
A security person gestures to the crowd as people stand in a queue to exchange discontinued currency notes outside a Post office, in Hyderabad.
Turkish wave flags of their country as they attend a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine wave to the crowd during a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul.
Republican presidential Candidate Donald Trump gives his running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana a kiss as they shake hands after Pence's acceptance speech during the third day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Mourners including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend the funeral of Erdogan's campaign manager Erol Olcak, killed along with his 16-year old son Abdullah and Mustafa Cambaz, while protesting the attempted coup against Turkey's government, in Istanbul.
Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. Turkish officials have blamed a failed coup attempt on Gulen, who denies the accusation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech in Istanbul. Forces loyal to Erdogan quashed a coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left some hundreds of people dead and scores of others wounded.
Turkish citizens wave their national flags as they protest against the military coup outside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara.
Turkish citizens wave a huge national flag as they protest against the military coup outside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.
Damage caused by helicopter bombardments inside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Forces loyal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan quashed a coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left dozens dead.
Hundreds of protesters march on a downtown street during an annual pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong.
Protesters run during a massive anti-government protest in Kabul. Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group marched through the streets to protest the proposed route of a power line.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks after leaving Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Speaking hours after the Senate voted to suspend her, Rousseff blasted the impeachment process against her as "fraudulent" and promised to fight what she characterized as an injustice more painful than the torture she endured under a past military dictatorship.
Congress supporters during Save Democracy rally organised by congress party at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures while speaking at a rally at Macomb Community College, in Warren, Michigan.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks during a canvass kick-off event at the Reno Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada
A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt.
Tin Aye, chairman of Union Election Commission, left gestures as he delivers a speech during an event to announce election results in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar was trapped in a post-election limbo with official results barely trickling in, although opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party claimed a victory massive enough to give it the presidency and loosen the military's grip on the country.
Traffic attempts to make it's way through supporters of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party as they wait for election results to be posted outside the NLD headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar.
marjeet Sohi takes oath as Canada's new Minister of Infrastructure and Communities during the ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Canada's new Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan during the ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau takes the oath of office as he is sworn in as prime minister of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
Nepal’s newly-appointed prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli, center, is surrounded by journalists at the Constituent Assembly in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Technicians work behind the candidate podiums before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debates at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California.
Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, right, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), also known as CPN-UML leader K.P. Oli, center, and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, left, shake hands after the final constitution process at Constitution Assembly hall in Kathmandu, Nepal.
A banner that read "Democracy is a Lie" is held next to the statue of French General and former President Charles de Gaulle during a protest against illegal logging in Bucharest, Romania. Thousands have protested what they say is the illegal mass cutting of forests in Romania, blaming politicians for allowing the deforestation of some of the most important woodlands in Europe.
A protester falls down on the ground as he and others run away from police officers outside government headquarters in Hong Kong.
A protester is arrested by police officers outside government headquarters in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters clashed with police as they tried to surround Hong Kong government headquarters late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after camping out on the city's streets for more than two months.
Pro-democracy protesters scuffle with police officers on the main road outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong.
Police officers clear a metal barricades while others tear down tents and canopies and carry away other obstructions after bailiffs issued a warning to the crowd that they would start enforcing the court-ordered clearance at an occupied area in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Hong Kong authorities cleared street barricades from the pro-democracy protest camp in the volatile Mong Kok district for a second day after a night of clashes in which police arrested 116 people.
A pro-democracy protester chants umbrella and a yellow banner at an occupied area before the barricade is removed in Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Hong Kong authorities began clearing away some barricades from part of the pro-democracy protest site, scene of previous violent confrontations with police and angry mobs. The yellow banners read: "I want genuine universal suffrage."
Elise Stefanik celebrates her win in the 21st Congressional district on election night at the Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls, N.Y. She became the youngest woman representative in the US Congress.
A protester rests in an occupied area outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty district in Hong Kong. Hong Kong student protest leaders are considering visiting Beijing while it hosts a major Asian summit next week to press their demands for greater democratic reforms.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, presidential candidate for re-election of the Workers Party (PT), votes during Brazil's presidential election runoff in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
A Tunisian dips his finger into ink to sign the sheet vote after casting his ballot at a polling station in Ben Arous, a city south of Tunis.
Pro-democracy leaders, standing from left, founder of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement Benny Tai, students leaders Alex Chow, Joshua Wong, pro-democracy legislator Alan Leong and a representative from a students supporting union Wu Mei Lin bow for an apology as they scrapped the vote on their next step, in Hong Kong.
A pro-democracy protester dressed as Spider-man, stands on a barricade in the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong plan to hold a spot referendum on Sunday on whether to stay in the streets or accept government offers for more talks and clear their protest camps.
Anti-occupied protesters demand to remove the barricade in the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
A couple read inside their tent at the occupied area in Central, Hong Kong. As thousands of protesters block city streets demanding democratic reforms, the future of Hong Kong's exclusive — some would say purposefully opaque — election committee may prove key to defusing a high-stakes political standoff that has dragged on for nearly a month.
A protester sitting on a barricade tries to stop taxi drivers from removing it near a line of riot police, at an occupied area, in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
A protester bleeds from his face as he tries to stop a group of taxi drivers from trying to remove the barricades which are blocking off main roads, near a line of riot police at an occupied area, in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
Protesters use mirrors to reflect images of the police back at themselves, at the pro-democracy protest site in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
Protesters stand guard behind a barricade at the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Three weeks ago, students at a rally stormed a fenced-off courtyard outside Hong Kong's government headquarters, triggering unprecedented mass protests for greater democracy in the semiautonomous Chinese city.
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police offers at an occupied section of a roadway in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Hong Kong riot police battled with thousands of pro-democracy protesters for control of the city's streets.
A man walks among dozens of sleeping student protesters in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
A pro-democracy student protester peers out from his tent in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
Riot police officers stand guard at a main road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. New scuffles broke out Friday night between Hong Kong riot police and pro-democracy activists in a district where police cleared protesters earlier in the day. The chaotic scenes unfolded hours after police moved in to clear tents, canopies and barricades at Mong Kok, a smaller protest zone across Victoria Harbor from the main occupied area in the heart of the financial district.
Upset pro-democracy students are moved as riot police clear their encampment in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.
A general view is seen of protesters against riot police officers at a main road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Hong Kong riot police struggled to hold back hundreds of defiant pro-democracy activists who returned to a district that officers had partially.
Local residents shout to a pro-democracy protester at a main street at Mong kok district in Hong Kong. Riot police cleared an offshoot Hong Kong pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks, but leaving the city's main thoroughfare still in the hands of the activists.
A police officer reacts after he was hit by pepper spray after a clash between protesters and police near an occupied area by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Police officers push protesters out to a nearby park to clear the main roads outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty.
Demonstrators block the underpass with concrete slabs taken from drainage ditches at the main roads outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty. Pro-democracy activists clashed with police and barricaded a tunnel near Hong Kong's government headquarters, expanding their protest zone again after being cleared out of some other streets in the latest escalation of tensions in a weeks long political crisis.
A couple, running late for their wedding ceremony due to the occupation of the main roads by pro-democracy protesters, run towards the marriage registry, in the central business district of Hong Kong.
A protester cries after police removed barricades that protesters have set up to block off main roads in Central district in Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy protesters build a barricade on the main road in the occupied areas outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty. Officers took away unmanned metal barricades at the edges of the city's Central financial district early, ahead of the rush hour.
A man shouts to pro-democracy protesters as he tries to remove the metal barricades that protesters have set up to block off main roads near the heart of the city's financial district, Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy protesters display a picture of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and “hell money" on a main road in an occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty.
A police officer tries to stop a man who was removing the metal barricades that protesters have set up to block off main roads near the heart of the city's financial district. Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy protesters sleep in a main road in the occupied areas in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district. Thousands of people are pouring into a main road in Hong Kong last night to show support for a pro-democracy protest after the government called off talks with student leaders.
Pro-democracy protesters attend a rally in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into a main road in Hong Kong to show support for a pro-democracy protest after the government called off talks with student leaders.
A model, left, poses for a fashion photo shooting as a protester sits on a main road in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty.
A protester holds an umbrella during a performance on a main road in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty in Hong Kong.
Protesters sleep on a main road in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty. The government and students leaders announced they will begin talks on political reform.
A pro-democracy supporter sleeps on a street in the occupied areas surrounding the government complex in Hong Kong. Crowds of protesters who filled Hong Kong's streets with demands for more democracy thinned dramatically Tuesday after student leaders and the government agreed to hold talks in the increasingly frustrated city.
A pro-democracy student protester sleeps on an occupied roadway surrounding the government complex in Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy student leader Alex Chow smiles as supporters encourage him after a rally in Hong Kong. The students whose calls for democratic reforms sparked the most dramatic challenge to authorities since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control are vowing to keep up the fight.
Pro-democracy student protesters pin a man to the ground after an assault during a scuffle with local residents in Mong Kok, Hong Kong.
A cover of Time Magazine is taped to a pole during a rally outside government headquarters one day after protesters were threatened by residents and pro-Beijing supporters in Kowloon's crowded Mong Kok, in Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong see 80,000 out on the roads ahead of the Chinese Nat’l Day. Beijing says will deal with “disrupters”.
Residents and pro-Beijing supporters shout insults to pro-democracy activists that willingly left their protest site in Kowloon's crowded Mong Kok district in Hong Kong. Clashes broke out as Hong Kong residents and pro-Beijing supporters tried to force pro-democracy activists from the streets they were occupying, reviving the possibility that the weeklong standoff could turn violent despite an attempt by the city's leader to defuse the situation.
Police take an injured man from the confrontation of pro-democracy student protesters and angry local residents in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Pushing and yelling, hundreds of Hong Kong residents tried to force pro-democracy activists from the streets they were occupying as tensions rose in the weeklong protests that have shut down parts of the city.
A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police officers as an ambulance tries to leave the compound of the chief executive office in Hong Kong. Hong Kong protesters welcomed an overnight offer by the territory's leader of talks to defuse the crisis over demonstrations seeking democratic reforms, though they continued to demand he resign and maintained barricades around government headquarters, frustrating staff going to work.
Protesters show their solidarity with Hong Kong protesters during a rally in New York's Times Square.
A pro-democracy protester sleeps on the outskirts of the government complex where Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's office is located in Hong Kong. Raising the stakes in their standoff with the authorities, Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters threatened to occupy key government buildings unless the territory's top official resigns by the end of the day.
Thousands of pro-democracy activists gather on the streets in Hong Kong. Holiday crowds swelled into the tens of thousands as student leaders met with other pro-democracy protesters to thrash out a strategy for handling the government's rejection of their demands that the city's top leader resign and Beijing revise its plans to limit political reforms.
Student activists sleep on a road near the government headquarters where pro-democracy activists have gathered and made camp in Hong Kong.
Student activists sleep on a road leading to the financial district, where pro-democracy activists have gathered and made camp, in Hong Kong. Students and activists, many of whom have been camped out since late Friday, spent a peaceful night singing as they blocked streets in Hong Kong in an unprecedented show of civil disobedience to push demands for genuine democratic reforms.
Riot police use pepper spray against protesters after thousands of people block a main road to the financial central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong. A tense standoff between thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters and police warning of a crackdown spiraled into an extraordinary scene of chaos as the crowd jammed a busy road and clashed with officers wielding pepper spray.
Afghan president-elect Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai speaks in his first public appearance since winning the election runoff in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Britain's Labour leader Ed Miliband campaigns for the NO vote in the Scottish independence referendum in Blantyre Scotland. Scotland's Independence referendum will be held on September 18.
MP Jim Murphy, who was hit by an egg while campaigning last week, resumes his 100 Streets in 100 Days Better Together tour outside the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, as the Scottish independence referendum campaign continues. The former Scottish Secretary temporarily suspended his pro-Union 100 Streets In 100 Days tour last week amid claims that the events were being targeted by Yes supporters in a co-ordinated campaign.
Turkish soldiers comprising an honor guard sing the Turkish national anthem during a welcoming ceremony for Turkey's new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the ethnically divided Cyprus. This is Erdogan's first visit abroad since his election last month. Cyprus was divided in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece. A Turkish Cypriot Declaration of Independence is recognized only by Turkey which maintains 35,000 troops there.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the front-runner in Turkey's presidential election, casts his vote at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey.
Protesters are taken away by the police after thousands staged peaceful sit-ins overnight on a street in the financial district of Hong Kong, following a huge rally to show their support for democratic reforms and opposition to Beijing's desire to have the final say on Hong Kong candidates for the chief executive's job.
An Afghan woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
Israeli presidential candidates and former ministers Meir Shitrit, center right, and Reuven Rivlin, center left, hug during the presidential election at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem,. The Israeli parliament selected Reuven Rivlin as the country's next president to succeed the outgoing Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who brought the position international prestige.
Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi is escorted upon arrival for the first Central Executive Committee meeting of her National League for Democracy party at a restaurant, in Yangon, Myanmar.
Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during the first Central Executive Committee meeting of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar.
In this Sunday, June 1, 2014, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said on June 3, 2014 that he is "deeply troubled" by the United States' decision to maintain relations with the new Palestinian unity government, urging Washington to tell the Palestinian president that his alliance with the Hamas militant group is unacceptable.
Supporters of Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi the nation’s former military chief celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. El-Sissi was officially declared the next president on June 3.
Supporters of Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi celebrate June 3's official announcement declaring him the next president of Egypt in front of the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt. Arabic reads, "The son of Egypt, the president."