Pictures of the day: August 16, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es of events from around the world

Serbia's Marjan Milanovic jumps from a 17-meter-high bridge over the Soca river on August 14, 2016 in Kanal, Slovenia. PHOTO: AFP

Netherland's Kitty van Male (R) is hit on the face by Argentina's Agustina Habif during the women's quarterfinal field hockey Netherland vs Argentina match of the Rio 2016 Olympics Games. PHOTO: AFP

Indian schoolchildren are silhouetted against a national flag as they participate in Independence Day celebrations in Chennai. PHOTO: AFP

Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva holds an umbrella as the athletics competition is interrupted due to heavy rain at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: AFP

The parents of Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar, Dulal Karmakar (L) and Gouri Karmakar (R) alongwith family members watch a projector screen in Agartala. PHOTO: AFP

A Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) motorcyclist rides through a burning hoop and a wall of glass tubes during an Independence Day event at The Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on August 15, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Turkish soldiers from a military guard of honor carry coffins during a mass burial ceremony for Turkish Cypriots who went missing in 1974 and whose remains have been found by the Committee on missing people in Cyprus (CMP). PHOTO: AFP

A diver competes in the Men's 3m Springboard Preliminary during the diving event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: AFP

Palestinian stone throwers run during clashes as the Israeli army destroys the house of late Mohammed Nasser Tarayrah, a Palestinian attacker who stabbed to death an Israeli teen in a Jewish settlement in the village of Bani Naim, near the Palestinian city of Hebron. PHOTO: AFP

A man pilots a boat in front of the St John Kaneo Church on the Lake Ohrid. PHOTO: AFP

Sudanese children play in mud in the village of Makli that was flooded as the river Gash burst its banks in the impoverished eastern state of Kasala bordering Eritrea. PHOTO: AFP

Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fire a shell at Islamic State fighters' positions in Sirte, Libya. PHOTO: REUTERS

A picture taken with an underwater camera shows Israel's Ievgenia Tetelbaum and Israel's Anastasia Glushkov Leventhal competing in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries during the synchronised swimming event at the Maria Lenk Aquatics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: AFP