September 1, 2013

An aerial view of the image of Pope Francis by Italian artist Dario Gambarin is seen in a threshed wheat field in Castagnaro, near Verona, Italy. Gambarin used a tractor with a plow and a harrow to create the image on a 25,000 square-meter field.

U.S. President Barack Obama (5th R) discusses a military response to Syria at a meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Laborers work at a coal dump site outside Kabul, Afghanistan.

U.S. long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad , 64, walks to dry sand, completing her swim from Cuba as she arrives in Key West, Florida, Sept. 2, 2013. Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba without a shark cage.

A Somali policeman runs from the scene of an accidental explosion at a fuel storage facility within the former United States residential housing in capital Mogadishu.

Grass-roofed house near Painavu, Idukki district, Kerala State, southern part of India (Photo by Anand D/India/VOA reader)

A worker clears dead fish floating on the banks of the polluted Fuhe river in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. According to local media, around 30,000 kg (66,139 lbs) of dead fish have been removed from the water.

Indians shop at a vegetable market in Ahmadabad.

A cyclist rides past a giant election billboard featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel's hands in a trademark pose in Berlin ahead of general elections on Sept. 22.

The new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge is illuminated in San Francisco, California, USA, Sept. 2, 2013. The largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world was open across San Francisco Bay, six years behind schedule and five times over budget.