Best pictures from August 24
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band performed to a full stadium at the Rogers Centre Friday night, August 24, 2012.Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail
The crowd was loving it as Caleb Bonney, 24, as Batman and Marc Anthony Graver, 21, as Robin, hidden behind, took on some storm troopers from the Star Wars series. This impromptu act took place during the FanExpo at the Convention Centre in Toronto on Friday, August 24, 2012. The even continues through Sunday.Peter Power/The Globe and Mail
A man holding a makeshift fire broom helps to contain a major forest blaze on the Greek eastern Aegean Sea island of Chios on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers are struggling to tame a fire that has already burnt some 7,000 hectares of forest, cultivated land and groves of the island's famed mastic trees. Smoke from the blaze, which was swept on by gale-force winds, was carried as far as the southern island of Crete, more than 350 kilometers (230 miles) away.STR/The Associated Press
Inbee Park of South Korea tees off on the 13th hole during the second round of the LPGA Canadian Women's Open golf tournament in Coquitlam, British Columbia August 24, 2012.ANDY CLARK/Reuters
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Rabbi Abraham Chaim Roth on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012.Bernat Armangue/The Associated Press
Pakistani and Afghan spectators watch traditional wrestling tournament between Afghans and Pakistani wrestlers at Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012.Matiullah Achakzai/The Associated Press
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, center, reacts after scoring against FC Barcelona during a Spanish Supercup, first leg soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012.MANU FERNANDEZ/The Associated Press
Bystanders and a police officer stand on Fifth Avenue to view the scene after a multiple shooting outside the Empire State Building, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. At least four people were shot on Friday morning and the gunman was dead, New York City officials said.Mark Lennihan/The Associated Press
People mourn the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, as they gather outside the national palace, the official residence of the prime minister, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Thousands gathered outside the entrance to the palace to grieve, four days after Zenawi died of an unknown illness. A government spokesman said Thursday that Meles will be buried on Sept. 2.Rebecca Blackwell/The Associated Press
Children at the Fondation Montesinos orphanage in Titanyen, Haiti watch as clouds from Tropical Storm Isaac move over Port-au-Prince in this August 24, 2012 handout photo.HANDOUT
Syrians throw earth over the grave of Free Syrian Army fighter, Emad Nimeh, 18, who was killed today in an airstrike, during his funeral procession in Al-Bab, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012.Muhammed Muheisen/The Associated Press
In this Tuesday, May 15, 2012, photo, Afghan refugee boy, Doost Hamid, 7, bottom center, bathes at a water point in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees are in limbo as Pakistan, increasingly frustrated with hosting the world's largest and longest-running refugee population, weighs whether to renew their refugee status by the end of this year.Muhammed Muheisen/The Associated Press
Free Syrian Army fighters take cover as they exchange fire with regime forces in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood of Syria's south west city of Aleppo, August 24, 2012.YOUSSEF BOUDLAL/Reuters