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Great Britain's Christopher Froome rides during the 17 km individual time-trial, the eighteenth stage of the 103rd edition of the Tour de France cycling race.Jeff Pachoud/AFP / Getty Images

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Participants eat chili as they bath in ice water during a chili eating competition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.China Stringer Network/Reuters

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Turkish policemen attend the funeral ceremony of special forces police officer Meric Alemdar killed during the failed July 15 coup, at the Kocatepe mosque in Ankara.Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP / Getty Images

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Palestinian youth play on a tree outside a weapon exhibition at a Hamas-run youth summer camp, in Gaza City.Mohammed Abed/AFP / Getty Images

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View of floating debris carried by the tide and caught by the "eco-barrier" before entering Guanabara Bay, at the mouth of Meriti river in Duque de Caxias, next to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP / Getty Images

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A crowned crane seen on a meadow at the zoo in Stralsund, Germany.Stefan Sauer/The Associated Press

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An aerial view of a flock of sheep in Inner Mongolia's Gobi Desert.Patrick Baz/AFP / Getty Images

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A man gets a tattoo during the Nepal Tattoo Convention in Kathmandu, Nepal.Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

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Lama monks cast tsampa (roasted barley flour) after unveiling a huge Thangka Buddha portrait at the Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery during a Buddhist ritual event in Xigaze in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.Purbu Zhaxi/The Associated Press

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A man holding an umbrella trapped next to his vehicle on a flooded street in Beijing, China.China Stringer Network/Reuters

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