Images: Best AP photos from around the globe
A look at some of the best images from Associated Press photographers around the globe.
Soap bubbles fly as Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015.
(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Police handcuff a protester in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, near the city's Inner Harbor. Dozens of protesters marched in the street after rallying at a nearby courthouse, where motion hearings for officers charged in Freddie Gray's death were scheduled.
(AP Photo/Brian Witte)
Protesters gather outside Baltimore Circuit Court, as the first court hearing was set to begin in the case of six police officers criminally charged in the death of Freddie Gray, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 in Baltimore. Six police officers face charges that range from second-degree assault, a misdemeanor, to second-degree "depraved-heart" murder.
(Lloyd Fox/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of a migrant child after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized, near the Turkish resort of Bodrum early Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015.
(AP Photo/DHA)
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), waves to his relatives from a bus prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015.
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, Pool)
The Kremlin guards change at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin wall in downtown Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
A woman holds a child as she stands on a traffic barrier to take a photograph of preparations for a military parade in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. China will hold a massive military parade in Beijing on Thursday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender.
(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, photo, a Hungarian police officer looks from his binoculars as he checks the border searching for refugees entering the country illegally next to the town of Röszke, Hungary. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries.
(AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, photo, a Syrian refugee checks his phone after he cross the borders from Serbia to Hungary near the town of Röszke, Hungary. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries.
(AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
President Barack Obama looks at Bear Glacier, which has receded 1.8 miles in approximately 100 years, while on a boat tour to see the effects of global warming in Resurrection Cove, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, in Seward, Alaska. Obama is on a historic three-day trip to Alaska aimed at showing solidarity with a state often overlooked by Washington, while using its glorious but changing landscape as an urgent call to action on climate change.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
A Migrant holds up a baby in front of the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as hundreds demanded to be let on trains to Germany. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries.
(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Hungarian policemen guard an entrance to the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, as hundreds of migrants demanded to be let on trains to Germany. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries.
(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, right, talks with David Moore following her office's refusal to issue marriage licenses at the Rowan County Courthouse in Morehead, Ky., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Although her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied, Davis still refuses to issue marriage licenses.
(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
An activist of Socialist Unity Center of India shouts slogans as she is detained by the police in a van during a daylong nationwide strike called by the trade unions in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Normal life was affected in various parts of the country, including the West Bengal state, as central trade unions on Wednesday went on a daylong nationwide strike to protest against changes in labor laws and privatization of Public Sector Undertaking's (PSU), a government-owned corporation.
(AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Activists of a trade union group stop motorcyclists to keep vehicles off the road during a daylong nationwide strike in the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Normal life was affected in several parts of the state following a daylong nationwide general strike called by ten central trade unions to protest changes in labor laws and privatization of Public Sector Undertaking's (PSU) by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
(AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
A Nepalese boy gets ready to perform a stick dance during a rally held to pay tribute to the victims of an earthquake, in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept 2, 2015. Two powerful earthquakes in April and May devastated the Himalayan nation killing more than 8,800 people.
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nick Kyrgios, of Australia, rests on his chair before the third set against Andy Murray, of Britain, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A man waits with luggage at St. Pancras international train station in London, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Hundreds of Eurostar train passengers trying to travel under the English Channel were stranded in France after migrants climbed on tracks overnight in the port city of Calais, officials said. Eurostar trains were resuming normal traffic Wednesday morning.
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media while on a hike to the Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, which according to National Park Service research, has retreated approximately 1.25 miles over the past 200 years. Obama is on a historic three-day trip to Alaska aimed at showing solidarity with a state often overlooked by Washington, while using its glorious but changing landscape as an urgent call to action on climate change.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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