Photos News(8.16)

Photos News(8.16)

 A view of a mirror-finish Dodo sculpture, part of an art installation at Gobi Heaven in Inner Mongolia's Gobi Desert, photographed on August 10, 2019, 

 in Hanggin Rear Banner, China. 

 An employee stands on a lifting platform as he works in a festival tent for the upcoming Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, 

 Germany, on August 13, 2019.

 Two paddle boarders stop to watch the sunrise on a stormy morning in Sanibel, Florida, on August 15, 2019. 

 Muslims arrive for dawn prayer at Masjid al-Nabawi, the mosque that incorporates the final resting place of Prophet Muhammad and 

 the first two Rashidun caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar, in Medina, Saudi Arabia, on August 15, 2019. 

 Students read a book at Fenghuang Book City in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, on August 11, 2019.

 Villagers play basketball on a court built inside a Karst cave at Xinchun village in Bijie, Guizhou province, China, on August 12, 2019. 

 The court was built inside the cave in order to save arable land in 2018. The cave can accommodate 1,000 people to watch a game. 

 Uluru, as seen from the sunset viewing area, on August 13, 2019, in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia. 

 The park board decided unanimously that the climb will close permanently on October 26, 2019. 

 Sacred to the Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people, climbing Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) is strongly discouraged by them for its cultural 

 significance and their concerns for people's safety.

 Over 30 people have died and numerous others have been injured while attempting the steep ascent.

  Known as Anangu land, the arkose sandstone formation, 348 meters high is believed to be half a billion years old.

 People look at lava erupting from the Piton de la Fournaise, or the Peak of the Furnace, on August 13, 2019, on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

 Sunflowers grow in a field, photographed at night on August 11, 2019, in Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan.

 Festivalgoers attend the Sziget music festival on an island in the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, on August 11, 2019. 

 Austrian ice swimmer Josef Koeberl stands in a box filled with ice cubes during his world record attempt of "Longest Duration Full Body Contact With 

 Ice" in Vienna, Austria, on August 10, 2019. 

 An aerial view of farmers harvesting water chestnuts in Hongze district, Huai'an city, Jiangsu province, China, on August 14, 2019.

 Simone Biles competes on the beam during the senior women's competition at the 2019 U.S. Gymnastics Championships on August 11, 2019, 

 in Kansas City, Missouri. 

 Brazil's swimmers toss a member of the team into the empty diving pool after the end of the swimming competition at the Pan American Games

  in Lima, Peru, on August 10, 2019.

 A costumed participant enters a toilet during the Prague Pride Parade in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 10, 2019. 

 Dogs sit outside a home in Kulusuk, Greenland, early on August 15, 2019.

 Members of the German armed forces on motorbikes take part in a Grand Tattoo (Grosser Zapfenstreich) farewell ceremony for the former defense

  minister on August 15, 2019, at the defense ministry in Berlin. 

 Competitors pass by while jumping in the Cycling BMX Men's Semifinal at the Costa Verde Beach Circuit in Lima, Peru, during the Pan American

  Games on August 9, 2019.