CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for August - 2013
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- 2013-08-30AUGUST 30 - CILVEGOZU, TURKEY: Syrian refugees greet each other at the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border with Syria. The crisis in Syria has escalated this week, with United Nations experts investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons. The U.S. and allie
- 2013-08-30En los campeonatos mundiales de Bogsnorkelling (buceo en pantano) en Llanwrtyd Wells, Gales, los participantes deben hacer frente a las sanguijuelas y los escorpiones nadando a través de aguas cenagosas y vegetación en descomposición.
- 2013-08-29El nuevo jet "Happy Music Time" (hora musical feliz) fue estrenado esta semana.
- 2013-08-29An undated photo shows current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, second from left, posing with his family. Al-Assad's parents, then-President Hafez Assad and his wife, Anisa, in front, and his siblings in the second row; Maher, Bassel, Majd and Bush
- 2013-08-28At the World Bogsnorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, participants brave leeches and scorpions while swimming through a muddy peat bog.
- 2013-08-25A boy walks along the shore in Utersum on the North Sea island of Foehr, Germany, on Saturday, August 24. Click through to see other images of weather around the world.
- 2013-08-24Clouds show as Trami, the 12th typhoon to hit China this year, approaches Lianyungang, China, on Thursday, August 22. Click through to see other images of weather around the world.
- 2013-08-23What happened to 12 young people who were forced at gunpoint into a van in Mexico City's popular Zona Rosa entertainment district on May 26? The mystery has gripped nation. Penelope Ramirez is a cousin of Jerzy Ortiz Ponce, who is one of the 12 missi
- 2013-08-23Smoke is seen above people gathering outside a mosque on the site of a powerful explosion in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, August 23. Two bombings killed dozens of people. The first blast occurred near a mosque led by a Sunni sheikh kno
- 2013-08-22Veteran leader Robert Mugabe was sworn in as Zimbabwean president on Thursday. At the age of 89, he is among the oldest leaders in office, with only the Israeli President Shimon Peres (90) his senior.
- 2013-08-21American college student Michaela Cross struggles to describe her time studying abroad in India. She says it was full of adventures and beauty but also relentless sexual harassment, groping and worse.
- 2013-08-20Catalina, duquesa de Cambridge, y el príncipe Guillermo, duque de Cambridge, aparecen en esta fotografía junto a su hijo recién nacido, el príncipe Jorge de Cambridge, y dos perros: Tilly, a la izquierda, el perro de la familia Middleton, y Lupo, el Cocke
- 2013-08-20As scientists study receding ice in Greenland, many residents simply do what they've always done: adapt.
- 2013-08-20A communist newspaper's office equipment is burned in the streets of Tehran on August 19, 1953, during the pro-Shah riot that swept through Iran's capital. After a day of fighting, Royalist forces triumphed and Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh
- 2013-08-19Spectators turned out in the hundreds on Sunday, August 18, to the small town of Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, to enjoy a day out at the races and cheer on their favorite sheep.
- 2013-08-19A sus 123 años, Carmelo Flores Laura, el hombre más viejo del mundo, vive en el poblado de Frasquía, a 130 kilóemtros al oeste de La Paz y cerca del Lago Titicaca.
- 2013-08-19Rachel Briscoe, left, and Jess Ivess from the Bay of Islands celebrate during the first same-sex marriage at the Rotorua Museum in Rotorua, New Zealand, on Monday, August 19 -- the first day such marriages were legal in New Zealand.
- 2013-08-18A diver jumps off a bridge into the Soca River on Sunday, August 18, during a traditional jumping competition in Kanal ob Soci, Slovenia.
- 2013-08-17Limousines parked in front of the Ritz on August 31, 1997 -- shortly before Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed left the Paris hotel. The pair died in a high-speed crash after leaving the hotel.
- 2013-08-17Volunteers search for victims near the damaged cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete on Saturday, August 17, a day after it collided with a passenger ferry in Talisay, in the Cebu province of the Philippines. The ferry, which sank, is thought to have been ca
- 2013-08-16El olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) es la primera especie de mamífero carnívoro descubierta en América en 35 años, dijeron los científicos del Instituto Smithsonian en Washington.
- 2013-08-15Pese a que el trabajo infantil es ilegal en Nepal, las autoridades estiman que unos 1,6 millones de niños de entre 5 y 17 años están en la fuerza laboral. Esta imagen de 2010 muestra a un niño trabajando como maletero en el distrito Solukhumbu.
- 2013-08-14El Bugfest, un festival de insectos de un día en carolina del Norte, que este año puso como platillo los escorpiones.
- 2013-08-12Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the 100-meter final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships on August 11 as lightning flashes across the Moscow skies.
- 2013-08-11A woman inspects the aftermath of a car bomb attack on a store in Baghdad on Sunday, August 11. Bloodshed erupted Saturday throughout Iraq as dozens were killed and more than 190 wounded in a wave of bombings amid Eid festivities, which mark the end of th
- 2013-08-09For the first few weeks in July, night skies on both sides of the Atlantic are lit up by spectacular fireworks -- from America's 4th July to Bastille Day in France, with a host of international fireworks competitions in between. To honor this pyrotec
- 2013-08-09Summer solstice, the longest day of the year, arrives in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21. It's a time when bonfires are lit, traditional songs are sung and more often than not, clothes come off. Robban Kanto and his friends, who celebrated the lon
- 2013-08-09Women pray at a Lahore, Pakistan, mosque during the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday, August 9. Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
- 2013-08-09Canadian teenager Rehtaeh Parsons, who was allegedly gang-raped and bullied, was hospitalized after she tried to hang herself on Thursday, April 4. The high school student from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was taken off life support three days later. Two 18-year
- 2013-08-09This image of colorful powders, which are used to make rangoli artworks during Diwali, was snapped by iReporter Digamber Singh Rayamajhi as he walked through the busy streets of Kathmandu, Nepal.
"As it is Diwali time the roads were bustling with
- 2013-08-07A rainbow appears in the skies above a Hong Kong office building on Wednesday, August 7. Click through to see other images of weather around the world.
- 2013-08-06El murciélago "Chewbacca" fue nombrado así por el parecido que encontraron los científicos con el personaje de la película Star Wars.
- 2013-08-05A recently intercepted message among senior al Qaeda operatives alarmed the U.S. State Department and led to the closing of 22 embassies and consulates Sunday, August 4, across the Middle East and North Africa. On Sunday afternoon, the State Department sa
- 2013-08-01Snowden's options
- 2013-08-01When the Pacific Ocean altered rainfall patterns around the world, the subsequent climate shifts coincided with the fall of Mayan civilization, researchers said, occurring after the peak in A.D. 900. This is the Mayan temple complex at Tikal, Guatemala.