The best images from August 12
African migrants climb a border fence during a latest attempt to cross into Spanish territory, between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla.STRINGER/SPAIN/Reuters
Chinese artist Zhou Jie takes a nap on an unfinished iron wire bed, one of her sculpture works, after lunch as a friend of hers looks on at Beijing Now Art Gallery, in Beijing.JASON LEE/Reuters
Cars are stranded along a flooded stretch of I-696 at the Warren, Mich. city limits Tuesday morning. Police divers are searching for anyone trapped in their vehicles. Warren Mayor James Fouts said roughly 1,000 vehicles had been abandoned in floodwaters in the suburb where many roads were closed after 5.2 inches of rain fell Monday.David Coates/The Associated Press
An Indian Hindu priest performs evening prayers on a boat on the flooded banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.Rajesh Kumar Singh/The Associated Press
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate.STRINGER/IRAQ/Reuters
A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, covers her feet with clothes as she walks towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate .STRINGER/Reuters
Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community look for clothes to wear among items provided by a charity organization at the Nowruz camp, in Derike, Syria.Khalid Mohammed/The Associated Press
Yezidi refugees wait to board helicopters sent by the Kurdish autonomous government to Iraq’s Sinjar mountains. After delivering humanitarian aid, one of the helicopters crashed upon takeoff, killing the pesh merga pilot. Others aboard, including four western journalists, were picked up by other rescuers.ADAM FERGUSON/The New York Times
A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine, behind a police escort, stops along a road near the city of Yelets. The convoy carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory.MAXIM SHEMETOV/Reuters
An Egyptian policeman kicks a supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi as they clear a sit-in camp set up near Cairo University in Cairo's Giza district, Egypt. On Tuesday the New-York based Human Rights Watch called for an international commission of inquiry into mass killings by Egyptian security forces last summer, saying they likely amount to crimes against humanity.Hussein Tallal/The Associated Press
Elder Roger Armitte, blesses with tobacco the monument to missing or murdered Aboriginal women and girls at the Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Newborn giant panda triplets, which were born to giant panda Juxiao, are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. According to local media, this is the fourth set of giant panda triplets born with the help of artificial insemination procedures in China.CHINA DAILY/Reuters
Bottles of cava lie in the cellars at Gramona, a winemaker in Catalonia, Spain.ANA LOPEZ/The New York Times
Aisha the dog follows her owner as he jumps into a lake at sunset in Bucharest, Romania. Romania's weather authority issued a heat wave warning for the coming days with temperatures expected to exceed 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in many regions of the country.Vadim Ghirda/The Associated Press