRA PRAKASH/REUTERS

A man rides his bicycle between taxis parked on the street during a protest against the online car-sharing service Uber in Rio de Janeiro RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS

People fish at an abandoned flat in Xian village, a slum area in downtown Guangzhou, China TYRONE SIU/REUTERS

A hot air balloon comes to rest amid trees, as seen from a flying balloon just after sunrise on day one of the 2015 New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, New Jersey MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS

Pluto photo from four images from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) combined with color data from the Ralph instrument NASA/REUTERS

Southern Resistance fighter is pictured through a damaged door glass as he stands guard at the international airport of Yemen's southern port city of Aden FAISAL AL NASSER/Reuters

U.S. President Barack Obama embraces his half-sister Auma Obama and is greeted by Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta as he arrives at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS

Policemen escort suspected drug trafficker Jairo Orellana as he is brought before the media, before being extradited to the U.S., at Aurora international airport in Guatemala City STRINGER/REUTERS

A boy is silhouetted as he paddles on a stand up board on Lake Zicksee in St. Andrae LEONHARD FOEGER/REUTERS

A female boar and her piglets cross a street during the night in Gdynia RADU SIGHETI/REUTERS

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (front) is pictured with senior staff in the President's Emergency Operations Center in Washington in the hours following the September 11, 2001 attacks in this U.S National Archives handout photo HANDOUT/REUTERS

Britains Blagg and Gallantree compete in the women's synchronized 3m springboard diving heats at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS

FIFA's President Blatter shakes hands with Russia's President Putin during the preliminary draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup at Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg STRINGER/REUTERS

A New York Police Officer tries to listen to his radio as Verizon workers take part in a rally as they negotiate a union contract in New York EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS

A cargo ship is seen crossing through the New Suez Canal STRINGER/REUTERS

A cyclist climbs over a tree fallen atop a car after a heavy storm in Amsterdam, the Netherlands CRIS TOALA OLIVARES/REUTERS

Sharon Cooper, sister of Sandra Bland, kneels over the burial plot of her sister Sandra Bland during the funeral in the Chicago suburb of Willow Springs JIM YOUNG/REUTERS

Smokes billows from a fire on an outside pool area of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel-casino in Las Vegas STEVE MARCUS/REUTERS

Turkish police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a funeral ceremony for Ozarslan, a member of the far-left People's Front who, according to local media reports, was killed by Turkish police during a security operation on Friday, in Istanbu STRINGER/TURKEY/REUTERS

A man carries a U.S. flag while people take part in the Million People's March Against Police Brutality, Racial Injustice and Economic Inequality in Newark, New Jersey EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS

A boy is seen covered in foam, which is used to help participants cool off in the summer heat, during a running event in Yantai CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS

The crowd surges toward Obama as he greets the audience after his remarks at an indoor stadium in Nairobi JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS

Formula 1 drivers observe a minute of silence in memoriam of late French Formula One driver Bianchi before the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit, near Budapest LASZLO BALOGH/REUTERS

A participant falls down during the Red Bull Flugtag Russia 2015 competition in Moscow SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS

U.S. Secret Service agents walk around Air Force One as it waits to take off to take U.S. President Obama from Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi to Ethiopia THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS

Participants wrestle while riding horses during the Kyrgyz national horse games and festival, in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan VLADIMIR PIROGOV/REUTERS

Villarrica volcano is seen under an overcast sky, from Pucon town, Chile STRINGER/CHILE/REUTERS

Britain's Denny and Lee perform during the men's 10 m platform synchro competition at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/REUTERS

Woman walks past 3D street art of gummy bears by artist Keer of the Netherlands during the Malta Street Art Festival in Valletta's Marsamxett Harbour DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI/REUTERS

Team Sky rider Chris Froome of Britain, the race leader's yellow jersey, celebrates his overall victory with team-mates after the final 21st stage of the Tour de France cycling race BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS

A far left-wing protester walks during clashes with riot police in Istanbul's Gazi neighborhood STRINGER/TURKEY/REUTERS

Swimmers compete in the open water men's 10km at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/REUTERS

Boys throw rocks at a phalanx of riot police who blocked a road towards Batasang Pambansa where Philippines President Aquino will address the joint session of Congress and deliver his last State of the Nation address in Quezon LORGINA MINGUITO/REUTERS

A portrait of Russian President Putin, made out of 5,000 cartridges brought from the frontline in eastern Ukraine named, "The Face of War" is seen in the studio of Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko, in Kiev GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS

People line up outside a National Bank branch in Athens RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS

Indian security personnel celebrate on the roof of a police station after a gunfight in Dinanagar town, India MUKESH GUPTA/Reuters

Car drives on a dirt road past trees that were scorched by a forest fire near Montserrat in Sant Salvador de Guardiola, in the northeastern region of Catalonia, Spain GUSTAU NACARINO/REUTERS

Migrants from Syria use sleeping bags to protect themselves from the rain as they rest on the side of a road after crossing the border illegally from Serbia, near Asotthalom LASZLO BALOGH/REUTERS
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