Top shots from around the world: August 17

A roundup of the best images from around the globe today


August 17, 2015

A woman shouts Turkish nationalist slogans during a demonstration against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on August 16, 2015 on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul. One Turkish soldier and three suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in eastern Turkey in new violence blamed on the Kurdish rebels, the state media said on August 16. PHOTO: AFP

Singer Zero of Colombian industrial metal band "Koyi K Utho" performs during the "Rock al Parque" music festival in Bogota, Colombia August 16, 2015. About 420,000 people are expected to attend the free three-day festival in Bogota, according to a festival official. PHOTO: REUTERS

A Palestinian girl sitting in a bus reacts as she waits with her family to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip August 17, 2015. Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Monday for four days to allow Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip for the first time in around two months, officials said. Gaza, a small impoverished coastal enclave, is under blockade by neighbouring Israel, and Egypt has kept its Rafah crossing largely shut since Cairo's Islamist president was toppled by the army in 2013. PHOTO: REUTERS

A flock of geese land on the water of Ofotfjorden near the city of Narvik in northern Norway on August 16, 2015. PHOTO: AFP

TOPSHOTS Serbia's Goran Bojic dives from a 17-meter-high bridge over the Soca river in Kanal during a bridge diving competition on August 16, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JURE MAKOVEC

Demonstrators protest against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the ruling Workers Party (PT), at Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 16, 2015. Protesters took to the streets of Brazil Sunday, kicking off nationwide rallies expected to draw hundreds of thousands demonstrating against corruption and economic slowdown, and calling for President Dilma Rousseff to step down. PHOTO: AFP

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