Best pictures from August 13
Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia competes in the women's triple jump qualifying round during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow August 13, 2013.FABRIZIO BENSCH/Reuters
Two adult women pose inside an 'Ames room' in a temporary exhibition called "Expedition of the Senses" (German Streifzug der Sinne) in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. The Ames room, invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames Jr., is a distorted room creating an optical illusion.Gero Breloer/The Associated Press
An Indian policewoman helps her comrade who fainted during the full-dress rehearsal for India's Independence Day celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai August 13, 2013. India commemorates its Independence Day on August 15.BABU/Reuters
People greet freed Palestinian prisoners in a bus upon their arrival near Erez crossing, between Israel and northern Gaza Strip, early August 14, 2013. Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday to keep U.S.-sponsored peacemaking on course for a second round of talks, but diplomacy remained dogged by Israeli plans for more Jewish homes on land the Palestinians claim for a future state.SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
Firefighters start a back burn along the Pine-Featherville Road while battling the more than 90,000-acre Elk Complex Fire near Pine on Monday August 12, 2013.ASHLEY SMITH
A commuter rides on a bike path along the shore of Lake Michigan Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, in Chicago.Kiichiro Sato/The Associated Press
Boys huddle in front of graffiti painted on a building near a local stadium as they wait for a rugby practice session in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk August 13, 2013.ILYA NAYMUSHIN/Reuters
Athletes compete in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase final during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow August 13, 2013.DOMINIC EBENBICHLER/Reuters
A Rohingya man gets a haircut by the side of a street at Aung Mingalar quarter in Sittwe August 13, 2013. Sittwe's last remaining Muslim-dominated quarter, Aung Mingalar, is locked down by police and soldiers who patrol all streets leading in and out.Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
A lightning storm is pictured over the sea near the popular tourist destination of Cancun August 13, 2013.VICTOR RUIZ/Reuters
Meteors streak above the Wyoming countryside early Tuesday morning north of Cheyenne in this time-elapsed photo.Blaline McCartney